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By Karen GregoryNovember 16, 2015
Silicon Valley’s rhetoric of magical innovation relies on a hidden abode of rare earth mining and hydro-cooled server farms
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Letter to a Young Baby

By Alana MasseyAugust 6, 2015
Don’t kid yourself, it’s a job
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The Ladies Vanish

By Shawn WenNovember 11, 2014
The most magical innovation of the app economy is making the female workers it depends on mostly invisible.
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Not All Nerds

By Christopher T. FanNovember 6, 2014
By imagining nerds as a race of their own, Silicon Valley tries to disguise its white supremacy
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Not for Teacher

By Malcolm HarrisSeptember 12, 2014
The fight documented in Dana Goldstein’s The Teacher Wars may be a lost cause
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Over Easy

By Moira DoneganApril 7, 2014
Elite education may impoverish and indebt young women and do little to get them a job, but at least it makes their eggs valuable
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Hate Sinks

By Jason WilsonFebruary 6, 2014
The facade of liberal democracy only stays clean by putting young women in hate’s way
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