Web Sites
Infinite Scroll
The Revenge of the Home Page
As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate.
By Kyle Chayka
The Weekend Essay
Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet
Online platforms allowed me to cultivate a freer version of myself. Then the digital world began to close off.
By Kyle Chayka
Rabbit Holes
The Internet’s Richest Fitness Resource Is a Site from 1999
Exrx.net is little changed since the days of Yahoo GeoCities and dial-up and saying “www” aloud. Yet beneath its bare-bones interface is a deep physiological compendium.
By Lauren Michele Jackson
American Chronicles
Can MasterClass Teach You Everything?
Studies suggest that it takes at least a decade to achieve real expertise. The company promises transformation in a few hours.
By Tad Friend
Maine Postcard
Conjuring Maine’s Clairvoyant Kush
A company in Portland has dispatched psychics across the state—where marijuana is legal but delivery isn’t—to find a wide selection of your lost weed and drop it off at your home.
By Charles Bethea
Dept. of Swaps
The Joys of Looking Out a Stranger’s Window
On WindowSwap, a new Web site, you might spot six maskless teen-age boys strolling along an Amsterdam canal and then disappearing into the Sex Palace Peep Show, or a white bird flying high across the pyramids of Giza, Egypt.
By Patricia Marx
Culture Desk
Rookie Brought the Inclusive Spirit of Zines to the Internet Era
The online magazine, which is folding after seven years, cultivated a rare space where young readers could examine what it means to be a person in their own small worlds and in the wider world around them.
By Paula Mejía
Shouts & Murmurs
The Privacy Policy of the Web Site for the 1996 Movie “Space Jam” Has Been Updated
By Nate Dern
Annals of Human Resources
Improving Workplace Culture, One Review at a Time
With its emphasis on transparency, the jobs site Glassdoor aims to upend corporate power dynamics.
By Lizzie Widdicombe
Annals of Technology
The Neo-Nazis of the Daily Stormer Wander the Digital Wilderness
How do the Web’s most virulent anti-Semites keep getting back on their feet?
By Talia Lavin
Tech Support
Pictures of the Dead
In the summer of 2005, at an Internet café in Wuhan, China, I sat down at a computer and Googled “death.”
By Ottessa Moshfegh
Reporting
The Sorrow and the Shame of the Accidental Killer
How do you live after unintentionally causing a death?
By Alice Gregory
Movies
Criterion’s New Online Platform
The foremost source for art-house DVDs and Blu-rays ditches Hulu for FilmStruck, a joint venture with TCM that features new streaming offerings.
By Richard Brody
Brave New World Dept.
Twenty Years of Slate
The digital magazine’s founding editor-in-chief and his successors got together to survey its history and its contributions to online journalism.
By Rebecca Mead
The Lyrical Press
Donald Trump, Poetic Muse
The Presidential candidate has inspired thousands of submissions to the Web site Hello Poetry.
By Charles Bethea