November 30, 2020 11 films to watch if you loved — or hated — Hillbilly Elegy A shot from Hell or High Water (2016). | CBS Films/YouTube Rural America on film, from Appalachia to the Ozarks, coal miners to sharecroppers….
November 30, 2020 The death of the department store and the American middle class Shaneé Benjamin for Vox The collapse of America’s middle class crushed department stores. Amazon and the pandemic are the final blows. In a New Jersey…
November 30, 2020 The death of the department store and the American middle class Shaneé Benjamin for Vox The collapse of America’s middle class crushed department stores. Amazon and the pandemic are the final blows. In a New Jersey…
November 25, 2020 Why streaming devices and streaming networks are fighting over your eyeballs TV shoppers at a Best Buy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2018. | Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Streaming TV should be…
November 24, 2020 Parler, the “free speech” Twitter wannabe, explained Parler is attracting the posts that Twitter and Facebook don’t allow, like hate speech and conspiracy theories about the US election. | Olivier Douliery/AFP…
November 23, 2020 The $35 million play to fix Democrats’ data problem is shutting down A ***** campaign worker checks their phone while canvassing in Pennsylvania in early November. | Mark Makela/Getty Images It was Silicon Valley’s attempt to…
November 22, 2020 Big California donors want to fill Kamala Harris’s Senate seat with a woman of color Vice President-elect Kamala Harris met with Gov. Gavin Newsom over the Creek fire in California on September 15. | Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty…
November 19, 2020 BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on why he bought HuffPost and why the New York Times can’t be “the paper of record” BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. | Asa Mathat The Times’s subscription business is booming. But the BuzzFeed CEO has a critique. Jonah Peretti co-founded the…
November 19, 2020 How fake news aimed at Latinos thrives on social media An attendee at a rally for Latina voters in Las Vegas in October. | Melina Mara/Washington Post via Getty Images Democrats are paying attention…
November 19, 2020 Spotify has 300 million users. It wants more of them to listen to podcasts. Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Vanity Fair Gimlet’s Lydia Polgreen tells Peter Kafka about how her parent company Spotify plans to turn music…