How we’re supporting startups combating climate change
Combating climate change requires action from everyone—businesses, governments, cities and people. We believe that by investing in technology we can help build novel solutions and empower...
Our Relationship is Doomed in Every Universe
“The Volunteer” by Lucy Ives Some people employ a theory of parallel universes to explain time travel. Maybe I am one of them. If you ask...
Labour’s Leader in the Wilderness
On Christmas Eve, 2020—a year and two weeks after voters handed his Conservative Party a landslide election victory—Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, fulfilled his central campaign...
Labour’s Leader in the Wilderness
On Christmas Eve, 2020—a year and two weeks after voters handed his Conservative Party a landslide election victory—Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, fulfilled his central campaign...
It’s Time for Women to Reclaim Their Monstrosity
I met Jess Zimmerman in 2017 at Madame X, a velvet-swathed Manhattan lounge, where she and Liz Gorinsky were releasing the party game Goth Court. Afterward,...
The Millions Top Ten: February 2021
We spend plenty of time here on The Millions telling all of you what we’ve been reading, but we are also quite interested in hearing about...
Women in Tech: “When someone closes a door on me, I start building a window”
A research study by The National Center for Women & Information Technology showed that “gender diversity has specific benefits in technology settings,” which could explain why tech companies...
Music, Makers & Machines
In 1895, Thaddeus Cahill, an inventor from Iowa, started work on the world’s first electromechanical musical instrument. Weighing in at 200 tons and measuring 60 feet...
The Great Disenchantment: Harry, Meghan & the Monarchy
Even by royal standards, the press and public relations broadside delivered by Harry and Meghan in their interview with Oprah Winfrey this past Sunday was impressive....
The Great Disenchantment: Harry, Meghan & the Monarchy
Even by royal standards, the press and public relations broadside delivered by Harry and Meghan in their interview with Oprah Winfrey this past Sunday was impressive....
