Social Justice What Netflix Tells Us About Decision Paralysis It's bad, and the only thing you can do is lower your expectations and press play. Rick Paulas
Social Justice Facebook Makes You Sad—If You’re the Type to Just Sit Back and Watch Researchers find that the emotional downsides of time spent on Facebook are limited to passive use. Nathan Collins
Environment At Least One Chinese Government Agency Is Really Proud of How Well It Censors the Internet Its employees will sing about it for you. Sisi Wei & Yue Qiu
Environment Present Addiction: Our Need to Feel Connected, Right Now, All the Time The Age of Earthquakes is a kind of philosophical Anarchist Cookbook for the online era, when we are in touch with everyone at once all the time, or at least like to feel that we are. Kyle Chayka
Economics How Do You Make a Living, Mallory Ortberg? Noah Davis talked to the Toast co-founder about the site’s success, negotiating a raise, and her future position as a "benevolent wizard." Noah Davis
Environment The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy Werner Koch’s code powers the email encryption programs around the world. Julia Angwin
Environment What’s Really Happening With China’s Great Firewall There are new signs of government censorship on the Internet in China. Sisi Wei
Environment The League Perpetuates the Same Privilege That Society Does Don't hate the app, hate the game. Susie Cagle
Environment Why Are We Blaming Technology for Our Lack of Focus? We complain that we’ve become addicted to glowing screens, but it’s less the screens themselves than what's behind them that’s the big draw. Kyle Chayka
Environment President Obama Wants You to Have Cheap, Fast Internet, but Many Cities Aren’t Allowed to Provide It Obama hailed the benefits of an open Internet in his State of the Union address. Here’s what it is and how he’s trying to make it happen. Leticia Miranda