Data show that the amount of sexual content in top films has sharply declined since 2000 ~movies Article 279 words 33 votes
Europe hopes barbed wire will keep migrants out. It won’t. ~misc politics Article 559 words, published Feb 29 2024 16 votes
Joe Biden’s chances of US re-election are better than they appear ~misc politics Article 1090 words, published Feb 1 2024 34 votes
House Republicans are helping Vladimir Putin – Their cynicism over Ukraine weakens America and makes the world less safe ~misc politics Article 624 words 36 votes
Why car insurance in America is actually too cheap ~finance Article 974 words, published Jan 18 2024 20 votes
As Houthi missiles block the Suez, drought depletes the Panama Canal ~enviro water Article 967 words 9 votes
Some German Jews say their country goes too far defending Israel – and they find themselves attacked for antisemitism ~misc politics Article 642 words 46 votes
When the New York Times lost its way ~humanities Article 13 390 words, published Dec 14 2023 23 votes
The importance of handwriting is becoming better understood ~humanities education.higher Article 804 words, published Sep 14 2023 39 votes
Tuvalu plans for its own disappearance [can an island state remain a state if it is underwater?] ~enviro climate change Article 403 words, published Oct 12 2023 27 votes
Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system? ~finance business Article 1699 words, published Oct 8 2023 28 votes
Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value ~finance Article 987 words, published Oct 5 2023 33 votes
The fallout from Mozambique’s debt scandal reaches a London court ~finance Article 680 words, published Oct 12 2023 4 votes
Mathew Lawrence on why privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain ~misc politics Article 1051 words 11 votes
Artificial intelligence is a familiar-looking monster – Large language models have much older cousins in markets and bureaucracies ~humanities philosophy Article 1092 words 13 votes
How Japan is losing the global electric-vehicle race ~transport Article 1359 words, published Apr 16 2023 6 votes
War and subsidies have turbocharged the green transition ~enviro climate change Article 1806 words 4 votes
Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries [Updated Jan 2022] ~health Article 1285 words, published Oct 20 2021 5 votes
Tokyo: The big city that is also pleasant to live in ~life Article 1020 words, published Dec 7 2021 6 votes
Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return ~tech facebook social media Article 669 words 13 votes
Hollywood reaps the rewards of becoming more diverse: Films with a diverse cast tend to outperform the rest ~movies Article 623 words 9 votes
The Economist Glass-Ceiling Index 2020 – Nordic countries performed best overall, with Sweden, Iceland, Finland and Norway taking the top four spots ~finance business Article 327 words, published Mar 4 2021 8 votes
Curbside delivery isn’t new, but the pandemic helped it take off. Here’s what to expect as it moves forward ~life Article 585 words 6 votes
Behold the flower box indicators: Unusual metrics for determining a team’s health ~life work Article 1010 words 8 votes
How do you switch to a four-day week? The pros and cons ~life work Article 1232 words, published Oct 5 2020 6 votes
Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective ~books Article 890 words 11 votes
The pandemic has put the future on fast-forward, with one notable exception: The drive-in cinema ~movies Article 608 words, published Sep 7 2020 12 votes
Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake. It is an obsession that undermines growth, fairness and public faith in capitalism leaders ~finance economics Article 1071 words, published Jan 16 2020 23 votes
Telecommuting requires new interpersonal skills, especially if you’re trying to stay on the boss’s radar. So what’s the best approach? ~life work.remote Article 796 words 7 votes
Rays of hope—Arab states are embracing solar power ~enviro energy.renewable Article 624 words 8 votes
Why have contestants on “The Price is Right” become so much worse at guessing? ~finance Article 436 words, published Mar 5 2020 8 votes
Knitting’s tangled history: From aristocrats to punks, the humble yarn has spun its way through centuries of social change ~arts Article 754 words, published Jan 16 2020 3 votes
The meaning of Donald Trump’s crazily damning self-defence ~misc politics Article 1243 words 16 votes
How Viktor Orban hollowed out Hungary’s democracy ~misc politics Article 4040 words, published Aug 29 2019 6 votes