How a childhood of loneliness and anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet ~tech social media internet Article 3568 words, published Jun 29 2019 35 votes
The Impossible Dream - How have we come to build a whole culture around a futile, self-defeating enterprise: the pursuit of happiness? ~humanities.history Article 3388 words 9 votes
Greed, drugs, dirty cops, and the bitter sibling rivalry burning up the $800 million Louisiana family dynasty of Knight Oil Tools ~finance business Article published Jun 27 2019 8 votes
The oral history of the Super Soaker - How a NASA engineer accidentally invented the greatest water gun of all time ~humanities.history Article 4024 words, published Jun 28 2019 9 votes
The bitter truth behind Madagascar’s roaring vanilla trade ~food Article 3951 words, published Apr 29 2019 8 votes
Noam Chomsky: Trump is consolidating far-right power globally ~misc politics Article 3768 words 16 votes
An eleven-year neighborhood feud involved restraining orders, spells, and jail time ~life Article 10 992 words 4 votes
Independence National Park is an embarrassing mess. Why doesn’t anyone care? ~humanities.history Article 4916 words, published Jun 30 2019 6 votes
Rent and its discontents: Against the landlords and the police, in cities poisoned by wealth ~life housing Article 5391 words 6 votes
When you’re trans, living with your parents can be complicated ~lgbt transgender Article 5179 words 8 votes
Amhara coup attempt: Is the honeymoon over for Ethiopia’s PM Abiy? ~misc politics Article 3280 words 3 votes
Where disease stopped and my brother began: Coming to terms with a sibling's suicide ~life family relationships Article 8222 words, published Jun 21 2019 3 votes
Five years ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say ~transport Article 10 277 words, published Jun 14 2019 16 votes
Madonna at sixty: The original queen of pop on aging, inspiration and why she refuses to cede control ~music pop Article 8163 words, published Jun 5 2019 5 votes
The Green New Deal wants farmers to restore the land, not keep wrecking it ~enviro Article 3217 words 4 votes
The Green New Deal wants farmers to restore the land, not keep wrecking it ~enviro Article 3217 words 11 votes
Donald Trump assaulted me, but he’s not alone on my list of hideous men ~life Article 6062 words 14 votes
The oral history of Four Loko in New York ~food drinks history.oral Article 3571 words, published Aug 13 2018 7 votes
The hidden cost of GoFundMe health care - When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins ~health medicine healthcare Article 6415 words 7 votes
Death In Ice Valley – New clues in Isdal Woman mystery ~humanities.history Article 3036 words 4 votes
Here are hundreds more artists whose tapes were destroyed in the UMG fire ~music Article 4481 words 9 votes
Lyme disease cases are exploding. And it’s only going to get worse. ~health Article 4210 words 8 votes
How Oxford university shaped Brexit — and Britain’s next prime minister ~misc politics Article 3979 words 13 votes
What happens after Amazon’s domination is complete? Its bookstore offers clues ~finance business Article 3232 words 11 votes
Generative Adversarial Networks - The story so far ~comp Article 4204 words, published Jun 21 2019 6 votes
A fundamentalist community forges a new identity: Hildale and Colorado City, born of fundamentalist LDS doctrine, are rebuilding themselves—but not without holding on to their core beliefs ~humanities religion Article 8 votes
The revenge of the poverty-stricken college professors is underway in Florida. And it's big. ~humanities education.higher Article 4809 words 20 votes
How will the movies (as we know them) survive the next ten years? Twenty-four major Hollywood figures peer into the future ~movies Article 596 words 7 votes
Blind reverence for the US Constitution—on the left and right—is tearing us apart ~misc politics Article 2257 words 8 votes
Last year, a museum in France dedicated to the work of Étienne Terrus discovered that over half of its collection was fake. Phil Hoad spent nine months investigating how it happened. ~arts art painting Article 3642 words, published Jun 15 2019 9 votes
Bodies in seats: At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives ~tech social media facebook Article 6263 words 28 votes
Hell is high water: When will the Mississippi River come for New Orleans? ~enviro Article 3338 words 6 votes