Homepage
Sign in / Sign up
Get started
Get started
Home
Top stories
Editors’ picks
Politics
Technology
Humans
Culture
Business
Black history
Bookmarks
Stories that move with you.
An app designed for readers on the go.
Standard SMS fees may apply.
Top stories
On the Milo Bus With the Lost Boys of America’s New Right
On the Milo Bus With the Lost Boys of America’s New Right
What happens when a movement of gamers recognizes they’re not players, but pawns?
Laurie Penny
Feb 21
Post-Olympic Abandonment
Post-Olympic Abandonment
What abandoned Olympic venues look like today
TMD studio
Feb 19
The Threat to Science No One Talks About
The Threat to Science No One Talks About
The 21st Century has its own Library of Alexandria and global warming is threatening to burn it down. This is probably the greatest threat…
Joe Brewer
Feb 19
The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career, Right Now…
The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career, Right Now…
Over the next 12–24 months — in other words, between 2018 and 2019 — how software developers are hired is going to change radically.
Josh Wulf
Feb 21
Editors’ picks
These 5 Places in Paris Aren't Usually Associated With African-American History. They Should Be.
These 5 Places in Paris Aren't Usually Associated With African-Amer...
“It’s a great city, Paris, a beautiful city — and — it was very good for me.” — James Baldwin, Another Country (1962)
Courtney Traub
Feb 22
Deep inside the trenches of an info war
Deep inside the trenches of an info war
by Henk van Ess
Henk van Ess
Feb 22
School Bullying
School Bullying
Why I #StandWithGavin: Administrative bullying is still bullying
Chelsea Manning
Feb 23
An Interview with Scouts for Equality
An Interview with Scouts for Equality
This past January, the Boy Scouts of America amended their membership standards to allow transgender youth to join, reversing a century-old…
Change.org
Feb 22
Politics
The “Mainstream” Media’s Trump-driven Existential Crisis
The “Mainstream” Media’s Trump-driven Existential Crisis
Trump is driving the traditional news media crazy, but the media has the power to end this nightmare
Austin Frank
Feb 22
Everything you need to know about Obamacare repeal/replace
Everything you need to know about Obamacare repeal/replace
A roundup of Brookings experts’ research and commentary on the current and future state of the Affordable Care Act, compiled by Fred Dews.
The Brookings Institution
Feb 23
Thousands of Emails Prove the New EPA Head Loves the Fossil Fuel Industry
Thousands of Emails Prove the New EPA Head Loves the Fossil Fuel Industry
Scott Pruitt is the last person who should be in charge of an agency he long sought to destroy
Matthew Gault
Feb 22
Muslim Immigration to the United States: A Myth and Its Origin
Muslim Immigration to the United States: A Myth and Its Origin
Noah Smith has an excellent post at Bloomberg View on the myth of the U.S. immigration crisis. Noah’s post focuses on Mexican immigration…
david.eil
Feb 22
Trump is just like Us Weekly’s favorite celebrity
Trump is just like Us Weekly’s favorite celebrity
Talking to the brains behind Lainey Gossip about how the tabloids are treating POTUS.
Jessica Goldstein
Feb 22
The Triumphs of Trump
The Triumphs of Trump
A month into the Trump Era, what has our 45th president gotten right?
Berny Belvedere
Feb 22
Technology
When Reality Surpasses Science Fiction
When Reality Surpasses Science Fiction
and when it smashes you in the face
Adrià Hernández
Feb 22
Making Mapping More Human
Making Mapping More Human
St. Louis Map Room is a pop-up community space for map-making and dialogue around civic data.
blprnt
Feb 22
Good vs. Bad Designers
Good vs. Bad Designers
A parody about designer trends
John Saito
Feb 17
Make Medium yours
Get a personalized reading experience on topics that interest you.
Sign up
Humans
Can We Fix a Strange Year at Uber?
Can We Fix a Strange Year at Uber?
