how things work

When Jim Spanfeller and a private equity firm called Great Hill Partners took over G/O Media—formerly Gizmodo Media…

This week, Deadspin and Jezebel swap beats to celebrate America’s most dangerous and controversial pastimes:…

Blue blazers. Blue checked shirts. Collar open. No tie. Brown shoes. Black shoes. Or Nike shoes. New, new, all new.…

Donald Trump loves trucks, I guess. Also, the trucking industry is poised to be decimated by technological change.…

The true spirit of our Founding Fathers was celebrated this week in Bayonne, New Jersey, where the local quacks,…

The inaugural season of the National Women’s Hockey League was touted by the press as a rousing success. It provided…

One of the many terrifying aspects of having Donald Trump as president is that he, like all children, is very easily…

Whoa now. Everyone take a deep breath.

The race for Democratic National Committee chair has been going on for, it seems, a thousand years. It should…

There’s a bigger lesson here than “Fuck Uber.”

This week, Mark Zuckerberg’s $45 billion philanthropic foundation announced it is bringing on David Plouffe and Ken…

Ethical guidelines exist for a reason. Norms exist for a reason.

There is a phenomenon called “regulatory capture” that describes how government regulators come to be controlled by…

Ultimately, we are the ones who decide what we will demand from the people we put into power. Which is why we will…

Yesterday marked the conclusion of the two-day Summit on Technology and Opportunity, an anti-poverty conference…

For the journalists at CNN—everywhere, really, but especially at CNN—now is an appropriate time to become very…

Boxing in the United Kingdom is rapidly moving toward a golden age, its first since before the start of the 20th…

If your nation has a political system that is, by design, unfair for an enormous portion of your population, don’t…