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Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash I’ve been wanting to write a post about how homelessness is primarily an issue of scarce housing, rather than drugs, mental illness, progressive policies, or any of
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Early in the pandemic, Bryan Roque lost his job as a software engineer at Amazon. Part of him was relieved. He'd been working himself to the bone for months on end, and he felt completely burned out.
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Illustration by Sean Dong for The Verge Before Clubhouse, Substack, and Elon Musk’s Twitter 2.0 began floundering, they were supposed to revolutionize media. They also have something else in common: t
S an Francisco , I realized during a visit to the city this spring, has a people problem. Not a homeless-people problem, or a tech-people problem, but a lack-of-people problem. As I walked from my hot
Mousa Abu Marzouk, a senior political leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, awoke Saturday morning to news of a bloodbath. Hamas’s military commanders, who are based in Gaza, had been so det
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After piling up billions in business, he pledged to donate almost all of his money to causes before he died. He succeeded, and then lived a more modest life. Charles F. Feeney in 2012. In giving billi
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On the day that public records revealed that Elon Musk had become Twitter’s biggest shareholder, an unknown sender texted the billionaire and recommended an article imploring him to acquire the social
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