- 18: This is not a game: Can you turn a top virtual racer into a top real-life racer?
- 15: Forbidden fruit: Why shouldn't disabled people have sex or become parents?
- 14: The Kilogram Isn't What It Used to Be—It's Lighter
- 17: What's next? Ideas for TrueReddit's development.
- 11: Howard Zinn, On Getting Along: "Throughout history people have felt powerless before authority, but that at certain times these powerless people, by organizing, acting, risking, persisting, have created enough power to change the world around them, even if a little"
- 9: Executive order 9981 and the role of the Tuskegee Airmen in bringing about desegregation in the military (from HowStuffWorks)
- 8: Speed of light may have changed recently
- 5: Magrathea mode: Please leave a comment if you want to be informed when this subreddit is fully functional or a similar, prospering subreddit is discovered
- 9: Sri Lanka's civil war seems to be over, the LTTE seems to be finished, but has anything actually changed?
- 8: Fellow redditor, you came for a reason. Please submit an example of your interests.
- 14: 'Arts & Letters Daily' - a great website for the interesting and informative
- 13: Yesterday, the phrases "Nutshot Fail!" and "Baby Bump" appeared on the Reddit front page. Let's get some submissions in this subreddit.
- 14: Some people take robot ethics very seriously
- 5: 'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air': all you need to know, explained by a real mathematician (plus free electronic book!)
- 2: The Delusion of Energy Independence
- 1: Ask(True)Reddit: How close does Erik Naggum's attitude towards discussions come to your idea of ideal Reddit comments?
- 39: reredd.com - the reddit time machine
- 19: A bubble, at the precise moment it begins to burst.
- 18: Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
- 16: An Intuitive Explanation of Bayesian Reasoning
- 12: Mr. Zuccarelli’s claims about the human auditory system are farfetched, but this recording from 1983 is still the best binaural-style recording I’ve heard. [This requires headphones]
- 12: The Danger of Safety
- 7: The Moose: a single occupant, open-air reentry vehicle
- 10: On Debating - How to effectively convince people that come up with "crock" arguments.
- 7: Make no little plans - A story about the ambitions of NYU's president
- 8: J.M. Barrie, the author of "Peter Pan", suffered from Psychogenic Dwarfism
- 37: Over the course of 1400 years fewer than five of Japan's hundreds of pagodas have been lost to earthquakes. Here's a potential explanation for why.
- 27: Deaf Children, left to their own devices, invented their own sign language
- 25: "The reptilian always wins" - Looking inside a consumer's head
- 21: Cool Visualization of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
- 23: On Those "Entitled" Twenty-Somethings
- 20: How to save a life
- 19: Not only are we born violent, we are also chemically programmed to love it.
- 17: Lies We Tell Kids
- 20: IKEA: Flat-pack accounting...The economist looks into how the Swedish Furniture Mecca avoids taxes by pretending to be a charity.
- 18: A suggestion for TrueReddit, to resolve the low submission rate
- 48: Fast Flip from Google Labs
- 42: I had a "pillow case" epiphany today.
- 43: Carl Sagan was even cooler than you thought.
- 28: 1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell
- 24: How to Survive a Long Fall
- 24: Gentle Seduction: Singularity sci-fi (resubmit for truereddit)
- 18: The Invisible Grip
- 17: Who held a gun to Leonard Cohen's head?
- 16: GWB Speechwriter Talks With Terry Gross About His Time In White House
- 17: The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon
- 34: My father, the terrorist - A son of Osama bin Laden paints an intimate portrait of the man who would become the world’s most infamous terrorist.
- 36: Susan Klebold breaks her silence about her son and the massacre at Columbine High School which took place 10 years ago
- 32: I like Ike.
- 23: Mike Rowe Answers Your Questions, Discusses Karma, Belts Out Some Puccini and Much More
- 24: “In 1960 maybe 80% of the people down here in the wetlands of Louisiana spoke French - now it’s down to just a few of the older generation.”
- 22: Posthumously made even cooler, Carl Sagan autotuned into chanting this tune capturing the zeitgeist of his "Cosmos" series beautifully.
- 19: The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”
- 19: A Letter To The Year 2100, from a middle-aged man in the year 2000 - An interesting and somewhat bittersweet read.
- 17: Gore Vidal on Roman Polanski's crimes: "I really don’t give a f*. Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she’s been taken advantage of?"
- 16: The Taliban in Their Own Words
- 45: Is Chinese hard to learn? Yes. Chinese is so hard to learn that a group of Chinese scholars of Chinese couldn't remember how to write the word for 'sneeze'.
- 24: As Freezing Persons Recollect the Snow - First Chill - Then Stupor - Then the Letting Go :: The cold hard facts of freezing to death
- 24: How DNA Testing Is Changing Fatherhood - The scientific advance that was supposed to offer clarity instead reveals just how murky society’s notions of fatherhood actually are.
- 22: The Perils of Positive Thinking
- 22: What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?
- 21: Postmodernism disrobed
- 20: How little things change. 1959 interview by Mike Wallace with Twilight Zone writer Rod Serling. On the problems of a writer dealing with censorship, self-censorship, astroturfed Christian fundamentalist moral outrage, commercial sponsors interfering in tv content, and more.
- 20: The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil
- 16: Visualizing the Decline of Empires
- 16: Jim Windolf on Cuteness (excellent article on how the "cute" explosion is affecting society)
- 23: Married (Happily) With Issues - By trying to make their good marriage better, Elizabeth Weil and Daniel Duane tested it.
- 20: Photographing the young Elvis
- 20: The Venn Diagram of Art and Science
- 19: A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity
- 18: Fixers, feeders, and the strange, hidden world of feral cats
- 19: As the Ice Age ended and glaciers melted, a wall of seawater surged from the Mediterranean into the Black Sea. (horrid web design warning!)
- 16: My Brother's Keeper - pictures of a heroin addiction [NSFW]
- 18: Limits of logic: BBC documentary "Dangerous Knowledge" pt 1 of 10
- 16: Meet Robert P. George, the hidden brain behind the Christian Right: "If there really is a right-wing conspiracy - it probably meets in George's kitchen."
- 15: Shadow Boxing: Fifty men fought Muhammad Ali. Only one of them disappeared.
- 44: The true story of World War II has been lost. A cartoon version has long masked the horrible, chaotic and downright eerie reality of mankind's greatest cataclysm.
- 30: The devaluation of friendship: How technology is robbing us of basic connections in the most interconnected age in history.
- 22: 4chan Founder moot to Speak at TED
- 21: Lee Sandlin's family never talked about the past. He set out to find out why, and uncovered a saga that spanned five generations.
- 21: But I want to tell you a secret: You are not missing the cool party. The cool party does not exist.
- 18: I couldn't pay my university's bill because they wouldn't pay me what they owed me because they hadn't mailed themselves a transcript they had.
- 17: The Americanization of Mental Illness - long but well written
- 13: 1 Post Blogs
- 15: In memory of the attack on Boston, January 31st, 2007: What does random panic protect us from?
- 12: The Myth of Clean Coal
- 36: It's legal to walk naked in Barcelona as long as you're wearing footwear. Found this on r/wtf and though it deserves a better discussion [nsfw]
- 27: The Case for Working With Your Hands
- 26: Nobel laureate Niels Bohr examines the best way to win a gunfight
- 27: This took place in January 1990
- 17: Jesse Schell's talk on the future of games (DICE 2010)
- 14: A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart (PDF, long, very interesting)
- 14: The Manifesto Of Austin, Texas Crash Pilot Joseph Andrew Stack [re-post from r/Anarchism]
- 14: You might be interested in checking out Hacker News
- 13: Clifford Stoll's predictions in 1995 about the future of the internet.
- 12: Queen Elizabeth II talks about the Imperial State Crown
- 42: Betting the Blind Side: In early 2004, Michael Burry began an intense study of the bond market. He spent an entire year actually reading 100s of mind-numbingly tedious contracts, certain that he was the only one ever to do so...
- 38: In Search of Lost Sounds: Why you've never really heard the Moonlight Sonata (repost from r/music)
- 24: Leaked CIA document on PR strategies to shore up public support in Germany and France for continued support of the Afghan war. [PDF]
- 26: 70 Years of College Grade Inflation. Not a new phenomenon. Why do you think this is?
- 21: With the coming of the internet, the tone of the criticism changed. It became shriller, more personal, more hate-filled. It wasn’t just that I had made a mistake, I must be an evil person, probably in the pay of some disreputable organisation or other.
- 20: Sedlec Ossuary is a small Catholic Church in Czech Republic. Its interior is decorated with the bones of 40,000 to 70,000 people including a chandelier which contains at least every bone in the human body once. This a film from Jan Švankmajer about "the Ossuary".
- 21: My plan to save mankind. [Charlie Brooker]
- 20: Interesting political analysis of what was learned from the Healthcare Reform process.
- 16: The Letter of Last Resort
- 16: Amazing rats. Naturally Selected
- 43: The Iron, by Henry Rollins
- 31: Images of Mohammed have popped up all over the place throughout history. Here is a collection of those depictions.
- 30: A World Without Planes
- 28: Transcript of Stephen Fry's scathing assault on Digital Britain strategy
- 27: How an unpopular oligarch turned into an unlikely liberal hero
- 22: The story of Steven Hatfill: the man falsely accused of the 2001 anthrax attacks. Check out the comments too, the Hatfill story takes another turn.
- 22: Guardian: 'Who's afraid of the nuclear bomb?' -- Interesting (but short) piece on how the Cold War generation and the 9/11 generation reacts differently to the threat of nuclear attack.
- 18: Guardian: 'A fond farewell to the floppy disk'. Does anybody else remember when floppy disks were revolutionary? Man, such memories.
- 13: Citizenship, politics, social obligations and Farmville.
- 11: The Browser
- 45: The Net Worth of the U.S. Presidents: Washington to Obama
- 43: Congress Admits Lee Harvey Oswald Didn't Act Alone
- 35: Back When Flying Was Classy..... and slow (popular mechanics circa 1939)
- 32: No Secrets: Julian Assange's mission for total transparency
- 28: Liu Zhiyi reports after having worked undercover for 28 days at a Chinese Foxconn factory
- 30: Mark LeVine and Al Jazeera sum up my feelings of the Obama administration perfectly.
- 27: Vladimir Nabokov discusses "Lolita" on "Close Up", a 1950's CBC program.
- 25: Beyond the Pale - Is white the new black?
- 18: Dust to Dust: The irrationally high values placed on modern art are analogous to, and possibly a continuation of, the high values placed on religious relics in medieval times.
- 17: Journalism and 'the words of power' by Robert Fisk
- 150: The entropy of Reddit: 'At some point, the Crowd found Reddit...more specifically, the Crowd likes anything that is both inclusive and selective' (meaning that you need to pass the Cool Test to join)
- 74: Maintaining eye contact feels awkward, even creepy. At first. Then it just feels powerful.
- 67: How To Keep Someone With You For Ever - How to keep an employee in a state of exhaustion, dependency.
- 68: The Misconception: Fines curb bad behavior. The Truth: If you perceive the cost of a fine as less than the social cost of the bad behavior, it will cause the bad behavior to increase.
- 60: WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon…
- 59: Barcelona street view, 1908. Seven beautiful minutes.
- 59: Are Baby Boomers a “failed generation?”
- 52: Al Gore sex allegations: A Portland paper did everything possible -- even posting Craigslist ads -- to verify the charges. And it couldn't
- 45: "A Reader's Manifesto"- An attack on the growing pretentiousness of American literary prose
- 36: The high-risk and increasingly violent world of pro porn (dated 2001)
- 346: New subscribers, please adjust your voting behaviour. Somebody who provides interesting facts doesn't deserve to be downvoted to -8, even if you think that you know better. It's time to trust your fellow redditors again, they may actually be right.
- 270: Four myths about WWII that are particularly annoying and misleading
- 221: Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little
- 105: 'When I worked as a male escort in Denver, at least 15 percent of my clientele were clergy or connected with the church in some way. More than once I was paid with a handful of crinkled ones and fives.'
