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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.”
Reporting

The Sorrow and the Shame of the Accidental Killer

How do you live after unintentionally causing a death?
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.
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.
The Lyrical Press

Donald Trump, Poetic Muse

The Presidential candidate has inspired thousands of submissions to the Web site Hello Poetry.
Culture Desk

Radiooooo: The Hit Tune Time Machine

Letter from Los Angeles

The Digital Dirt

Annals of Science

Through the Looking Glass

Letter from California

The Trip Planners

John Cassidy

Amazon and the Realities of the “New Economy”