Amanda Unvarnished

In “Social Quitting,” my latest Locus Magazine column, I advance a theory to explain the precipitous vibe shift in how many of us view the once-dominant social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter…

Iszac Henig told his own story in the New York Times. A conservative columnist wants to erase his story and replace it with her own.
by Evan Urquhart
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The fine art of cherry picking is one all propagandists carefully hone, and transphobes are among the most dedicated pra...

Transcripts reveal where the bottlenecks were.

The Biden administration did something wrong and is taking its medicine. Plus I love wrestling—for now.

Deborah Birx’s attempt to whitewash her actions shows why we need a full accounting of what the Trump administration did.

Elon Musk, social media content moderation, and a culture of free speech.

Parlement Technologies, the parent company of “censorship-free” social media platform Parler, has laid off a majority of its staff and most of its chief executives over the last few weeks. The sudden purge of staff has thrown the future of Parler, one of the first conservative alternatives to mainstream platforms, into question.

a bisseleh messianic history

Trump and his allies are eager to whatabout the news that classified documents were found in a Biden office. But the situations are very different.