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Essays

What Really Happened at 'Storm Area 51'

For starters, no one was vaporized (or if they were, the CIA did a really good job of covering it up).
Jamie Lee Taete
9.23.19
Remembering Things

The Crushing Despair of Notorious B.I.G's 'Ready to Die'

Twenty-five years after its release, the album's greatest legacy is Biggie's intuition about his future.
Paul Thompson
9.23.19
climate change

“ROAD CLOSED. CLIMATE EMERGENCY”: Millennials Are Shutting Down D.C. to Make You Pay Attention

At one intersection, they chained themselves to a pink and yellow yacht.
Morgan Baskin
9.23.19
TV

Kit Harington Says He Still Hasn't Seen the Last Season of 'Game of Thrones'

Lucky him!
River Donaghey
9.23.19
CHEFS

Michelin-Starred Chef Iliana Regan's Next Project Is a Retreat in the Woods

After making a name for herself at the Chicago restaurant Elizabeth, Regan started the Milkweed Inn, a bed-and-breakfast in the wilderness.
Bettina Makalintal
9.23.19
tech-power

Company That Provides Tech to ICE Not Renewing Contract After Code-Deletion Protest

Last week, a former employee deleted open-source code he wrote for a tool called Chef in protest over an ICE contract. Now, Chef says it will not renew its work with ICE.
Joseph Cox
9.23.19
abortion access

Trump Officials Are Reportedly Pushing Their Anti-Abortion Cause to UN Members

A letter asks some governments to join the U.S. opposition to U.N. initiatives that support "sexual and reproductive health."
Carter Sherman
9.23.19
Tech news

Your Cat Thinks of You Like a Parent, Study Suggests

A new study finds that cats form attachment styles to their caregivers similar to human babies and dogs.
Jordan Pearson
9.23.19
Hacking

How Google Changed the Secretive Market for the Most Dangerous Hacks in the World

For five years, Google has funded Project Zero, a team of hackers with the sole mission of finding bugs in whatever software they wanted to research, be it Google’s or somebody else’s. Are they making the internet safer?
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
9.23.19
Policing

The Orlando Cop Who Arrested 2 Grade-Schoolers Was Just Fired

“No 6-year-old child should be able to tell somebody that they have had handcuffs on them, and they were riding in the back of a police car," said one child's grandmother.
Emma Ockerman
9.23.19
uber

This Case Will Decide If Uber’s Surge Pricing Is Illegal

Four years have passed since an antitrust lawsuit was first filed against Uber. It still has the potential to disrupt the company’s business model.
Edward Ongweso Jr
9.23.19
VICE News Tonight on HBO

Trump’s Plan to Save American Jobs by Slapping Tariffs on China Doesn’t Seem to Be Working

VICE News visits Kontech, a TV maker in Shenzhen that sends about a quarter of its products to the U.S., as they work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week trying to deliver as many orders as possible.
Karen Ye
9.23.19
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