technology

Sprint-T-Mobile merger an attack on people of color and the poor

January 30, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

Imagine you’re a teenager in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, doing your homework on your phone…and then you can’t, because your mobile phone carrier pulled out.

Prison podcast sheds light on life behind bars

January 3, 2019 By Olga R. Rodriguez

The podcast “Ear Hustle”— eavesdropping, in prison slang—has found international success and secured freedom for one of its co-hosts.

AT&T workers protest tech job outsourcing

December 4, 2018 By Rick Nagin

Jobs are being outsourced to contractors in the Philippines and India who pay workers $2-3 an hour, a tenth of union wages in the U.S.

The Grindr controversy: Who owns your dating app?

December 3, 2018 By Lowell B. Denny, III

For too long, the LGBTQ movement has been given an undeserved pass as being inherently progressive. Harry Hay warned us about this until the day he died.

Internet is latest arena for U.S. intervention in Cuba

February 12, 2018 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

For decades the U.S. government has flooded Cuba with propaganda aimed at turning Cubans away from their government. Today's medium: the internet.