When Meta agreed last month to pay states $17.1 billion in penalties and make major changes to address claims that its platforms are addictive, attorney Jennifer Hoekstra already had her eyes set on the next frontier in the consumer backlash to Big Tech — sports betting. Hoekstra, a Florida attorney whose firm was involved in…
This report is published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Giving birth to her fourth child in January of 2021 was life-changing, says Nicole Hamann, but not in the way she ever imagined. While still at the hospital, Hamann was informed that both she and…
Rolling Stone writer Barry Walters, whose new book, “Mighty Real,” is a history of LGBTQ music, explains what a difference a word can make: Viking When I hear love songs sung by straight men, I mentally switch the gender of their nouns so I can relate to what they’re singing about. This is what gay…
