Biden Infrastructure Plan Is a Step Toward Equity and Countering Climate Crisis
President Joe Biden’s economic plan, which is aimed at overhauling U.S. infrastructure, helping workers and their families, and raising taxes for the ultrarich, surely represents a big step in the…
Pharma-Backed Dark Money Group Attacks House Democrats’ Lower Drug Pricing Plan
The American Action Network is pouring millions of dollars into a TV, digital advertising and phone campaign attacking House Democrats’ proposal to lower prescription drug costs. H.R. 3, the legislation…
Trump Officials Used Secret Terrorism Unit to Question Lawyers at Border
Taylor Levy couldn’t understand why she’d been held for hours by Customs and Border Protection officials when crossing back into El Paso, Texas, after getting dinner with friends in Ciudad…
Twitter politely asks you to protect its targeted ad dollars in new iOS 14.5 prompt
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As part of iOS 14.5, Apple’s App Tracking Transparency forces developers to ask permission for something they used to be able to do…
COVID Has Catalyzed a Wave of Tenant Organizing That Was Long Overdue
Fifty billion dollars. That’s the amount of past-due rent accumulated during the first year of the pandemic, according to some estimates. And with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s…
My Grandparents Lived Through the Nakba. Now It’s Happening Again.
On May 15, Palestinians around the world mourn the Nakba, or “catastrophe” in Arabic. The Nakba traditionally refers to a dark period of our history in 1947 and 1948 when…
Ebay will enact a sex ban starting June 15
Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images If you’re hoping to turn a dollar on that extremely explicit hentai you picked up in college, you won’t be selling it…
Venmo shows who you’re friends with even if you’re Joe Biden
Photo by T.J. Kirkpatrick-Pool/Getty Images Venmo has a major privacy flaw that’s been well-known for years: there’s no way to keep your list of Venmo contacts private. That means you…
Ireland refuses to pay ransom demand in attack on its national health service
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ireland’s health service, the HSE, shut down all of its IT systems on Friday following a “significant” ransomware attack which has disrupted COVID-19…
Apple said Roblox developers don’t make games, and now Roblox agrees
Image: Roblox Massively popular game creation tool Roblox is now a massively popular experience creation tool Roblox, possibly in response to the ongoing Epic v. Apple trial. Roblox allows a…