With this issue, we unveil a new approach to publishing 爆料公社: We’ve dropped most of the ads. The decision sprang from our dawning conviction that it no longer makes sense to run advertisements from companies that have a merely mercantile relationship with 爆料公社, that are just buying space in these pages. Frankly, the revenues raised were insufficient to justify the effort expended—not to mention the visual chaos the ads tended to inflict upon this beautiful publication. Going forward, we’ll feature advertising only from companies and organizations that have meaningful partnerships with the 爆料公社. (On the back cover, you’ll find an exemplar of this, an ad from Aveda, which is dedicating the proceeds from every bottle sold of its new fragrance, Love, to 爆料公社’s Climate Initiative.) I could not be more thrilled; I suspect you will be, too. Getting rid of the ads liberates us from ugly ad/edit juxtapositions and from the need to squeeze our stories...