Newsweek US
Amber Ruffin
A LATE-NIGHT COMEDY SHOW ON CNN? YES, and it's a game show, too.
2 min |
November 08, 2024
Newsweek US
Bridget Everett
BRIDGET EVERETT NEVER THOUGHT SHE'D BE THE LEAD OF A TV SHOW. \"I come from the downtown world in New York, a cabaret singer, and these things just don't happen, you don't find yourself with three seasons of HBO.
2 min |
November 08, 2024
Time
Animals understand death too - In 2018, field researchers in Uganda came across an unusual sight: a female chimpanzee carrying an infant she had recently given birth to that was affected by albinism, an extremely uncommon condition in this species that gives their fur a striking white color.
In 2018, field researchers in Uganda came across an unusual sight: a female chimpanzee carrying an infant she had recently given birth to that was affected by albinism, an extremely uncommon condition in this species that gives their fur a striking white color.
3 min |
November 11, 2024
Time
The Beauty of Being Alone - There's a lot of fear around spending time alone. Alone time can make people itchy with boredom.
Recent articles and studies warn us about the dangers of loneliness—one 2017 study by Julianne Holt- Lunstad at BYU’s Social Connection and Health Lab claims loneliness is as bad as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. In 2023, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy published an advisory all about the epidemic of loneliness in America. It details the genuine risks of chronic loneliness, such as increased rates of anxiety and depression, as well as dementia in older adults
3 min |
November 11, 2024
Time
Larry Hogan's Ethics Issue - On Jan. 27, 2021, then-governor Larry Hogan had good news for affordable housing in Maryland: nearly $40 million in competitive awards to spur construction of 18 low-income housing projects.
On Jan. 27, 2021, then-governor Larry Hogan had good news for affordable housing in Maryland: nearly $40 million in competitive awards to spur construction of 18 low-income housing projects. “During our administration,” Hogan said, “the State of Maryland has provided financing and tax credits to create or preserve more than 20,000 affordable rental units across the state.” But there was one detail Hogan didn’t mention: one of the projects was being developed on his own family’s property.
3 min |
November 11, 2024
The Atlantic
Catching the Carjackers - On the road with an elite police unit as it combats a crime wave
On August 7, 2022, Shantise Summers arrived home from a night out with friends around 2:40 a.m. As she walked from her car toward her apartment in Oxon Hill, a Maryland neighborhood just southeast of Washington, D.C., she heard footsteps behind her. She turned and saw two men in ski masks. One put a gun to her face; she could feel the metal pressing against her chin. He demanded her phone, wallet, keys, and Apple Watch. She quickly handed them over, and they drove off in her 2019 Honda Accord.
10+ min |
November 2024
The Atlantic
THE RIGHT-WING PLAN TO MAKE EVERYONE AN INFORMANT
In Texas and elsewhere, new laws and policies have encouraged neighbors to report neighbors to the government.
10+ min |
November 2024
The Atlantic
The Playwright in the Age of AI
In his new play, McNeal, Ayad Akhtar confronts, and subverts, the idea that artificial intelligence threatens human ingenuity.
10+ min |
November 2024
The Atlantic
What Zoya Sees
Long a fearless critic of Israeli society, since October 7 Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi has made wrenching portraits of her nation's sufferingand become a target of protest.
10+ min |
November 2024
The Atlantic
Scent of a Man
In a new memoir, Al Pacino promises to reveal the person behind the actor. But is he holding something back?
5 min |
November 2024
Newsweek US
'Iran Can Be Pushed Back Against Hard'
Former British Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair talks exclusively to Newsweek about resolution in the Middle East and the role of the U.S. in achieving it
10+ min |
November 01, 2024
Newsweek US
SURVEY SAYS...
Exclusive polling for Newsweek on key issues highlights where presidential candidates DONALD TRUMP and KAMALA HARRIS need to win votes to succeed to the White House
10+ min |
November 01, 2024
Newsweek US
Asher Grodman
ASHER GRODMAN IS PERFECTLY FINE PLAYING a ghost on CBS' Ghosts who walks through the afterlife without any pants. \"I don't really want to die in the state that Trevor died.
