Reason magazine
California Is Taxing Itself to Death
FOR DECADES, CALIFORNIA has been a desirable destination for Americans lured by the promise of riches, stardom, or at least a good place to surf.
2 min |
November 2023
Reason magazine
The 'Monstrous Beastliness' of Urban Policing
OAKL AND, CALIFORNIA, IS “the edge case in American policing,” journalists Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham declare in The Riders Come Out at Night. “More has been done to try to reform the Oakland Police Department than any other police force in the United States.”
5 min |
November 2023
Reason magazine
Did Evolution Give Us Free Will?
A neuroscientist takes on determinism.
4 min |
November 2023
Newsweek US
'Black History is American History'
Morgan Freeman on his new documentary about the first Black tank unit to serve in combat in World War II and the gaps in our national memory
4 min |
September 08 - 15, 2023 (Double Issue)
Newsweek US
America's BEST Customer Service 2024
HOW WE SHOP HAS CHANGED DRASTICALLY in recent years. Here's a telling statistic: online grocery delivery services are now valued at over $286 billion with projections of continued growth. But companies still need to offer excellent customer service, even if that looks a little different than it used to.
1 min |
September 08 - 15, 2023 (Double Issue)
Newsweek US
Nia Vardalos
WHEN MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING OPENED IN 2002, IT MADE ITS STAR and writer, Nia Vardalos, a celebrity overnight. \"I'm somebody ordinary that something extraordinary happened to.\"
2 min |
September 08 - 15, 2023 (Double Issue)
Newsweek US
EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT DIET IS WRONG
Despite a proliferation of diets supposedly based on science, most theories about what to eat and why are flawed
10+ min |
September 08 - 15, 2023 (Double Issue)
Newsweek US
China's Plan to Rule the World's Smart Devices
Police, firefighters and other first responders in the U.S. rely on Chinese communications devices. Spies may be listening in
10 min |
September 08 - 15, 2023 (Double Issue)
Reason magazine
'I Knew They Were Scumbags'
How federal prison guards confessed to rape-and got away with it
8 min |
October 2023
The Atlantic
I thought my mother was an only child. I was wrong.
The Ones We Sent Away
10+ min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
Owls Aren't That Smart
But they have uncanny powers.
9 min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
THE RESILIENCE GAP
In 2008, when I was a writer for the blog Feministe, commenters began requesting warnings at the top of posts discussing distressing topics, most commonly sexual assault.
9 min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
THE RISE OF BRONZE AGE PERVERT
HOW A FASCIST BODYBUILDER CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION OF THE FAR RIGHT
10+ min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
How America Got Mean
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
10+ min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
KILLER APPS
Is social media making America's murder surge worse?
9 min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
Lost Histories of Coexistence
James McBride's new novel tells a story of solidarity between Black and Jewish communities.
7 min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
Inside the Revolution at OpenAI
Sam Altman doesn't know where artificial intelligence will lead humanity. But he's taking us there anyway.
10+ min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
The Man Who Transformed American Theater
How August Wilson became one of the country's most influential playwrights
10+ min |
September 2023
Time
CHANGING CLOTHES
Inside Stella McCartney's quest to transform the fashion industry from within
10 min |
September 04, 2023
Time
DÉJÀ VU
IT'S GETTING LATE EARLY IN THE GOP PRIMARY, AS THE FRONT RUNNER'S RIVALS STRUGGLE WITH THE CAMPAIGN'S CENTRAL QUESTION: HOW DO YOU STOP TRUMP?
10+ min |
September 04, 2023
Time
BAJA IN THE BALANCE
The campaign to preserve a region, and a local fishing industry
3 min |
September 04, 2023
Time
THE NEW ROMANTICS
A decade after Fifty Shades, pop-culture romance has become alarmingly wholesome
8 min |
September 04, 2023
Time
Paul Reubens
Forever in character
1 min |
September 04, 2023
Time
Climate Is Everything
One of the enduring legacies of this summer's heat waves is a disease that few people have heard of. First documented in El Salvador's sugarcane workers 21 years ago, chronic kidney disease of nontraditional origin (CKDnt) occurs among manual laborers working in high-heat conditions.
1 min |
September 04, 2023
Time
Why did early puberty spike during the pandemic?
ITALY NOTICED FIRST. IT WAS THE FIRST COUNTRY TO lock down during the COVID-19 pandemic, and later in 2020, researchers at Florence's Anna Meyer Children's University Hospital were the first to point out a puzzling trend: more young girls than ever before had been showing up at the hospital with clear signs of early-onset puberty.
2 min |
September 04, 2023
Time
Why Trump's Georgia case may matter most
THE SIGNS IN GEORGIA WERE THERE FOR MONTHS. BACK in February, the forewoman of a special grand jury hinted that her advisory panel had recommended criminal charges against \"not a short list\" of familiar names in connection to an effort to overturn the results of Georgia's 2020 presidential election.
3 min |
September 04, 2023
Time
THE HEALING SEA
In a quest to preserve the zones that let oceans thrive, ecologist Enric Sala heads for the South Pacific
10+ min |
September 04, 2023
Time
The creative ways teachers are using AI
PETER PACCONE, A SOCIAL-STUDIES TEACHER IN SAN Marino, Calif., has a new teacher's aid helping him in the classroom this year.
4 min |
September 04, 2023
Time
Special counsel
In Biden probe
1 min |
September 04, 2023
Time
Writing for Friends was no joke
EVER SINCE I RETIRED FROM TELEVISION WRITING AT the ripe age of 38, people have asked me, \"Why would you quit such a cool career?\" It's impossible to answer this question over cocktail-party conversation. Where would I even begin? There were the grueling hours, the egotistical bosses, the dysfunction-there's everything the Writers Guild of America is currently fighting against with their ongoing strike, and the issues have only gotten more complex since I left in 2008.
5 min |