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Free speech in America is endangered by bad-faith court cases, Section 230-based workarounds to the First Amendment, and a misguided backlash against Big Tech.

The site will remain online as an archive, alongside the Gawker reboot, the Toast, and a host of other defunct outlets

In an essay about ruining the magic of a long-lost childhood toy by attempting to replace it as an adult, Alex Balk posits that lost things should remain lost: “They might be the best things you can keep, in that way.” Balk’s is one of 50 essays with accompanying full-color illustrations in Rob Walker’s latest […]

When job security in media is a thing of the past, intellectual property ownership is increasingly a right that media workers are demanding.

The Day the Good Internet Died For a small slice of time, being online was a thrilling mix of discovery, collaboration, creativity, and chaotic potential. Then Google Reader disappeared. Share this story , we will explore events that changed the world as we knew it—specifically ones that marked the ends of established eras and triggered the beginnings of then-unknown futures. Some will be overt and well established. Others will be less trodden and perhaps more speculative. But all will entertain an immovable idea that when things die, there is someone or something that pulled the trigger. W...