Felix, with some of the stuff he likes to do online. | Felix Biederman How “the pied piper of the dirtbag left” spends his day
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Are we ever authentically ourselves on the internet?
When the online self is fractured across multiple platforms, authenticity becomes a metric in producing a coherent, ready-made identity for public consumption. | Getty Images/500px
A neo-Nazi idea to spark a race war inspired the Buffalo killings
A young man adds to a sidewalk chalk mural depicting the names of the people killed during a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, on
The hidden history of “Hand Talk”
A North American lingua franca. Centuries before we had American Sign Language, Native sign languages, broadly known as “Hand Talk,” were thriving across North America.
The Supreme Court just made it much easier to bribe a member of Congress
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) shakes hands and poses for photographs with Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty
Finland and Sweden’s historic shifts on NATO, explained
Finnish soldiers participate in a training exercise with forces from the UK, Latvia, US, and Estonia, in Niinisalo, Finland, on May 4. | Roni Rekomaa/Bloomberg
Today, Explained Debuts on Two New Public Radio Stations, KCRW and WEKU
Noel King and Sean Rameswaram Vox’s flagship daily news podcast, Today, Explained, made its public radio debut last month via a distribution deal with WNYC
Lebanon is in political crisis. Sunday’s elections won’t change that.
Lebanon Holds First Parliamentary Elections Since 2019 Protests. | Marwan Tahtah/Getty Images In 2019 protesters chanted for revolution; instead they got continued corruption and negligence.
Summer Lee could be the latest addition to the Squad
Pennsylvania state Rep. Summer Lee is competing in a Democratic primary for the state’s 12th Congressional District. | Courtesy of Summer Lee Campaign The state
Bill Gates knows philanthropy alone can’t solve inequality
Bill Gates at the Global Investment Summit in London, in October 2021. | Leon Neal/WPA/Getty Images The billionaire and public health leader answers five of