The US health-care system found a way to make peanuts cost $4,200 ~health healthcare Article 2181 words 8 votes
It’s time for Black athletes to leave White colleges ~sports Article 2674 words, published Sep 5 2019 7 votes
The Atlantic launches new subscription plans and introduces a metered model ~news journalism Article 548 words 13 votes
An ingenious microscope could change how quickly disease is detected ~science medicine Article 479 words 6 votes
Free speech tropes - Common misstatements, misconceptions, and bad arguments about the First Amendment in American media ~misc Article 2325 words 9 votes
Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, turning life into an endless competition and making everyone—even the rich—miserable ~life work education Article 2629 words 11 votes
The anthropocene is a joke: On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch ~science Article 3728 words 15 votes
The human cost of amber - Fossils preserved in sap offer an astonishingly clear view of the distant past, but they come at a high price ~science Article 4912 words 6 votes
The future of the city is childless - America’s urban rebirth is missing something key—actual births ~life family Article 1971 words 12 votes
The biggest star at YouTube's VidCon 2019 was TikTok ~tech social media Article 1965 words, published Jul 12 2019 4 votes
Cancel Qatar: The money for the next men's World Cup would be better invested in the women's game. ~sports.football Article 468 words, published Jul 7 2019 8 votes
Reparations are not the answer - The struggle against poverty needs to be a collective fight ~life Article 495 words 11 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
Your professional decline is coming (much) sooner than you think ~life work Article 6663 words 16 votes
No, you don't look like that. How phone cameras alter reality. ~tech Article 480 words, published Dec 18 2018 7 votes
The platform excuse is dying ~tech facebook social media Article 1785 words, published Jun 11 2019 16 votes
Men in Black: International forgets what made the original so great ~movies reviews science fiction Article 566 words 9 votes
The friends who have been playing the same game of Dungeons & Dragons for thirty years ~games.tabletop dungeons and dragons Article 1779 words 10 votes
Atomic veterans were silenced for fifty Years. Now, they’re talking. ~humanities.history Article 765 words, published May 27 2019 8 votes
Facebook’s dystopian definition of ‘fake’ - For the social-media platform, a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi is content, not a phony ~tech facebook social media Article 2646 words 9 votes
Abolish the priesthood: To save the Church, Catholics must detach themselves from the clerical hierarchy—and take the faith back into their own hands ~humanities religion theology Article 8092 words 10 votes
"Breakfast food" is a lie - Americans eat a narrower variety of foods for breakfast than anyone else ~food history diet Article 514 words 6 votes
Pope Francis stops hiding from the Church’s sexual-abuse epidemic ~humanities religion Article 469 words 5 votes
I tried to make Facebook's news feed random and fun ~tech facebook social media Article 494 words 6 votes
SpaceX’s unnerving silence on an explosive incident ~space rocketry spaceflight.commercial Article 497 words 12 votes
Giant pandas are macronutritional carnivores - A new study shows that the nutrient profile of the bear’s all-bamboo diet is much closer to that of a typical meat eater ~science biology Article 509 words 4 votes
Learning my father’s language: I made a vow to teach myself Irish, the language my mother struggled to learn, so that my daughters may learn it too ~humanities language Article 4495 words 6 votes
"Looping" has created an underground market for old Medtronic insulin pumps with a security flaw ~health medicine Article 2425 words 10 votes
Lou Ortenzio was a trusted West Virginia doctor who got his patients—and himself—hooked on opioids. Now he’s trying to rescue his community from an epidemic he helped start. ~health medicine Article 5237 words 5 votes
When a country bans social media - Sri Lanka’s ban on social media forces a question nobody wants to ask: what if a global media network is impossible? ~tech social media internet Article 529 words 5 votes
Greenland is falling apart: Since 1972, the giant island's ice sheet has lost eleven quadrillion pounds of water ~enviro climate change water Article 523 words 10 votes