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Twitter and Tear Gas: How Social Media Changed Protest Forever

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Twitter and Tear Gas: How Social Media Changed Protest Forever

Zeynep Tufekci

The Homeric Odyssey of the Web's Strangest Simpsons Site

Memes

The Homeric Odyssey of the Web's Strangest Simpsons Site

Brian Raftery

While You Were Offline: Trump Says He's Treated Unfairly. Abe Lincoln Like, ‘What?’

While You Were Offline

While You Were Offline: Trump Says He's Treated Unfairly. Abe Lincoln Like, ‘What?’

Graeme McMillan

These headphones are always listening and can replay sounds from your past

Music

These headphones are always listening and can replay sounds from your past

James Temperton

FX's Taboo Is Basically Bizarro World Jane Austen

Podcasts

FX's Taboo Is Basically Bizarro World Jane Austen

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy

Star Trek: Discovery Proves That TV Is the Best Final Frontier of All

TV

Star Trek: Discovery Proves That TV Is the Best Final Frontier of All

Adam Rogers

Movies

With Venom, Marvel's Got Its Biggest Bad of All: Brand Dilution

Brian Raftery

12 Monkeys Is Back, and It's Abandoned the Movie for Good

TV

12 Monkeys Is Back, and It's Abandoned the Movie for Good

Charlie Jane Anders

Alien: Covenant Proves 'Franchise Fatigue' Really Means 'Boring Movies'

Movies

Alien: Covenant Proves 'Franchise Fatigue' Really Means 'Boring Movies'

Charlie Jane Anders

Handmaid’s Tale: Oops, I Created a Sexist Tyranny and Now I Have to Live In It

TV

Handmaid’s Tale: Oops, I Created a Sexist Tyranny and Now I Have to Live In It

Charley Locke

The Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory: A Tale of Two Filter Bubbles

Internet Culture

The Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory: A Tale of Two Filter Bubbles

Emma Grey Ellis

The Maligned Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Is Better—and More Important—Than You Know

Movies

The Maligned Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Is Better—and More Important—Than You Know

Julie Muncy

Tremble, for out of the mists comes a new edition of Cthulhu

Books

Tremble, for out of the mists comes a new edition of Cthulhu

Rowland Manthorpe

The town Chernobyl built: how former Soviet paradise Slavutych could save the nuclear industry

Culture

The town Chernobyl built: how former Soviet paradise Slavutych could save the nuclear industry

Sean Williams

Meet PatriotHole, the Onion's New Right-Wing-Skewering Mockery Machine

Internet Culture

Meet PatriotHole, the Onion's New Right-Wing-Skewering Mockery Machine

Angela Watercutter

Rebuilding—and Recording With—the 1920s Technology That Changed American Music Forever

Music

Rebuilding—and Recording With—the 1920s Technology That Changed American Music Forever

Charley Locke

If a financial apocalypse is coming, AlgoDynamix could be the company to save us

WIRED Events

If a financial apocalypse is coming, AlgoDynamix could be the company to save us

Rich Wordsworth

WIRED Awake: 10 must-read articles for May 17

Culture

WIRED Awake: 10 must-read articles for May 17

WIRED Insider

The Emoji Movie Misses the Point of Emoji

Movies

The Emoji Movie Misses the Point of Emoji

Angela Watercutter

Inside the Cult of Carol, the Internet’s Most Unlikely Fandom

Movies

Inside the Cult of Carol, the Internet’s Most Unlikely Fandom

Angela Watercutter