Weather scrubs SpaceX commercial crew launch, Demo-2 ~space spaceflight.crewed spaceflight.commercial Article 624 words 4 votes
Boston Marathon canceled for the first time in its 124-year history ~sports Article 722 words 8 votes
"[R]iots do not develop out of thin air. [...] in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard." MLK, Jr., 1967 ~humanities.history Article 5844 words 9 votes
From homeless refugee to chess prodigy, nine-year-old dreams of becoming youngest Grandmaster ~games.tabletop Article 3539 words, published May 5 2020 6 votes
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou loses key court battle as British Columbia judge rules extradition bid should proceed ~tech Article 984 words 7 votes
The Black American amputation epidemic ~health healthcare Article 7462 words, published May 19 2020 7 votes
Andrew Cuomo gave legal immunity to nursing home execs after big campaign donations. Critics say data proves New York's liability shield is linked to higher nursing home death rates ~health healthcare Article 2943 words 11 votes
How accurate are state polls? And what could that mean for the US Presidential election in November? ~misc politics Article 919 words 6 votes
Inside the flour company supplying America’s sudden baking obsession ~food baking Article 49 words, published May 20 2020 4 votes
US DOJ urges High Court to shield companies from slave labor suits citing 230 year old tort statute ~news usa law Article 417 words 4 votes
The cool history of ice cream (in America) | The Ice Cream Show Episode 9 ~food history Video 21:56 3 votes
Early warnings: How American journalists reported the rise of Hitler ~humanities.history Article 529 words, published Mar 13 2012 5 votes
White woman who called police on a black man bird-watching in New York's Central Park has been fired ~life Article 15 votes
Chinese foreign minister warns US against taking the countries ‘to the brink of a new Cold War’ ~news china usa politics Article 701 words 10 votes
As the US regains the ability to launch astronauts with its own rockets, the future of Russia's already struggling civil space program is unclear ~space rocketry Article 709 words 8 votes
Trump team killed rule designed to protect health workers from pandemic like COVID-19 ~health healthcare Article 992 words 10 votes
The crisis within conservatism: Since the 80s, the right has increasingly relied on media bubbles, wedge issues, resistance to social change and making electoral participation harder to hold power ~misc politics Article 3231 words, published May 28 2019 7 votes
We need to speak honestly about the GOP’s evolution into a conspiracy cult ~misc politics Article 1250 words 33 votes
New state-level model from Imperial College London suggests that epidemic is not under control in most American states, predicts major surge in cases and deaths over next two months ~health Link 25 votes
Bernie Sanders' changing position on immigration explained ~misc politics Article 2944 words, published Feb 25 2020 6 votes
Undercover at a Christian gay-to-straight conversion camp ~lgbt Article 1859 words, published Oct 25 2018 12 votes
Henry Grimes, a jazz bassist. Disappeared in 1970 and was presumed dead. Was found by a social worker in 2002, destitute and with no bass. Eventually won a lifetime achievement award in 2016 ~music jazz Article 1515 words, published Apr 22 2020 12 votes
John Krasinski's 'Some Good News' sells to ViacomCBS following massive bidding war ~tv Article 670 words 15 votes
Will the millennial left make peace with the "lesser evil" of Joe Biden? It's complicated ~misc politics Article 1336 words, published May 20 2020 10 votes
Strategic hot spot Greenland sparks global tug-of-war – US has always seen Greenland under its sphere of influence, but the island's increasing independence is threatening that ~news denmark.greenland china russia usa Article 932 words 9 votes
The corruption of the Republican Party: The modern GOP is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start ~misc politics Article 2260 words, published Dec 14 2018 10 votes
NASA and SpaceX have cleared the Demo-2 mission for May 27, will be the first launch of astronauts on an American rocket from American soil since 2011 ~space Article 448 words 12 votes
How the pandemic has silenced the USA's biggest gubernatorial election ~misc politics Article 1960 words 7 votes
Biden asks Amy Klobuchar to undergo vetting as possible running mate ~news politics usa Article 669 words 9 votes
CNBC reporter makes fake news website with plagiarized content, gets approved by ad tech companies ~tech Article 2411 words, published May 17 2020 10 votes
Joe Biden answers the web's most searched questions | WIRED Autocomplete Interview ~misc politics Video 11:14 11 votes
Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery video charged with murder ~news usa.ga.brunswick crime.hate Link 9 votes
The system failed the test of Trump: The story of the recent years is of institutions that were unable to constrain the presidency ~misc politics Article 557 words 8 votes
America’s deadly obsession with intellectual property: Privatizing life-saving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad both for the coronavirus and the climate crisis ~tech Article 1408 words 9 votes
Ahmaud Arbery was lynched: He was killed in the street by White men. That’s how lynchings work ~life Article 3129 words 13 votes
Few US prisoners have been released since beginning of the pandemic: Nearly 3/4s of those held at jails are pretrial--meaning thousands of legally innocent individuals face a potential death sentence ~health Article 1640 words 7 votes
During Michigan's COVID-19 response, anti-social distancing protests were promoted by a small set of activists linked to the 2012-era, anti-union so-called "right-to-work" movement ~misc politics Article 3007 words 8 votes
How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history ~humanities.history Article 3263 words 8 votes
Scientists say social distancing has worked really well to reduce coronavirus's spread: new study finds measures saved thirty-five million Americans from contracting the virus ~health medicine Article 603 words 6 votes