Protests and policing will worsen the coronavirus pandemic - The US has moved from attempting to beat the virus to managing the harm of losing ~health Article 2389 words 11 votes
The search for the world’s simplest animal: For centuries, scientists have obsessed over a primordial blob that can shape-shift, clone itself, and live indefinitely ~science biology.marine Article 3049 words 8 votes
Why Republican senators do not challenge Trump ~misc politics Article 548 words, published May 25 2020 8 votes
The case for reparations: We've had 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal and 35 years of racist housing policy. Without addressing this, the US can't move on ~humanities.history Article 14 406 words, published Jun 3 2014 32 votes
Former US Secretary of Defence James Mattis denounces President Trump, describes him as a threat to the Constitution ~news usa politics Article 560 words 41 votes
Trump's "law and order" rhetoric won't help him like Nixon in 1968 ~misc politics Article 575 words 10 votes
Riots are the American way: The US was founded on revolutionary blood; the Civil War took 400,000 lives and the civil rights movement was a reaction to white violence ~misc politics Article 353 words 18 votes
Revisiting Star Trek’s most political episode: In 1995, the Deep Space Nine installment “Past Tense” stood out for its realistic, near-future vision of racism and economic injustice ~tv Article 1751 words, published Oct 8 2017 14 votes
1968 and 2020: How they resemble each other and how they don't ~misc politics Article 2986 words 9 votes
What an economic liberal and conservative learned from their friendship ~life Article 2695 words 5 votes
US President Donald Trump's executive order isn't only about Twitter; it's also attempting to ensure that Facebook won't change their own approach in the lead-up to the election ~tech facebook social media Article 2696 words 10 votes
Early warnings: How American journalists reported the rise of Hitler ~humanities.history Article 529 words, published Mar 13 2012 5 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
How the pandemic has silenced the USA's biggest gubernatorial election ~misc politics Article 1960 words 7 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
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
CDC is conflating viral and antibody tests. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same ~health Article 542 words 10 votes
What will it take to prevent a new Great Depression in the USA? Around $10,000,000,000,000 (ten trillion dollars) ~finance economics Article 505 words 9 votes
The prophecies of Q: American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase ~misc politics Article 6 votes
The board game that turns feminism into a joke: I played Ms. Monopoly so that you don’t have to ~games.tabletop board games Article 1237 words 12 votes
I was a teenage conspiracy theorist: Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a fourteen-year-old girl ~life Article 3974 words 11 votes
The great 5G conspiracy - Part of a series on conspiracy thinking in America ~humanities Article 5662 words 6 votes
As COVID-19 gets worse, Trump is talking about things that the average American couldn't care less about ~misc politics Article 513 words 10 votes
An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud ~humanities.history Article 8361 words 11 votes
#DemocracyRIP: What the Russian government did to the 2016 elections in the US was just the beginning ~misc politics Article 7698 words 9 votes
Children growing up after this crisis will use far more oral language after it ends ~humanities language.oral Article 605 words 10 votes
COVID has badly affected wealthy nations, what will it do to poor ones and how can they stop it with their limited means? ~health Article 1572 words 5 votes
The problem with stories about dangerous coronavirus mutations. There’s no clear evidence that the pandemic virus has evolved into significantly different forms—and there probably won’t be for months ~health Article 2076 words 8 votes
"ICU delirium" is leaving COVID-19 patients scared and confused ~health healthcare Article 1848 words 7 votes
The people who are keeping the internet running during COVID and how they're doing it ~tech internet Article 4171 words 11 votes
Republicans are sacrificing other Americans' freedoms for their own, like once happened in the American Civil War ~misc politics Article 2311 words 9 votes
Many schools are already closed until the end of the year. So what happens to all those missed classes? ~life education Article 2089 words 11 votes
George Wallace's base has found a home in the Republican party ~misc politics Article 3078 words 3 votes
In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the US was wrong ~tech internet Article 2800 words 6 votes
The purpose of Trump's COVID press briefings are to turn politics into a reality show ~misc politics Article 1850 words 5 votes
Calling me a hero only makes you feel better ~life work Article 507 words, published Apr 18 2020 17 votes
The second phase of unemployment will be harsher: For American workers displaced by recession, widespread public sympathy soon gives way to moralizing anger ~life work Article 634 words 11 votes
A documentary called 'Mrs America' shows how Phyllis Schlafly partidarized the ERA, birthed the culture war and pioneered modern Conservative rhetoric ~misc politics Article 2118 words 7 votes
A well-known attorney helped land a $2 billion settlement for Gulf Coast seafood-industry workers. But who was he really representing? ~finance Article 7271 words 5 votes
What Joe Biden learned when managing the great recession's recovery act ~misc politics Article 2216 words 10 votes
Mayor London Breed’s early and aggressive moves to contain the outbreak have made San Francisco a national model in fighting the pandemic ~health Article 2316 words 7 votes