Time
The only way forward after Pulse
GROWING UP IN RURAL OREGON, I OFTEN DREAMED of a world where I could be all of myself. A world where I didn't feel the nagging societal pressure to be \"Black enough\" for some spaces and \"white enough\" for others. A world that saw my queerness not as a deal breaker, but as a superpower.
2 min |
June 12, 2023
Time
Tony nominees J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell make history
Newell, left, is nominated for Shucked, Ghee for Some Like It Hot
2 min |
June 12, 2023
Time
Jason Isbell is finding his purpose
JASON ISBELL SAYS THE DESIRE TO BE HONEST AND FAIR is his compass. \"One day I decided: \"This is what I'm going to claim as the purpose for why I'm here,\" he says. \"I think it's to leave the place a little bit better than I found it, and to experience all the things that I can experience.\"
3 min |
June 12, 2023
The Atlantic
Burned
How a small-town auto mechanic peddling a solar-energy breakthrough swindled Wall Street investors, Warren Buffett, and the U.S. Treasury out of $1 billion
10+ min |
June 2023
Newsweek US
Pollen Proliferation
You're not imagining it. Your seasonal allergies ARE getting worse. Blame climate change
10+ min |
May 26 - June 02, 2023 (Double Issue)
Newsweek US
Ke Huy Quan
FRESH OFF HIS OSCAR WIN FOR EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, Ke Huy Quan isn't wasting time
2 min |
May 26 - June 02, 2023 (Double Issue)
Newsweek US
Balancing An Intricate Act
BHUTAN'S PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSES HOW THE CARBON-NEGATIVE KINGDOM DEALS WITH CLIMATE CHANGE AND A GROWING RIVALRY BETWEEN NEIGHBORS INDIA AND CHINA
10+ min |
May 26 - June 02, 2023 (Double Issue)
Newsweek US
Pop Culture Goes to War
Since Putin's invasion, the songs have gotten more serious, the comedy has gotten grimmer and any sense of kinship with Russia has died
6 min |
May 26 - June 02, 2023 (Double Issue)
Reason magazine
THE NEW RIGHT ISN'T SO NEW
IN THE CLOSING weeks of 1969, a debate broke out in the pages of National Review about how American conservatives should respond to the threat posed by the New Left—the expanded universe of socialists, civil rights activists, anti-war protesters, feminists, environmentalists, and other lefty radicals then making political waves. Fifteen months earlier, police and demonstrators had met in a bloody clash outside the Democratic National Convention.
5 min |
July 2023
Reason magazine
Adam Smith's Quiet Christianity
THE SCOTTISH THINKER’S FAMOUS FRIENDSHIP WITH DAVID HUME DEMONSTRATES HIS LIBERALISM, NOT HIS ATHEISM.
8 min |
July 2023
Reason magazine
Marketplaces Find a Way
THOUGH HISTORY HASN’T ALWAYS BEEN KIND, BUTCHERS, BREWERS, AND BAKERS STILL THRIVE AT URBAN MARKETS.
8 min |
July 2023
Reason magazine
GADGETS AND GIZMOS THAT INSPIRED ADAM SMITH
MEDITATIONS ON THE DANGEROUS, ALLURING BEAUTY OF INTRICATE SYSTEMS
6 min |
July 2023
Reason magazine
POPPY SEEDS TRIGGER CHILD NEGLECT INVESTIGATIONS
BEFORE KATE L. gave birth to a baby girl last September, a nurse at New Jersey’s Hackensack University Medical Center collected a urine sample from the soon-to-be mother.
2 min |
July 2023
Reason magazine
DON'T 'PAUSE' A.I. RESEARCH
HUMAN BEINGS ARE terrible at foresight— especially apocalyptic foresight. The track record of previous doomsayers is worth recalling as we contemplate warnings from critics of artificial intelligence (A.I.) research.
3 min |
July 2023
Reason magazine
Adam Smith's Sly American Proposal
SOMETIMES A PROPOSAL IS A LESSON IN DISGUISE.
10 min |
July 2023
Reason magazine
Adam Smith Understood That We Need Each Other
THE THINKER’S VIEWS OF HUMAN SYMPATHY, BENEFICENCE, JUSTICE, AND THE DIVISION OF LABOR STILL RESONATE.
10+ min |
July 2023
Reason magazine
BOMBING MEXICAN CARTELS WON'T STOP FENTANYL
AMERICANS CONTINUE TO overdose on illicit fentanyl despite increased seizures of the drug coming north from Mexico.
3 min |
July 2023
Reason magazine
THE GREAT EGG SHOCK
AS INFLATION RAISED prices on all manner of goods throughout 2022, eggs earned special attention. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the average price of a dozen eggs in urban areas rose from $1.92 in January 2022 to $4.82 in January 2023.
1 min |
July 2023
Reason magazine
Flo Crivello Says A.I. Will Be Bigger Than the Internet
Flo Crivello is the founder and CEO of Lindy, a software company that has created an executive assistant powered by artificial intelligence (A.I.). Lindy can take care of your calendar, perform basic email correspondence, book travel, and take notes during meetings. The long-run goal is to automate as much work as possible and free up time for tasks that only humans can do.
2 min |
July 2023
Reason magazine
TRUMP'S NEW YORK INDICTMENT IS JUST THE BEGINNING
WHEN FORMER PRESIDENT Donald Trump arrived at a Manhattan courthouse on April 4, crowds of people and rows of TV cameras were there to witness an unprecedented moment: the first-ever arraignment of a former U.S. president. How quickly can something this important be relegated to the footnotes of American presidential history? We may be about to find out.
4 min |
July 2023
Reason magazine
IS ENCOURAGING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PROTECTED BY THE CONSTITUTION?
FEDERAL LAW PROHIBITS encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration for private financial gain. In March, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case, United States v. Hansen, that asks whether that law unconstitutionally abridges freedom of speech.
1 min |
July 2023
Reason magazine
'Excited Delirium' is No Excuse for Police Abuse
A small change in wording by medical examiners could have a big impact on how deaths in police custody are reported. In March, the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) said “excited delirium” should not be cited as a cause of death.
2 min |
July 2023
Reason magazine
An Interview With Adam Smith No, not that Adam Smith.
On the occasion of his 300th birthday, Adam Smith—the Scottish Enlightenment luminary and so-called father of capitalism— was not available for comment, despite attempts to contact him via Ouija board and seance.
7 min |
July 2023
The Atlantic
Surrender to Steely Dan
How the insufferably perfectionist duo captured the hearts of a new generation of listeners
10 min |
June 2023
The Atlantic
Night at the Vatican
After the tourists go home, a museum's collection tells its own story
10+ min |
June 2023
The Atlantic
Writing in the Ruins
The German writer Jenny Erpenbeck cuts through dogma, fractures time, and preserves rubble
10+ min |
June 2023
The Atlantic
THE COUNTEROFFENSIVE
The future of the democratic world will be determined by whether the Ukrainian military can break a stalemate with Russia and drive the country backward-sperhaps even out of Crimea for good
10+ min |
June 2023
The Atlantic
The Canadian Way of Death
The nation legalized assisted suicide-and exposed the limits of liberalism
10+ min |
June 2023
The Atlantic
Call of the Wild
The enduring appeal of watching human beings attempt to master the Alaskan backcountry
5 min |
June 2023
Reason magazine
PROPOSITION: TO PRESERVE INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, GOVERNMENT MUST AFFIRMATIVELY INTERVENE IN THE CULTURE WAR
AFFIRMATIVE: You May Not Be Interested in the Culture War, But the Culture War Is Interested in You
9 min |