Clubhouse: A Study in Failed Content Moderation
The audio app quickly became a playground for trolls and harassment, driving many users away. When free speech becomes violent, Clubhouse revealed itself to be like many other platforms.
Business
Saving ‘Main Street’ Means Reviving Small Businesses
Small businesses have been called the “real economy.” But compared to their corporate competitors, most have struggled to secure enough aid to stay afloat through the pandemic.
These Women of Color Are Reinventing Work
Black, Latinx, Asian, and Native women are the fastest growing segment of the American workforce—and they are changing a system that has continually failed them.
Are We Actually Surprised Trump Is Ending Equal Pay?
If it's legislation Obama enacted, No. 45 will destroy it—especially if it means hurting women and people of color the most.
“The Talk” Is Selling Soap, Not Social Justice
Procter & Gamble's ad about the dialogue parents have with their Black kids about racism would be a triumph if it didn't reek so much of opportunism.
If You’re a Person of Color, There Are No Friendly Skies
The abuse suffered by David Dao on United is sadly neither unique to the carrier or the passenger. But will the airline industry ever change its ways?
Pepsi: The Next Generation … of Cultural Appropriators
Brands have a long tradition of exploiting social-justice movements to hock their products—but do their campaigns undermine activists' power?
Dear Julie: “I Can’t Afford to Hang Out With My Friends Anymore”
DAME’s Friendkeeper advises a woman whose BFFs have priced her out of group activities and helps a businesswoman negotiate with a pal involved in a Ponzi scheme.
When Will Women Run the World?
On Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, we celebrate the female innovators who’ve been influencing the culture for centuries—and our ever-expanding role in the future of the global economy.
Starbucks Got Served a Tempest in a Go Cup
An Arizona pastor is frothing over the coffee chain’s newly designed holiday cup with a nasty social-media campaign. Which this Christmas-loving Christian writer finds deeply offensive.