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How Rodney Dangerfield and “Caddyshack” gave us Donald Trump

An interview with New York Times TV critic James Poniewozik, whose new book Audience of One traces the way pop culture helped create Trump.

By Peter Kafka

Uber’s baffling claim that its drivers aren’t core to its business, explained

Uber and Lyft may not convince anyone that drivers aren’t core to their business, but the argument is a strategic move to buy time.

By Shirin Ghaffary

Vox Crossword

By Vox Staff

Why “Seinfeld” is coming to Netflix

By Peter Kafka

More of the products you view on Amazon are coming from ads

By Rani Molla

Big Tech is “scary” because it wants to be the solution to everything, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says

By Eric Johnson

This AI can pass a 12th-grade standardized science test

By Kelsey Piper

Austin’s failed attempt to regulate Uber and Lyft foreshadowed today’s controversies

By Matthew Zeitlin

The FBI is investigating a venture capital fund started by Peter Thiel for financial misconduct

By Theodore Schleifer

Listen to our new podcast with never-before-told stories about Amazon’s ascent

By Jason Del Rey

Have we hit peak “tech” company?

By Rani Molla

Uber and Lyft say they don’t plan to reclassify their drivers as employees

By Shirin Ghaffary

Gig workers’ win in California is a victory for workers everywhere

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Announcing Reset, a new podcast about how tech is changing our lives

By Liz Nelson

California just passed a landmark law to regulate Uber and Lyft

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

The Wing wants to fight gender bias in hiring by helping its members hire each other

By Eric Johnson

Facebook says its FTC fine and impending regulation are actually good things

By Emily Stewart

Uber Eats doesn’t plan on eating its competition — for now

By Rani Molla

Millions of young people will “storm the Bastille” if we don’t fix income inequality, 2020 candidate Marianne Williamson says

By Eric Johnson

Apple’s new streaming TV service: here’s everything we know

By Peter Kafka

Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman says she has to justify her company’s “right to exist” to male investors

By Shirin Ghaffary

A $5 billion fine won’t fix Facebook. Here’s what would.

By Emily Stewart

Travel startup Away won’t be selling its luggage on Amazon anytime soon

By Emily Stewart

Walmart is done trying to buy small retailers to compete with Amazon

By Peter Kafka

The RealReal isn’t buying a department store anytime soon, CEO Julie Wainwright says

By Shirin Ghaffary

Every tech company should “work together and fix things,” says Microsoft President Brad Smith

By Eric Johnson

The most common thing brands don’t understand about working with YouTube stars

By Theodore Schleifer

Branding is the real reason Schick’s parent company bought razor upstart Harry’s for $1.4 billion

By Rani Molla

Hundreds of Amazon employees plan to walk out of work in protest of Amazon’s environmental policies

By Shirin Ghaffary

Robot priests can bless you, advise you, and even perform your funeral

By Sigal Samuel

How to follow (and listen to) Recode’s Code Commerce conference in New York City

By Kat Borgerding

Dozens of Google employees say they were retaliated against for reporting harassment

By Shirin Ghaffary

How Travis Kalanick’s foes tried using the New York Times to force him out of Uber

By Peter Kafka

It looks like Uber is getting into the small loan business for its drivers

By Shirin Ghaffary

Now the states are coming after Google and Facebook, too

By Emily Stewart

Workers need to be part of the conversation about UBI, says “Beaten Down, Worked Up” author Steve Greenhouse

By Eric Johnson

Recode Daily: WeWork might be worth just half of what it once was

By Kat Borgerding

One Trump fundraiser was all it took to slash SoulCycle’s attendance

By Rani Molla

WeWork might be worth just half of its former $47 billion valuation

By Theodore Schleifer

How Amazon’s Ring is creating a surveillance network with video doorbells

By Rani Molla

The US government isn’t ready to regulate the internet. Today’s Google fine shows why.

By Peter Kafka

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The never-ending, very confusing battle for Etsy’s soul

The people who built Etsy dreamed of remaking commerce with their bare hands. Fifteen years later, its sellers are being asked to compete with Amazon.

By Kaitlyn Tiffany