- 103: The fattest farm subsidy checks are mailed to New York's richest ZIP codes
- 101: If Iran Were America (And We Were Iran): A Timeline (~2,500)
- 93: Standing before the shack that destroyed Russia filled me with a weird terror. The place had the beaten look of a college sophomore's apartment. Yet I trembled when I walked up close enough to see the lettering on the door. Officials in Moscow had been machine-gunned for less...
- 90: Top Secret America | washingtonpost.com
- 87: Why Johnny Can't Name His Colors: Scientific American
- 84: The Turn
- 174: Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up?
- 155: Building a Nation of Know-Nothings - NYTimes.com
- 135: For any plan to work, every team needs at least one asshole who doesn’t give a shit if he gets fired or exiled or excommunicated.
- 137: Fear & Loathing in America- an article by Hunter S. Thompson that seems to have accurately predicted the whole middle eastern conflict, the day after 911.
- 121: The billionaire Koch brothers and their war against Obama
- 116: "You Get Old" is a really great article about aging, gracefully or otherwise.
- 115: America on $195 a Week
- 109: The Best Magazine Articles of All Time - the top 7 are amazing, including an article David Foster Wallace wrote for Gourmet magazine
- 103: The rise and fall of American Apparel
- 91: College Dropout Factories
- 305: Mr. Lindwall was my favorite teacher at Glenbrook High. He understood me when no one else did. He was also a budding serial killer who could have been "worse than Gacy." Is it OK that I still like him?
- 189: Kill Whitey. It’s the right thing to do.
- 192: Johnny Knoxville explores the side of Detroit you don't see too much [4-part video]
- 172: A Blind User's Profound Review of the iPhone [crosspost from /r/technology]
- 161: Good Study Habits - The Common Wisdom is Wrong
- 136: The Angry Monk: A lot of pissed-off people wind up at our monastery. This place has a tractor beam like the Death Star. Every failed marriage and lonely life within a thousand-mile radius winds up here, sold on the promise that Buddhism can alleviate suffering.
- 133: A Textbook Example of What's Wrong with Education
- 130: Corn subsidies make unhealthy food choices the rational ones.
- 125: The internet has been a great unifier of people, companies and online networks. Powerful forces are threatening to balkanise it
- 98: Why income distribution can't be crowd-sourced.
- 500: People are people wherever you go - There's no uniform in the world that's actually able to disguise their essential humanity - a photo from North Korea (Reposted from /r/pics, where it was listed in quite different terms)
- 299: They’ll have better attendance, wreck fewer cars and be more agreeable. All we have to do is let high school students sleep in.
- 225: Toyota Hilux - The Vehicular Equivalent of the AK-47
- 224: language
- 216: The Strange Truth Behind the Personae of Insane Clown Posse (ICP)
- 195: A note to Tea Party activists: This is not the movie you think it is. You probably imagine that you’re starring in “The Birth of a Nation,” but you’re actually just extras in a remake of “Citizen Kane.”
- 179: The future will be ruled by BS (X-post from /r/funny, a thought-provoking article that is more scary than funny)
- 168: Japan's young men seek a new path [Relevant everywhere I believe...]
- 150: Forensic analysis of the world's first 'weaponized' virus. "Stuxnet .. is the first to exploit four 0-day vulnerabilites, compromise two digital certificates, and inject code into industrial control systems." This virus is said to have set back Iran's nuclear program by two years. [PDF]
- 142: He was condemned to death for telling the ancient Greeks things they didn't want to hear, but his views on consumerism and trial by media are just as relevant today
- 424: WikiLeaks just made the world more repressive
- 366: Lawsuit filed to end the use of full body scanners by the TSA.
- 331: Being Vegan is worse for the environment? - An fascinating exercise in fact checking.
- 280: “Over time, we began to realize that many teachers had been grading kids for compliance — not for mastering the course material”
- 278: Women choose to be lesser than equals in the Netherlands. And they love it.
- 229: All of a sudden, a lot of well-maintained old cars, especially sportier models, have begun to fail in surprising numbers—as if struck down by some virulent new disease.
- 217: To NSFW or not to NSFW?
- 211: I hate classical music: not the thing but the name. It traps a tenaciously living art in a theme park of the past. It cancels out the possibility that music in the spirit of Beethoven could still be created today.
- 200: Since TrueReddit often has long and therefore multipage articles, do you all mind submitting single-page links if possible?
- 175: Hundreds of unknown Picasso works discovered in Paris
- 507: Perhaps something actually damning has come out of Wikileaks after all. State department knew that taxpayer funded corporation DynCorp "helped pimp out little boys as sex slaves to stoned cops in Afghanistan" and tried to hush it up.
- 396: One of the classic internet originals: In 1995, this guy deposited a novelty check for $95k. The check cleared. Here is his story.
- 321: In case you missed it, Julian Assange was on the Colbert Report. Stephen actually seemed to be serious at some points IMO.
- 309: Stratfor: The idea that WikiLeaks could hurt diplomatic relationships between the United States and the rest of the world also assumes that the rest of the world conducts diplomacy in a more “honest” manner — it does not.
- 293: If homosexuality is ok, why is incest wrong?
- 294: Interesting read on usability: Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem Much More “Readable” Than Those of Its Competitors?
- 271: How I Joined Teach for America—and Got Sued for $20 Million
- 268: I like feeding trolls sometimes, and here's why:
- 265: What Happened When I Went Undercover at a Christian Gay-to-Straight Conversion Camp
- 257: Getting shot by a handgun
- 502: Was hitler really that bad of a guy? - Yahoo! Answers (check top answer; xpost from WTF)
- 383: How Do China's Youth View Rest of World?
- 338: On Seeing a Sex Surrogate
- 302: The great scandal of the Bubble Boy was that he was conceived for the bubble
- 263: Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior
- 246: For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan
- 245: "Aren't You Glad Your Mother was Pro-Life?" Sticker: Mine Wasn't.
- 231: There's One Huge State Budget Crisis That Everyone Is Refusing To Talk About: Texas
- 229: In 2009, GQ magazine named Duke America’s second-douchiest college, a distinction that came with a caveat: “They’re probably number one. But we’d rather not rank Duke number one at anything.” It’s difficult to argue with GQ’s thinking on either score; something ugly is going on at the university.
- 207: Princeton grad student commits suicide after decades of dealing with child abuse. This is his note. (It's a hard read.) [Original submission removed due to malware]
- 387: How Not to Talk to Your Kids
- 356: What it's like to be released after spending 30 years in jail for a crime you didn't commit
- 344: Seeing Yellow
- 322: Once you see how guerrilla warfare works, you have two reactions: you’re downright awed by how simple and brilliant it is…and it makes you sick.
- 311: Toyota: The Media Owe You an Apology
- 307: America, you want to prevent massacres like Libya, failures like Iraq, and take out dictators like Kim Jong-il, while solving your military spending problem? The Pentagon has had a proven solution for years. One of their strategists explains it right here. The world needs the System Administrators.
- 301: Virginia Gutierrez was a straight-A student who graduated with honors from High School with a 4.2 grade-point average, securing multiple private scholarships to ASU. Her dream was to be a doctor. Instead, she was deported to Mexico. Her crime? Entering the US illegally when she was 9 years old.
- 299: Why Inception was a freak, and Hollywood continues to make movies aimed at a population caught in arrest development
- 257: Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack (followup to 2 previous articles)
- 241: Why protesting in America is a useless concept (in it's current form).
- 678: Arnold Schwarzenegger: "Asking whether large solar power plants are appropriate in the Mojave desert is like wondering whether subways makes sense in New York City."
- 491: From President Obama to Sarah Palin, our politicians are constantly invoking America’s superiority and exceptionalism or exhorting us to be Number 1. Yet from health care to education to environmental performance, we’re more often found at the bottom of the list of developed countries.
- 452: Why I would rather work for the Yakuza than National Geographic Television: My resignation, apologies, and words of caution to anyone involved with production
- 435: Don’t touch me, I’m British
- 388: Cosmonaut Crashed into Earth 'Crying in Rage'
- 354: We need to recognize that education is a precursor for a civil society. Employers can train employees. Schools must educate citizens.
- 344: A review of the worst restaurant in the world
- 338: The tyranny of the Extroverts
- 323: The Kill Team | Rolling Stone
- 274: The Next Chernobyl Will Not Be Japan, It Will Be Chernobyl
- 842: In 1962, a French speleologist named Michel Siffre spent two months living in total isolation in a subterranean cave, without access to clock, calendar, or sun. His goal was to discover how the natural rhythms of human life would be affected by living “beyond time.”
- 597: I've never read a more fascinating article about Britney Spears.
- 557: The world's most important 6-sec drum loop.
- 495: Organic Farmers Unite Against Monsanto In Battle For Future of Food
- 472: Why a growing number of couples are choosing to live child-free. And why you might be joining their ranks.
- 448: TIME.com credits Reddit in an article about the closing of Elan School
- 423: The science behind being wrong: Why facts don't change your mind and how to argument against emotion.
- 408: When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink
- 370: I would decriminalize drugs in a heartbeat. I would put all the interdiction money, all the incarceration money, all the enforcement money, all of the pretrial, all the prep, all of that cash, I would hurl it as fast as I could into drug treatment and job training and jobs programs.
- 353: Prescription drug overdoses are now killing more people than crack cocaine in the 1980s and heroin in the 1970s combined
- 1122: I'm sick of pretending: I don't "get" art
- 687: "USA! USA!" is the wrong response
- 495: Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death
- 488: The coca farmers of Bolivia use ropes to swing across the narrow valleys. The bridge is for the women.
- 477: Matt Taibbi on Goldman Sachs executives: "They weren't murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money than most people can rationally conceive of, from their own customers... [and] took an oath before Congress, and lied about it."
- 444: What nobody tells you about being poor in America
- 437: Born in 1906, raised in a 121-room 5th Avenue mansion, and retired from society in the 1930s, she died in 2011.
- 416: "The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal." (Kurt Vonnegut's short story: Harrison Bergeron)
- 407: Why Russians Think Americans Don't Own Their Homes
- 404: The "Hooker Teacher" tells all
- 1055: Last October, I won the Nobel Prize in economics for my work on unemployment and the labor market. But I am unqualified to serve on the board of the Federal Reserve — at least according to the Republican senators who have blocked my nomination.
- 1032: Our Blood Stained Roof
- 941: "Heroin was the perfect whatever drug." A drug expert breaks the cardinal rule and tries heroin
- 675: My Ex-Gay Friend
- 664: So, I'm unsubscribing from all the major subs, what should I subscribe to?
- 661: Could this be happening? A man's nightmare made real.
- 572: Third richest man in China lives on $20 a day, eats same meals as workers.
- 511: Wisconsin public Internet fights telecom attempts to kill it off
- 413: Traffic Jams: How one driver can vastly improve traffic
- 392: A nuclear blast-resistant plastic invented 23 years ago, but not in use because inventor wanted no reverse engineering, lot of confidentiality agreements and lion's share of profits
- 1441: On July 4th, a (qualified) defense of America and its culture.
- 664: How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education --- Khan also never edits. Either he nails the lecture in a single take or he redoes the entire thing until it satisfies him.
- 587: A man who was shot in the face for looking Muslim after 9/11 is campaigning to save the shooter who is on death row
- 554: Fascinating story of a woman "who disappeared, but never left home."
- 536: Manifesto of Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik
- 537: Experienced users [literally] look at Reddit differently
- 534: Who is Tom Bombadil?
- 512: The best antipoverty investment in the world — from New York to Nigeria — is education. So why do we keep cutting it?
- 507: Browser usability testing with a man who has never used a computer in his life
- 494: The easiest and most convenient way to see the movies or TV shows you want is to get them illegally.
- 1136: Sometimes the Bad Guys Win
- 1082: The "overlearning the game" problem
- 1023: Steven Colbert goes too far? Setting up a shadowy PAC to expose the shady business of legalized political bribery.
- 1025: Shocking photo created a hero, but not to his family (x/post news)
- 802: The genius who lives downstairs - A look at where a child genius who at age 3 had an IQ of 178. and at Cambridge was the greatest maths prodigy they had ever seen. So what happened to his career?