1 min |
November 01, 2024
Newsweek US
George Lopez
GEORGE LOPEZ HAS DONE A LOT IN HIS LONG CAREER. BUT NOW, WITH NBC's Lopez vs Lopez, George knows what's most important \"is the people you get to be around and get to talk to.\"
2 min |
November 01, 2024
Newsweek US
Last Rodeo for 'Yellowstone'
The hit TV series is set to conclude without main man Kevin Costner, but his onscreen son Luke Grimes is convinced viewers will be surprised and satisfied by the season finale
6 min |
November 01, 2024
The Atlantic
Is Forgiveness Possible?
Thirty years after the genocide in Rwanda
10+ min |
November 2024
The Atlantic
Malcolm Gladwell, Meet Mark Zuckerberg
The writer’ insistence on ignoring the web is an even bigger blind spot today than it was when The Tipping Point came out.
10+ min |
November 2024
The Atlantic
Alan Hollinghurst's Lost England
In his new novel, the present isnt much better than the past—and its a lot less sexy.
8 min |
November 2024
Reason magazine
A Psychedelic Ban Would Disrupt Important Research
YOU HAVE PROBABLY never heard of 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine (DOI), much less worried about its possible abuse. Yet the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) wants to ban this synthetic psychedelic, a promising research chemical used in more than 900 published studies, by placing it in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), which defeated a previous DEA attempt to ban DOI in 2022, is determined to stop the agency's interference with science again.
2 min |
December 2024
Reason magazine
Pearl Clutchers in Hot Spring County
IS THE FILM Night of the Living Dead too racy for daytime television? What about double entendres about \"spotted dick\" pudding? Or a travel documentary about Paris featuring burlesque dancers and a museum with nude paintings? These were just some of the federal obscenity complaints that made Hot Spring County, Arkansas, the most prudish place in America.
1 min |
December 2024
Reason magazine
Abolish the Army
IMMEDIATE ATTACKS ON OUR SOVEREIGNTY WOULD COME NOT FROM LAND BUT FROM THE SEA.
3 min |
December 2024
Reason magazine
Abolish Borders
LINES DRAWN BY GOVERNMENTS DON’T HAVE MORAL MAGIC.
3 min |
December 2024
Reason magazine
There's More to the 'Motherhood Penalty'
IS MOTHERHOOD BAD for women's careers? Conventional wisdom says \"yes,\" but a new study suggests \"maybe not.\"
3 min |
December 2024
Reason magazine
Abolish the Department of Transportation
IT DOESN'T EVEN BUILD THE ROADS. IT JUST INCREASES COSTS.
3 min |
December 2024
Reason magazine
We Still Live in the Physical World
The digital world has not effaced our humanity, no matter what social critics like Christine Rosen say.
6 min |
December 2024
Reason magazine
Blaming Bill Buckley
IT'S THE CLEANEST, neatnest [sic] operating piece of social machinery I've ever seen. It makes me envious.\" When Rexford Tugwell, an adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt, wrote these words in 1934, he was not referring to the New Deal programs in his purview.
6 min |
December 2024
Reason magazine
Abolish ICC
THE AGENCY DISRUPTS COMMUNITIES AND FAMILIES, FOR NO GOOD.
3 min |
December 2024
Reason magazine
Courts Are Coming for Digital Libraries
IN SEPTEMBER, A federal appeals court dealt a major blow to the Internet Archive-one of the largest online repositories of free books, media, and software-in a copyright case with significant implications for publishers, libraries, and readers.
3 min |
December 2024
Reason magazine
Citizen Journalism Under Threat
CIVIL LIBERTIES
3 min |
December 2024
Reason magazine
Censorship on Campus
LAST YEAR, STUDENT-LED protests over the Israel-Hamas war broke out at dozens of college campuses. With the new school year well underway, student demonstrations have begun again in earnest.
2 min |