Private Mossad for hire - Inside an effort to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race ~society politics Article 9001 words 7 votes
A grand plan to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ~enviro plastics pollution Article 6696 words 10 votes
Who owns the internet? (What Big Tech’s monopoly powers mean for our culture.) ~tech internet Article 3518 words 11 votes
How the artificial intelligence program AlphaZero mastered its games ~tech google Article 2908 words 8 votes
How Mark Burnett resurrected Donald Trump as an icon of American success ~tv Article 12 383 words 5 votes
Natalie Wynn: The stylish socialist who is trying to save YouTube from alt-right domination ~tech social media Article 32 votes
The young queer writer who became Greenland’s unlikely literary star ~books literature Article 1735 words 6 votes
Why are Americans still uncomfortable with atheism? ~humanities theology religion Article 4186 words 18 votes
The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture - Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth ~arts Article 6012 words 16 votes
One year of #metoo: A modest proposal to help combat sexual harassment in the restaurant industry ~food restaurants Article 1440 words 5 votes
Senate Democrats investigate a new allegation of sexual misconduct from Brett Kavanaugh’s college years ~news usa politics Article 4071 words 15 votes
Where will we go without Café Loup? The iconic bar-café closes its doors after forty-one years ~food Article 926 words 4 votes
The reclusive hedge-fund tycoon behind the Trump presidency ~society politics Article 10 458 words, published Mar 27 2017 6 votes
The mystery of people who speak dozens of languages ~humanities.languages Article 6243 words 15 votes
"As the North Wind Howled" by Yu Hua ~books literature short stories fiction.flash Article 1386 words 5 votes
Gospels of giving for the new gilded age: Are today’s donor classes solving problems—or creating new ones? ~society politics Article 3164 words 8 votes
What the Oscars’ new “popular film” category says about the art—and business—of the movies ~movies Article 809 words 8 votes
A sociologist examines the “white fragility” that prevents white Americans from confronting racism ~humanities Article 1536 words 23 votes
Refinery29, Kylie Jenner, and the denial underlying millennial financial resentment ~life Article 1462 words 7 votes
Albert Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean Theorem ~science mathematics Article 2744 words 3 votes
Hiroshima - a 1946 piece exploring how six survivors experienced the atomic bombing and its aftermath ~humanities.history Article 9 votes
Looking for life on a flat Earth: What a burgeoning movement says about science, solace, and how a theory becomes truth ~science Article 4883 words 5 votes
Missing files in the Treasury Department's FINCEN database motivated a law-enforcement official to leak Michael Cohen's financial records ~society politics Article 2260 words 4 votes