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In rural Oregon, one small town’s crackdown on its homeless population gets a helping hand from good, clean Christian “charity.”

Six Americans logged their news consumption over the course of a day and, in doing so, probed their habits and perceptions.

There are many consequences to the fact that an extremely high percentage of the American media lives in New York. The limitations of this situation become particularly apparent during, say…

It all started with an email.

I learned the hard way that no publicly traded company is a family.

Philanthropy among the elite class in the United States and the United Kingdom does more to create goodwill for the super-wealthy than to alleviate social ills for the poor, according to a new meta-analysis.

When it comes to making money, software developers are an odd bunch. Developers produce code, and code is in high demand. At a glance, it…

Jessica Lessin is founder and editor-in-chief of The Information. “It's very, very hard to predict the winners. A lot of investors try to do this. And I think sometimes where the press gets in trouble is trying to make a call.… It's not always

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Corporate motivation isn’t enough when it comes to digital preservation. Here’s a case for creating a National Register of Historic Places for websites.

The Internet Archive has grand ambitions for preserving the internet. But in order to do that, Big Tech has to stay out of the way.

It's the digital equivalent of leaving your windows or doors open when you leave the house—and in some cases, leaving them open all the time.

Robinhood is not only riddled with scandal; the company was founded on a pernicious myth.

From freemium products to open-source projects to marketplaces to UGC platforms, free-to-play games are already everywhere.

The host, P.J. Vogt, and a senior reporter, Sruthi Pinnamaneni, each apologized after former colleagues accused them of working against union organizers and “multiple efforts to diversify.”

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The activist and linguist has serious concerns about the future of American democracy, although, in his view, it “was never much to write home about.”

The Vergecast drives through all of the car new this week.

Narrative economics and crypto-models for blogging

Every year, tens of millions of Americans collectively lose billions of dollars to scam callers. Where does the other end of the line lead?

iPhone 12 demand is strong, and Macs continue to sell very well during work-from-home life.

Pondering why, in the internet era, it has become so common for big tech companies to treat their power users like dirt. (Yes, this is about Google Reader.)