Society

Is it a flag on your porch?

If you want to know if the Supreme Court is completely in the tank for MAGA, keep a close eye on these two cases.

The bipartisan case for abundance, briefly explained.

What the beef industry knew about its environmental impact — and how it spent decades blocking climate action.

This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Green lights flickered on the wireless router in Barbara Williams’ kitchen in Boligee, Alabama.

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The Gates Foundation, we learned this week, is backing away from its environmental efforts, slashing staff and funding for projects that sought in part to address global climate change. Bill Gates is "retooling his empire for the Trump era," as The New York Times put it. No mention in that

Only if buttressed with smart policy, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue in their new book, "Abundance"

On the Collapse of Objectivism and the Need to Hold Tension

Cutting red tape is a social justice issue.

Friday’s economic boycott is a one-day attack on corporate interests. The degrowth movement calls for a broader societal shift.

Snow White built Disney. Why is the studio screwing up her story so badly now?

Our Covid mistakes did lasting damage. No one wants to talk about it.

Even critical observers underestimated the speed and scope of the Trumpist assault, they overestimated democratic resilience. What is America now, and what comes next?

A lawyer during the day, Trevor Mead slips into his luminous dinosaur costume after 5 p.m. and turns Dolores Park into Jurassic Park.

The Montana hospital that fired Dr. Thomas C. Weiner turned over thousands of pages of documents, but members of the board say they were unaware of them.

The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.

Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

The inspection comes after a ProPublica investigation revealed that drugs made at the Glenmark Pharmaceuticals plant accounted for an outsized share of U.S. recalls for pills that didn’t dissolve properly and could harm people.

It's time to escape the Burnout Machine.

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

I’m surprised that you’re surprised

WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

I've lost count of how many times I've been cornered at conferences by men in meticulously over-casual $300 t-shirts, evangelizing their startups with religious fervor. "We're DISRUPTING the entire industry," they insist, with the insufferable confidence of someone who believes their "Uber for X" app constitutes a revolution on par

The Netherlands' parliament on Tuesday approved a series of motions calling on the government to reduce dependence on U.S. software companies, including by creating a cloud services platform under Dutch control.