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A recent surge of human-curated guidance is both a reaction against and an extension of the tyranny of algorithmic recommendations.

Only a handful of companies own all the most popular brands in your home, influencing what you eat, drink, and think.

The Mexican chain wants to push boundaries and embrace the unconventional as it seeks global brand status. Creating an ...

A collateral to the ongoing Lahore Biennale, the Roadside exhibition projected humankind as exploiting and mutilating natural ...

Mark Fisher’s “Ghosts of My Life” was one of the most important books I have ever read. I think it’s totally wrong.

In The Sustainability Class (New Press, Dec.), climate policy analysts Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan lambast the “green” lifestyle as a consumerist distraction from global warming’s ...

Black Friday, the consumerist temple to which otherwise ... We spend our weeks testing the latest products to see if they're worthy of our PC gaming setups, and we're putting all that knowledge ...