Mother Jones
Holy War
How Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos, and other militant right-wing activists are hellbent on transforming the Catholic Church— starting with the pope
10+ min |
March/April 2022
Mother Jones
The Pushback
Millions of refugees are fleeing war, persecution, and the effects of the climate crisis. A new frontier of brutality awaits them.
10+ min |
March/April 2022
Mother Jones
The Coming Coup
The insurrectionists failed to topple a fair election. But Republican legislators are succeeding at seizing control of how—and if— votes are counted.
10+ min |
March/April 2022
Reason magazine
MASSACRE at FLOWERTOWN
2.5 MILLION DEAD BEES, AND AN UNLIKELY TEST OF PUBLIC HEALTH POWERS
10+ min |
April 2022
Reason magazine
IS HIGH INFLATION THE NEW NORMAL?
ECONOMICS
3 min |
April 2022
Reason magazine
HOW THE WAR ON SPRAWL CAUSED HIGH HOUSING PRICES
REGULATION
5 min |
April 2022
Reason magazine
How Robots Will Transform the 2020s
THE SERVICE BOT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE WAREHOUSES, HOSPITALS, FARMS, AND MAYBE YOUR HOME.
9 min |
April 2022
Reason magazine
Weather Is Not Climate. Or Is It?
Science
5 min |
April 2022
Reason magazine
Why Can't We Build Anything?
Future
6 min |
April 2022
Reason magazine
The Real Cost of a Magical Education
Blood, sweat, and tears in Naomi Novik’s scholomance novels
10+ min |
April 2022
Reason magazine
Can We Fix San Francisco?
San Fransicko author Michael Shellenberger on homelessness, crime, addiction, and his differences with progressives and libertarians
10+ min |
April 2022
Reason magazine
Two Libertarianisms
Within the big tent, a divide over libertarianism’s limits
10+ min |
April 2022
Reason magazine
Corruption and Crackdowns in California's Marijuana Market
Black markets thrive under mismanaged legalization.
10+ min |
April 2022
Men's Journal
Bloody Duty
"Was the torture and killing of a German businessman by three U.S. Army vets a gruesome hit job? Or a simple shakedown gone horribly wrong?"
10+ min |
February - March 2022
The Atlantic
Loving the Bald Eagle to Death
Americans have had a strange way of showing their admiration for this regal creature.
10+ min |
March 2022
The Atlantic
The Smutty Mystic
What everyone gets wrong about Sheila Heti’s fiction
10+ min |
March 2022
The Atlantic
The Madness of the Method
Does acting need to be grueling to be good?
10+ min |
March 2022
The Atlantic
Women of a Certain Age
Why stars in their 40s are at last getting interesting roles
6 min |
March 2022
The Atlantic
My Personality Transplant
How to find happiness, how I made myself less unpleasant
10+ min |
March 2022
Muscular Development
Underground Steroids Risky Business
I believe we all reach a point in our lives where we look back at the days of our youth, and find striking contrasts with the world of today.
9 min |
March 2022
Techlife News
2 of 6 Boeing Max Test Fraud Counts Against Pilot Dropped
A judge has tossed two of six fraud counts against a former Boeing pilot involved in evaluating the troubled Boeing 737 Max jetliner.
2 min |
February 12, 2022
Bloomberg Businessweek
Trapped
With nurses in short supply, U.S. hospitals are leaning harder than ever on underpaid contract staffers who aren’t allowed to leave when their shift is over
10+ min |
February 07, 2022
Reason magazine
LIFE GETS BETTER FOR SPORTS BETTORS
BUT PLACING A WAGER ON YOUR FAVORITE TEAM IS STILL TOO COMPLICATED IN MANY STATES.
10+ min |
March 2022
Reason magazine
How To Talk About Racism
Linguist John McWhorter on the ways social justice activists have betrayed black Americans
10+ min |
March 2022
Reason magazine
When Is Drinking Ayahuasca a Religious Experience?
Inside the vast apparatus of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), there’s a bureaucrat who is tasked with investigating the tenets of psychedelic churches. That improbable job figures in the legal troubles encountered by Arizona’s Vine of Light Church.
2 min |
March 2022
Reason magazine
Two Courts Debunk Persistent Opioid Myths
Since 2014, state and local governments have filed thousands of lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies they blame for causing the “opioid crisis” by exaggerating the benefits and minimizing the risks of prescription pain medication. The theory underlying these cases is pretty straightforward: Drug manufacturers lied, and people died.
2 min |
March 2022
Reason magazine
Some People Love a State of Crisis
Can’t we get back to some version of normal? That’s a fair question now that every American who wants a COVID-19 vaccine has had the opportunity to get one. But we still get breathless coverage of every variant and new rounds of travel restrictions, mask mandates, and vaccine document checks as if it were still the early days of the pandemic.
3 min |
March 2022
Reason magazine
How Anti-Smut Activists Made ‘Louie, Louie' Famous
Censors wore out their welcome during the 20th Century’s indecency wars.
10+ min |
March 2022
Reason magazine
The Destruction of Black Bottom
How the zeal for government project housing killed a prosperous black community in Detroit
10+ min |
March 2022
Reason magazine
Two Years to Slow the Spread
Government can’t stop moving the Covid-19 goal posts.
10+ min |