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Cycling
There Is No Tour de France Without The Tour de Brands
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Patrick Redford
July 25, 2025
NFL
The NFLPA Is Having Communication Issues
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Tom Ley
July 13, 2025
MLB
Private Equity Now Owns More Than 40 Minor League Baseball Teams, And The Number Keeps Growing
139
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Jen Ramos Eisen
July 10, 2025
Capital
Bill Ackman Gets To Play Pretend In Sanctioned Tennis Farce
130
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Giri Nathan
July 10, 2025
Capital
A Mall I Loved Is Going Pitch Black
270
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Dan McQuade
July 3, 2025
MLB
The Dodgers Are Disappointing The People Who Want To Love Them The Most
113
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Diana Moskovitz
June 25, 2025
Journalismism
Update: The Washington Post Is Still Dying
138
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Dave McKenna
June 20, 2025
Podcasts
A Fine Balance Between Evil And Stupid, With Kelsey McKinney And Megan Greenwell
118
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David Roth
June 19, 2025
Capital
Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose
250
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Albert Burneko
June 18, 2025
The Machines
When An AI Agent Tries To Kill You, Who Goes To Jail?
154
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Post-Postdoc
June 17, 2025
Interviews
Megan Greenwell On Living Under And Outside Of Private Equity, The Invasive Species Eating American Life
178
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David Roth
June 10, 2025
Capital
Seven Days At The Bin Store
166
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Jen Kinney
June 4, 2025
Politics
What World Does Bitcoin Want To Build For Itself?
213
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Patrick Redford
June 3, 2025
Capital
Saquon Barkley Lured Me To An Arena Where I Learned Passive Income Is Holy
338
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Kelsey McKinney
June 3, 2025
Journalismism
Journalism’s Slop Crisis Started Long Before That AI-Generated Summer Insert
116
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Diana Moskovitz
May 21, 2025
The Machines
Chicago Sun-Times And Philadelphia Inquirer Publish Huge Summer Insert Of Pure, Uncut Chatbot Slop [UPDATE]
322
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Albert Burneko
May 20, 2025
The Machines
Elon Musk’s Idiot Chatbot Goes Full Boer
247
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Albert Burneko
May 15, 2025
Interviews
An Interview With A Fired Web Content Manager At The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
23
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Sabrina Imbler
May 8, 2025
Capital
An Abundance Of Concrete
142
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Ben Goldfarb
May 7, 2025
Capital
Mark Zuckerberg Still Can’t Buy Taste
260
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Kate Wagner
May 1, 2025
Capital
How I Became Highly Educated Grist For The AI Mill
169
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Post-Postdoc
April 16, 2025
Music
How Record Store Day Became The Stupidest Day In Music
286
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John Semley
April 11, 2025
Politics
Title IX Is Now A Weapon In The Trump Administration’s Culture War
78
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Diana Moskovitz
April 8, 2025
Climbing
There’s No Climbing Without Route Setters, And They’re On Strike
54
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Patrick Redford
April 1, 2025
Arts And Culture
KiiiKiii And The Dawn Of K-Pop’s Process Era
26
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Kathryn Xu
March 23, 2025
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