- 779: Confessions of a bad teacher
- 756: What it would be like to walk on a cube shaped planet
- 744: You Are Not So Smart: The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight
- 711: Contrary to popular belief, the soda Fanta was not made by the Nazis. But as snopes explains, the truth is actually a more interesting story
- 628: How Brazil dropped its birth rate from more than 6 children per woman to 1.9 children per women: Female empowerment and soap operas.
- 1503: A Reminder about Eternal September
- 1079: What Dr. King REALLY accomplished, a perspective I've never considered before
- 1050: School: It's way more boring than when you were there. New studies show that the disappearance of art, music, and even recess is having a devastating effect on kids.
- 819: My family's experiment in extreme schooling
- 730: It was called a year ago. And here we are.
- 693: Former GOP operative quits drinking the Kool Aid and tells all.
- 672: Why Some Languages Sound So Fast
- 625: Are jobs obsolete?
- 617: Convict freed after 28 years in jail, only to go back in for deliberately burning down a house because he couldn't handle all the advancements in society while he was locked up.
- 619: What does it feel like to be stupid? - Quora
- 2105: CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About...
- 1356: "So the way my father used to tell it, my parents’ second date went something like this..."
- 1138: Chilean girls have been occupying their schools for five months in education rights protest, and I have only just read about it... Weekly protests of 50k students. Support from 6 in 10 adults.
- 962: Humans have a perplexing tendency to fear rare threats such as shark attacks while ignoring far greater risks like unsafe sex and an unhealthy diet. Those illusions are not just silly—they make the world a more dangerous place.
- 907: This is a long post. I think that's why it didn't do so well in the other subreddits. But I read it. I think everyone should read this. I think everyone in America should read this.
- 903: Krugman on OWS - wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is [...] special treatment can’t bear close scrutiny - and therefore, as they see it, there must be no close scrutiny.
- 900: Drug cartel kidnaps member of Anonymous. Anonymous demands release or threatens to expose cartel's hacked secrets
- 869: Dutch vs. american parents' views on teen sex
- 868: Occupy Wall Street: Why Baby Boomers Don't Understand the Protests
- 848: It's 1940. The Nazis have taken Copenhagen. They are literally marching through the streets, and physicist Niels Bohr has just hours, maybe minutes, to make two Nobel Prize medals disappear.
- 1897: Did you ever wish you could take a good look at Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel in the Vatican? Now you can; I am overwhelmed.
- 1475: 3 Misconceptions about the US that need to die
- 1338: An alternative to reddit
- 1034: No, Congress did not declare pizza a vegetable
- 1030: Florida judge sentenced a 26-yr-old with no criminal record, to life in prison for possessing child pornography: "Had Mr. Vilca actually molested a child," The NYTimes notes, "he might well have received a lighter sentence."
- 969: "The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class's venality."
- 808: As I get older, reddit's userbase seems to be getting younger and younger. What other subreddits do /r/truereddit subscribers recommend that aren't flooded with pokemon references and stale jokes?
- 666: Reddit Enhancement Suite 4.0 is live!
- 667: The Portia Spider is a living Turing Machine. It exhibits the ability to very slowly create complex plans and solve problems at the level of mammals.
- 642: The mathematical case against the electoral college
- 1360: Ten years ago Portugal decriminalized drugs, look how they're doing now.
- 1311: "Reddit Makes Me Hate Atheists." by Rebecca Watson
- 1284: The nightmarish SOPA hearings: "There ought to be a law, I think, that in order to regulate something you have to have some understanding of it."
- 1115: Law enforcement officers in US are getting fired for joining LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition)
- 1010: Well shit. Christopher Hitchens died.
- 971: Top Five Regrets Of The Dying
- 904: "We have become a nation of children. Easy divorce laws have removed the need to work at relationships; easy credit has removed the need for fiscal self-control; easy entertainment has removed the need to learn to entertain oneself; easy answers have removed the need to ask questions."
- 890: The United States Senate has just passed a resolution that as currently drafted, gives authority to the US military to indefinitely detain persons, even American citizens arrested on American soil or overseas without charge or trial.
- 792: In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of literary, commercial, and science fiction.
- 777: Jurors Need to Know They Can Say No
- 2612: Maddox: I Hope SOPA Passes
- 2047: To My Old Master: A former slave's letter in response to his old master's request to work for him again
- 1997: Google- What were you thinking?
- 1918: "Reddit will be blacked out on Jan 18th to protest SOPA/PIPA. Plz get the word out!" ~ Alexis Ohanian
- 1471: Why Best Buy is Going out of Business...Gradually - Forbes
- 1409: What if Tim Tebow were Muslim? Freedom of religion vs "freedom of Christianity"
- 1307: Philadelphia has had 32 murders this year. Not 32 murders in the last 12 months, 32 murders since January 1st.
- 1241: America imprisons more people than Stalin did with the Gulag. On the caging of America.
- 1153: This guy took photographs of fast food and compared them to advertisements. Great article. Thought some would find this interesting.
- 1092: An average worker needs to work a mere 11 hours per week to produce as much as one working 40 hours per week in 1950. The conclusion is inescapable: a worker should be able to earn the same standard of living as a 1950 worker in only 11 hours per week.
- 1480: "What was the slowest you ever flew in the [SR-71] Blackbird?"
- 1467: Banksy's thoughts on advertising.
- 1346: A few words on "Deadbeat Dads" and when they aren't.
- 1327: Because Breast Cancer is Not a Pink Ribbon
- 1283: BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep
- 1017: Now this is an infographic: interactive breakdown of President Obama's entire $3.7T budget
- 1001: How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did
- 975: The Star Wars Saga suggested viewing order: IV, V, II, III, VI.
- 955: Seventh grader suspended for speaking in her native language
- 907: How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy — A biologist’s science- fiction hunch is gaining credence and shaping the emerging science of mind-controlling parasites.
- 1730: How Apple is perpetuating throw-away culture by designing it's devices to be near impossible to open or fix
- 1712: The recession didn't gut the prospects of American young people. The Baby Boomers took care of that
- 1682: $1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog — How Anyone Can Get Anything Past The Scanners
- 1533: 'A Test You Need to Fail': A Teacher's Open Letter to Her 8th Grade Students
- 1323: When Robert Bales killed 16 Afghans, the U.S. media said his motive was: financial stress, being drunk, brain injury, marital problems, no promotion. When Muslims kill Americans, the reason is simply: primitive, hateful evil.
- 1318: People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say
- 1205: If I had known before he was born, I would have saved him from suffering.
- 1177: "Invisible Children has turned the myopic worldview of the adolescent -- "if I don't know about it, then it doesn't exist, but if I care about it, then it is the most important thing in the world" -- into a foreign policy prescription."
- 1148: Woman demanding care at a hospital is arrested for trespassing, dies in jail
- 1006: Six Legged Giant Hides for 80 Years
- 1451: "Government bodies that fund academic research should require that the results be made available free to the public. So should charities that fund research."
- 1212: Uncompromising Photos Expose Juvenile Detention in America
- 1174: Let's Be Blunt: It's Time to End the Drug War - Forbes
- 1088: When Anderson Cooper began a syndicated talk show, his first guest was the grieving father of Amy Winehouse. Julian Assange's first guest on his new show: the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. That contrast speaks volumes already about who is interested in actual journalism and who is not.
- 1070: A Teen's Brave Response to "I'm Christian, Unless You're Gay"
- 1023: Following a 10-hour debate, legislators in the US state of Connecticut vote to abolish the death penalty
- 964: The story and photos of a marine battling PTSD. Sobering to the say the least...
- 949: Scientists boycott academic journals to protest the high cost of paywalls
- 889: Barack Obama has turned out to be one of the most militarily aggressive leaders in decades.
- 867: New documents show that the forensics lab of the FBI and Justice Department has been flawed for 20+ years and the 'task force' set up to oversee it has been controlled by the FBI.
- 2235: What teachers really want to tell parents - Educators are leaving the profession in record droves because they just can't handle the parents any more
- 1914: Great moments often catch us unaware.
- 1884: Predictions about 2001 from 1901
- 1589: Norway's controversial 'cushy prison' experiment has the lowest reoffending rate in Europe.
- 1546: Hunter S. Thompson's column written within 24 hours after 911 attack (amazingly prescient)
- 1410: How the professor who fooled Wikipedia got caught by reddit
- 1281: Who Killed Men's Hats?
- 1245: Matt Taibbi on the 2012 elections: "Obama and Romney feels like a contest between two calculating centrists, fighting for the right to serve as figurehead atop a bloated state apparatus that will operate according to the same demented imperial logic irrespective of who wins the White House."
- 1229: The oatmeal responds to Forbes.
- 1216: Yes, America, We Have Executed an Innocent Man
- 2485: Libraries still matter, because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere these days: A public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
- 2198: Five interviews of with Americans, each earning five times as much as the last. Only one of them is angry, and it's not the dishwasher.
- 1885: George Orwell: "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations."
- 1690: What Guide Books Tell Foreign Visitors to the U.S.
- 1448: Glenn Greenwald explains blowback: "Given the ongoing American quest for violence from that one-day attack (9/11), just imagine the impact which continuous attacks over a full decade must have on those whom we’ve been invading, droning, cluster-bombing, occupying, and indiscriminately shooting."
- 1329: Last week, the Obama administration admitted that "militants" were defined as "any military age males killed by drone strikes." Yet, media outlets still uses this term to describe victims. This is a deliberate government/media misinformation campaign about an obviously consequential policy.
- 1186: Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system “dysfunctional”
- 1166: Don't Thank Me for My Service
- 1160: The True Size Of Africa: A Small Contribution in the Fight Against Rampant Immappancy
- 1152: Another female journalist violated on Tahrir Square. This is her heart breaking testimony.
- 3401: The Author of XKCD, Randall Monroe, has started a blog answering all the physics-y "what if" questions he's emailed. The first one is "What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?" and the post is great.
- 1499: To Make America Great Again, We Need to Leave the Country - No politician will admit that the United States is no longer number one. But other nations do a lot of things better -- and we need to learn from them.
- 1484: The Unknown Why in the Aurora Killings - NYTimes.com
- 1424: Guy places rubber animals on the side of the road to see who would swerve out of their way to kill them. 89% of the killers drove SUVs.
- 1322: Anderson Cooper: "The Fact Is, I'm Gay."
- 1254: Congressional investigation revealed horrific new details this week about a U.S. funded military hospital in Afghanistan that kept patients in “Auschwitz-like” conditions. Warning: Graphic images. [NSFW]
- 1167: You Will Be Embarrassed About This in 20 Years - Gay marriage debate is over. Here's some more big social changes that might happen: End mass imprisonment, factory farming and high school football. Take enviromentalism seriously. Treat the elderly better
- 1143: A man's story on starting to smoke at 46
- 1142: How Extremism Becomes Normalized: "The idea of flying robots hovering over American soil monitoring what citizens do en masse is yet another one of those ideas that, in the very recent past, seemed too radical and dystopian to entertain, yet is on the road to being quickly mainstreamed."
- 1092: Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought. New evidence of both the extent of the population and its agricultural advancement leads to a remarkable conjecture: the Amazon rain forest may be largely a human artifact
- 2395: It's all kissing babies and shaking hands, only with more LOLs - the Reddit AMA is a terrible format for extracting information from a politician
- 1701: How to teach a child to argue
- 1628: More work gets done in four days than in five. And often the work is better.
- 1477: How To Deal With An "Unruly Passenger" On A Cross-Country Flight
- 1436: Jared Diamond addresses Romney's inaccurate understanding of his book "Guns, Germs, and Steel"
- 1387: Whites Believe They Are Victims of Racism More Often Than Blacks
- 1362: How a Single Oxycontin Pill Nearly Ruined One Man's Life
- 1358: "Countries like Singapore pay a considerable sum to someone who is willing to donate an organ. Israel has a 'no give, no take' rule: Sign up to donate your organs or you’ll have low priority if you need one in the future." Is 'pay it forward' the answer to a lack of organ donors in the U.S?
- 1346: "Secession [of the super rich] is a withdrawal into enclaves, an internal immigration, whereby the rich disconnect themselves from the civic life of the nation and from any concern about its well being except as a place to extract loot."
