What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 5/29/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 5/29/15?
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 5/29/15?
May 29, 2015 / StudentNation
What Amazon Taught the Cops What Amazon Taught the Cops
Predictive policing is just another form of supply-chain efficiency.
May 27, 2015 / Feature / Ingrid Burrington
How Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score How Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score
Welcome to the new Wild West of data collection without regulation.
May 27, 2015 / Feature / Astra Taylor and Jathan Sadowski
These Workers Have a New Demand: Stop Watching Us These Workers Have a New Demand: Stop Watching Us
How workplace surveillance has become a menace to health and safety.
May 27, 2015 / Feature / Jessica Bruder
‘Tech’ Is Political—How We Respond to It Needs to Be Just as Political ‘Tech’ Is Political—How We Respond to It Needs to Be Just as Political
New technologies will not solve our problems: People acting collectively will.
May 27, 2015 / Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor
5 Ways to Take Back Tech 5 Ways to Take Back Tech
Enough of the doom and gloom! Here are a few big ideas for a digital revolution that enriches us all—not just the wealthy.
May 27, 2015 / Nathan Schneider
Against the Barricades Against the Barricades
Exposing the debasement of language in service to ideologies was Renata Adler’s cause.
May 27, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Katie Ryder
‘Mad Men’ Finale Makes Rush Limbaugh Un‘Happyish’ ‘Mad Men’ Finale Makes Rush Limbaugh Un‘Happyish’
Both Rush Limbaugh and Don Draper desperately need advertising to save them.
May 22, 2015 / Leslie Savan
Emma Sulkowicz and the Benefit of the Doubt Emma Sulkowicz and the Benefit of the Doubt
Another victim of Emma Sulkowicz’s alleged rapist has come forward, with a message for everyone who has doubted the mattress-carrying activist.
May 22, 2015 / Michelle Goldberg
An NBA Player Is Missing the Playoffs Because the NYPD Broke His Leg—Why the Sports-Media Silence? An NBA Player Is Missing the Playoffs Because the NYPD Broke His Leg—Why the Sports-Media Silence?
A key NBA playoff performer has his leg broken amidst a national movement on police violence and the sports media—for once—have little to say.
May 22, 2015 / Dave Zirin