Mother Jones
Exile on Maine Street
If Susan Collins is forced into retirement in November, you can thank Maine’s oldest voters.
6 min |
November/December 2020
Mother Jones
Raising Arizona
Latinx activists are closer than ever to flipping the state—if Democrats don’t take them for granted.
8 min |
November/December 2020
Mother Jones
Building a Movement
Carroll Fife helped homeless moms take over an empty Oakland house. Now she’s trying to get inside a system she doesn’t trust.
8 min |
November/December 2020
The Atlantic
The Bible Without Miracles
Thomas Jefferson preferred Jesus’s teachings to his supernatural acts—and edited his copy of the New Testament accordingly.
6 min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
The Election That Could Break America
If the vote us close, Donald Trump could easily throw election into chaos. Who will stop him?
10+ min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
Fluffing Your Own Nest
Can happiness be found in home improvement?
7 min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
Last Exit
Donald Trump’s first term was characterized by theft, lies, corruption, and the incitement of violence. A second term could spell the end of American democracy.
10+ min |
November 2020
Techlife News
German Privacy Watchdog Fines H&M $41M For Spying On Workers
A German privacy watchdog said Thursday that it is fining clothing retailer H&M 35.3 million euros ($41 million) after the company was found to have spied on some of its employees in Germany.
1 min |
October 03, 2020
Reason magazine
The Case Against Biden | Joe Biden's Politics of Panic
THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT HAS A LONG HISTORY OF RECKLESS RESPONSES TO THE MENACES DU JOUR.
10+ min |
November 2020
Reason magazine
THE GAMES MUST GO ON
COVID-19 UPENDED THE NBA, THE NFL, THE NHL, AND MLB. HOW THE PROFESSIONAL SPORTS LEAGUES RESPONDED OFFERS A GLIMPSE INTO OUR FUTURE.
10+ min |
November 2020
Reason magazine
WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD CIVILIZATION
SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENED over the last few decades. For the first time in human history, a single global civilization emerged.
6 min |
November 2020
Reason magazine
WHY CAN'T THEY BOTH LOSE?
THEY SAY IF you don’t vote you can’t complain.They’re wrong.
5 min |
November 2020
Reason magazine
The Case Against Trump | Donald Trump Is an Enemy of Freedom
WHEN IT COMES TO LIMITING THE SIZE AND SCOPE OF GOVERNMENT AND PROTECTING INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES, AMERICA’S 45TH PRESIDENT HAS BEEN ACTIVELY MALIGN.
10+ min |
November 2020
Reason magazine
SHROOMS ARE ON THE D.C. BALLOT
RESIDENTS OF WASHINGTON, D.C., will have a chance to vote for the decriminalization of certain psychedelic drugs this November. The reformers who canvassed for signatures for the initiative say they’re optimistic it will pass despite objections from Congress, which controls D.C. spending.
2 min |
November 2020
Reason magazine
MEAT BILLS ARE ON THE MENU IN CONGRESS
AMERICA’S MEAT SUPPLY has been hammered by COVID-19 outbreaks at many of the nation’s largest meat processing plants, and consumer meat prices have spiked as a result.
3 min |
November 2020
Reason magazine
Political Ignorance Is Bliss
COULD PAYING LESS ATTENTION TO POLITICS BE BETTER FOR YOU, YOUR RELATIONSHIPS, AND SOCIETY?
10+ min |
November 2020
Reason magazine
PLEASE STAND BY
BE PATIENT: WE MIGHT NOT KNOW WHO WON THE ELECTION RIGHT AWAY
5 min |
November 2020
Reason magazine
IS THE SENATE FILIBUSTER A ‘JIM CROW RELIC'?
DURING HIS JULY eulogy for Rep. JohnLewis (D–Ga.), a leading figure in the civil rights movement, former PresidentBarack Obama expressed support for eliminating the Senate filibuster, which he called a “Jim Crow relic.” That position contradicted the one Obama took as a senator in a chamber controlled by Republicans, and his historical framing was more than a little misleading.
3 min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
Why Is the West So Powerful— And So Peculiar?
Cultural evolutionary theory has a startling answer: a marriage policy first pursued by the Catholic Church a millennium and a half ago.
10+ min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
The Beating Pulse of Donald Judd
I always thought his work was intimidatingly austere, until I discovered the plenitude at its core.
10+ min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
POWER SHORTAGE
Women’s rights are human rights. But rights are nothing without the power to claim them.
10+ min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
Marilynne Robinson's Lonely Souls
Her new novel, the latest installment of her Gilead series, explores the power of love and the legacy of race.
10+ min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
Nicola Gratteri – MOB Justice
An Italian prosecutor takes on his country’s most powerful crime syndicate.
10+ min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
Was Charlotte Dod the Greatest Athlete Ever?
The remarkable career of a Victorian athletic phenom—and the legacy that wasn’t
9 min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
How Disaster Shaped the Modern City
The lessons of history are clear: Visionary responses to calamities have changed urban life for the better.
10+ min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
A Cubicle Never Looked So Good
What we lose when we have to work from home
8 min |
October 2020
Reason magazine
WHY HONG KONG'S PROTESTS TURNED VIOLENT
THE ESCALATION IS PART OF A STRATEGY TO UNMASK CHINA’S ABUSES BEFORE THE WORLD.
10+ min |
October 2020
Reason magazine
AMERICAN IDOLATRY MEETS WOKE ICONOCLASM
WHY DO PEOPLE PULL DOWN STATUES?
9 min |
October 2020
Reason magazine
‘I Am More Optimistic Than I've Been in a Long Time'
The Washington Post ’s Radley Balko was a pioneer in reporting on the disastrous consequences of police militarization and the need for criminal justice reform. Now everyone else is catching up.
10+ min |
October 2020
Reason magazine
Regulate Use of Force
“WHEN YOU’RE CONDITIONED TO BELIEVE THAT EVERY PERSON... POSES A THREAT TO YOUR EXISTENCE, YOU SIMPLY CANNOT BE EXPECTED TO BUILD OUT MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS.”
5 min |