- 1310: 80% of car crashes occur due to inattention in 3 secs prior to crash. Reaching for a moving object increases risk of crash 9x. Some good stats from credible research study.
- 3713: When Janni Schofield was not even a month old, she was able to correctly identify colours. At 1 year old, she could read. At 18 months, she could speak fluently. What her parents originally took for genius turned out to be a mask for something much darker. An incredible story.
- 2319: Eastern Germany: the most godless place on Earth: Study found that 52.1% of people asked whether they believed in God identified themselves as atheists; survey was unable to find a single person under the age of 28 in eastern Germany who believed in God
- 2271: CNN works with governments to create "sponsored" stories that are not labelled as advertisements. "As negative news stories of its brutal repression grew, the Bahrain regime undertook a massive, very well-funded PR campaign to improve its image. Central to that campaign was CNN International."
- 1657: NYTimes fantastic graphic: Fatalities/mile vs. miles driven the last 50 years
- 1650: Something does not add up with Innocence of Muslims
- 1479: After poor coverage, NBC may lose future Paralympics broadcast rights - Digital Spy
- 1417: The Hierarchy of Human Life: "Compare the way in which the deaths of Americans on 9/11, even more than a decade later, are commemorated with borderline religious solemnity, as opposed to the deaths of the hundreds of thousands of foreign Muslims caused by the US, which are barely ever acknowledged."
- 1346: "In 50 years, Google will be the self-driving car company and, oh, they'll still have a search engine somewhere."
- 1228: It's Becoming Clear That No One Actually Read Facebook's IPO Prospectus Or Mark Zuckerberg's Letter To Shareholders - Business Insider
- 1129: Lance Armstrong's former assistant tell us about the "vengeful tactics he uses against people who tell the truth about him, on and off the bike."
- 3339: The case for PBS: "PBS is a cheap way to educate.... If you let the market choose your programming, sooner or later, it will lead to Honey Boo Boo."
- 1964: Friedman: "The term “pro-life” should be a shorthand for respect for the sanctity of life. But I will not let that label apply to people for whom sanctity for life begins at conception and ends at birth."
- 1805: War on Drugs vs 1920s alcohol prohibition [28 page comic by the Huxley/Orwell cartoonist]
- 1645: Shell Pipeline Oil Spill In Niger Delta Valley TWICE The Size Of BP Gulf Spill Catastrophe
- 1603: Stop coddling people who behave badly
- 1529: For better, for worse: my husband, the rapist
- 1489: “We’ve decided as a society that it’s too expensive to modify the kid’s environment. So we have to modify the kid.”
- 1408: Buddhist monk is the happiest man in the world according to researchers. His brain produces a level of gamma waves - those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory - never before reported in neuroscience.
- 1417: A Bible belt conservative's year pretending to be gay
- 1407: No, you're not entitled to your opinion
- 3011: The real scandal here is that when the head of the CIA sleeps with someone who is not his wife, it causes a national scandal, but when the agency manages a drone program that serially violates the sovereignty of nations worldwide [...] it does not.
- 2399: Legal expert who created fake CP to demonstrate that CP can be faked ordered to pay $300,000 for making CP, even though the court knew it was fake.
- 2032: Porn industry group claims 350,000 porn scenes shot without condoms since 2004, and ZERO new H.I.V. infections
- 1952: The Troubling Dean-to-Professor Ratio -- “Why is it that we can’t find any money for more faculty, but there seems to be an almost unlimited budget for administrators?”
- 1933: The wife of a slave owner's letter to a runaway, and the subsequent rebuttal.
- 1781: "In the final week of the 2012 election, MSNBC ran no negative stories about President Barack Obama and no positive stories about Republican nominee Mitt Romney, according to a study released Monday by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism."
- 1672: "Fuck Hamas. Fuck Israel. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA!"-A statement of rage from a small group of Palestinian youth.
- 1580: If children lose contact with nature they won't fight for it — With half of their time spent at screens, the next generation will be poorly equipped to defend the natural world from harm
- 1577: They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside
- 1517: It's not just WalMart: Target pays its workers even less
- 3575: NY Times: "It is a dark day for the rule of law. Federal and state authorities have chosen not to indict HSBC, the London-based bank, on charges of vast and prolonged money laundering, for fear that criminal prosecution would topple the bank and, in the process, endanger the financial system."
- 3354: President Obama: "Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?" Guardian Columnist: "It's a valid question. He should apply it to the violence he is visiting on the children of Pakistan."
- 3300: "The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me."
- 3103: The Psy Scandal: "Americans would benefit from less outrage at anti-US sentiment and more energy toward understanding why it's so widespread" | The Guardian.
- 2651: "I am sharing this story because I am Adam Lanza’s mother. I am Dylan Klebold’s and Eric Harris’s mother. I am Jason Holmes’s mother. I am Jared Loughner’s mother. I am Seung-Hui Cho’s mother. And these boys—and their mothers—need help." - One mothers struggle with a desperately mentally ill son.
- 2060: The importance of looks in Korean culture
- 1936: The most meaningful and subtly powerful article about today's shootings that I've found come from an unlikely source.
- 1816: "It's becoming increasingly unlikely that a low-income student, no matter how intrinsically bright, moves up the socioeconomic ladder. What we're talking about is a threat to the American dream."
- 1536: Sex work isn’t stigmatised because it is dangerous. Sex work is dangerous because it is stigmatised.
- 1511: Supreme Court to Decide if Human Genes Are Patentable
- 2908: For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
- 2826: Aaron Swartz commits suicide
- 1766: Reddit Wake-up Call (or I'm just getting to old for this shit)
- 1604: Notre Dame’s double standard -- Manti Te'o's bizarre soap opera moves the school's president to tears, while Lizzy Seeberg's suicide is ignored
- 1565: The demands of the ultra-rich have been dressed up as sophisticated economic theory and applied regardless of the outcome.
- 1562: Suicide is a gender issue that can no longer be ignored
- 1556: 'Zero Dark Thirty' Is Osama bin Laden's Last Victory Over America
- 1441: A man spent $1 million and three years secretly filming a horror film at Disney World. The movie was accepted at Sundance but may never be seen by a commercial audience.
- 1398: How the world manages to waste half its food. Between 30 percent to 50 percent of all food produced on the planet is lost and wasted without ever reaching human stomachs. Here's a look at how that's even possible.
- 1383: Boy Scouts lose more funding over anti-gay policies
- 2809: Mr. Obama, Tear Down the Private Profit Prisons
- 2406: A warning to college professors from a high school teacher: Please do not blame those of us in public schools for how unprepared for higher education the students arriving at your institutions are. We have very little say in what is happening to public education.
- 2355: Muslim Syrian woman: "Unfortunately, we live in an age where any no-brains that brandishes a gun and screams 'God is great' thinks he's speaking for Islam, when he is merely just a hoodlum with a gun."
- 2083: Hail Corporate: The Increasingly Insufferable Fakery of Brands on Reddit
- 1715: Bill Moyers: Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair - Everybody's signing up with their local cable incumbent. There is not competition for 80 percent of Americans. They don't have a choice for a truly high speed connection. It's just the local cable guy. Competition has just vanished.
- 1709: It's not just Colorado and Washington: The world is abandoning the US-backed drug war in favor of a more liberal approach to cannabis.
- 1607: The Federal prison population has gone from 25,000 to 219,000 in the last thirty years.
- 1552: What Happened with LEGO
- 1429: The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food: "What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort — taking place in labs and marketing meetings and grocery-store aisles — to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive."
- 1386: Radio DJ admits he has depression over the air, stands up for millions of people by saying that depression shouldn't be treated any differently than heart disease
- 2410: This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again
- 2352: There's No Homework In Finland: How Finnish Schools are Trouncing the US Education System With More Recess and Fewer Tests [Infographic]
- 2290: What Wealth Inequality in America really looks like.
- 1842: Obama's Crackdown on Whistleblowers - It’s still a pattern: whistleblowers are punished while the perpetrators of the crimes they expose go free.
- 1732: Google Reader Shutdown a Sobering Reminder That 'Our' Technology Isn't Ours -- The death of Google Reader reveals a problem of the modern Internet that many of us have in the back of our heads: We are all participants in a user driven Internet, but we are still just the users, nothing more
- 1577: "Poor people think they are alone in their private homes, but have no idea they are the laughing stock on HackForums," - a peek into the culture of script kiddies who hack into wecams
- 1550: The Brains of the Animal Kingdom: New research shows that we have grossly underestimated both the scope and the scale of animal intelligence
- 1521: The Science of Sleeplessness "So many people have trouble getting enough sleep between eleven at night and seven in the morning because sleeping from eleven to seven isn’t what people were designed to do."
- 1486: A little over ten years ago, George W. Bush fired his economic advisor, Lawrence Lindsey, for saying that the total cost of invading Iraq might come to as much as $200 billion ... As it turns out, Lawrence Lindsey's estimate was indeed off -- by a factor of ten or more, on the low side.
- 1451: United Nations’ pot hypocrisy - Science says marijuana is safer than alcohol. So why is the U.N. trying to stop legalization laws?
- 3153: 50% of the Senate and 42% of the House left gov't to become lobbyists between 1998-2004. Their average increase in salary was 1452%. These numbers have only gone up. We will never have any real reform with this level of corruption.
- 2944: Huy Fong Foods Inc, the privately owned company that creates Sriracha hot sauce, sold $60 million dollars worth of sauce last year. The company has never spent any money on advertising.
- 2644: Everything is Rigged: The Biggest Financial Scandal Yet
- 2387: The Digital Public Library of America, to be launched on April 18, is a project to make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online and free of charge.
- 2335: We hope Bostonians will reject more policing in the name of "security," reject racist fear of Arabs, Muslims, South Asians and immigrants, and instead, face this tragedy with courage, compassion and a resolve to work for a world free of violence and oppression
- 2110: For the first time since before 9/11 — more respondents were unwilling (45 percent) than willing (43 percent) to sacrifice personal freedoms to reduce the threat of terrorism
- 2048: On the Boston Bombings: "I’m safe. You are safe. 99.999999% of the country is safe. But there never is a completely safe, and there never will be. I refuse to give up another right to prevent another 'Boston.' The bomber isn't the only one who wants you to be afraid. Remember that."
- 1929: George Bush is Smarter Than You
- 1772: Economists have been astonished to find that a famous academic paper often used to make the case for austerity cuts contains major errors.
- 1550: Why Boston's Hospitals Were Ready : The New Yorker
- 2255: We elect almost no scientists or engineers to public office. The lack of fundamental knowledge is a huge obstacle to explaining complex issues posed by science, cyber expert warns. Officials with an agenda based on political or religious zealotry don’t care about nuance. But we keep electing them.
- 2250: My Medical Choice By Angelina Jolie. She Reveals Why She Recently Underwent A Double Mastectomy.
- 2008: Hyperbole and a Half: Depression Part Two
- 1782: Actually, Jason Collins isn't the first openly gay man in a major pro team Sport... he's just the first one the media has acknowledged
- 1709: Before he died, Aaron Swartz was working on an open-source, anonymous inbox for journalists and the public. Today, that project arrives at The New Yorker.
- 1710: "It's basically a real-life version of Logan's Run. A child actor who is no longer cute is no longer monetarily viable and is discarded" - Mrs. Doubtfire's Mara Wilson writes about the pitfalls of child stardom
- 1631: Here's exactly how American expats go crazy in Central America, explained by an expat
- 1597: Thousands of American teens are trapped in abusive cult-like drug treatment centers
- 1548: "America needs to reallocate its food subsidies": 63% goes directly or indirectly to the meat and dairy industries. Less than 1% goes to fruit and vegetable cultivation. Less than 2% goes to nut and legume cultivation.
- 1547: The suicide rate for Americans 35 to 54 increased nearly 30 percent between 1999 and 2010; for men in their 50s, it rose nearly 50 percent.
- 2570: Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (x-post from r/parenting)
- 2439: David Foster Wallace: "Assume for a moment that some of these measures really have helped make our persons and property safer—are they worth it? Where and when was the public debate on whether they’re worth it? Was there no such debate because we’re not capable of having or demanding one? Why not?"
