Progressives' foreign policy dillemma ~misc politics Article 3197 words, published Sep 12 2019 3 votes
Four years, two continents: A gay Chinese couple's journey for a surrogate son ~lgbt Article 3886 words 5 votes
Social contagion: How China's rapid development created the conditions for an epidemic ~humanities.history Article 8886 words 9 votes
Derek Murphy investigates marathon runners whose times seem suspicious, which led him to the case of a seventy-year-old doctor named Frank Meza ~sports Article 5793 words 9 votes
To rein in traffic-snarling new mobility modes, LA needed digital savvy. Then came a privacy uproar, a murky cast of consultants, and a legal crusade by Uber. ~tech privacy Article 3 votes
Can Jim Walmsley, the "king of ultrarunning", conquer a race as short as the marathon? ~sports Article 3845 words, published Feb 11 2020 5 votes
Lawsuits, mountains of unsold leggings, and families drowning in debt: The tumultuous story behind LuLaRoe, a multilevel marketing brand that promised millennial women a pathway to financial freedom ~finance business Article 9372 words 5 votes
Garbage language: Why do corporations speak the way they do? ~life work Article 4246 words, published Feb 20 2020 10 votes
The lost 110 words of the US Constitution: The 14th Amendment says states that infringe the vote must lose representation in Congress. It’s time to make this happen. ~misc politics Article 3756 words 15 votes
A new book by Greta Thunberg's mother reveals the reality of family life during her daughter's transformation from bullied teenager to climate icon ~books Article 5189 words 14 votes
America’s monopoly problem, explained by your internet bill ~finance business Article 3072 words, published Feb 18 2020 11 votes
Hacking diabetes - A network of amateur programmers is transforming the illness with a DIY app ~health Article 5276 words, published Jan 7 2020 6 votes
Bernie Sanders probably has a support ceiling, but there are still several ways he could win the nomination ~misc politics Article 3246 words 10 votes
The Great Google Revolt: Some of its employees tried to stop their company from doing work they saw as unethical. It blew up in their faces. ~tech google Article 7517 words 18 votes
The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world ~tech microsoft Article 5935 words 9 votes
An overview of the technology behind self-driving cars and some of the issues and concerns that are slowing down their development ~transport Article 3346 words, published Feb 14 2020 6 votes
A group of agents rose through the ranks to lead the US Border Patrol, and now they’re retiring and leaving it in crisis ~life work Article 6086 words, published Feb 10 2020 5 votes
Students say the Lambda School coding bootcamp isn't delivering on its promises, with concerns about poor instruction and prospects while being bound by income-sharing agreements ~tech Article 3866 words 16 votes
Security researchers partner with Chrome to take down over 500 browser extensions in a fraud network affecting 1.7 million users ~tech privacy security google browsers Article 6799 words 12 votes
The golden quarter—Some of our greatest cultural and technological achievements took place between 1945 and 1971. Why has progress stalled? ~science Article 3277 words, published Dec 3 2014 12 votes
The downside of diagnosis by smartphone ~health medicine healthcare Article 3893 words, published Feb 5 2020 6 votes
Modesty means more, not less ~humanities philosophy Article 3003 words, published Dec 11 2019 9 votes
A two-year investigation of the ties between a network of deceptive dating sites and Firefly Aerospace, a company selected by NASA for bidding on lunar payloads ~space Article 3815 words 9 votes
An explanation of how gears affect the properties of rotational motion and how the shape of their teeth is more sophisticated than it may initially seem ~engineering Article 4561 words 5 votes
Love and Lhotse - Driven by loss, two of the world’s best mountaineers, Hilaree Nelson and Jim Morrison, set out to make history skiing in the shadow of Mount Everest ~sports Article 5273 words, published Feb 6 2020 3 votes
Kirk Drift: "Womanizer" Captain Kirk and false memories of pop culture ~tv Article 14 701 words, published Apr 10 2017 16 votes
The CIA secretly bought a company that sold encryption devices across the world. Then its spies sat back and listened ~tech Article 8451 words 20 votes
The deal of the century (or, the alliance of losers) ~tech apple Article 7962 words, published Feb 7 2020 6 votes
When medical debt collectors decide who gets arrested ~life Article 3543 words, published Oct 16 2019 5 votes
The environmental burden of generation Z: Kids are terrified, anxious and depressed about climate change ~enviro climate change Article 4274 words, published Feb 3 2020 14 votes