Sports Illustrated US
HERE WE GO
The 2025 season is about redemption. It's about exciting new talent. It's about real supermen. It's about putting schemes into action. And it's all about to happen, so you BETTER GET READY
7 min |
September 2025
Sports Illustrated US
ROAD TO GLOR
A slightly tweaked format should lead to an even better CFP PLAYOFF. Here's how we see the games playing out-under a variety of circumstances
1 min |
September 2025
Sports Illustrated US
BEST OF FRIENDS
True partners JA'MARR CHASE and TEE HIGGINS are so good at what they do that they compelled the Bengals to go all-in on the proposition that receivers can still win championships
10+ min |
September 2025
Sports Illustrated US
TWO'S THE ONE
The nam sake son of an M-Pro at the position, high-flying Broncos cornerback PATRICK SURTAIN II has put himself among the NFL's defensive elite and is ised to raise Denver to new heights
10+ min |
September 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Blackwater founder to deploy nearly 200 personnel to Haiti as gang violence soars
The security firm of former U.S. Navy SEAL Erik Prince will soon deploy nearly 200 personnel from various countries to Haiti as part of a one-year deal to quell gang violence there, a person with knowledge of the plans said.
3 min |
August 21, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
The PWHL and Barbie collaborate to promote diversity in women's hockey
Barbie, Tim Hortons (the iconic Canadian restaurant chain known for its donuts) and the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) have teamed up on a new set of hockey dolls in collaboration with PWHL stars Sarah Nurse and Marie-Philip Poulin.
2 min |
August 21, 2025
Reason magazine
Strangling AI, One State at a Time
JUST HOURS BEFORE its passage, the Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) cut a proposed moratorium on states enforcing their own AI regulations. Though some regard this as a win for federalism, others argue that the current patchwork represents an abdication of the federal government's jurisdiction over interstate commerce, permits excessive compliance costs to be imposed on the American AI industry, and may ultimately sacrifice the U.S. lead in the field to geopolitical adversaries.
1 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
DOJ Aims To Restore Gun Rights
MELYNDA VINCENT, A Utah social worker specializing in drug harm reduction, was convicted of bank fraud in 2008 because she paid for groceries with a bad check. Seventeen years later, Vincent is still not allowed to own a gun or even temporarily possess one.
3 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
Taxing the Poor, Globally
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law on July 4. One measure buried deep in the 870-page law imposes a 1 percent tax on remittances—the money that people send to friends and relatives in their home countries. The 1 percent tax applies to all remittance senders in the United States, though not to transfers sent from bank accounts and U.S.-issued debit or credit cards.
1 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
Cairo: The Unfinished City
DRIVE ABOUT 40 minutes from the Giza Pyramids to the ancient step pyramid of Saqqara and you'll pass rows of half-built apartment blocks, skeletal overpasses, and roads that seem permanently under construction. Leave central Cairo and you'll see more of the same: neighborhoods where concrete beams poke out of rooftops, brick walls are left raw and unpainted, and windows are missing entirely from apartments.
2 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
PUTIN AND THE D-WORD
IN DONALD TRUMP'S VIEW, VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY IS A \"DICTATOR,\" BUT VLADIMIR PUTIN ISN'T.
10+ min |
October 2025
Sports Illustrated US
SWEET SPOT
Gum-chewing, candy-dispensing MARCUS FREEMAN is proving to be the ideal fit in South Bend, where the Fighting Irish coach's off-field affability has won over the school and his on-field intensity has given Notre Dame a chance to end its 37-year title drought
10+ min |
September 2025
Sports Illustrated US
BIG MEN ON CAMPUS
THE GENESIS of James Blanchard's career can be traced back two decades to far east Texas, with some high school highlights, a handful of online message boards and, later, hundreds of posts on a then nascent social media platform called Twitter.
6 min |
September 2025
Sports Illustrated US
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
The scion of football's most celebrated quarterback family is facing enormous expectations in his first season as starter at Texas, but ARCH MANNING remains determined to look past the fame and Heisman hype and focus on perfecting his craft
9 min |
September 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Mamdani's safety platform beats “tough-on- crime” and builds a big tent
In the aftermath of the New York City Democratic primary, much has been written about Zohran Mamdani's remarkable win across a diverse group of voters — including some Trump voters and many who stayed home in previous elections.
3 min |
August 21, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Summer COVID cases not increasing significantly, but measles sees a comeback, experts say
Concerns over a potential increase in COVID-19 cases have been consistent during the last few summers, but summer 2025 also brought a renewed focus on measles outbreaks. The American Medical Association (AMA) recently highlighted the newest COVID-19 variant and measles in their AMA Update Series.
