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8chan, a nexus of radicalization for the Poway and Christchurch shooters, explained

The online platform is a dark, toxic corner of the internet.

The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program

An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever.

Meet the Canadian doctor who prescribes money to low-income patients

Boosting people’s incomes to help boost their health outcomes — could this model work in the US?

April jobs report: tons of new jobs and teeny-tiny pay raises

These numbers explain why so many workers are going on strike.

Top executives at major opioid company found guilty of criminal racketeering

The verdict could send the former executives to prison for years.

Maine just banned Styrofoam food containers

The state’s ban on polystyrene, also known as Styrofoam, goes into effect in 2021.

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Jeopardy champion James Holzhauer’s phenomenal winning streak, explained

NYU’s Scott Galloway explains the difference between the happiness you get from Chipotle and the happiness you get from love

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Vox’s guide to where 2020 Democrats stand on policy

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Kickstarter co-founder Perry Chen’s advice to startup founders and investors: Don’t lie to each other

YouTube says it’s still trying to fix itself. But it’s not going to stop selling itself to advertisers.

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Facebook bans Alex Jones, Infowars, Louis Farrakhan, and others it deems “dangerous”

Game of Thrones: Melisandre told Arya she’ll kill someone with green eyes. Is it Cersei?

Avengers: Endgame says something thoughtful about grief. But only to a point.

How the mayor’s children’s books set off a scandal in Baltimore

I paid off all my student loans. I still support student loan forgiveness.

Instagram has a counterfeit fashion problem

A Chinese billionaire’s Stanford bribe shows how the college admissions scandal makes both zero and complete sense

Burger King is the latest brand to use depression as a marketing tool

The House just passed its first climate bill in a decade

Maryland just elected its first black female House speaker

Beyond Meat is going public. Meat alternatives are going mainstream.

Stephen Moore’s failed Federal Reserve Board nomination, explained

Doctors are blasé about bone health, and it’s leading to more broken bones in the elderly

Pelosi: AG William Barr “lied to Congress,” and “that’s a crime”

Women of color want 2020 Democrats to work for their vote

CEOs — especially those in tech — are making more money than ever

Exclusive: Civil servants say they’re being used as pawns in a dangerous asylum program

Democrats have united around a plan to dramatically cut child poverty

Facebook’s controversial fact-checking partnership with a Daily Caller-funded website, explained

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