The Goods

The Goods

The Goods

Twitter trolling with Chapo Trap House’s Felix Biederman

By Rebecca Jennings

Are we ever authentically ourselves on the internet?

New "anti-Instagram" apps like BeReal claim to help users be more authentic online, but the distinction between real and fake isn’t quite that simple.

By Terry Nguyen

The many, many costs of breastfeeding

Breastfeeding isn’t free — and it isn’t a solution to the national baby formula shortage.

By Aubrey Hirsch

Crypto believers insist this is all worth it. Is it?

By Emily Stewart May 16

The best $15 I ever spent: An audiobook subscription

By Amy Sullivan May 14

Why pet food is so doggone expensive

By Benji Jones May 12

The stock market’s panicking, but you don’t have to

By Emily Stewart May 11

What is a trend anymore?

By Terry Nguyen May 11

The YouTubers are not okay

By Rebecca Jennings May 10

Abortion has been treated as a fringe issue by Democrats for decades. This is the result.

By Anna North May 5

Office snacks might be dying off. Good.

By Emily Stewart May 5

Just admit that you loooove Twitter

By Rebecca Jennings May 3

How to use Apple’s new repair program

By Rebecca Heilweil April 27

A day in the life of a professional Twitter flirt

By Rebecca Jennings April 26

Gen Z does not dream of labor

On TikTok and online, the youngest workers are rejecting work as we know it. How will that play out IRL?

By Terry Nguyen April 22

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Abercrombie & Fitch told a generation who it was

By Alissa Wilkinson April 22

Companies lose your data and then nothing happens

By Emily Stewart April 21

THC, in every snack you can think of

By Melinda Fakuade April 20

The hottest trend on TikTok? In-depth analysis.

By Terry Nguyen April 20

Ignoring emails with Twitter’s funniest comedian

By Rebecca Jennings April 19

When your job helps the rest of America work

Why so many are giving up on child care work and what it will mean for everyone else.

By Anna North April 19

The growing, lightly controversial industry teaching kids crypto

By Rebecca Jennings April 12

The best $3,000 I ever spent: Surgery for a cat I never wanted

By Teresa Shimogawa April 10

The awful American consumer

By Emily Stewart April 7

The Goods

How Noom got anti-dieters to go on diets

Noom promises not to be like other diets. But does it pull off the claim?

By Constance Grady April 7

Procrasti-shopping with NPR’s youngest podcast host

By Rebecca Jennings April 5

Mexico City and the pitfalls of becoming a remote work destination

By Terry Nguyen March 30

Nobody wants more crappy videos on Instagram. Too bad.

By Rebecca Jennings March 29

America’s inflation problem is weirdly hard to fix

By Emily Stewart March 28

The best $0 I ever spent: Watching someone else shop

By Adam Chandler March 27

Car dealers are charging buyers more because that’s capitalism, baby

By Emily Stewart March 24

When NFTs came to roller derby, roller derby put up a fight

By Sara Morrison March 24

12 hours online and zero regrets: A day with the internet’s funniest meme curator

By Rebecca Jennings March 22

Money Talks: Navigating unemployment two years into the pandemic

By Nicole Dieker March 17

War in the time of crypto

By Emily Stewart and Rebecca Heilweil March 15

Where teen influencers go to become actors

By Rebecca Jennings March 15

The best $4.99 I ever spent: A six-pack after my father’s funeral

By Akina Chargualaf March 13

Nice raise. Too bad about inflation.

By Rani Molla March 10

Why it costs money to get your own money

By Emily Stewart March 10

The video essay boom

By Terry Nguyen March 9

Yup, the Russian oil ban means gas prices are going to suck

By Emily Stewart March 8

A day in the digital life of an internet it-girl

By Rebecca Jennings March 8