New York magazine
Dianne Feinstein is American Politics
Over the course of 52 years in elected office, she believed she could use the system for good. Despite everything, she still does.
10+ min |
June 06 - 19, 2022
Newsweek
What Science Says About Abortion
Overturning Roe won’t stop states from tying abortion access to fetal viability
10+ min |
June 17 - 24, 2022 (Double Issue)
Bloomberg Businessweek
Forever Toxic
The fight over a tunnel project in Antwerp has revealed that the forever chemical PFOS, made there by 3M, is in the water, the soil, and the people. And now 3M is the focus of a criminal investigation.
10+ min |
June 13, 2022
Harper's BAZAAR - US
Dr. Jill Biden – A First Lady Undeterred
A pandemic. A war. A country at its breaking point. Dr. Jill Biden has faced it all with the grace and conviction that has guided her all her life showing up for her students, her friends and family, the american people, her husband, and herself.
10+ min |
June/July 2022
Reason magazine
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 min |
July 2022
Reason magazine
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 min |
July 2022
Reason magazine
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 min |
July 2022
Reason magazine
The Weird World of Watergate
Fifty years later, the motive behind the mother of all modern political scandals remains clouded.
10+ min |
July 2022
Reason magazine
Zoning vs. the Good Samaritan
How labyrinthine zoning rules restricted homeless shelters during the pandemic
10+ min |
July 2022
Men's Health
Break The Revenge Cycle
Modern politics has dragged us back to the "eye for an eye" days. There's one key phrase that can disarm vengeance, though-and it's simple enough a kid can learn it.
3 min |
May - June 2022
Techlife News
Video Game Workers Create First Union At Big U.S. Game Maker
Video game workers at a division of game publisher Activision Blizzard have voted to unionize, creating the first labor union at a large U.S. video game company.
1 min |
May 28, 2022
New York magazine
There Has to Be a Backup Plan.
Inside the 2024 soul-searching that's happening in every corner of the Democratic Party-except the White House.
10+ min |
May 23 - June 05, 2022
Mother Jones
Their Fight Is Our Fight
The truth is kryptonite for authoritarians and oligarchs-in Russia, and here at home.
4 min |
May/June 2022
Mother Jones
Wild Goose Chase
Elizabeth Warren's years-long battle to rein in private equity has been a lonely one.
1 min |
May/June 2022
Mother Jones
Lessons Not Learned
How the Oxford school massacre could have been stopped
7 min |
May/June 2022
The Atlantic
“They're not human beings”
Ukraine and the words that lead to mass murder
10+ min |
June 2022
AppleMagazine
Biden Announces Program Offering Discounted Internet Service
President Joe Biden announced that 20 internet companies have agreed to provide discounted service to people with low incomes, a program that could effectively make tens of millions of households eligible for free service through an already existing federal subsidy.
3 min |
May 13, 2022
New York magazine
The Woman Who Killed Roe
Marjorie Dannenfelser's single-minded pursuit of an end to abortion.
10+ min |
May 9-22, 2022
Newsweek
Blue -or Bluer
In Pennsylvania and Texas, democratic voters face clear ideological choices that could signal the party's direction
5 min |
May 06, 2022
AppleMagazine
In election misinformation fight, '2020 changed everything'
Beth Bowers grew up in the 1960s and 1970s with parents who marched in protests, wrote letters to members of Congress and voted in elections big and small.
5 min |
April 29, 2022
Newsweek
An Uncertain Future for Ukrainian Refugees
The majority of the 12 million displaced by the war with Russia may never be able to go home
9 min |
May 06, 2022
Reason magazine
Why a Wealth Tax Is a Bad Idea
Billionaires are better at figuring out what to do with their money than the government will ever be.
5 min |
June 2022
Reason magazine
America's Nuclear Reluctance
ON FEBRUARY 14, 2022, Oregon’s NuScale Power signed an agreement with the Polish mining and processing firm KGHM to deploy NuScale’s innovative small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) in Poland by 2029.
3 min |
June 2022
Reason magazine
Ukrainians Find Refuge in Previously Unwelcoming Places
Immigration
2 min |
June 2022
Reason magazine
William Ruger on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
William Ruger, who holds a Ph.D. in politics specializing in foreign policy, is the newly appointed president of the American Institute for Economic Research. A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, he was a prominent voice in calling for U.S. withdrawal from that country. He was picked by former President Donald Trump to be ambassador to Afghanistan, but his nomination was never voted on.
2 min |
June 2022
Reason magazine
Was Censorship the Greatest COVID Threat to Freedom?
WE’RE NOT JUST fighting an epidemic,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, declared at the Munich Security Conference on February 15, 2020. “We’re fighting an infodemic. Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus and is just as dangerous.”
6 min |
June 2022
Reason magazine
11 Insanely Corrupt Speed-Trap Towns
Caught stealing from motorists, these towns disbanded their police forces or even disbanded their governments altogether.
10+ min |
June 2022
Reason magazine
After the War
In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s time for Europe to step up and America to step back.
10+ min |
June 2022
Techlife News
Zuckerberg Money Won't Be in Next Round of Aid for Elections
The nonprofit that distributed most of the $350 million in donations from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to election offices in 2020 said that it won’t disburse similar donations this year after backlash from conservatives suspicious that the contributions tilted the outcome of the presidential race toward Joe Biden.
3 min |
April 16, 2022
Newsweek
The Price of Complacency
The White House and Congress are fighting over pocket change even though the pandemic is still a threat
10+ min |