- 2305: NSA whistleblower reveals identity, 29 year old CIA contractor currently hiding in Hong Kong.
- 2281: The Patriot Act inverts the constitutional requirement that people's lives be private and the work of government officials be public; it instead crafts a set of conditions in which our inner lives become transparent and the workings of the government become opaque.
- 2084: The average American two-income family is now 15% poorer than a one-income family of 40 years ago.
- 1777: Japan's radiation disaster toll: none dead, none sick
- 1742: The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis "It's long been suspected that ratings agencies like Moody's and Standard & Poor's helped trigger the meltdown. A new trove of embarrassing documents shows how they did it"
- 1739: Ever heard of ECHELON? NSA spying started way before 9/11, and it had nothing to do with terrorism
- 1730: Told You So: Julian Assange, the NSA, and Edward Snowden -- "As Snowden’s character and motivations continue to be traduced by the establishment he sought to criticize, as he is by turns lionized and vilified, keep your eyes on the message. Not the messenger."
- 1704: Interesting NPR article on "Adventure Time", a cartoon I never took seriously.
- 2601: Snowden is more distraction than traitor - NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is being used to distract Americans from the truth behind spying allegations.
- 2310: You Are Not Trayvon Martin: His death wasn’t about race, guns, or your pet issue. It was about misjudgment and overreaction—exactly what we’re doing now to the verdict.
- 2235: "Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S." by Daniel Ellsberg -- "Many people compare Edward Snowden to me unfavorably for leaving the country and seeking asylum, rather than facing trial as I did. I don't agree. The country I stayed in was a different America, a long time ago."
- 2222: Henry Ford proved that high wages are good for everyone--including business. We've spent decades unlearning the lesson and making our society worse.
- 2163: There is a definite smell developing around the details of Michael Hastings' crash, shortly after he warned friends he was being investigated by the FBI about an NSA story.
- 1993: The 4 A.M. Army: "Every morning, hundreds of thousands of workers show up for jobs that are unseen, uncertain and underpaid--and vital to the U.S. economy"
- 1943: Father of Edward Snowden issues open letter to Obama denouncing “Orwellian surveillance programs”
- 1908: More than 130,000 convicts in the U.S. now live in private prisons and no national data tracks whether the facilities are run as well as public ones. Private-prison lobbyists have successfully fought efforts to bring them under federal open-records law.
- 1578: Security experts Bruce Schneier and Mikko Hypponen on the NSA, PRISM, and why we should be worried -- Schneier: "All of it is dangerous. I live in a country where secret judges make secret rulings based on secret laws...That’s not how America is supposed to be."
- 1528: "The National Security Agency revealed to an angry congressional panel on Wednesday that its analysis of phone records and online behavior goes exponentially beyond what it had previously disclosed."
- 3670: Walmart's Worst Nightmare: WinCo is an Idaho-based grocery chain that frequently beats Walmart on price while providing health care benefits for any employee working over 24 hours a week, as well as an annual pension. (x-post from r/FoodforThought)
- 2789: Why PBS is thrilled Discovery is faking nature documentaries (megalodon fiasco fallout) and all the programs on the History Channel are about pawn shops and storage lockers.
- 2772: Don't Fly During Ramadan
- 2353: The NSA: 'The Abyss From Which There Is No Return' -- "[O]nce you allow the government to start breaking the law, no matter how seemingly justifiable the reason, you relinquish the contract between you and the government which establishes that the government works for and obeys you, the citizen"
- 2117: A cynical but brilliant article on the nature of modern journalism in the wake of the VMA's
- 2075: The Oregon Trail was created by 3 student teachers in 2 weeks, from inside a janitor's closet, and would end up selling more than 65 million copies
- 1865: Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal. Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone on student loans, an indebted generation, and an inflating bubble that could bring down the U.S. economy.
- 1819: So the innocent have nothing to fear? After David Miranda we now know where this leads: The destructive power of state snooping is on display for all to see. The press must not yield to this intimidation
- 1794: Why I'm on strike today: I can't support myself on $7.85 at Burger King: I know what it feels like to be afraid that your children will go to bed hungry, your heat will be turned off or you'll be evicted
- 1772: Al-Jazeera set to tackle U.S. market with ‘long-form reporting of stories’ ignored by mainstream media
- 3231: The incredible shrinking Internet - how Verizon (and other service providers) are lobbying to dramatically restrict content, throttle download speeds and charge websites for 'access' to their customers. Here are the reasons we need to fight hard to keep a free and open 'net here in the USA.
- 2193: My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me: What happens when a father, alarmed by his 13-year-old daughter's nightly workload, tries to do her homework for a week
- 2012: How NASA will be shutdown: Not only will 17,701 employees furloughed, but the Curiosity rover will be put in "protective mode" and won't collect any new data
- 1978: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything
- 1957: A philosopher's interpretation on the Banality of systemic evil: 70% of those aged 18-34 beleive what Edward Snowden did was a good thing.
- 1819: "Pope Francis made one of his strongest attacks on the global economic system on Sunday [22 September 2013], saying it could no longer be based on a 'god called money' and urged the unemployed to fight for work."
- 1733: The Jerks Got Away with It! 5 Years After Economic Collapse, They’re Still Smiling - "What informed people don’t like to say polite conversation is that this enormous risk bubble was based almost entirely on fraud."
- 1634: When we declare war on “things” like terrorism and drugs, it becomes easy to forget that real people—mothers, fathers and children—will be targeted, caged and killed without due process, without consideration of their basic humanity, and without asking the hard questions.
- 1507: 'Mexico's war on drugs is one big lie': Anabel Hernández, journalist and author, accuses the Mexican state of complicity with the cartels, and says the 'war on drugs' is a sham. She's had headless animals left at her door and her family have been threatened by gunmen
- 1507: A backlash against unpaid internships in America, manifested in a spate of lawsuits this year, is now spreading to Europe
- 3070: Reporting on government shutdown has failed democracy -- "The shutdown is not generalized dysfunction or gridlock. It is aberrational behavior by a political party that is willing to take extreme action to get its way. And by not calling it what it is, the political press enables it."
- 2687: "Why I will never return to the USA": After travelling the world, a Dutch writer boards a train from Montreal to New Orleans. He won't get there.
- 1988: The NFL is Running a Billion-Dollar Con: The welfare kings of the NFL are laughing all the way to the bank, and you’re not in on the joke.
- 1919: "People who would consider it a bizarre breach of conduct to expect anyone to give them a haircut or a can of soda at no cost will ask you, with a straight face and a clear conscience, whether you wouldn’t be willing to write an essay or draw an illustration for them for nothing."
- 1848: U.S. Catholics, unlike their Bishops, overwhelmingly approve of the new pope
- 1676: Japan suffers from 'celibacy syndrome'. The country is experiencing 'a flight from human intimacy'.
- 1583: US Economics Professor: Why the 1% should pay taxes of 80%- The Reagan-Thatcher revolution changed society's beliefs about taxes. If we want economic growth shared fairly, we must rethink
- 1509: Steve Jobs had been practicing with the iPhone for 5 days before its debut. But it was still dropping phone calls, its memory would run out after a few tasks, and it had to be hardcoded to show 5 bars of signal strength.
- 1448: Why did Tilikum, the highly intelligent, 12,000 pound Orca, kill his trainer? Gabriela Cowperthwaite, director of the documentary ‘Blackfish,’ on why SeaWorld needs to end its mad-science experiment on killer whales.
- 1438: Why Zimbardo’s Prison Experiment Isn’t in My Textbook The results of the famous Stanford Prison Experiment have a trivial explanation.
- 3716: Dear Spike Lee
- 3362: Scott Adams (Dilbert): I hope my father dies soon
- 2420: "Soldier worship blinds us to the grim reality of war"
- 2080: If You Shop on Thanksgiving, You Are Part of the Problem
- 1791: Two senators are trying to promote the use of open-source textbooks.
- 1604: Stop thanking the troops for me: No, they don’t “protect our freedoms!”
- 1595: The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath
- 1588: This is what it's like to be poor
- 1510: The United States is second behind China in the consumption of illegal animal products like ivory, rhinoceros horn and tiger blood
- 1473: The Indians who first feasted with the English colonists were far more sophisticated than you were taught in school. But that wasn't enough to save them
- 2658: Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
- 2639: In 2006, The FBI planted an informant in a South California mosque who pretended to be a radical muslim, and the muslims in the mosque reported him to the FBI
- 2511: [meta] A plea from a journalist: Can we stop linking to aggregated content and instead link to the original source?
- 2384: New photos from North Korea, more revealing of the real life of ordinary N. Koreans
- 1919: Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals: Randy Schekman says his lab will no longer send papers to Nature, Cell and Science as they distort scientific process
- 1799: I wrote the Anarchist Cookbook in 1969. Now I see its premise as flawed
- 1698: We need to talk about TED - Science, philosophy and technology run on the model of American Idol is a recipe for civilisational disaster
- 1671: What the Fluck: Adam Curtis calls for a new kind of journalism to expose the power structures that have usurped democracy
- 1540: The United States is one of few advanced nations where schools serving better-off children usually have more educational resources than those serving poor students
- 1393: The dark side of the fastest growing segment of the global tourist industry: Cruise liners are typically “registered and flagged in countries that have no minimum wages, labor standards, corporate taxes, or environmental regulations and only a flimsy authority over the ships flying their flags”
- 3304: Teens spend so much time online not because they can't handle hanging out face-to-face but because overprotective parents, anti-loitering laws, and other factors conspire to keep them home. "They’re not allowed to hang out the way you and I did, so they’ve moved it online."
- 2786: Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, along with various other tax preperation organizations have consistantly lobbied against new tax reform laws that would make it easier to file taxes.
- 2460: How I lost my $50,000 Twitter username. "As of today I no longer control @N. I was extorted into giving it up."
- 2165: How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love
- 1855: Indias forest man - Thirty-four years ago a man in India began to plant trees, no one, including him, had the slightest idea that his effort would give birth to an entire forest.
- 1853: Big Beef: "Independent ranchers and animal rights activists don’t agree about much, except that it’s time to stop using federal tax dollars to support the meat lobby."
- 1804: Please vote more carefully. 'I decided to compare BBC's coverage of 15 Year old Pakistan Hero to USA coverage of similar.' is just an opinion without any sources.
- 1740: "I was a derivatives trader, and it occurred to me the world would hardly change at all if credit derivatives ceased to exist. Not so nurse practitioners. What had seemed normal now seemed deeply distorted."
- 1690: The Day We Lost Atlanta: How 2 lousy inches of snow paralyzed a metro area of 6 million.
- 1691: Israel has been stealing nuclear secrets and covertly making bombs since the 1950s. And western governments, including Britain and the US, turn a blind eye. But how can we expect Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions if the Israelis won't come clean?
- 3541: "S1337 would make it a crime, punishable by imprisonment, to simply photograph or videotape abusive, unsanitary or otherwise unethical activity on a farm. Even employees and journalists who take photos or video to document misconduct on farms could face criminal prosecution."
- 2929: I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society
- 2227: "Recently, I’ve noticed executives becoming irritated when I tell them how important it is for companies to hire and train high-potential young people just out of school. Their emotions, I soon discover, often relate to disappointments they have experienced with their own children or grandchildren."
- 2216: In 2008, 25% of all Americans in the 18 to 29-year-old age bracket considered themselves to be "lower class". In 2014, an astounding 49% of them do. It is hard to believe, but an astounding 53% of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year in wages.
- 2091: So imagine your seven-year-old daughter being led into an attic by Woody Allen. Imagine she spends a lifetime stricken with nausea at the mention of his name. Imagine a world that celebrates her tormenter. Are you imagining that? Now, what’s your favorite Woody Allen movie?
- 2081: "When you hate, you take poison and expect the other person to die." —quaker Hector Black on forgiving the man who killed his daughter
- 2056: An inconvenient child: "My six-year-old son was removed from school as a danger to others. His crime? A disability you could find in any classroom"
- 1946: On preventing school shootings: "We have to insist on parents being held liable when their child gains access to a gun. That is not an 'accident'; it is criminal negligence, and families must be held accountable."
