Popula

by Maria Bustillos

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Resurrection: Tom Scocca Brought Bill Cosby Here

The Center Held Just Fine: Joan Didion, First Lady of Neoliberalism

Pumping Ryan: Gregg Segal tells us what it was like to take those absolutely bananas photos.

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Dismediation, revisited

Pascal’s Climate: super pithy arguments in favor of personal climate action

Popula Makes History: To our knowledge, this is the very first story ever archived by a U.S. publication straight onto a public blockchain.

2008: No Drama, Obama

I Love Desi

Does the most famous New Yorker cover mean what you think it means?

The Literature of the Universe: Adventure Time comes to a close.

The Wonder Woman App: a conversation with Jia Tolentino and Diana Moskovitz on Bill Cosby, #MeToo and the future of women in journalism

Bourdain Confidential

Always Tweet: a conversation with @ashleyfeinberg

Goldenballs! how journalism once fought back against the Man in England

It’s Happening: A Conversation with Joe Lubin of Ethereum

Don’t Be a Nazi!! They are GIANT Failures who Died Horribly Last Time

The Secret of Politics is Death! Now that the rich are no longer required to pay taxes, death has become the sole universal human predicament.

Science is not the Poetry of Reality: The Selfish Gene was amazing but just no, Richard Dawkins

It takes at least half an hour to get to Fountain Valley

Endangered Species of the Amazon: World Culture

The Artist is the Art: David Foster Wallace, the Hideous Man

Meet Martin Pratt of ecoWURD

The One Culture: Scientific progress isn’t the magically self-correcting engine of eternal benefits that the 20th century had blithely assumed it would be.

Where the word Empowerment is, there too Bullshit shall you likely find

Ethical models: a talk with Kaiser Kuo

RIP, Jonathan Gold

The Carousel of “Progress”

Et in Arcadia, Ego

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