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The Goods

The Goods

The best $79 I ever spent: Paint for my very own bedroom walls

By Tshedza Mashamba

One Good Thing: A Danish drama lets its girlbosses fail

The latest season of Borgen is a political thriller for the Great Resignation.

By Anna North

Flying will be the worst part of your summer vacation

With abnormally bad rates of flight delays and cancellations, air travel won’t stop sucking anytime soon.

By Terry Nguyen

NFTs and the monetization of hope

By Emily Stewart June 30

Brands want to be more than your friend. They want community.

By Terry Nguyen June 30

The nontoxic social media app that tells you your toxic traits

By Rebecca Jennings June 29

You shouldn’t have to ask your boss for an abortion

By Emily Stewart June 28

The anti-abortion “social safety net”

By Anna North June 28

Labor exploitation, explained by Minions

By Rebecca Jennings June 22

Actually, maybe don’t learn to code

By Emily Stewart June 16

Stopping inflation is going to hurt

By Emily Stewart June 15

How Catholicism became a meme

By Rebecca Jennings June 15

Juneteenth merch is American consumerism at its most crass

By Julia Craven June 15

The best $2,618 I ever spent: A second wedding ceremony

By Jay Deitcher June 12

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The Goods

It’s a terrifying time to have kids in America. It doesn’t have to be this way.

How do you raise kids in a country that seems to hate them?

By Anna North June 9

One Direction fangirls created the internet as we know it

By Rebecca Jennings June 8

The bad vibes economy

By Emily Stewart June 8

The kids who have never known life without Covid-19

By Anna North June 7

Might I suggest not listening to famous people about money?

By Emily Stewart June 2

Staring down 30 at the Taylor Swift dance party

By Rebecca Jennings June 1

The best $17.59 I’ve ever spent: A totally normal alarm clock

By Lora Kelley May 28

How the internet gets people to plagiarize each other

By Rebecca Jennings May 24

Why must we pay to have a slightly less miserable time at the airport?

By Emily Stewart May 19

The Goods

Play-to-earn gaming sounds too good to be true. It probably is.

The video game industry’s clumsy flirtation with Web3 doesn’t feel like it has actual players in mind.

By Luke Winkie May 18

Twitter trolling with Chapo Trap House’s Felix Biederman

By Rebecca Jennings May 17

Are we ever authentically ourselves on the internet?

By Terry Nguyen May 17

The many, many costs of breastfeeding

By Aubrey Hirsch May 17

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

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