Microplastics Are Everywhere. Here’s What You Can Do About It
So what, you might ask—it’s just plastic! After all, if you accidentally swallow a shirt button, it’ll pass straight through you, right? But when it’s broken...
The Quiet Insurrection the January 6 Committee Missed
Still, he was granted a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse into not just the January 6 attack. He also believes he identified the insurrection’s central player: Trump’s former...
It’s Time to Reframe the Story of Climate Inequity
In 2011, DTE Energy Company removed 1,200 streetlights from the city of Highland Park, Michigan. A Black working-class suburb of Detroit that was once a boom...
US Lawmakers Push Tech Firms on Abortion Benefits for Gig Workers
When WIRED asked companies about their policies after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Amazon, DoorDash, and Lyft acknowledged that their abortion travel benefits did not apply...
A US Freight Rail Crisis Threatens More Supply-Chain Chaos
Early this summer, farmers worried that millions of chickens in California’s Central Valley might soon peck each other to death. The birds were running perilously low...
Europe Set Itself Up for This Energy Crisis
Bros says that the situation we face is not a market failure, but a regulatory one. Bros was involved in the liberalization of the French market...
Gig Workers Are Losing Their Hard-Won Rights
Not all of Just Eat’s orange-clad couriers were switched to salaried contracts, and the company did continue to use self-employed gig workers hired via outsourcing companies...
Drone Contraband Deliveries Are Rampant at US Prisons
It’s not children who are committing these heists, of course. It’s people running jobs on the inside and the outside. Internet-connected cell phones and electronic money...
Don’t Call the New Federal Gun Law a Gun Law
“Yeah, I think that was,” Republican senator Thom Tillis says of Cornyn’s unscientific news clipping. JFK’s Legacy For Tillis, what truly unified the disparate group of...
Interstate Travel Post-Roe Isn’t as Secure as You May Think
The right to travel is generally seen as protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, and this has been upheld by the Supreme Court in the past. However,...