Elizabeth Warren’s Classroom Strategy: A lifelong teacher, she’s the most professorial presidential candidate ever. But does America want to be taught? ~news usa politics Article 7123 words, published Aug 6 2019 13 votes
Ferguson, five years later: The killing of Michael Brown sparked protests against police brutality, but the city faces new, insidious problems ~life Article 5785 words 6 votes
The Great Escape - The origin, business, and attraction of escape rooms ~games Article 5270 words 7 votes
How San Francisco’s wealthiest families launched Kamala Harris ~misc politics Article 3652 words 8 votes
Is it possible to stop a mass shooting before it happens?: Somewhere in America, an investigator known as the Savant is infiltrating online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country ~life.men Article 3997 words 16 votes
Forty-eight male patients say a USC doctor sexually abused them — and the university was warned ~health healthcare Article 5407 words 9 votes
Meet Thomas Cullen, the Trump-appointed US Attorney who's putting white supremacists in jail using an anti-riot statute passed in the 1960s to rein in leftist Vietnam War protesters ~news usa.va law Article 3209 words 10 votes
Nicolas Cage on his legacy, his philosophy of acting and his metaphorical — and literal — search for the Holy Grail ~movies Article 4469 words 5 votes
Concrete Utopia: An art exhibition on Yugoslavia documents an extraordinary architectural legacy that has been neglected by mainstream historians ~design architecture Article 3232 words, published Nov 6 2018 7 votes
The anti-medical dogma of Christian Science led my father to an agonising death. Now the church itself is in decline – and it can’t happen fast enough. ~humanities religion Article 4552 words 9 votes
Drink up, stoners: Big Alcohol's pursuit to make weed beverages ~food drinks Article 5567 words, published Jul 30 2019 8 votes
The absurdities of 'franchise fatigue' and 'sequelitis' (or, what is happening to the box office?!) ~movies Article 3534 words 6 votes
Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens and is under investigation by multiple international tax authorities ~games Article 3006 words 22 votes
The human cost of amber - Fossils preserved in sap offer an astonishingly clear view of the distant past, but they come at a high price ~science Article 4912 words 6 votes
How long does it take to make a classic album? ~music Article 3064 words, published Jul 24 2019 8 votes
The JRPG Startup Cost, Part II - An analysis of how long it takes to reach various gameplay milestones in classic JRPGs ~games Article 9389 words 9 votes
The life and death of an Instagram fish - What one funny-looking fish taught us about evolution, the internet, and the monsters we create ~tech social media internet Article 5616 words, published Jul 19 2019 7 votes
The empty radicalism of the climate apocalypse: What would it mean to get serious about climate change? ~enviro climate change Article 5848 words, published Jun 19 2019 13 votes
The tyranny of the "ideal woman": How we became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization ~life.women Article 4548 words 9 votes
He’d been kept alive with tubes for nearly seventeen years. Who is he, and is it possible he’s conscious? ~health healthcare medicine Article 4724 words 8 votes
One day, one city, no relief - twenty-four hours inside San Francisco’s homelessness crisis ~life Article 7 votes
Shade: It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers ~design urban planning architecture Article 6427 words, published Apr 1 2019 11 votes
Destiny 2's switch to free-to-play and new Shadowkeep expansion have been delayed to October 1 (previously September 17) ~games Article 346 words 5 votes
Inside the broken case of David Ortiz's shooting in the Dominican Republic ~sports.baseball Article 4400 words, published Jul 23 2019 5 votes
How health officials in pro-life states are quietly dismantling abortion access ~health Article 6662 words 6 votes
Murder in the Moroccan mountains: The fragility of the adventure travel economy and what happens when a small tourist hub is shocked by violence ~life Article 4599 words 7 votes
For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future ~enviro Article 10 848 words 4 votes
Is fair trade finished? Fairtrade changed the way we shop. But major companies have started to abandon it and set up their own in-house imitations – threatening the very idea of fair trade ~food Article 3880 words 8 votes
Enslaved on a British cannabis farm: Minh was 16 when he was kidnapped, raped and trafficked to the UK. When the police found him, he was treated like a criminal rather than a victim ~life Article 4971 words, published Jul 26 2019 10 votes
Seabed mining is coming — bringing mineral riches and fears of epic extinctions ~enviro Article 3376 words 8 votes
The disappeared, the dead, and the damned: Inside the Church Of Scientology ~humanities.history Article 3669 words, published Jul 21 2019 8 votes
Journalists often withhold details of mass shooters and suicides to discourage copycats. Should that “strategic silence” be extended to extremist speech, misinformation, and propaganda, too? ~news journalism Article 4740 words 10 votes
The last days of John Allen Chau, the American missionary who was killed in November 2018 by the uncontacted tribe on North Sentinel Island ~humanities religion Article 10 830 words, published Jul 24 2019 11 votes
How the plastics industry is fighting to keep polluting the world ~enviro climate change recycling plastics pollution Article 7674 words, published Jul 20 2019 12 votes
The near impossible twenty-year journey to translate Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 ~games Article 4416 words 6 votes
Airborne concentrations and chemical considerations of radioactive ruthenium from an undeclared major nuclear release in 2017 ~science Article 3311 words, published Jul 26 2019 13 votes
YouTube said it was getting serious about hate speech. Over six weeks later, why is it still full of extremists? ~tech google social media Article 3414 words, published Jul 25 2019 23 votes