What the Tech Industry (and every industry) Still Doesn’t See
East Coast Girl
Feb 21
The Speck and the Plank
The Speck and the Plank
Thoughts on American Race Relations from a Christian, Conservative White Girl
Rachel Darnall
Feb 23
Meet the Man Who Wants to Eradicate Hangovers by 2050
Meet the Man Who Wants to Eradicate Hangovers by 2050
Scientist David Nutt believes a chemical called “alcosynth” is the secret to drinking without regret
Nick Leftley
Feb 23
A Pit Bull Saved My Life
A Pit Bull Saved My Life
Heal thy dog, heal thyself
Savannah Hughes
Feb 22
Culture
How to Escape in 9 Books
How to Escape in 9 Books
Author Cara Hoffman explores the many aspects of escape and suggests a few books to help you start over somewhere far away
Electric Literature
Feb 22
I Spoke to 100 Pro-asteroid Dinosaurs and Here’s What I Learned
I Spoke to 100 Pro-asteroid Dinosaurs and Here’s What I Learned
With the Chicxulub asteroid strike likely to happen within days I decided to talk to 100 pro-asteroid dinosaurs from around the continent…
Frank Barbieri
Feb 22
Even as Kink.com Ceases Production in the Armory, the Bay’s Porn Scene Thrives
Even as Kink.com Ceases Production in the Armory, the Bay’s Porn Scene Thrives
One dungeon gate closes; another opens for local porn producers.
Cirrus Wood
Feb 20
The totalitarian government in Soviet Russia invented a mental illness to lock up resisters
The totalitarian government in Soviet Russia invented a mental illness to lock up resisters
‘Sluggish schizophrenia’ was a dangerous diagnosis
Stephanie Buck
Feb 22
A Very Bad Town Hall Speech
A Very Bad Town Hall Speech
Dear constituents, let me start out by saying suck my ass. You can all just suck my ass so hard, until it’s just bone, then suck on that…
Steven Markow
Feb 22
Business
It Could Happen to You
It Could Happen to You
What happened at Uber wasn’t a surprise to many. How can you ensure you won’t be blindsided by sexism in your company?
Breanna Hughes
Feb 22
Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel Speaks Candidly about the ACLU, Who Really Gets Into YC, and…
Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel Speaks Candidly about the ACLU, Who...
Michael is the CEO of Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s most influential start-up accelerator and seed fund whose list of alums include Airbnb…
Panpan Wang
Feb 22
Confronting imposter syndrome as a startup founder
Confronting imposter syndrome as a startup founder
Yesterday morning, my alarm went off at 5:45am and I proceeded to break my cardinal rule of checking email immediately. The first email I…
Josh Pigford
Feb 22
Why NPR’s Liz Danzico Fills Her Calendar With Conversations
Why NPR’s Liz Danzico Fills Her Calendar With Conversations
…but still manages to indulge her inner introvert.
Belinda Lanks
Feb 21
The frontlines
Martin Luther King Jr, The Extremist
Martin Luther King Jr, The Extremist
Black Lives Matter, the Civil Rights Movement, and “the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom”
Spencer Lachmanec
Feb 9
This Openly Gay Activist Was MLK’s Right-Hand Man
This Openly Gay Activist Was MLK’s Right-Hand Man
But you’ve never heard of him.
Ilana Gordon
Feb 9
They did the right thing, and it cost them
They did the right thing, and it cost them
A fiery Oklahoma basketball coach and a brilliant Chicago lawyer wouldn’t stand for racial inequality. But after they rankled the power…
Latterly
Jan 16
52 years ago, this speech changed the course of black voting rights in America
52 years ago, this speech changed the course of black voting rights in America
Fannie Lou Hamer was ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired,’ and she told the 1964 Democratic National Convention
Keisha N. Blain
Aug 22, 2016
Black Lives Matter: A Fairy Tale
Black Lives Matter: A Fairy Tale
“Everytime I try to get a piece of mind, niggas try to get a piece of mine, so I gotta grab my piece.” — Andre 3000
Joel Leon.
Jul 7, 2016
The Secret History Of The Photo At The Center Of The Black Confederate Myth
The Secret History Of The Photo At The Center Of The Black Confederate Myth
A 160-year-old tintype depicting Andrew Chandler and his slave Silas, both in Confederate uniform, has long been used as evidence that…
AdamSerwer
Jul 1, 2016