Reason magazine
Surveillance Through the Centuries
A MERICA'S FIRST WIRETAPPING conviction happened in 1864.
5 min |
July 2022
Reason magazine
THE METAVERSE IS ALREADY HERE
HOW IS VIRTUAL REALITY REMAKING OUR WORLD?
10+ min |
July 2022
Reason magazine
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 min |
July 2022
Reason magazine
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 min |
July 2022
Reason magazine
Zap Comix Were Never for Kids!
Disreputable and censored COMIX improbably brought the art form from the gutter to the museums.
10+ min |
July 2022
Mother Jones
MOTHER TONGUE
How the scientific label has masked political choices
3 min |
May/June 2022
Mother Jones
No Quick Fix
Two national companies took over the motorized wheelchair industry. Disabled customers have been paying the price.
4 min |
May/June 2022
Mother Jones
Mobilizing Homes
How a group of Coloradans fought like hell to wrest their "poor people's paradise" from the grip of a PE-backed firm
4 min |
May/June 2022
Mother Jones
Pipe Dreams
How to cash in on federal climate tax credits...by shuttling ethanol emissions across five states.
8 min |
May/June 2022
Mother Jones
ONCE UPON A PLANET
Can hopeful books help kids tame their climate anxiety?
4 min |
May/June 2022
Mother Jones
THE COPPER RUSH
Will the green economy wreck sacred Native lands?
7 min |
May/June 2022
Mother Jones
TINY'S HOUSE
An Oakland crew of "poverty scholars" spins a minor revolution in the war on homelessness
6 min |
May/June 2022
Mother Jones
A Few Good Men
Valley Forge Military Academy bills itself as a school that breaks down young cadets and builds them back better. It succeeds at one of those things.
10+ min |
May/June 2022
Mother Jones
Capitol Gains
Private equity's favorite tax break is one of Washington's favorite punching bags. So why can't anyone get rid of it?
10 min |
May/June 2022
Mother Jones
The Smash-and-Grab Economy
Private equity billionaires are looting the country, leaving everyday Americans to clean up the mess-and fight for the scraps.
10+ min |
May/June 2022
The Atlantic
Fox News Does Late Night
Greg Gutfeld has owned the libs all the way to the top of the ratings
6 min |
June 2022
The Atlantic
The Defiant Strangeness of Werner Herzog
The director brings his signature theme adventurers who share his quixotic compulsions—to his debut novel.
10 min |
June 2022
Newsweek
‘Division of the World Is Inevitable'
Countries need to choose whether to align with autocrats or democracies, says a former NATO Secretary-General
10+ min |
May 20 - 27, 2022 (Double Issue)
Newsweek
Bans Off Our Bodies
MoveOn and Abortion Access activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on May 3 after the leak of a draft opinion overturning the Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
1 min |
May 20 - 27, 2022 (Double Issue)
New York magazine
Abortion Funds Are a Lifeline. And a Target.
The right's attacks on grassroots groups have already begun.
5 min |
May 9-22, 2022
AppleMagazine
Amazon Workers in NYC Reject Union in a Reversal of Fortune
Amazon workers at a warehouse on Staten Island overwhelmingly rejected a union bid on Monday, dealing a blow to organizers who last month pulled offthe first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant’s history.
5 min |
May 06, 2022
Bloomberg Businessweek
Waiting on mRNA Shots
Beijing refuses to allow Western vaccines even as the development of Chinese ones lags
4 min |
May 02, 2022
Reason magazine
This Is the School Choice Moment. Will the GOP Screw It Up?
REPUBLICANS ARE IN DANGER OF SQUANDERING A PROMISING OPPORTUNITY FOR EDUCATION REFORM ON CULTURE WAR SQUABBLES.
10+ min |
June 2022
Reason magazine
THE PANDEMIC KILLED DISSENT IN HONG KONG
WHEN GREAT BRITAIN returned control of Hong Kong to China in 1997, a condition of the transfer was that Beijing would allow the territory to maintain its own government until 2047. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has never liked this agreement, and the COVID-19 pandemic provided the excuse to all but erase the “one country, two systems” distinction.
1 min |
June 2022
Reason magazine
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE OATH KEEPERS
How Stewart Rhodes went from denouncing authoritarianism to urging an authoritarian crackdown
5 min |
June 2022
Reason magazine
MIKE SOLANA WANTS YOU TO COMMIT THOUGHT-CRIMES
The Hereticon organizer on deplatforming, tribalism, and why tech dudes and journalists are natural enemies
10+ min |
June 2022
Reason magazine
SAVING THE RAINFOREST, ONE PET FISH AT A TIME
DESPITE THE OBJECTIONS OF ANIMAL PROTECTION ORGANIZATIONS, CAREFUL COMMERCIAL FISHING MAY BE THE BEST BET FOR THE AMAZON AND THE WORLD’S AQUARIUMS.
10+ min |
June 2022
Reason magazine
Zora Neale Hurston's Inconvenient Individualism
The author of their eyes were watching god defies easy political categorization.
8 min |
June 2022
The Atlantic
Privacy Isn't Dead
But who gets to keep a secret in hyperconnected world!
10+ min |
May 2022
The Atlantic
Sex for Art's Sake
Elif Batuman's curious experiment in fiction
9 min |