Doesn’t feel like a recession? You should be paying more in taxes ~finance economics Article 1247 words, published Sep 3 2020 12 votes
My mother and my motherland - Jiayang Fan on the struggles of growing up as a poor immigrant, and how her desperate attempt to protect her hospital-bound mother was repurposed as Chinese propaganda ~life family Article 9051 words 5 votes
California El Dorado wildfire sparked by device to reveal baby's gender ~enviro Article 591 words 14 votes
A Seattle police officer’s extraordinary pay raises questions SPD can’t answer ~news usa.wa.seattle Article 1625 words 10 votes
Academics are really, really worried about their freedom ~humanities education linguistics Article 476 words 27 votes
Uber is hurting drivers like me in its legal fight in California ~transport Article 1089 words 3 votes
The path to autocracy; A second Trump term will leave America’s political system and culture looking even more like Orbán’s Hungary ~society politics Article 2317 words, published Jun 15 2020 31 votes
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - A new, short book by Cory Doctorow that looks at big tech as a monopoly problem ~tech privacy social media Article 28 088 words 18 votes
Can child dolls keep pedophiles from offending? One man thinks so, and he’s been manufacturing them for clients for more than ten years. ~life Article 562 words, published Jan 11 2016 24 votes
Europe's young not so woke? Generational divisions in European countries seem less pronounced and young people seem to be less consistently aligned with the left than expected ~society politics Article 3635 words, published Sep 30 2019 8 votes
CA Gov. Gavin Newsom: By this point last year, 4,292 fires had burned 56,000 acres. This year, 7,002 fires have chewed through more than 1.4 million acres. ~enviro Article 1509 words, published Aug 24 2020 7 votes
The value of extended families ~life family.nuclear parenting Article 9480 words, published Mar 28 2020 6 votes
How a strange face in a random 19th-century newspaper ad became a portal to a forgotten moment in ASCII art history ~tech Article published May 23 2016 6 votes
How a plan to save the power system disappeared: A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it ~enviro energy.renewable Article 3530 words 24 votes
Inside the Boogaloo: America’s extremely online extremists ~society politics Article 7312 words 14 votes
Disappearance of multiple Saudi Arabian dissidents tied to Twitter data accessed in 2015 by employees allegedly spying for the government ~tech social media privacy Article 7 votes
The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history ~humanities.history Article 10 883 words 16 votes
I was a postal service regulator for eighteen years. Don’t panic ~society politics Article 909 words 5 votes
Stop panicking about the post office; but do fund them ASAP ~society politics Article 4813 words 13 votes
Taking hard line, Greece turns back migrants by abandoning them at sea ~society politics Article 1844 words 10 votes
How to think like an epidemiologist ~science statistics Article 2341 words, published Aug 4 2020 6 votes
The ways that a cheese can go extinct, and the cheesemakers who are working to save them ~food history Article 2411 words 10 votes
A newsroom at the edge of autocracy; The South China Morning Post is arguably the world’s most important newspaper for what it tells us about media freedoms as China’s power grows ~news journalism hong kong china politics Article 3740 words, published Aug 1 2020 7 votes
CyberBunker: The "bulletproof web hosting" company based in a German Cold War bunker that became a dark-web empire ~tech Article 11 053 words 10 votes
Scientists are 3D printing miniature human organs to test coronavirus drugs ~science biology medicine Article 1339 words 5 votes
No longer in shadows, Pentagon’s UFO unit will make some findings public ~space Article 1178 words 10 votes
Donald Trump is putting on a show in Portland; the president is deploying the kind of performative authoritarianism that Vladimir Putin pioneered ~society politics Article 528 words 13 votes