The Peoples of America
Palladium Magazineby Rudyard William Lynch16 Apr 2026
One of the things I’ve heard Americans say again and again is that “we don’t have an accent”—a statement which suggests that our culture is homogeneous and nondescript.
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top 40%An endless purgatory: How an exiled Iranian waits and watches - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Mark Sigetty Bøje16 Apr 2026
“They’re shooting smoke at protesters.” “They broke doors.” “They brought an armored vehicle.” In Aarhus, Denmark, Hemad Nazari lay in bed, refreshing his phone.
Risk-Adjusted Return
Asterisk Magazineby The Editors15 Apr 2026
Risk has always been a preoccupation of ours. (It is, literally, in our name.) Our first editorial observed that our lives were “getting stranger and harder to predict by the minute.” Three years...
The Mystery in the Medicine Cabinet
Asterisk Magazineby Dynomight15 Apr 2026
Acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and what doctors probably want you to know. Lots of people die after overdosing on acetaminophen (paracetamol, often sold as Tylenol or Panadol).
These are the best AC options if you can’t install a window unit (bonus: you can wheel them into any room you want)
NBC Newsby Harry Rabinowitz13 Apr 2026
If you want fresh, cool air without the stress of a window AC installation, a portable air conditioner can be a great solution.
The Dostoevskian Moment
Palladium Magazineby James Poulos11 Apr 2026
The Faustian bargain was once a bad deal. The demon Mephistopheles offers you—a man in full at the dissatisfying limit of your great knowledge and success—even greater power and pleasure; you...
Your sneakers could be making plantar fasciitis much worse — try one of these podiatrist-approved pairs instead
NBC Newsby Zoe Malin10 Apr 2026
One of the first things you should do if you’re diagnosed with plantar fasciitis is closely examine your footwear, says Dr.
The Total Art of Flat Design
Palladium Magazineby Daniel Miller8 Apr 2026
If the 1990s were an era of post-historical melancholy and the 2000s an era of retromania in which the ghosts of styles from former decades were frantically revived and mobilized, the signature...
The performative war on money laundering - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Oliver Bullough8 Apr 2026
The performative war on money laundering Dutch friends like to tell me that their nation’s primary characteristic is bluntness, and the Netherlands’ Court of Audit has done nothing to challenge the...
Exiled at midnight - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Matthew Janney7 Apr 2026
On the night of January 16, 2024, Egana Djabbarova was awoken by her wife and told that she needed to leave the country immediately.
How much longer will Orbán be Putin and Trump’s man in Brussels? - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Ines Vilares3 Apr 2026
Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister since 2010, faces an election dogfight. Behind in the polls, he has been effectively endorsed by both the Kremlin and the White House, and a host of...
Think Tanks Have Defeated Democracy
Palladium Magazineby Samuel Hammond2 Apr 2026
As a Canadian, studying the output of American think tanks has become something of an obsession for me.
How dodgy digital finance destroys democracy - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Oliver Bullough1 Apr 2026
How dodgy digital finance destroys democracy It’s good to celebrate the wins, and I’m delighted the British government has decided to cap political donations from voters overseas at 100,000 pounds...
Memeification and digital slop: AI and the fog of war - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Nic Dawes30 Mar 2026
A funny thing happened on the day OpenAI announced it was shutting down Sora, its video generation app: Iran went all in on synthetic propaganda and very quickly started winning the global meme...
The Markup wins SABEW Award for Best in Business Journalism – The Markup
The Markupby The Markup30 Mar 2026
The Markup’s collaborative investigation “Dating App Cover-Up: How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps” has won in the Society for Advancing Business Editing and...
How the Kurdish Offensive in Iran Unraveled
Palladium Magazineby Fin de Pencier28 Mar 2026
The Kurds have no friends but the mountains. This sentiment is often attributed to Mustafa Barzani, the towering Kurdish nationalist leader who led multiple uprisings in Iraq, and reflects a long...
Permanent Games For Progress
Palladium Magazineby Brian Balkus26 Mar 2026
We live in the wealthiest civilization in human history, yet we struggle to articulate, much less pursue, a compelling vision of what that civilization should become.
It was John Wayne’s political club. Now it’s spending millions on online influence – The Markup
The Markupby Colin Lecher9 Mar 2026
The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good.
California colleges spend millions on faulty AI systems: 'The chatbot is outdated’ – The Markup
The Markupby Martin Romero7 Mar 2026
The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good.
He saw an abandoned trailer. Then, he uncovered a surveillance network on California's border – The Markup
The Markupby Wendy Fry and Khari Johnson6 Mar 2026
The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good.