New York magazine
The Group Portrait: They Won
The hunger-striking taxi drivers who claimed victory.
2 min |
November 8 - 21, 2021
New York magazine
It's His Town Now
As he coasts to general-election victory, the post-technocrat, post-progressive Eric Adams mayoralty has already begun.
10+ min |
October 25 - November 7, 2021
New York magazine
30 Minutes With… Lina Khan
The FTC’s very young new boss thinks corporations are abusing their power. To fight them, she’s consolidating some clout of her own.
10 min |
October 25 - November 7, 2021
Newsweek
Afghanistan – The Long Road Ahead
The war may be over, but for refugees from the Taliban the battle has just begun
8 min |
October 29, 2021
Reader's Digest US
The Tractor War
If you buy a machine—be it a smartphone or a combine—you should be able to fix it, right? Big Tech says no. Ordinary Joes say yes. Witness the biggest battle in the right-to repair movement, being fought on farms across America.
10 min |
October 2021
Mother Jones
The Right Medicine
When covid treatments are politicized, science loses.
4 min |
November/December 2021
Mother Jones
Who You Gonna Call?
After Oakland cops drew guns on an accident survivor, a new kind of emergency responder rushed to the scene.
8 min |
November/December 2021
Mother Jones
Suck It Up
Is pulling CO2 out of the sky our climate salvation-or just another Big Oil boondoggle?
10+ min |
November/December 2021
The Atlantic
Facebookland
The social giant isn’t just acting like an authoritarian power. It is one.
10 min |
November 2021
Newsweek
Bashar Is Back
In a triumph over the U.S., Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, a long-time political pariah, is now reclaiming a place on the world stage
10+ min |
October 22, 2021
Newsweek
America Can't Ignore Afghanistan
Exclusive: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan says the Taliban can be a partner for peace, not a terrorist threat - if the U.S. stays engaged.
10 min |
October 08, 2021
Bloomberg Businessweek
Black Hairstyles Need Protection
In most U.S. states, employers and schools are allowed to discriminate against box braids, locs, and other traditional styles. A coalition of activists and legislators has started to change that.
10+ min |
October 18 - 25, 2021
Techlife News
CIA Creates Working Group on China as Threats Keep Rising
China is an especially difficult challenge for the U.S. intelligence community.
3 min |
October 09, 2021
New York magazine
Simone Biles – ‘I Should Have Quit Way Before Tokyo'
For Simone Biles, walking away was an act of self-reclamation.
10+ min |
September 27 - October 10, 2021
Techlife News
California 1st to Set Quota Limits for Retailers like Amazon
California became the first state to bar megaretailers from firing warehouse workers for missing quotas that interfere with bathroom and rest breaks under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that grew from Amazon’s drive to speed goods to consumers more quickly.
3 min |
September 25, 2021
Bloomberg Businessweek
We Wanted Flying Cars. Instead We Got Targeted Ads, More Surveillance, Insurrectionists, and Peter Thiel
An exclusive excerpt from The Contrarian, a new biography
10+ min |
September 20, 2021
Bloomberg Businessweek
Border Conflicts
“Covid Zero” kept Australia safe, if isolated, for 18 months. Now its states are split over how to move on
6 min |
September 20, 2021
The Atlantic
Where Is Our Paradise of Guilt-Free Sex?
Half a century after the sexual revolution, we still haven’t reconciled what we should want with what we do want.
10+ min |
October 2021
Newsweek
What Have We Learned?
We will never forget 9/11. But a more interesting question at the 20th anniversary is, what should we remember—or more...
10+ min |
September 17, 2021
New York magazine
The U.N.'s Own Humanitarian Crisis
Four years after promising to address its internal “scourge” of sexual assault and abuse, the massive, multinational, extralegal institution remains in conflict with itself.
10+ min |
September 13 - 26, 2021
Newsweek
Biden's Benghazi Moment
How the deadly Kabul AIRPORT ATTACK and bungled Afghanistan pullout could HAUNT HIS PRESIDENCY–and cost him the midterms.
8 min |
September 10, 2021
Newsweek
Was ‘Chaos-istan' Inevitable?
How Biden's influence during the Obama administration had long-lasting effects
8 min |
September 10, 2021
Bloomberg Businessweek
When The State Is Absent
A year after Beirut’s devastating port blast, the government is AWOL— so the people have stepped in to rebuild
9 min |
September 06, 2021
Newsweek
Fighting Terrorism from Afar
Can Joe Biden’s ‘over-the-horizon’ strategy in Afghanistan keep America safe? Defense experts are skeptical
6 min |
September 03, 2021
New York magazine
Mistakes Were Made: 9/11 At 20
We should also acknowledge that a pervasive question after 9/11—“Why do they hate us?”—was the wrong question.
10+ min |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
Reason magazine
DEA Still Insists Marijuana Has No ‘Accepted Medical Use'
DEA still maintains that the plant belongs in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), a category supposedly reserved for especially dangerous drugs with no accepted medical use.
2 min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Do We Really Need New Anti-Asian Hate Crime Laws?
A holistic look at the data shatters the narrative about bias-based violence.
10+ min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Everything is Infrastructure Now
How spending got out of control and words lost their meaning
10+ min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Cynthia Lummis, Crypto Queen Of The U.S. Senate
The Wyoming Republican explains why she’s long on bitcoin.
10+ min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Cashed Out
What happens when a community bail fund stops paying bail and starts trying to abolish it?
10+ min |