- 1797: Russell Brand: In Hoffman's domestic or sex life there is no undiscovered riddle – the man was a drug addict and, thanks to our drug laws, his death inevitable
- 1611: Why is tuition rising so much? New analysis shows administrator to teacher ratio has doubled in the last 25 years.
- 3116: Kindergarten teacher: My job is now about tests and data — not children. I quit.
- 2723: Reduce the Workweek to 30 Hours- NYT
- 2298: When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred.
- 2021: Is Congress corrupt? - "... the fact that the current legal definition of corruption fails to encompass the reality of how corruption actually happens is exactly the problem: Our current system has rendered quid pro quo bribery obsolete. "
- 1695: I lost my dad to Fox News: How a generation was captured by thrashing hysteria -- Old white people are drowning in despair and rage. Here's how my father lost his mind -- thanks to his cable diet
- 1677: Duke freshman outed as pornstar, and harassed on campus. Writes a great article about the hypocrisy behind porn consumption.
- 1663: When May I Shoot a Student?
- 1651: Sex in men's prisons: 'The US system cultivates rape. If you treat people like animals, they behave like it'. Human Rights Watch estimated in 2010 that 140,000 US inmates have been raped.
- 1586: "We hyper-sexualize little girls and juvenilize grown women. Both genuine youth and seasoned maturity are sacrificed to that altar. This is a societal disease." (x-post from /r/sex)
- 1575: Cops or soldiers? America’s police have become too militarised
- 2863: Housing is most cost-effective treatment for mental illness: study -- "For every $1 spent providing housing and support for a homeless person with severe mental illness, $2.17 in savings are reaped because they spend less time in hospital, in prison and in shelters".
- 2295: Vietnam is sentencing corrupt bankers to death, by firing squad. Others just get life behind bars.
- 1627: Time: There’s a Class War Going On and the Poor Are Getting Their Butts Kicked
- 1594: Male rape in America: A new study reveals that men are sexually assaulted almost as often as women.
- 1540: Over the past two decades, two US clothing executives have established a network of new nature parks & linked them into "wildlife corridors,” a continuous habitat that reflects migratory patterns and animals’ range rather than lines on a map. They’ve financed much of this with their own fortunes.
- 1506: Three Expensive Milliseconds: We’re giving huge sums to the financial industry while receiving little or nothing in return
- 1493: Stephen Hawking: "Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. -- Although we are facing potentially the best or worst thing ever to happen to humanity, little serious research is devoted to these issues outside small non-profit institutes"
- 1402: McDonald’s ex-managers sound off to Salon: Non-existent breaks and illegal overtime. Former managers says the giant chain's employees were illegally denied their pay - and the corporation's to blame
- 1384: Armed robber who was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 1999 was never contacted to report to prison until last summer. Since then he has gotten married, had children, started his own business and has not committed anymore crimes (xpost r/newsofthestupid)
- 1399: Who By Very Slow Decay - A freshly-minted doctor lucidly describes his impression on how old and sick people get practically tortured to death in the current health system
- 2214: "So, why we don't love Mexico?". Anthony Bourdain asks. As a Mexican, this hit me like no other article about US-Mexico relations and how many americans view us.
- 1868: Schizophrenics used to see demons and spirits. Now they talk about actors and hidden cameras – and make a lot of sense
- 1831: It's insanity to kill your father with a kitchen knife. It's also insanity to close hospitals, fire therapists, and leave families to face mental illness on their own.
- 1725: Why Are We So Obsessed With the Myers-Briggs? — Recruiters love it; so do most who take it. It is rigged in the same way that horoscopes are. The assessment is always vague, ambiguous, generally flattering. “There’s no type called JERK“.
- 1618: Henry Ford proved that high wages are good for everyone--including business. We've spent decades unlearning the lesson and making our society worse.
- 1359: The cuddly capitalism of the Nordic nations provides an economic equity that makes a middle class lifestyle the norm, where the sharp edges of worry about the cost of health care, elder care, child care, and education simply don't exist. Is it a sustainable model for anyone but the pragmatic North?
- 1342: But in a world looking for new ideas, Bhutan is already called the poster child of sustainable development. More than 95% of the population has clean water and electricity, 80% of the country is forested and, to the envy of many countries, it is carbon neutral and food secure.
- 1298: When 24-year-old David Sneddon disappeared hiking around western China, officials chalked it up to a drowning. Only a decade later did another scenario emerge: maybe David had been kidnapped and taken to North Korea.
- 1247: On Memorial Day - "We are asked to remember the men and women who died, while forgetting the reality of what they participated in."
- 1240: The slow death of purposeless walking.
- 2205: A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son.
- 2059: The day I left my son in the car: I made a split-second decision to run into the store. I had no idea it would consume the next years of my life
- 1692: 80% of Meat Labels Could Be Meaningless: "A new report finds that the government was unable to provide proof that many meat and poultry producers are living up to many of their feel-good labeling claims."
- 1674: The French are right: tear up public debt – most of it is illegitimate anyway
- 1662: Colleges are full of it: Behind the three-decade scheme to raise tuition, bankrupt generations, and hypnotize the media
- 1594: "Ironically, by invading, occupying, weakening and looting Iraq, Bush and Cheney brought al-Qaeda into the country and so weakened it as to allow it actually to take and hold territory in our own time."
- 1399: You’ve been jobless for more than a year. You have no university degree, no advanced skills. You have to pay a mortgage. And your husband is nearing retirement. You aren’t worried. This is what it’s like to live in Denmark, a nation with a narrower wealth gap than almost anywhere else
- 1329: Canada shuts down investor immigration path declaring that there is "little evidence that immigrant investors as a class are maintaining ties to Canada or making a positive economic contribution to the country"; Rich Chinese sue
- 1320: The War Nerd: Here’s everything you need to know about “too extreme for Al Qaeda” I.S.I.S.
- 1312: A Mysterious Sound Is Driving People Insane — And Nobody Knows What's Causing It
- 4046: Study Reveals It Costs Less to Give the Homeless Housing Than to Leave Them on the Street
- 1758: In 1960, NORAD computers detected with 99.9% certainty that the Soviets had just launched a full-scale nuclear attack. They later discovered that an early-warning system "had interpreted the moon rising over Norway as a missile attack from Siberia"
- 1724: The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization
- 1589: World Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov Keynote Address for Advancing Liberty: "Many have forgotten that the American Dream was not simply to get rich. Immigrants didn’t come because they thought the streets here were paved with gold. The American Dream was for your children to have a better life."
- 1544: My own rape shows how much we get wrong about these attacks
- 1533: Laboratory-grown beef: meat without the murder, but would you eat it? "Growing meat in labs could cut hunger, tackle climate change and end animal slaughter"
- 1484: "There is new biological evidence that a high-stress environment for very young children does not simply affect cultural and psychological conditions that predispose the poor to failure; it can also affect the architecture of the brain, changing the actual neurological functioning of brain matter. "
- 1433: A conservation group has created WildLeaks — a WikiLeaks-style site for the anti-poaching crowd. It's billed as the first secure online platform that allows whistleblowers and the public to post anonymous information about illegal poaching.
- 1431: Seeing a doctor for the first time in seven years - Millions have signed up for "Obamacare" in its first year, gaining access to medical care they previously could not afford.
- 1428: Comcast Confessions: More than 100 Comcast employees spoke to The Verge about life inside the nation’s largest cable and broadband company
- 2743: The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged Into the Light by the Horrors of Ferguson - Glenn Greenwald
- 2529: Utah spent $30,000 to drug test 4,730 people on welfare. 12 came back positive.
- 2374: So far this is the most honest I've seen anyone be about Robin Williams' death. Jim Norton for TIME
- 1999: Undercover animal abuse videos could soon be outlawed: "In state capitols around the country, the agriculture industry is pushing legislation that would essentially outlaw undercover investigations and the videos they produce."
- 1884: Man Arrested While Picking Up His Kids: 'The Problem Is I'm Black'
- 1872: You’re 16. You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now?
- 1771: Real Reporting Is About Revealing Truth; Not Granting 'Equal Weight' To Bogus Arguments
- 1572: 27 years a hermit.
- 1517: John Oliver won’t be your therapist: How he torpedoed the reassuring tropes of fake news
- 1443: The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats.
- 1840: Son, Men Don't Get Raped: "According to the Pentagon, thirty-eight military men are sexually assaulted every single day. These are the stories you never hear—because the culprits almost always go free, the survivors rarely speak, and no one in the military or Congress has done enough to stop it."
- 1581: The last few days of Marie Finda's life.
- 1557: The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious - How the worst apple took over the United States, and continues to spread.
- 1514: "If regular Americans acted like corporations and the moneyed class, our country would collapse in a week from systemic theft, corruption and greed..."
- 1481: "Poverty is fucking expensive." | "A wealthy person can just afford to take [a broken car] to a decent mechanic and make a good repair. A poor person is going to jury-rig that thing with literal baling wire and duct tape, and it's going to do more harm to the car in the long term."
- 1447: If ISIS Is Not Islamic, then the Inquisition Was Not Catholic
- 1326: Playboy: "Jennifer Lawrence does not exist to fulfill my masturbatory fantasies. Jennifer Lawrence is not a thing to be passed around like a joint at a party. Jennifer Lawrence is a human being. And she’s not my property, and she’s not your property, and we all need to back off."
- 1249: Israel’s illegal land grab in West Bank: The Israeli rationale is no different than Vladimir Putin’s in Ukraine.
- 1151: A Gentleman's Guide To Sex In Prison
- 1132: "Poor people don’t plan long-term. We’ll just get our hearts broken."
- 2562: “Laws never prevent abortion.... They never have, and they never will. All they prevent is safe abortion"
- 2057: Bill Gates today on inequality and why we should tax consumption rather than labor
- 1896: Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
- 1685: Koch Industries Tries to Intimidate Rolling Stone - Rolling Stones Responds With a Scathing Rebuttal
- 1685: Why Germany Is So Much Better at Training Its Workers: America rarely uses an apprenticeship model to teach young people a trade. Could such a system help the unemployed?
- 1553: Lobbyists for Big Ag have been jetting around the country the past few years working with a handful of compliant legislators to pass “ag-gag” legislation that would criminalize the documentation of animal cruelty
- 1548: The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy
- 1387: Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change.
- 1370: This is how judges humiliate pregnant teens who want abortions
- 1359: Obama Is a Republican
- 4562: Times have changed: the Pope is now more scientifically literate than the US Senate.
- 2431: What I Did After Police Killed My Son — Retired Air Force officer pushes Wisconsin to pass the nation’s first law calling for outside review of police shootings.
- 2047: A letter to … the girl who accused me of rape when I was 15
- 2019: “If I had to describe my 16 years of corporate work with one phrase, it would be ‘pretending to add value" – The Art of Not Working at Work
- 1917: On math: "It's the one thing you're still allowed to be proud of being bad at ... No one walks around saying, 'I'm terrible at reading – I just can't read or write', but people are almost proud of being ignorant of this huge achievement of humankind, the discipline that underpins our society."
- 1757: A sexual harassment policy that nearly ruined my life
- 1737: Dying vet’s ‘fuck you’ letter to George Bush & Dick Cheney needs to be read by every American
- 1689: I’m terrified of my new TV
- 1585: How One California City Began Bringing Its Murder Rate Down—Without Cops: While other cities have embraced heavy-handed policing tactics, Richmond, California, has offered mentoring and money to its most at-risk young men.
- 1473: Why It's So Hard for Millennials to Find a Place to Live and Work - The paradox of the American Dream: The best cities to get ahead are often the most expensive places to live, and the most affordable places to live can be the worst cities to get ahead.
- 2984: Abusing Chickens We Eat: "Torture a single chicken and you risk arrest. Abuse hundreds of thousands of chickens for their entire lives? That’s agribusiness."
- 2087: Putting things into perspective: The Interview is not a courageous film, it is not a stand against tyranny. It's a comedy meant to make money. A comedy about a real, brutal dictator committing horrific crimes against humanity right now.
