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latest Give Non-Citizens the Vote!
By Felix Salmon May 17, 2017 | 2:15pm
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latest Trump's Tax Plan Is a Straight Up Multibillion-Dollar Gift to the Rich
By Felix Salmon April 26, 2017 | 3:39pm
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latest Activist Jane Jacobs Won Historic Battles. How Did She Lose the War?
By Felix Salmon April 21, 2017 | 11:00am
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latest Education, Health Care, Debt: Welcome to Our Crowdfunded Dystopia
By Felix Salmon April 12, 2017 | 7:38pm
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latest How Not To Invest $1 Billion in Diversity and Inclusion
By Felix Salmon April 7, 2017 | 9:12pm
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latest This Staggering Chart Reveals the Reality of Black-Owned Banks
By Felix Salmon April 4, 2017 | 7:36pm
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latest Villains, antiheroes, and dystopia: How Hollywood's blockbusters helped me understand Trump
By Felix Salmon March 21, 2017 | 6:08pm
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latest How to bribe Trump's White House
By Felix Salmon March 14, 2017 | 6:50pm
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latest Jason Chaffetz should never make any decisions for working class people
By Felix Salmon March 7, 2017 | 8:34pm
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latest Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is a gift to violent criminals
By Felix Salmon February 24, 2017 | 8:10pm
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latest This billionaire's letter eviscerates the Trump agenda
By Felix Salmon February 22, 2017 | 7:34pm
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latest America's CEOs are acting like total cowards when it comes to Donald Trump
By Felix Salmon February 14, 2017 | 9:01pm
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latest This GOP bill is the perfect example of robbing the poor to pay the rich
By Felix Salmon February 9, 2017 | 9:30pm
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latest Impartiality or diversity. Pick one.
By Felix Salmon February 2, 2017 | 6:12pm
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latest With 153 words, Donald Trump just destroyed the American promise
By Felix Salmon January 28, 2017 | 8:54pm
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latest How the middle class beat the world's billionaires
By Felix Salmon January 18, 2017 | 3:51pm
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latest The toothless global elite have surrendered to Trump’s slick ambassador
By Felix Salmon January 17, 2017 | 4:19pm
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features Why so few world leaders showed up at the most elite conference of them all
By Felix Salmon January 17, 2017 | 12:01am
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features What Oxfam's misleading stat gets wrong about inequality
By Felix Salmon January 16, 2017 | 12:00am
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latest Why the world’s elite won’t lift a finger to stop Trump
By Felix Salmon December 16, 2016 | 6:56pm
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latest A corrupt oligarchy is the best that America can hope for now
By Felix Salmon December 6, 2016 | 5:15pm
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latest Trump's nightmare government may have no public servants
By Felix Salmon November 18, 2016 | 4:45pm
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latest Britain might be lost, but Trump can still be defeated
By Felix Salmon November 14, 2016 | 6:28pm
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latest Here's one simple way to fight Donald Trump's election
By Felix Salmon November 9, 2016 | 8:25pm
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latest Donald Trump has won. Now we have to fight him.
By Felix Salmon November 9, 2016 | 3:36pm
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latest I thought voting didn't matter. Then I became a U.S. citizen.
By Felix Salmon November 8, 2016 | 7:51pm
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latest If Palantir really cared about diversity, it wouldn’t pay its employees like this
By Felix Salmon November 1, 2016 | 9:10pm
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latest Avoiding taxes isn't smart. It's stupid.
By Felix Salmon October 11, 2016 | 7:34pm
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latest Nobody's talking about the biggest, most obvious problem with Uber
By Felix Salmon October 7, 2016 | 5:22pm
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latest Donald Trump’s taxes prove that he’s everything his supporters hate
By Felix Salmon October 4, 2016 | 2:41pm
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features Gawker Media's messy resurrection
By Felix Salmon September 12, 2016 | 11:20pm
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latest Why Tim Cook is the genius Apple needs
By Felix Salmon September 7, 2016 | 1:00pm
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latest Don't blame Airbnb for ruining your hidden paradise. Blame the golden age of tourism.
