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Worldcoin wants to give you cryptocurrency — in exchange for scanning your eyeballs
Sam Altman, the former president of Y Combinator, is backing a new cryptocurrency project called Worldcoin. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Privacy experts
These photos sparked a Cold War propaganda feud
In 1961, Life magazine photographed systemic poverty in Brazil. One Brazilian magazine responded with a similar report — featuring photos of New York City. In
The cost of bipartisanship
US President Joe Biden and US senators following a meeting regarding infrastructure negations at the White House on June 24, 2021. | Demetrius Freeman/The Washington
How a socialist won the Buffalo mayoral primary
Courtesy of India Walton’s campaign India Walton’s mayoral primary victory is historic. Can her campaign provide a blueprint for progressive success? When India Walton —
The Supreme Court’s latest decision could save millions from eviction — but not for long
Justice Brett Kavanaugh. | Getty Images Brett Kavanaugh hands the smallest possible victory to millions of Americans facing eviction. The Supreme Court handed down a
Zola is a slick, seedy Florida odyssey
Riley Keough and Taylour Paige in Zola. | Anna Kooris / A24 The new movie brings a viral tweetstorm to life with absurdist, madcap glee.
“Housing discrimination is alive and well”: Watchdog group sues 36 realtors and landlords in New York
A person runs through Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood on October 8, 2020, in New York City. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images Ending housing discrimination requires more than
Meet Henrietta Leavitt, the 1900s astronomer who expanded our universe
Amanda Northrop/Vox Edwin Hubble’s name is everywhere in astronomy. Henrietta Leavitt’s should be too. In the early 1900s, the universe seemed to be a much,
A sci-fi writer got meta about gender. The internet responded by ruining her life.
Getty Images/iStockphoto Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” drew the ire of the internet. This is what happened next. “In