Alexandr Wang

Spotify is increasingly owning up to its power.

More Life, the newest album released by rapper Drake this weekend, is climbing the charts—and with it, a slew of other artists that most Drake fans had never heard of before.

In 2016, Drake’s celebrated rap album Views became one of the first music projects to debut solely on Apple Music—and unleashed a flurry of agitation over exclusive deals in the music business. While exclusives make tons of money for hit artists, they’re also regularly slammed for encouraging piracy and turning off fans.

“Power in the hands of parents and families”—that’s the key line out of US president Donald Trump’s education budget released this week.

“Disconnect” and “misunderstanding” are two words increasingly being bandied about by political scientists and news commentators to describe the state of social affairs in the US. In the era of president Donald Trump, college campuses are one of the clearest examples of the level of division around.

Hundreds of top-tier US undergraduate schools no longer require the traditional SAT from their applicants, citing the exam’s bias toward wealthy families who can afford test-specific coaching. Now, Harvard Law School is the first elite law school to drop the SAT’s legal counterpart for graduates, the LSAT—also in the interest of diversity.

Really, this was to be expected. Republicans in the House of Representatives this week unveiled a promised bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the signature healthcare plan of Barack Obama’s administration, which is a key policy aim of US president Donald Trump. H.R. 1275 eliminates the ACA’s mandates and proposes alternative routes for healthcare coverage.

In a corner of Etsy’s new 200,000 sq ft (18,581 sq m) headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, there is a room meant only for breathing.

Dubbing Future the future of music would be a tad too easy.

Activists had all eyes on on the US Supreme Court as it prepared to hear the case of 17-year-old Gavin Grimm, a transgender boy suing his Virginia high school for not allowing him to use the bathroom of his choice, later this month.

After resigning from Breitbart News last month and having his book deal canceled over comments that seemed to condone pedophilia, alt-right hero Milo Yiannopoulos already has a new job offer in the works. Predictably, it’s causing no small amount of fury.

New year, new milestone. Music streaming service Spotify announced proudly on March 2 that it now has 50 million paying subscribers—more than double the latest figure boasted by Apple Music, its closest competitor, and representing a 25% increase over Spotify’s own numbers from six months ago.

It’s #deleteUber all over again.

Rarely does Max Martin, the elusive Swedish songwriter and producer responsible for the bulk of the world’s smash pop hits in the last two decades, give interviews. When he does, they’re revelatory.

Inequality in education is a hot topic around the globe right now. As the Ivy League scrambles to ramp up their recruitment of racial minorities, one of the world’s most prestigious universities on on the other side of the pond is looking at a disadvantaged population with far less renown.

Tonight’s looking like the night US president Donald Trump finally reveals his plans for American education.

Ceaseless tumult has characterized US president Donald Trump’s governance so far, and his administration knows it. On the Fox News show “Fox and Friends” today, Trump himself—in an uncharacteristic display of humility—even acknowledged some of the stumbles.

Is radio dead? Data show it isn’t as a whole—yet as a music platform, it’s a whole different story.

Universities may be—or at least pretend to be—politically neutral. Their staff rooms sure aren’t.

Bathrooms are once more a political battleground in America. US president Donald Trump’s rollback of the Obama administration’s policy on transgender bathroom use yesterday (Feb. 22) rescinds previous federal guidance that allowed transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice in public schools. Now, it’s up to individual schools to decide what to allow—and critics say trans students will suffer an increase in mental health issues and bullying if forced to use the bathroom of their assigned sex.

US president Donald Trump today rescinded the federal protections that Barack Obama placed on transgender students’ bathroom use.

The rocky confirmation of Betsy DeVos and the incredible protests that surrounded it had Americans complaining that new education secretary would wreak havoc on the country’s schools and students. In fact, one of her first acts in the office has been defying president Donald Trump.

Bob Moczydlowsky thinks he’s found the dozen most fascinating new ideas in music.

An eye for an eye, as the saying goes.