By Felix Salmon August 29, 2016 | 9:38pm
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latest The subtle, dangerous way Donald Trump has changed American political discourse
By Felix Salmon August 15, 2016 | 7:01pm
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latest Donald Trump's most respectable economic idea is still amazingly bad
By Felix Salmon August 9, 2016 | 9:58pm
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latest How the Donald Trump campaign is weaponizing a left-wing internet crank
By Felix Salmon August 3, 2016 | 1:23pm
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latest Uber's reported merger with Didi could mean the end of incredibly cheap fares
By Felix Salmon August 1, 2016 | 6:46am
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latest How one small company is saving the homes of poor Americans
By Felix Salmon July 29, 2016 | 12:00pm
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latest The summer when Roger Ailes, the GOP, and Great Britain had their Wile E. Coyote moments
By Felix Salmon July 25, 2016 | 3:23pm
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latest Peter Thiel thinks he’s a Trump supporter. But really he’s Trump’s enemy.
By Felix Salmon July 22, 2016 | 5:31am
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latest Roger Ailes’ downfall is the best thing that could have happened to Fox News
By Felix Salmon July 19, 2016 | 10:39pm
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latest Why I'm betting $100 that Hillary Clinton will be a one-term president
By Felix Salmon July 19, 2016 | 6:10pm
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latest The NBA proves that unions work. The UFC shows why they're necessary.
By Felix Salmon July 14, 2016 | 4:12pm
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latest Google at Work
By Felix Salmon July 8, 2016 | 6:33pm
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latest Why Hillary Clinton is doomed, even if she wins
By Felix Salmon July 6, 2016 | 2:52pm
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latest Brexit, Hamilton, and the limits of democracy
By Felix Salmon July 1, 2016 | 4:08pm
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latest With a single vote, England just screwed us all
By Felix Salmon June 24, 2016 | 7:10am
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latest Why Gawker's bankruptcy spells the end of an empire
By Felix Salmon June 10, 2016 | 11:17pm
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latest Vulture fund could get its wings clipped by Peru's next president
By Felix Salmon June 10, 2016 | 3:28pm
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latest Someone can empty your bank account with the information on the front of every check you write
By Felix Salmon June 3, 2016 | 11:15am
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latest $100 million is going to the person with the best idea for how to spend $100 million
By Felix Salmon June 2, 2016 | 2:28pm
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latest Peter Thiel just gave other billionaires a dangerous blueprint for perverting philanthropy
By Felix Salmon May 26, 2016 | 2:30am
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latest Media executives: stop saying 'platform.' It's a meaningless and dangerous word.
By Felix Salmon May 20, 2016 | 7:50pm
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latest Why Puerto Rico's new, unelected shadow government is exactly what it needs
By Felix Salmon May 20, 2016 | 2:55pm
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latest Mark Zuckerberg just made his boldest power grab ever
By Felix Salmon April 29, 2016 | 6:06pm
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latest Larry Summers is wrong. Harvard should be spending much, much more of its money.
By Felix Salmon April 27, 2016 | 8:01pm
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latest Prince was a genius who chose art over money
By Felix Salmon April 21, 2016 | 8:45pm
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latest The women’s soccer pay scandal isn’t just about players
By Felix Salmon March 31, 2016 | 10:07pm
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latest The artist whose painting got her dumped by Charles Schwab
By Felix Salmon March 24, 2016 | 8:54pm
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latest The presidential primary system is fundamentally undemocratic
By Felix Salmon March 15, 2016 | 4:36pm
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latest It's good news that Google's self-driving car caused an accident
By Felix Salmon March 1, 2016 | 12:33am
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latest Nike founder Phil Knight’s $400 million gift to Stanford is philanthropy at its worst
By Felix Salmon February 24, 2016 | 9:32pm
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latest I'm British—so why can't I vote in the most important British election in years?
By Felix Salmon February 23, 2016 | 1:00pm
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latest President Trump: Here's how it happens
By Felix Salmon February 18, 2016 | 12:00pm
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latest Why messaging is the future of the news brand
By Felix Salmon February 11, 2016 | 6:04pm
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latest High oil prices and low oil prices are both bad for the environment—here's why
By Felix Salmon February 9, 2016 | 5:34pm
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latest What SoFi's baffling Super Bowl ad tells us about our unequal economy
By Felix Salmon February 8, 2016 | 8:15pm
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latest Bernie Sanders has the edge in the Democratic fight over Wall Street money
By Felix Salmon February 6, 2016 | 8:46pm
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latest The failure of Davos
By Felix Salmon January 21, 2016 | 4:11pm
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latest When it comes to investing, Lady Bracknell was correct
By Felix Salmon January 14, 2016 | 11:16pm
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latest Chris Hughes and the dangers of impact investing
By Felix Salmon January 12, 2016 | 2:44pm
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latest You just won the $1.3 billion Powerball. Now what?
