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In Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, the late David Graeber laments the proliferation of meaningless sectors and jobs that are not productive but see...

“We’re not looking backward, we’re looking forward” was 10 days ago. Remember? That was Hakeem Jeffries, the fifth-highest-ranking Democrat...

In the aftermath of the pro-Trump riots that left five dead at the United States Capitol, Republicans have focused on the real problem: canc...

Politicians in the U.S. have long had a single, instinctive response to crises both real and imagined: make new kinds of cops. After 9/11, t...

Despite being the CEO of both Twitter and the payments company Square, Jack Dorsey has an aw-shucks habit of seeming uncomfortable with the...

August Wilson had a magnificent ear. His supreme gift as a playwright was for transforming African American vernacular into crystalline poet...

White evangelicals believe they see truths that you and I cannot. While Americans around the country watched an inflamed mob overrun the Cap...

When I was young, my dream job was to be a horse. I didn’t want to be a horse girl, but a girl who is a horse. This made sense to me back th...

Historians will spend decades parsing the tragic from the ridiculous over the first few weeks of 2021, and many books will be written about...

Wednesday was the second saddest day in modern history on Capitol Hill.As the House voted to impeach Donald Trump for a second time, the Cap...

Congress hasn’t been immune to violence among its members over the past two hundred years. In her book The Field of Blood, which delves into...

In the wake of last week’s Capitol riot, the path to Congress now includes a metal detector. To secure the chamber, Capitol police set up a...

In the wake of the deadly January 6 raid on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump, some Republicans have broken away to support imp...

As its boosters have long argued, remote work offers any number of obvious benefits. Companies save money on rent; employees don’t have to c...

A transcript of Episode 23 of The Politics of Everything, “Against Remote Work”Laura Marsh: If you do an office job,there’s a good chance y...

Consumers who invest in cryptoassets “should be prepared to lose all their money,” the U.K’s Financial Conduct Authority warned cryptocurre...

In the past week, a number of oil and gas companies have issued statements of concern about the January 6 attack on the Capitol. BP, ConocoP...

Hours after PresidentTrump falsely claimed victory in November’s election, having claimed for weeks that the election was a fraud and Democ...

In the last week, Marriott, BlueCross BlueShield, and Commerce Bank have each paused donations to congressional supporters of the Capitol ri...

Over the course of a few extraordinary hours on Friday, Donald Trump’s iPhone was rendered almost completely useless—it can, presumably, sti...

Last week, only hours before armed but frequently maskless insurrectionists invaded the U.S. Capitol, there was a spot of bright news for Co...

On Monday, Opposite Office, an “activistic architecture studio” based in Munich, released design materials for what it called “Capitol Castl...

People have always moved to live, from early agrarian societies seeking fertile land to the undocumented workforce that currently powers thi...

For the past two months, the bulk of the Republican Party and the conservative movement has pushed unhinged conspiracy theories about electi...

When the directorMichael Apted died at 79 years old on January 7, social media lit up with remembrances. He had directed manyfilms, includ...