2 min |
August 21, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Miss Harlem Shake 2025 donates winnings to the Schomburg Center
Summertime in Harlem serves as the perfect time to enjoy a shake— and appreciate and support Black research and culture.
2 min |
August 21, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Thoughts on Lloyd Williams, Harlem's visionary force
Upon hearing of the August 6 transition of Lloyd Williams, president and CEO of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce and co-founder of Harlem Week, it was obvious obituaries would appear in all the major publications, as well as television and radio acknowledgements.
5 min |
August 21, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
The Brooklyn College Bulldogs Esports team is building a contender
Over the past decade, collegiate esports has vaulted from niche LAN rooms — dedicated spaces where players connect to a local network for low-latency, face-to-face competition — to elaborate recruiting lists and budget lines, complete with national conferences, travel weekends, and streamed playoffs that draw live audiences. Brooklyn College is an institution squarely in that surge. Under Director of Esports Alexander Raff, the Bulldogs aren't just chasing trophies; they're building a program that doubles as a campus commons for a commuter school, where students stay because they’ve found a team and a community.
2 min |
August 21, 2025
Reason magazine
Our Lab-Grown Future
THINGS DIDN'T GO well the first time Rebecca Torbruegge took a turn at the go-kart track. She ended up with a burn on her leg that refused to heal and eventually—skip the next bit if you're squeamish—\"started bubbling.\" Doctors in Sydney quickly determined she'd need a graft. But instead of following the usual procedure of scraping a patch from the 22-year-old's backside, slapping it over the wound, and hoping for the best, researchers wondered if she'd like to try something new: custom-printed skin, laid down layer by layer by a machine, built from her own cells.
3 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
EDUCATING THE WORLD'S BEST AND BRIGHTEST— THEN SHOWING THEM THE DOOR
AMERICA'S STATUS AS A TOP DESTINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IS AT RISK.
10+ min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
Let Prisoners Work for Themselves
For nearly two decades, some Puerto Rican prisons allowed a very different sort of prison labor.
3 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
Making Food Out of Thin Air
THANKS TO INNOVATIONS in food science and agriculture, the world is producing more food than ever before. While this has significantly reduced global hunger since the 1970s, it has impacted the environment; in 2023, food production generated about 26 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to Our World in Data.
1 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
Chatbots Win the Debate
IN A MAY 2025 study in Nature Human Behavior, researchers set up online debates between two humans, and between a human and the large language model GPT-4. In some debates, they provided both humans and AI with basic personal information about their opponents—age, sex, ethnicity, employment, political affiliation. They wanted to find out if such personalized information helped debaters both human and machine to craft more persuasive arguments.
3 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
A Spy's Eye View
NOT ALL OF James Bond's gadgets were fictional. In the 1969 movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Bond uses a strange-looking metal square to photograph supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s secret plans. The same metal square appears in the 2013 season of the Cold War-themed show The Americans, when an FBI asset is sent to copy documents in the Soviet Embassy.
3 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
WHY EUROPEANS HAVE LESS
EUROPE IS POOR BECAUSE IT CHOOSES TO BE.
10+ min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
Poland Climbs, Hungary Slips
LOOKING BACK ON his career as one of Poland's most prominent economists and political leaders, Leszek Balcerowicz offered a succinct lesson for policymakers everywhere.
3 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
Cracks in the Map
THE IDEA OF carving out territorial exceptions to, or escape zones from, the hand of the nation-state has long captured the imagination of free market enthusiasts. In the 1990s, I was involved in several organizations devoted to the idea, and I witnessed the movement's gradual shift from a pipe dream of libertarian theorists to something attracting serious interest, and investment capital, from entrepreneurs, as libertarian-oriented free ports, special economic zones, charter cities, and even floating maritime cities (seasteads), began to look more politically possible. In 1993, my “free nation” group was meeting in a local North Carolina hotel; by 2011, I was sipping cocktails at a rather swankier “free cities” conference on the resort island of Roatán, Honduras—which, not coincidentally, today boasts its own charter city, Próspera.
5 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
The Depopulation Bomb
NATALIST PANIC IS rife nowadays. The White House is weighing initiatives to boost the number of births, ranging from a $5,000-per-baby bonus to awarding “National Medals of Motherhood” to mothers with six or more children. In March, the NatalCon gathering in Austin, Texas, declared that we're “living through the greatest population bust in human history.” In April, the tech billionaire (and father of 14 children) Elon Musk posted on X: “Low birth rates will end civilization.”
4 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
Richard Dawkins on the New Enemies of Scientific Thinking
THE LEGENDARY ATHEIST AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST ARGUES THAT TRUTH SHOULDN'T BEND TO FAITH OR FASHIONABLE POLITICS.
10+ min |