By Felix Salmon January 8, 2016 | 9:36pm
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latest 15 things Bernie Sanders said about Wall Street, and whether they make any sense
By Felix Salmon January 7, 2016 | 8:05pm
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latest Why approving new cancer drugs isn’t always a good idea
By Felix Salmon January 6, 2016 | 2:23pm
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latest Privacy is an afterthought when convenience is king
By Felix Salmon January 1, 2016 | 6:12pm
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latest The economic principle that explains why people are paying $400 to party at the Olive Garden tonight
By Felix Salmon January 1, 2016 | 1:27am
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latest Financial startups are getting an edge by growing up
By Felix Salmon December 30, 2015 | 5:37pm
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latest Martin Shkreli did something not-terrible on his way to infamy
By Felix Salmon December 21, 2015 | 10:33pm
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latest Why Sheldon Adelson and Jack Ma will regret buying their newspapers
By Felix Salmon December 18, 2015 | 1:20pm
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latest We have officially reached the end of the financial crisis
By Felix Salmon December 16, 2015 | 7:00pm
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latest In 2016, annoying mobile ads will begin to fade away
By Felix Salmon December 16, 2015 | 7:00pm
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latest How Hollywood made the financial crisis entertaining
By Felix Salmon December 11, 2015 | 12:00pm
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features Mark Zuckerberg wants to change the world, again. You got a problem with that?
By Felix Salmon December 4, 2015 | 4:45am
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latest How the world's young people feel about their economic prospects
By Felix Salmon December 2, 2015 | 8:15pm
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latest A better way to give on Giving Tuesday
By Felix Salmon December 1, 2015 | 12:00pm
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latest Is Al Gore's ethical investment company all it's cracked up to be?
By Felix Salmon November 27, 2015 | 3:26pm
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latest People flunked this money test because the questions were dumb
By Felix Salmon November 18, 2015 | 10:17pm
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latest Marriott won't pillage your SPG rewards. Here's why.
By Felix Salmon November 18, 2015 | 2:50pm
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latest Why Uber should become a car insurer
By Felix Salmon November 13, 2015 | 7:55pm
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latest Why we fear technology
By Felix Salmon November 12, 2015 | 3:24pm
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latest Yes, Marco Rubio, philosophy matters—and we could use a lot more of it
By Felix Salmon November 11, 2015 | 2:55pm
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latest Is buying penny stocks ever a good idea?
By Felix Salmon November 9, 2015 | 12:00pm
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latest The death of the art gallery has been greatly exaggerated
By Felix Salmon November 4, 2015 | 5:39pm
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latest How Bernie Sanders is like Ronald Reagan: The hedgehog, the fox, and the 2016 election
By Felix Salmon October 24, 2015 | 11:00am
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latest Bernie Sanders: 'Invest in jobs and education, rather than jails and incarceration.'
By Felix Salmon October 20, 2015 | 10:00am
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latest The sad truth about airfares
By Felix Salmon October 15, 2015 | 11:00am
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latest SimplyCredit wants to profit by paying off your credit cards. (No, really.)
By Felix Salmon October 14, 2015 | 11:00am
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latest Google's mobile-friendly pages make it seem like a hero...for now
By Felix Salmon October 11, 2015 | 5:45pm
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latest How MindGeek transformed the economics of porn
By Felix Salmon October 10, 2015 | 11:00am
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latest Meet Bill Gross, batshit billionaire
By Felix Salmon October 8, 2015 | 7:10pm
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features The Kunduz hospital bombing: Terrible accident, or war crime?
By Felix Salmon October 7, 2015 | 6:43pm
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latest Teen chef Flynn McGarry: The kid can cook.
By Felix Salmon October 7, 2015 | 11:00am
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latest The immigration blind spot
By Felix Salmon September 30, 2015 | 9:49pm
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latest Jackpocket: Good or Evil?
By Felix Salmon September 30, 2015 | 3:22pm
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latest How Business Insider's $50 million revenue compares to other money-making ventures
By Felix Salmon September 29, 2015 | 9:19pm
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latest Mobile advertising is killing itself
By Felix Salmon September 27, 2015 | 5:00pm
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latest Why Kickstarter could be the future of capitalism
By Felix Salmon September 22, 2015 | 12:38pm
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latest Can I save money and have a fun life?
By Felix Salmon September 21, 2015 | 11:00am