YouTube breeds sociopaths and monsters. Not through audience’s demands but how the platform itself is designed. ~tech social media Article 6946 words, published Jan 22 2018 24 votes
As a grocery chain is dismantled, investors recover their money. Worker pensions are short millions. ~finance business Article 3482 words 12 votes
The other side of paradise: How I left a Buddhist retreat in handcuffs ~health.mental Article 4102 words, published Dec 26 2018 9 votes
How Mark Burnett resurrected Donald Trump as an icon of American success ~tv Article 12 383 words 5 votes
‘I feel invisible’: Native Americans languish in public schools ~life education Article 4250 words 9 votes
Take script, add snow - The psychology behind America’s obsession with Hallmark Christmas movies ~movies Article 3299 words 7 votes
Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign ~news china journalism Article 6028 words, published Dec 7 2018 10 votes
Steven Pinker’s ideas are fatally flawed ~humanities Article 4831 words, published May 21 2018 14 votes
What is glitter? A strange journey to the glitter factory ~finance business Article 3073 words 15 votes
Two intricate calligraphy pages from the sixteenth-century manuscript “Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta” have been decoded for the first time ~humanities.history Article 3433 words 12 votes
The great NFL heist: How Fox paid for and changed football forever ~sports.american_football Article 16 616 words, published Dec 13 2018 5 votes
Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its baby powder ~health Article 3038 words, published Dec 14 2018 11 votes
Prime and punishment: Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace ~tech amazon.marketplace Article 6640 words 10 votes
Scientists think Alabama's sewage problem has caused a tropical parasite. The state has done little about it. ~health Article 3757 words 6 votes
A Texas elementary school speech pathologist refused to sign a pro-Israel oath, so she lost her job ~life education work Article 3395 words 18 votes
Emerging consensus on LGBT issues: Findings from the 2017 American Values Atlas ~lgbt Article 4287 words 4 votes
Pornhub Insights - 2018 Year in Review (graphs and NSFW text; no explicit images) ~life nsfw.text Article 8018 words, published Dec 11 2018 22 votes
He helped build an artists’ utopia. Now he faces trial for thirty-six deaths there. ~arts Article 8586 words, published Dec 12 2018 10 votes
The tale of a fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante... and a murder ~life Article 6354 words 7 votes
The real roots of American rage - How anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it ~life Article 8169 words 22 votes
The KodakCoin ICO failed, and now everyone wants their money ~finance cryptocurrency Article 3001 words 14 votes
Paper promises: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at seventy ~misc Article 3271 words 9 votes
The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many southern whites still believe otherwise? ~humanities.history Article 7325 words, published Nov 28 2018 20 votes
Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? ~life Article 3997 words 20 votes
He’s built an empire, with detained migrant children as the bricks ~misc politics Article 3664 words 9 votes
A business with no end - Where does this strange empire start or stop? ~finance business Article 5258 words 8 votes
30,000 empty homes and nowhere to live: inside Dublin’s housing crisis ~life housing Article 4245 words 19 votes
America’s thirty-eight essential restaurants ~food restaurants Article 3057 words, published Nov 13 2018 4 votes