Reason magazine
The Great American City Upon a Hill Is Always Under Construction
AMERICA'S UTOPIAN DREAMS LEAD TO URBAN EXPERIMENTATION.
10 min |
January 2025
Reason magazine
EVERY BODY HATES PRICES
BUT THEY HELP US DECIDE BETWEEN BOURBON AND BACONATORS.
10+ min |
January 2025
Reason magazine
Glucose Monitors Are Finally Available Over the Counter
THE U.S. FOOD and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the first continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) for over-the-counter sale-a major win for health freedom and common sense.
3 min |
January 2025
Reason magazine
Nuclear Power Saves Lives
THE PANIC FOLLOWING the catastrophic meltdown of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl in the Soviet Union in April 1986 resulted in nearly 400 fewer new nuclear power plants being built than had been projected.
2 min |
January 2025
Reason magazine
Why Kamala Harris Lost
FEW REALISTIC POLITICAL observers expected a blowout for Kamala Harris.
3 min |
January 2025
Reason magazine
Politics Without Journalism
THE 2024 CAMPAIGN WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT FOR THE WAY WE PROCESS PUBLIC AFFAIRS.
10+ min |
January 2025
The Atlantic
Teaching Lucy
She was a superstar of American education. Then she was blamed for the country's literacy crisis. Can Lucy Calkins reclaim her good name?
10+ min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
A BOXER ON DEATH ROW
Iwao Hakamada spent an unprecedented five decades awaiting execution. Each day he woke up unsure whether it would be his last.
10+ min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
Culture Critics
Nick Cave Wants to Be Good \"I was just a nasty little guy.\"
9 min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
The Magic Mountain Saved My Life
When I was young and adrift, Thomas Manns novel gave me a sense of purpose. Today, its vision is startlingly relevant.
10+ min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
The Dark Origins of Impressionism
How the violence and deprivation of war inspired light-filled masterpieces
10+ min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
DISPATCHES
HOW TO BUILD A PALESTINIAN STATE There's still a way.
10+ min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
The Weirdest Hit in History
How Handel's Messiah became Western music's first classic
8 min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
Against Type
How Jimmy O Yang became a main character
10+ min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
ONE FOR THE ROAD
What I ate growing up with the Grateful Dead
8 min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
HOW THE IVY LEAGUE BROKE AMERICA
THE MERITOCRACY ISN'T WORKING. WE NEED SOMETHING NEW.
10+ min |
December 2024
Newsweek US
'THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE'
What Donald Trump's historic U.S. presidential election victory means to America - and the world
8 min |
November 22, 2024
Newsweek US
Trump Won, Mainstream Media Lost
A broken business model exacerbated by a collapse in influence has the Fourth Estate entering another Donald Trump term in trouble
10+ min |
November 22, 2024
Newsweek US
Wendi McLendon-Covey
AFTER 10 YEARS OF PLAYING BEVERLY GOLDBERG ON THE GOLDBERGS, Wendi McLendon-Covey was not eager for a break. \"I need to go do a job where I can just throw everything at it and then come home totally exhausted.\"
1 min |
November 22, 2024
Time
Zak Brown The McLaren Racing CEO on Formula One in the U.S., his team's chase for a championship, and the future propulsion of the automobile
The McLaren F1 team is in the running for its first Formula One constructors' championship since 1998. What's that like? I'm kind of living on the edge of my seat. That's why sport is always going to be one of the most engaging forms of entertainment for people around the world.
2 min |
November 25, 2024
Time
5 ways to improve your brain health every day
TAKING CARE OF YOUR COGNItive health ought to be-well, a no-brainer. According to a survey published in March, 87% of Americans are concerned about age-related memory loss and a decline in brain function as they grow older, yet only 32% believe they can take action to help control that trajectory.
3 min |
November 25, 2024
Time
Why are sit-down chain restaurants struggling?
RED LOBSTER FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY IN MAY. TGI FRIdays closed nearly 50 locations abruptly in October, then filed for bankruptcy in early November. Hooters shut down dozens of stores in June, while Buca di Beppo declared bankruptcy in August.
2 min |
November 25, 2024
Time
Using AI for natural-disaster responses
THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE LIVING IN URBAN AREAS HAS tripled in the past 50 years, meaning that when a major natural disaster like an earthquake strikes a city, more lives are in danger. Meanwhile, the strength and frequency of extreme weather events has increased-a trend set to continue as the climate warms.
3 min |
November 25, 2024
Time
No rest for the songs of Wicked
THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST HAS BEEN A FIXTURE in American culture for nearly 125 years. After coming to life in 1900 with L. Frank Baum's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, she rose to prominence onscreen in 1939, portrayed by Margaret Hamilton as a sinister old lady intent on ruining an innocent girl's wish to go home.
5 min |
November 25, 2024
Time
Turning waste into buildings
Insect shells, rice husks, water bottles, and bamboo charcoal might not be the first things that come to mind when you think of high-performance building products.
2 min |
November 25, 2024
Time
Health Matters
COVID-19 MAY NOT BE A PUBLIChealth emergency anymore, but you still need your yearly shot. In fact, it seems to peak about twice a year: once during the traditional respiratory-disease season in the fall and winter, and once during summer.
3 min |
November 25, 2024
Time
Quincy Jones
QUINCY JONES, ONE OF THE most important drivers of 20th century pop culture, died on Nov. 3 at 91. A music producer, composer, and executive, Jones served as the connective tissue between many eras and styles of music, from Ella Fitzgerald to Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson to Amy Winehouse.
2 min |
November 25, 2024
Time
How Trump Won
THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S RE-ELECTION IS THE NEXT STEP IN A POLITICAL CAREER UNLIKE ANY OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY
10+ min |
November 25, 2024
Time
Russia's long shadow across Eastern European elections
WITH SO MUCH focus on elections in the U.S., it's easy to miss the political news from two countries that remain in Russia's long shadow. In Georgia and Moldova, two former Soviet republics, voters have recently cast ballots amid accusations that Russian interference helped shape the outcome in both countries.
2 min |
November 25, 2024
Time
The many horrors of the Pelicot rape trial
THE TRIAL OF DOMINIQUE PELICOT, THE MAN IN THE South of France who pleaded guilty in September to charges of secretly drugging his wife of 50 years, Gisele, and, over the course of about a decade, filming dozens of men as they had sex with her while she was sedated, would have been disturbing enough just as the story of an epically vile husband.
5 min |