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Trad Caths Have Risen
Two years ago, a headline in The New York Times declared that the hottest club in New York City was the Catholic Church. While that was never true, c…
1 year, 5 months ago
Armed and Socialist
Gun ownership in America has long been associated with the political right. Forty-five percent of Republicans and conservative independents own a fir…
1 year, 5 months ago
Black Pilled
When reporter Elle Reeve is recognized at the airport, it's often by members of the alt-right: the online white-nationalists who organized the violen…
1 year, 6 months ago
Introducing WIRED Politics: Kamala Harris' Brat Summer Is Almost Over. What's Next?
We're in your feed today to share an episode from a podcast we think you might like called the WIRED Politics Lab.
As Election 2024 quickly approache…
1 year, 6 months ago
Defrauding Big Tech
They were scammers. But they weren't going to scam just anyone. They were going to scam Big Tech. And they almost got away with it.
Earlier this mont…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Great Lemming Lie
Telling a story is hard. Filming nature is even harder.
That may be why, in the 1940s, Walt Disney productions leaned on movie magic to develop its T…
1 year, 6 months ago
A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy
When the founder of the messaging and social media app Telegram, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France, it exposed something: many of Telegram's millio…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ignore All Previous Instructions
How do you break a bot? Recently, one sneaky idea turned into an online meme. Tell the bot, "Ignore all previous instructions and..." Then you fill i…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Internet's Most Hated Bird
Gulls are not beloved creatures. Consult social media, where they are deemed relentless, dirty pests who steal our food and crowd our beaches. As one…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bad Assumptions
A blurry video surfaces on the r/trashy subreddit of what appears to be a work dispute in an unspecified African country. A Chinese man slaps a clipb…
1 year, 7 months ago