In this issue

Medieval Geopolitics Help Explain Modern Russia and Ukraine - CATHY YOUNG.

You’re Wrong About Disinformation - KATHERINE MANGU-WARD.

Gay Weddings Return to the Supreme Court - SCOTT SHACKFORD.

Legalizing Pot Requires GOP Support - JACOB SULLUM.

Kids Can Learn Without Instruction

Don’t show this to your kids, because they might cry. But guess how much time children in “traditional societies”— indigenous groups pretty much off the grid—spend in direct instruction, the way American kids do in school?

3 mins

Medieval Geopolitics Help Explain Modern Russia and Ukraine

Explanations for Russia's 2022 war in Ukraine often go back to 2014, when the Revolution of Dignity replaced Kremlin ally Viktor Yanukovych with a pro-Western government and Vladimir Putin responded by annexing Crimea and sponsoring separatist enclaves in Eastern Ukraine.

4 mins

OBAMACARE AND SCOTUS, 10 YEARS LATER

THE PATIENT PROTECTION and Affordable Care Act of 2010, better known as Obamacare, was designed to patch the insurance gaps between Medicare, Medicaid, and employer-sponsored health care, which is bolstered by a tax carve-out for workplace benefits.

3 mins

Biden Can't Pin Inflation on Putin

If Biden is looking to spread the blame for inflation evenly, he should look in the mirror.

2 mins

Christopher Alexander's Utopian Blueprint

Imagine a Federation of independent regions. Each of its cities is a mosaic of distinctive, self-governing neighborhoods, where "people can choose the kind of subculture they wish to live in, and can still experience many ways of life different from their own."

3 mins

Zoning vs. the Good Samaritan

How labyrinthine zoning rules restricted homeless shelters during the pandemic

10+ mins

The Weird World of Watergate

Fifty years later, the motive behind the mother of all modern political scandals remains clouded.

10+ mins

Jared Polis Wants To Leave You Alone

The Democratic Colorado governor on pandemics, parenting, and partisanship

10+ mins

Zap Comix Were Never for Kids!

Disreputable and censored COMIX improbably brought the art form from the gutter to the museums.

10+ mins

THE METAVERSE IS ALREADY HERE

HOW IS VIRTUAL REALITY REMAKING OUR WORLD?

10+ mins

Surveillance Through the Centuries

A MERICA'S FIRST WIRETAPPING conviction happened in 1864.

5 mins

Gay History in the City of Secrets

DURING J. EDGAR Hoover's 48 years as FBI director, people often gossiped about whether his bedroom tastes were as straight as his agents' marksmanship, citing everything from his fondness for socializing in male groups to his close relationship with longtime deputy Clyde Tolson.

6 mins

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