- 1960: Here’s How the Military Wasted Your Money in Afghanistan: Unfinished projects, unnecessary equipment, rampant corruption
- 1934: Genentech pays doctors to prescribe its newer more expensive drug ($2,000/dose) instead of older, cheaper, equally-effective drug Avastin ($50/dose). Extra cost to taxpayers: $1 Billion/YEAR
- 1937: Ronald Reagan in 1988: "Ratification of the Convention will clearly express the United States opposition to torture, an abhorrent practice. Each State Party is required either to prosecute torturers who are found in its territory or to extradite them to other countries for prosecution."
- 1907: Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses: No amount of legal pretzel logic can justify the behavior detailed in the report. The question is whether the nation will stand by and allow the perpetrators of torture to have perpetual immunity for their actions.
- 1882: How Ayn Rand Helped Turn the U.S. Into a Selfish, Greedy Nation: The 'Atlas Shrugged' author made selfishness heroic and caring about others weakness.
- 1654: You don’t protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracy
- 1583: The Elf on the Shelf is preparing your child to live in a future police state, professor warns
- 1563: What PETA, Rolling Stone's UVA rape allegation, and Michael Brown's shooting by police in Ferguson have in common: Activists on both sides rally around weak cases rather than strong ones
- 2347: I lost my dad to Fox News: How a generation was captured by thrashing hysteria
- 2340: To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This
- 1751: France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments, Showing the Sham of the West's "Free Speech" Celebration | Glenn Greenwald
- 1726: How can we ban hate speech against Jews while defending mockery of Muslims?
- 1717: The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"
- 1680: NAACP Office Bombed...and no one seems to care.
- 1639: If you're an attractive man, you have a better chance of being hired. If an attractive woman, a worse chance. Why? 93% of HR personnel are women.
- 1622: "His car was vandalized with red-dyed tampons and smeared with peanut butter, to which he is fatally allergic, The shape of a penis was burned into his front lawn with bleach". He was the Victim, she was the Rapist. but he was treated more like the perpetrator than a victim
- 1492: Wal-Mart: An economic cancer on our cities
- 1302: Why Black New Yorkers Like Me Are Celebrating the NYPD Work Slowdown
- 2524: In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant, known for her high IQ, wrote a column answering the Monty Hall problem. She received over 10,000 derogatory responses, including from scholars and PhDs, belittling her and accusing her of incompetence. Her solution was correct
- 2500: How One Stupid Tweet Ruined Justine Sacco’s Life
- 2248: A real American sniper unloads on “American Sniper” - "We are talking about human beings and I hate quantifying that. Each life is so precious. We destroy that every time. One was too many, the truth is unspeakable.” Garett came home and began speaking out. He still does, in fact.
- 1851: How Crazy Am I to Think I Actually Know Where That Malaysia Airlines Plane Is?
- 1773: The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke
- 1642: When America behaved like ISIS: Jesse Washington and the Bible Belt’s dark history of public lynchings
- 1610: The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'
- 1593: "Believing that life is fair might make you a terrible person;" How a just-world bias causes us to minimize injustice and blame victims
- 1582: What ISIS Really Wants: The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
- 1583: "I’m Autistic, And Believe Me, It’s A Lot Better Than Measles"
- 2954: America dumbs down: U.S. overrun by wave of anti-science, anti-intellectual thinking
- 2466: Nick Kristof -- To Kill a Chicken: "IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you’re likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you’re an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen."
- 1971: U.S. imprisons blacks at rates higher than South Africa during apartheid
- 1659: Good Samaritan Backfire or How I Ended Up in Solitary After Calling 911 for Help
- 1634: Why the Real Story of the Irish Exodus to America Isn't Taught in Schools. The famine that brought vast numbers of Irish to the U.S. wasn't caused by nature; it was caused by ruthless capitalists.
- 1520: Alcoholics Anonymous's faith-based 12-step program dominates treatment in the United States. But researchers have debunked central tenets of AA doctrine and found dozens of other treatments more effective.
- 1460: “There are more slaves today than all the slaves in 300 years of the transatlantic slave trade.” Human rights organizations agree there are at least 21 million victims of human trafficking in the world today, 2 million children. Rescuing these children has become Ballard’s mission in life.
- 1440: The Gaza fisherman who built his own reef - and was shot dead there by an Israeli gunboat
- 1352: How Thatcher’s Government Covered Up a VIP Pedophile Ring.
- 1341: The murder of Ahmed Al-Jumaili in Texas should be a front-page story
- 2344: Why don’t taxpayers subsidize the foods that are better for us? "Taxpayers heavily subsidize corn and soy, two crops that facilitate the meat and processed food we’re supposed to eat less of, and do almost nothing for the fruits and vegetables we’re supposed to eat more of."
- 2305: The "Food Babe" Blogger Is Full of Shit
- 2221: American Police killed more people in March(111) than the entire UK police have killed since 1900
- 2071: In 2009 Oklahoma averaged two 3.0 earthquakes a year. Now it's two a day. “We can say with virtual certainty that the increased seismicity in Oklahoma has to do with recent changes in the way that oil and gas are being produced.”
- 2022: Cops Beat Their Wives & Girlfriends At Double The National Rate
- 2014: The owner of a credit card processing business in Seattle is raising his employees' minimum wage to $70,000 by cutting his own salary. “The market rate for me as a C.E.O. compared to a regular person is ridiculous, it’s absurd," he said.
- 1520: Poor People Need a Higher Wage, Not a Lesson in Morality - one that might begin with Brooks and others looking in the mirror and asking some basic questions: Do I accept that people working full-time are paid wages that keep them in poverty?
- 1516: April 24th marks the 100th anniversary of what many scholars have called the first modern genocide. More than 1 and a half million Armenians died at the hands of the Turks between 1914 and 1923. Turkey vehemently denies these claims. They don’t deny the deaths but they oppose the label “genocide.”
- 1376: New WikiLeaks documents reveal the inner workings of the Dr. Oz Show
- 1368: David Simon: 'My Country Is a Horror Show.' -- The man behind the hit series "The Wire" gave an impromptu speech about the divide between rich and poor in America.
- 2241: A Cancer Survivor Designs the Cards She Wishes She’d Received From Friends and Family
- 2078: The Overprotected Kid: A preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk taking, and discovery—without making it safer.
- 1945: "You need to tell me what’s wrong with this trade agreement, not one that was passed 25 years ago,” Obama recently complained about criticism of TPP. He’s right. Public criticisms of TPP have been vague. That’s by design—anyone who has read the agreement could be jailed for disclosing its contents.
- 1936: Female Veteran Explains why she is against women in combat units
- 1795: How Western media would cover Baltimore if it happened elsewhere
- 1757: Reddit CEO Ellen Pao: "It's not our site's goal to be a completely free-speech platform"
- 1747: I Sat In on My Son’s Sex-Ed Class, and I Was Shocked by What I Heard
- 1555: In January a high-profile prosecutor was found in a pool of blood in his bathroom, days before he was due to release a report condemning the Argentine government.
- 1561: A bad job is harder on your mental health than unemployment
- 1475: "The idea that we might have moral obligations to the humans of the far future is a difficult one to process. After all, we humans are seasonal creatures, not stewards of deep time. The brevity of our lives colours our intuitions about value, and limits our moral vision. "
- 2783: I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me - How a simplistic, unworkable, and ultimately stifling conception of social justice took over the American college campus
- 2349: Drug cops took a college kid’s life savings and now 13 police departments want a cut
- 2037: Telling Poor, Smart Kids That All It Takes Is Hard Work to Be as Successful as Their Wealthy Peers Is a Blatant Lie
- 2019: Psychology Today: Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America
- 1912: How The DEA Seized A College Student's Entire Life Savings, Without Charging Him With A Drug Crime
- 1828: People often assume that the poor are less competent than the wealthy. Some even suggest that the poor have flawed values or ways of thinking. But my colleagues and I have recently found that the poor outperform the rich at some financial decisions. Under poverty, people develop a unique expertise.
- 1743: President Obama has quietly recruited top tech talent from the likes of Google and Facebook. Their mission: to reboot how government works.
- 1679: Police Killed More Americans In 2014 Than All U.S. Mass Shootings Combined
- 1653: If this is the beginning of the end of Reddit, then Reddit deserves to die
- 1580: "American torturers told me they would rape my daughter to get confession" - Britain's last Guantanamo Bay prisoner Shaker Aamer
- 2495: The NYT heavily edited the article 'Comparing: It’s Silicon Valley 2, Ellen Pao 0: Fighter of Sexism Is Out at Reddit ' after it was posted to /r/news. Here's a map of the edits.
- 2405: "When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job: Among many climate scientists, gloom has set in. Things are worse than we think, but they can't really talk about it"
- 2346: Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture
- 2043: Dying in jail without trial: "In 2012, the latest year for which federal data is available, 73.2% of inmates who died in jail for any reason had not been convicted of a crime."
- 1995: Mike Rowe’s must-read response to an Alabamian who asked why he shouldn’t follow his passion
- 1820: Why I Had to Buy My Wife's Inhaler on the Dark Web.
- 1725: Why “Don’t Worry About Money, Just Travel” Is The Worst Advice Of All Time
- 1715: Civil Forfeiture Now Requires A Criminal Conviction In Montana And New Mexico
- 1712: The Big One: The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest
- 1556: America's most embarrassing statistic — since 1990, the United States is the only industrialized country to see an increased rate of maternal mortality
- 2823: The Coddling of the American Mind: In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education—and mental health.
- 1937: "He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God." ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape
- 1910: 100 Years of Breed 'Improvement:' a brief comparison of modern dog breeds with what they looked like 100 years ago, prior to intense selective breeding for aesthetic purposes
- 1814: Are GMOs safe? Yes. The case against them is full of fraud, lies, and errors.
- 1784: Why American Fell In Love With the Most Useless Crop: Your Lawn
- 1739: Creator of Dilbert on why Trump's campaign has been successful
- 1707: Fat but Fit? - The medical evidence is overwhelming – obesity is bad for you and it would be a major mistake to give up fighting it
- 1511: When I was younger, someone took a knife to my clitoris and cut out a small but significant part of me. I blamed my mother. I despised her. I loved her.
- 1495: In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions
- 1515: “Anyone who has been going to Burning Man for the last five years is now seeing things on a level of expense or flash that didn’t exist before. It does have this feeling that, ‘Oh, look, the rich people have moved into my neighborhood.’ It’s gentrifying.”
- 3453: Entrepreneurs don't have a special gene for risk—they're rich kids with safety nets
- 3242: Donald Trump isn't destroying our democracy—he's exposing its phoniness and corruption.
- 2378: Poor people don't lack self control. Poverty forces them to think short-term.
- 2104: 14 Years After 9/11, the War on Terror Is Accomplishing Everything bin Laden Hoped It Would - Fourteen years later, isn’t it possible to think of 9/11 as a mass grave into which significant aspects of American life as we knew it have been shoveled?
- 2026: There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts: Students are paying higher tuition than ever. Why can’t more of that revenue go to the people teaching them?
- 2013: Oklahoma is scheduled to, today, execute a man for a murder the record shows he didn't commit. If there's any justice this will help lead to the end of the death penalty.
- 1985: The only time the U.S. government pretends to care in the slightest about human rights abuses is when they’re carried out by ‘countries that don’t cooperate.'”
- 1867: Why I'm done with the 9/11 ritual
- 1818: Dan Rather: Ignoring science isn't just a Republican problem. It's an American problem.
- 1623: The politics of Donald Trump, far from being in any way new, are exactly the politics of Huck Finn’s drunken father
- 3427: “We held tobacco companies responsible for lying about cancer. Let’s do the same for oil companies and climate change.” - Sharon Eubanks, a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney
- 3007: Native Lives matter too - American Indians are more likely than any other racial group to be killed by the police, but apart from media outlets like Indian Country Today, almost no attention is paid to this pattern of violence against already devastated peoples.
- 2221: Goodbye Middle Class: 51% of all American workers made less than $30,000 last year. 71% of all American workers made less than $50,000 last year.
