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The History of Russian Involvement in America's Race Wars

From propaganda posters to Facebook ads, 80-plus years of Russian meddling.

by Julia Ioffe via The Atlantic on October 21, 2017

Drawing of someone holding a photo of a Black family in front of a suburban home, and lighting the photo on fire.

America’s Shameful History of Housing Discrimination

The practice of “redlining” kept people of color from home loans for decades.

by Jamie Hibdon via The Nib on September 25, 2017

Keeper of the Secrets

Is there a special value in archives that are not digitized?

by James Somers via Village Voice on September 20, 2017

The Secret Origin Story of the iPhone

An exclusive excerpt from "The One Device" about the engineering fight that created the iPhone as you know it.

by Brian Merchant via The Verge on June 13, 2017

Graphic illustration of people standing in a line with text boxes over their heads

Internet Privacy, Funded By Spies

Spies, counterinsurgency campaigns, hippie entrepreneurs, privacy apps funded by the CIA.

by Yasha Levine via Surveillance Valley on March 3, 2016

Scientists attend to banks of monitors at NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston in 1965.

Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard

Futuristic control rooms with endless screens of blinking data are proliferating in cities across the globe. Welcome to the age of Dashboard Governance.

by Shannon Mattern via Places Journal on March 1, 2015

Who Would Win in a Presidential Knife Fight to the Death?

Do successful presidents make sound knife-wielders?

by Geoff Micks via The Writings of Geoff Micks on August 22, 2012

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