When the US Army uses "enhanced interrogation" on an American soldier ~life Article 806 words, published May 10 2010 30 votes
I texted my friend for years after she died. Then I received a five-word reply that left me shaken. ~life Article 1429 words, published Nov 17 2023 21 votes
Scholastic Book Fair will discontinue separate collection of race and gender books ~books Article 445 words 23 votes
Norwegian climber Kristin Harila denies claims she ignored dying sherpa during K2 record-breaking climb ~sports Article 498 words 7 votes
Texas butterfly park to close indefinitely as conspiracy theorists intensify attacks ~news usa.tx.mission Article 1005 words 15 votes
At 15, he shot and killed his parents, two classmates at his school, and wounded twenty-five others. He’s been used as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since. ~life Article 13 625 words, published Jun 12 2021 18 votes
US White House offers GOP reduced $1.7 trillion dollars infrastructure plan in attempt to compromise ~news usa politics Article 1067 words 10 votes
In Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil, Donald Trump’s Capitol riot felt like a warning from the future ~society politics Article 898 words 6 votes
BuzzFeed to acquire HuffPost in multi-year partnership with Verizon Media ~news journalism Article 307 words 10 votes
Police are cutting ties with domestic violence programs that support Black Lives Matter ~news usa Article 1095 words 15 votes
How 'Star Trek' made history twenty-two years ago with a same-sex kiss (2018) ~tv Article 399 words, published Apr 2 2018 10 votes
One of the first California counties to reopen is closing again - Lassen County, pop. 30,000, had no cases of COVID and reopened in early May. It now has four cases ~health Article 438 words 14 votes
Pastor who claimed to cure coronavirus with faith dies of coronavirus ~health Article 264 words 12 votes
Elon Musk’s billionaire brother—Kimbal Musk—told his workers they were family. Until COVID-19 hit ~food restaurants Article 1763 words, published Apr 7 2020 9 votes
PetSmart pressures dog groomers to come into work as "essential labor" ~life.pets Article 1336 words, published Apr 8 2020 8 votes
The far-right helped create the world’s most powerful facial recognition technology ~tech Article 7387 words 11 votes
Should white supremacists be allowed to practice law? ~life Article 3647 words, published Dec 24 2017 6 votes
I used to be an anti-LGBTQ Evangelical. Here’s what finally changed my heart and mind. ~lgbt Article 1791 words, published Jan 13 2020 7 votes
How climate change threatens Iceland's iconic puffins – and the community that has gone from hunting and eating them, to rescuing them ~enviro climate change conservation Article 1550 words 5 votes
The 'glass floor' is keeping America's richest idiots at the top ~finance business Article 1258 words 10 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
Scientists are memorializing Iceland's first glacier lost to global warming with a poignant letter to the future ~enviro climate change Article 314 words 6 votes
Vegetarian protein is just as 'complete' as meat, despite what we've been taught ~health diet Article 1291 words, published Feb 28 2018 25 votes
A search for answers, a search for blame - In grieving Parkland, a fight over school discipline and the PROMISE program is ripping the community apart ~life education Article 8370 words 4 votes
US Attorney General William Barr releases Robert Mueller Report’s principal conclusion ~news usa russia politics Article 32 words 29 votes
Facebook, Axios and NBC paid to manage their reputation on Wikipedia ~tech facebook social media Article 2317 words 11 votes
Unicorn Riot leaks chat logs, revealing white nationalist plot to keep Steve King in office ~news usa politics Article 686 words 6 votes
The racists on Gab are sharing obscene advice for cooking pasta (and other goodies) ~food recipes cooking Article 945 words, published Jan 30 2019 12 votes
Chuck E. Cheese’s swears it does not sell pizzas made of leftover slices ~food restaurants Article 730 words 5 votes
West Virginia lawmaker faces calls to resign after likening LGBTQ people to KKK, ‘terrorist group’ ~lgbt Article 444 words 9 votes
Cloudflare is providing services to at least seven designated foreign terrorist organizations and militant groups ~tech security.cyber Article 1716 words 12 votes
Chinese scientist who used CRISPR on human babies gone missing ~science Article 389 words, published Dec 4 2018 15 votes
The National Enquirer’s plot to assassinate Ted Cruz’s US candidacy ~society politics Article 1866 words 11 votes
To all the Sims I've killed before - The iconic computer game tasked users with keeping digital humans alive. Instead, we set fires in their houses and removed the doors. Why? ~games Article 3311 words 15 votes
Scientists discover giant deep-sea coral reef off Atlantic coast ~science biology.marine Article 751 words 12 votes
How to make seventeenth century coffee ~food drinks history Article 816 words, published Nov 11 2013 10 votes
Congressional candidate in Virginia admits he's a pedophile ~news usa.va politics Article 1271 words 26 votes