Category: Culture

How Amanda Palmer does it may provide many others with an alternative to their own ideas of success. Sarah Hinchliff Pearson writes.

Filipina trafficking survivors endure and start their own workers’ co-op. Abigail Savitch-Lew reports.

Preventing analog recordings, books and other records from destruction is one of the great duties of digital technology. This week we give you a glimpse of the things that can be done with a little open access and a lot of will.

Kelly J. Baker considers the presence of emotion is children’s movies and in the experiences of childhood itself.

The Star turns four, giving our publisher a reason to get all reflective and stuff.

2015 was an interesting year for copyright reform. Jeremy Malcolm explains just how interesting.

An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where the story begins in this deep-dig piece from Marshall Project and ProPublica reporters T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong.

Working in the middle of the night has its excellent moments. Will we miss them when the robots take over? Danielle King writes.

Deric Gruen reads Naomi Klein and considers why the Left isn’t ready to let go of neoliberal ideas of growth.

Sinar Project’s Hazwany Jamaluddin reports on the state of open in Southeast Asia.