At its core, rage-baiting is a manipulative, emotional tactic used by content creators to elicit outrage. The premise is ...

Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI director, could do a lot of damage without overhauling the bureau much at all.

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Since joining Vox in 2018, her work has explored the rise of TikTok, internet aesthetics, and the pursuit of money and fame online. It was September 2023, and a certain sweatshirt wouldn’t leave me ...

As promised, my new paper on the Equal Rights Amendment, "The Twelfth Amendment and the ERA," is now available on SSRN. The paper lays out new historical evidence on prior Article V amendments ...

How do people make money from rage bait? Beth and Phil discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. But now, a new trend called rage bait is spreading across social media. Rage bait is online ...

Donald Trump’s much-ballyhooed Department of Government Efficiency does not actually exist. The program’s official status is more significant than it might seem, because it reflects the ...

The original point of meme coins may have been to poke fun at the wider crypto market. But for many traders, the potential for sudden, massive gains (and losses) is no joke. The tokens ...

Image made with elements from Canva. A few days before President Trump’s inauguration, he hosted a “crypto ball” in Washington, D.C. That night, he unveiled his very own meme coin—a kind of digital ...

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