The Voter Suppression Chronicles: When the Roberts Court all but nullified the Voting Rights Act, it said the pre-1965 practices were long gone. New hearings by the House make clear: They’re back. ~news usa.nc usa.al usa.sd politics Article 5489 words 11 votes
Tax Watch UK report: Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar has paid no UK corporate tax in ten years and claimed £42m in subsidies ~games Article 3376 words, published Jul 26 2019 6 votes
Fatal distraction: Forgetting a child in the backseat of a car is a horrifying mistake. Is it a crime? ~life parenting Article 8726 words 19 votes
Democracy's Dilemma: Democracies rely on free exchange of ideas and information, but that can also be weaponized. How can democratic societies protect—and protect themselves from—this? ~misc politics Article 4619 words, published May 15 2019 11 votes
Deep in the interior of British Columbia, a temperate rainforest that holds vast stores of carbon and is home to endangered caribou is being clear-cut as fast as the Amazon ~enviro conservation Article 3238 words 10 votes
The man who’s going to save your neighborhood grocery store ~food Article 7913 words, published Apr 23 2019 7 votes
More people need to talk about having fewer children ~life family relationships Article 6222 words 29 votes
One night wonder: They got their shot on Broadway—and they blew it ~arts theatre Article 4985 words 7 votes
Marxism and Buddhism: Life is suffering, whether you sit under a Bodhi Tree or stand with the workers. But do the two schools agree on the remedy? ~humanities religion Article 3223 words, published Jul 17 2019 12 votes
When a Nashville officer killed a Black man, his mother and other activists didn’t just seek an indictment—they fought to give citizens oversight of the whole police department ~misc politics Article 7287 words 12 votes
David Sirlin's new fighting game Fantasy Strike released today - this is his summary of its notable features and innovations ~games Article 5138 words 9 votes
The Bronze Age of Scandinavia was made possible by trade with Great Britain ~humanities.history Article 10 033 words 5 votes
Lean Cuisine doesn’t want to be part of diet culture anymore. Does it have a choice? ~food diet Article 3006 words 9 votes
The fall of Mic was a warning - Lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site ~tech social media facebook Article 7058 words 8 votes
The child abuse contrarian: A renowned scientist turned expert witness relies on his own controversial theory to help alleged abusers avoid prison ~health healthcare Article 7679 words, published Sep 26 2018 9 votes
Finding the future in radical rural America: It's time to rewrite the narrative of “Trump Country.” Rural places weren't always red, and many are turning increasingly blue. ~misc politics Article 3848 words, published Jul 9 2019 11 votes
The Crane Wife - Ten days after calling off her engagement, CJ Hauser travels to the Gulf Coast to live among scientists and whooping cranes ~life relationships Article 3615 words, published Jul 16 2019 10 votes
Craigslist's nerdy founder wants to change the world -- starting with your daily news ~tech Article 3335 words 11 votes
Losing the news: Can the Charleston Gazette-Mail survive a new owner with ties to the very industries its reporters have been investigating? ~news usa.wv journalism.investigative Article 6063 words 6 votes
The board game of the alpha nerds. Before Risk, before Dungeons & Dragons, before Magic: The Gathering, there was Diplomacy. ~games.tabletop board games Article 6211 words, published Jun 18 2014 15 votes
Fearing for his life: Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner, so the police punished him ~life Article 6768 words, published Mar 13 2019 11 votes
The bizarre, true story of Metal Gear Solid’s English translation ~games Article 3865 words, published Jul 18 2019 14 votes
Boris Johnson, Britain’s likely next prime minister, must lead his country through its moment of maximum peril—and opportunity ~misc politics Article 6994 words 7 votes
‘I need a superman for me’: Homeless home care worker advocates for better working conditions, a living wage ~life Link 9 votes
Good faith: How queer BDSM and sex work helped me to refuse an inheritance of indoctrination ~lgbt Link 9 votes
Raj Chetty's plan to fix the American Dream ~finance economics Article 6753 words, published Jul 18 2019 5 votes
Is it okay to laugh at Florida Man? What it’s like to go viral as one of the Internet’s biggest memes — and the moral complications of laughing along ~tech social media Article 6281 words, published Jul 15 2019 11 votes
Home elevators have killed and injured kids for decades. Safety regulators won’t order a simple fix. ~design architecture Article 4217 words 8 votes
The dirty business of hosting hate online ~tech internet Article 4520 words, published Jul 11 2019 11 votes
Grindr had dreams of making the world better for queer people. Then a Chinese gaming company bought it ~lgbt Article 4243 words 12 votes
Largest US drug companies flooded the country with seventy-six billion opioid pills, DEA data shows ~health medicine Article 3119 words 13 votes
California's out-of-date jails face inmate deaths and construction delays ~news usa.ca Article 3891 words 7 votes
Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew. This is how it was saved. ~design architecture Article 3383 words 14 votes
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who led liberal wing, dies at 99 ~news usa politics Article 3585 words 8 votes
Killer heat in the United States: Climate choices and the future of dangerously hot days ~enviro climate change natural disasters PDF 8 votes
The promise and price of cellular therapies - New “living drugs”—made from a patient’s own cells—can cure once incurable cancers. But can we afford them? ~health medicine Article 7863 words 6 votes
Gotta catch 'em all: Understanding how IMSI-catchers exploit cell networks ~tech privacy security Article 6536 words, published Jun 28 2019 4 votes
Security reports reveal how Wikileaks founder Julian Assange turned the Ecuadorian embassy into a command post for election meddling ~news politics ecuador united kingdom.london Article 10 votes
Torn apart: The vicious war over young adult books ~books fiction.young adult Article 3072 words, published Jun 15 2019 11 votes