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Captain America Goes to War With Jordan Peterson

Red Skull, Steve Rogers' old Nazi supervillain, sounds a lot like Jordan Peterson.
Matthew Gault
4.6.21
uber

Uber Gave Its 'Independent' Drivers Some Freedom, Now It Might Take It Away

Uber let drivers in California preview destinations and set rates to prove their independence, but after Proposition 22 passed it's reconsidering those freedoms.
Edward Ongweso Jr
4.6.21
News

Controversial Statues Keep Getting Torn Down, But Where Are They Going?

Controversial monuments of confederate soldiers, political leaders, and other historical figures have been rapidly disappearing from public view since last spring. What to do next is complicated.
Kevin Maimann
4.6.21
Derek Chauvin trial

Derek Chauvin’s Murder Trial Is Smashing Cops’ ‘Blue Wall of Silence’

Cops are testifying against a cop. That almost never happens.
Trone Dowd
4.6.21
Hate Crime

Being Afraid of a Gay or Trans Person Is Still a Valid Murder Defense in Most of the US

Virginia just became the first state in the South to ban the use of the “gay and trans panic” defense in court.
Carter Sherman
4.6.21
tech-science

Scientists Discover Huge and Mysterious Jellyfish-Shaped Structure In Space

The gigantic plasma structure, known as 'USS Jellyfish,' is more than one million light years across and poses a series of bizarre questions to astronomers.
Becky Ferreira
4.6.21
Politics

Activists Stole a Confederate Memorial and Are Threatening to Turn It Into a Toilet

A group calling itself White Lies Matter has taken responsibility, and has made some demands.
Paul Blest
4.6.21
matt gaetz

Matt Gaetz Spent 4 Years Sucking Up to Trump — and Trump Just Abandoned Him

Trump hasn’t said a word about the Justice Department's investigation into one of his fiercest defenders.
Paul Blest
4.6.21
psychedelics

Is it Possible to Create an Ethical Psychedelics Company?

The debate around psychedelic patents reflects a deeper question about how to create a business model that puts values before profits.
Shayla Love
4.6.21
News

Livestreams and Punches: Front-Line Workers Suffer From Anti-Mask Conspiracies

Retail workers like those at grocery stores or coffee shops are the ones feeling the real world effects of the conspiracies running rampant during the pandemic.
Mack Lamoureux
4.6.21
qanon

Q Accidentally Outed Himself, But QAnon Followers Don’t Care

In a new documentary, the administrator of 8kun all but admits to being Q, but followers insist their leader is a government insider with ties to the Trump administration.
David Gilbert
4.6.21
Games Reviews

'Endzone' Sticks to the Practical Details of Post-Apocalyptic City-Building

If humanity is going to survive, we're going to need a great set of workflows.
Rob Zacny
4.6.21
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