BREAKING: Parliament votes on emergency media bill /// RUPTURE EXCLUSIVE: The documents they didn't want published /// CULTURE: Why the art world is eating itself /// ECONOMY: Rent strikes spread to 14 cities /// OPINION: The myth of the moderate /// BREAKING: Parliament votes on emergency media bill /// RUPTURE EXCLUSIVE: The documents they didn't want published ///

Cover Story — Issue 47

THE
SILENCE
MACHINE

How three media conglomerates quietly bought the regulators meant to oversee them — and what happens when the last independent voices go dark.

By Vera Okafor · 14 min read · Investigative

Also This Week

RENT OR EAT: THE NEW ARITHMETIC

A ground-level report from the cities where the housing crisis has become a survival calculation.

Long Read

THE ALGORITHM THAT DECIDES WHO GETS BAIL

Inside the black-box risk scores reshaping criminal justice — and who profits from them.

Politics

THE BILL NOBODY READ

Buried in 400 pages of emergency legislation: a clause that would let ministers shut down any publication within 48 hours.

Milo Strand · 8 min

Culture

ART AFTER THE CRASH

The galleries are full. The artists are broke. A new generation is making work in the ruins of the attention economy.

Sasha Lim · 11 min

Technology

YOUR PHONE KNOWS BEFORE YOU DO

Predictive behavioral data is being sold to insurers, landlords, and employers. Here's what they know about you.

Dev Anand · 9 min

OPINION

"Centrism is just radicalism with better PR."

Nadia Ferreira · Contributing Editor

"Every 'both sides' headline is a choice. Don't pretend otherwise."

James Obi · Media Critic

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