Newsweek
Dark Day — The News in Pictures
U.S. Capitol Police officers after morning roll call on Capitol Hill on January 6, a year after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building in hopes of interrupting the certification of the election of Joe Biden as President.
1 min |
January 21, 2022
AppleMagazine
World Economic Forum Warns Cyber Risks Add to Climate Threat
Cyberthreats and the growing space race are emerging risks to the global economy, adding to existing challenges posed by climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, the World Economic Forum said in a report this week.
4 min |
January 14, 2022
Techlife News
After Wave of Cancellations, Delta Sees Recovery in 2022
Delta Air Lines lost $408 million in the final quarter of 2021, dragged down by a COVID-19 surge that rocked the airline in December, and the carrier predicted Thursday that it will suffer one more quarterly loss before travel perks up in spring and summer.
3 min |
15, January 2022
Reason magazine
THE LOCKDOWN SHOWDOWN
ALARMED BY UNILATERAL COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS, STATES ARE IMPOSING NEW LIMITS ON EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY. ERIC BOEHM
10+ min |
February 2022
Reason magazine
WE KEEP GOING BACK TO THE MATRIX
HOW A GENERATION WAS REDPILLED BY A NERD POWER FANTASY ABOUT DEFINING YOURSELF IN THE DIGITAL AGE
10+ min |
February 2022
Reason magazine
Inflation Will Make Government Budget Problems Worse
"Recent comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinted that the Fed may soon get serious about hitting the monetary brakes to slow the economy. Until recently, inflation was described as transitory. But at some point, that story has to change."
3 min |
February 2022
Reason magazine
‘The Only Crime of Most of Us Was That We Were Uyghur Muslims'
Concentration camp survivor Tursunay Ziyawudun on her imprisonment and torture in China
10+ min |
February 2022
Mother Jones
Had Badge, Will Travel
An ex-sheriff slings bogus constitutional lessons at cops—with your state’s seal of approval.
8 min |
January/February 2022
Mother Jones
The Legal War Against Mother Jones
"Journalists shouldn’t hide behind a veil of false objectivity."
4 min |
January/February 2022
The Atlantic
The Small Lie
To support the Republican myth that our elections are rife with fraud, someone needs to take the fall.
10+ min |
January - February 2022
The Atlantic
The Children Are in Danger!
Across America, well-meaning citizens are raising money and awareness about a child-sex-trafficking epidemic that doesn’t exist.
10+ min |
January - February 2022
The Atlantic
January 6 Was Practice
Donald Trump is better positioned to subvert an election now than he was in 2020.
10+ min |
January - February 2022
The Atlantic
Snowbirds
Photographs by Naomi Harris
2 min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
The Antiquities Cop
Matthew Bogdanos is on a mission to prosecute the wealthy dealers and collectors who traffic in the looted relics of ancient civilizations.
10+ min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
Shape-Shifting Animals on an Inhospitable Planet
Lizards’ feet are morphing, squid are shrinking, butterflies’ wings are growing stronger.
10 min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
The Miraculous Sound of Forgiveness
In his thrillingly transgressive opera The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart pulled off his most amazing musical feat.
10+ min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
The Autocrats Are Winning
If the 20th century was the story of liberal democracy’s progress toward victory over other ideologies— communism, fascism, virulent nationalism— the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse.
10+ min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
W. G. Sebald, Usurper of Lives.
Germany’s renowned and morally scrupulous novelist ransacked the stories of Jewish lives for his fictions. Does it matter?
10+ min |
November 2021
Mother Jones
Geography Class
Photographer Matt Black’s epic work of “critical cartography”
5 min |
November/December 2021
Mother Jones
Sweet And Lowdown
The hidden suffering behind America’s sugar habit
10+ min |
November/December 2021
Mother Jones
Field of Trees
The case for bringing foliage back to the Corn Belt
3 min |
November/December 2021
Mother Jones
Mainstreaming Militias
In Virginia, right-wingers who face down anti-racist demonstrators with AR-15s have earned an official stamp of approval.
5 min |
November/December 2021
Mother Jones
Healing Requires Truth
A modern civil rights project seeks to reexamine hundreds of Jim Crow–era murders, and help families move forward.
10+ min |
November/December 2021
The Atlantic
Jonathan Franzen Finally Stopped Trying Too Hard
At last he put aside the pyrotechnics and went all in on his great theme: the American family.
10 min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERSHIP IS A LIE
How to convince Americans that firearms won’t make them safer
10 min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
The Quiet Moments
In 2009 and 2010, while on assignment in Afghanistan’s Helmand, Kunar, and Wardak provinces, the photographer Adam Ferguson took a break from his journalistic work documenting the war to create portraits of American service members.
2 min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
PLAN Z FOR IMMIGRATION
“A moral failing and a national shame.”
6 min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
Peter Thiel Hates a Copycat
The billionaire’s extreme contrarianism is the secret to his success.
10+ min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Stealthily Wielding Caesar's Sword
Sohrab Ahmari’s case for tradition conceals an authoritarian agenda.
6 min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
LET'S PLAY HORSESHOE THEORY
FUTURE
7 min |