- 1967: 6 Million More Students With Bachelor’s Degrees Than Jobs Available for Them: One-third of those with bachelor’s degrees are in jobs that don’t require them
- 1958: Sweden’s feminist foreign minister has dared to tell the truth about Saudi Arabia. Margot Wallström’s principled stand deserves wide support. Betrayal seems more likely.
- 1952: ExxonMobil reportedly funneled at least $16M into lobbying and advertising campaigns to cast doubt on the scientific evidence about climate change, going so far as to declare that "Victory will be achieved when average citizens 'understand' (recognize) uncertainties in climate science.”
- 1878: "And it struck me as strange... that my standup comedian’s lowly standup comedy routines are held accountable to higher legal standards of truth and decency than, for example, a prime minister’s conference speech."
- 1836: I asked psychologists to analyze Trump supporters. This is what I learned: "People like the idea that deep down, the world is simple; that they can grasp it and that politicians can't. That's certainly a message that I think Trump is radiating."
- 1641: A professor writes on being fed up with trigger warnings.
- 1386: Does America Really Need Cops in Schools? - "The average school can expect a student to be murdered [there] every 6,000 years, and the idea that we would want an officer in the school to prevent something like that from happening, I think, is unreasonable," said Dewey Cornell
- 2517: Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S.
- 2178: Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions. In August, Science published a landmark study concluding that poverty, itself, hurts our ability to make decisions about school, finances, and life, imposing a mental burden similar to losing 13 IQ points.
- 2158: Hair tests, bite marks, blood spatter: it's mostly magic. Criminal forensics is pseudoscience, and it ruins lives.
- 2115: 7 Things I Learned Reading Every Issue Of ISIS's Magazine
- 2113: My white neighbor thought I was breaking into my own apartment. Nineteen cops showed up.
- 2042: President Obama ordered federal agencies to stop asking prospective employees about their criminal histories, a change long sought by activists to help reintegrate former inmates into society.
- 2113: Men are not monsters: Last week three of my four boys were herded into school-sponsored assemblies and asked to stand, raise their hands and pledge to never, ever hurt a woman. Their female classmates weren’t required to make a similar pledge.
- 1805: Leak shows British Prime Minister doesn't understand how deep his austerity cuts go. Asks why his own county would cut services for elderly and kids and gets key figures wrong
- 1719: What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II
- 1667: Tampa Bay Times reports on how Florida's $100 million in cuts created chaos in their mental hospitals, leading the Department of Children and Families and private contractors to hide the level of violence, extraordinarily poor care, and inhumane living conditions that are inflicted on their patients
- 2520: Police K-9 units maul suicidal Florida teenager, unable to eat for a week. On their way to the scene, cops text "COME GET UR BITE" and "IM GONNA TAKE UR BITE IF U DONT HURRY UP". After the incident "CONGRATS" to the officer getting his first "bite". (possibly NSFL photos)
- 2304: "Most gun violence is not committed by people with mental health problems. Rather, it is committed by people who feel they are morally right in committing that act."
- 1963: If officers cannot be expected to act any better than ordinary citizens, why call them in the first place? Why invest them with any more power?
- 1758: When a Mass Killer Is a White Christian, He's a Lone Lunatic, but When He's Muslim, He Represents All Muslims
- 1651: Leaked Documents Reveal Dothan Police Department Planted Drugs on Young Black Men For Years, District Attorney Doug Valeska Complicit
- 1618: Why a German billionaire says that pledges like Mark Zuckerberg’s are really bad
- 1545: When the Boss Says, 'Don't Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Get Paid' - The Atlantic
- 1428: Most of the information we spread online is quantifiably “bullshit” - The internet encourages the spread of information that is emotionally resonant but factually untrue
- 1425: If We’re Going To End Factory Farms, We Need To Eat Way Less Meat
- 1335: New York Times ran its first front page editorial since 1920. The topic? Guns.
- 4092: "We live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there’s remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost. But when you have a discussion about whether or not we can assist people who are suffering, then suddenly we come very cost-conscious.”
- 2872: “Sanders's fundamental advantage over Clinton is that as voters get to know him better, they come to believe he cares about people like them in a way Clinton doesn't.”
- 2231: Millennials now hold the biggest share of the US voting age population. Politicians ignore them at their peril.
- 1893: Being a cop showed me just how racist and violent the police are. There’s only one fix.
- 1627: Why isn’t the U.S. counting meat producers’ climate emissions? "In its latest appropriations bill passed Friday, Congress renewed a provision that prevents the EPA from requiring emission reports from livestock producers."
- 1606: "We may be witnessing the collapse of the Republican party, or at least the Republican party as we know it. And if so, then Donald Trump is the harbinger of its apocalypse."
- 1571: White man in the photo is the 'third hero' that night in 1968
- 1458: Homeless people are not cockroaches or vermin – they are human and have rights
- 1447: If elected officials were sincere about wanting to help the poor, they would ban lotteries
- 1331: These are men with guns who have declared themselves outside the law. These are men with guns who have taken something that belongs to all of us. These are traitors and thieves who got away with this dangerous nonsense once, and have been encouraged to get away with it again
- 2585: Bernie Sanders didn’t push the young toward socialism. They were already there. - Indeed, the current socialist emergence was foretold by the polls that showed most American looked positively upon the message of Occupy Wall Street – that the 1% has flourished at the expense of the 99%.
- 2087: How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable: He's no ordinary con man. He's way above average — and the American political system is his easiest mark ever
- 1960: There’s no space for today’s young Einsteins: The gravitational waves theorist saw physics as no one else did, but if he was around today his time would be spent chasing grants or tenures
- 1865: 'Spotlight' just won the Oscar. Journalists exposed the sexual abuse and cover-ups within the Catholic Church. Here's the original article that was published in 2002.
- 1795: We've lost sight of how wildly irresponsible the Republican tax plans are
- 1753: Meet the Robin Hood of Science - The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world.
- 1605: A Lawyer Defending A 17-Year-Old Black Kid Gets Real About Racial Injustice
- 1544: How to really make America great again: Get rid of 'the dumbest idea in the world'
- 1501: Yes. Concentrated Wealth and Inequality Crushes Economic Growth
- 1344: If You Love Animals and Free Speech, You Should Be Worried About Ag-Gag Laws
- 2398: Universities Are Becoming Billion-Dollar Hedge Funds With Schools Attached
- 2175: On Super Tuesday, two commentators on CNN argued about the Ku Klux Klan. On television. In America. In 2016.
- 2139: It costs 1.8 cent to manufacture each penny; the penny does not even facilitate trade. The penny must die.
- 2092: An irrational hate of unions hurts all American workers
- 1927: By getting the public to associate hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.
- 1937: How ‘ghost corporations’ are funding the 2016 election - Many were formed just days or weeks before making six- or seven-figure contributions — an arrangement that election law experts say violates a long-standing federal ban on straw donors.
- 1919: Where College Admissions Went Wrong - “Far too many students are learning to do whatever it takes to get ahead—even if that means sacrificing individuality, health, happiness, ethical principles, and behavior.”
- 1735: What life is like after police ransack your house and take ‘every belonging’ — then the charges are dropped
- 1446: More Than Half of What Americans Eat Is 'Ultra-Processed': And those foods account for 90 percent of U.S. added sugar intake, new research says
- 1385: People With Schizophrenia Really Do Hear Voices—Their Own - The brain is a master storyteller, designed to make sense of the chaos of our lives. It compensates for the presence of auditory hallucinations, caused by a defect in self-recognition, by writing a narrative to account for them.
- 3873: Meet the most hated man in the Pentagon: Some of the nation’s leading defense companies are declaring war on a powerful enemy — an obscure Pentagon official named Shay Assad who has helped cut more than $500 million from military contracts with his aggressive scrutiny of their costs.
- 3363: "Some will try to downplay it, to dismiss it, to tell you it's a big misunderstanding... But don't believe it. The release of the Panama Papers is a very big deal."
- 2867: The Panama Papers prove it: we can afford a universal basic income - They have used those stolen dollars to build yet more wealth for themselves, and all the while we have been arguing with ourselves over what to do with the leftover pennies. Enough. We have the money to solve our problems.
- 2292: TPP 'worst trade deal ever,' says Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz
- 2047: The sugar conspiracy: In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long?
- 1948: They Don't Just Hide Their Money. Economist Says Most of Billionaire Wealth is Unearned.
- 1889: Prince has enough unreleased material to drop an album a year for the next 100 years.
- 1804: Here's Why You Should Give a Shit About the Panama Papers - The money the law firm helps to hide should be used to pay for your schools, your highways, your hospitals. The criminals it works with run the most violent illegal organizations your country has ever seen.
- 1565: Sometimes, When “All the Facts are In,” It’s Worse: The UC-Davis Pepper-Spray Report
- 1526: Teenage sexting is not child porn
- 3086: South Dakota charges a defendant $92 an hour for his public defender, owed no matter the outcome of the case. If a public defender spends 10 hours proving that her client is innocent, the defendant still owes the lawyer $920, even though he committed no crime and his arrest was a mistake.
- 2618: The TSA is a waste of money that doesn't save lives and might actually cost them
- 2388: The NYPD Was Systematically Ticketing Legally Parked Cars for Millions of Dollars a Year- Open Data Just Put an End to It
- 2275: Toddlers Have Shot More People in the US Than Muslim Terrorists in 2016
- 1945: Federal infrastructure net investment is now negative, meaning that Congress is not even spending enough to maintain the current condition of infrastructure
- 1586: "Once we give up on the right to offend in the name of ‘tolerance’ or ‘respect,’ we constrain our ability to challenge those in power, and therefore to challenge injustice"
- 1524: Craigslist confessional: “Exactly 38 minutes of my day are mine”
- 1513: Tor developer Isis Agora Lovecruft publicly accuses the FBI of harassment
- 1465: Former Facebook workers admit they routinely suppressed conservative news from the company's influential “trending” news section. These curators also describe manipulating the section with an "injection tool", which let them place headlines directly in users news feeds, bypassing organic growth.
- 1416: Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes Pills
- 3459: President Obama, pardon Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning - When it comes to civil liberties, Obama has made grievous mistakes. To salvage his reputation, he should exonerate the two greatest whistleblowers of our age
- 3104: Bet You Didn’t Hear Shell Spilled a Bunch of Oil in the Gulf
- 2423: The Josiah Effect: For generations, we have been printing billions of books containing verses that command us to kill idolaters, adulterers, homosexuals, and unbelievers. We teach our children that these books are holy and then cross our fingers in hopes that they won’t take those verses seriously.
- 2436: Stanford Professor Francis Fukuyama : The United States is no longer a well-functioning modern democratic state. America is facing political decay as political leaders are increasingly crooked and corrupt
- 2259: Teen marijuana use in Colorado found lower than national average
- 2127: The powerful letter the Stanford rape victim read to her attacker; I don't find myself saying "Everyone should read this BuzzFeed article" very often, but... Everyone should read this BuzzFeed article. Twice.
- 2052: My mom took me overseas and forced me into being a teen bride
- 1879: Vice Media denies injecting brands into their stories. But their media kit lists that an editorial can be bought for 28k and they have more brand mentions than any other news outlet. (PT4 of VICE Series)
- 1782: Open access: All human knowledge is there—so why can’t everybody access it? We paid for the research with taxes, and Internet sharing is easy. What's the hold-up?
- 1597: Philosopher Michael Sandel : Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump look like saviours to voters who feel left out of the American Dream. They represent a protest against an establishment neoliberal economic order which rewards those at the top and makes life precarious for everyone else
- 3012: 60 Minutes: Police departments have been coercing young people into becoming informants by threatening them with long prison sentences for marijuana charges, forcing them into transactions with dangerous drug dealers. Some of them committed suicide or were murdered by the dealers.
- 2983: FDR Message to Congress in 1938: "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by...any other controlling private power."
- 2841: It’s not just Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump or the Brexit. It’s a global political earthquake. France, Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, Japan, America. All around the world, people are angry and the nationalists are taking over
- 2413: Law Professor gives detailed response to students' complaint regarding a BLM shirt.
- 2287: Glenn Greenwald : Would Turkey be Justified in Killing or Drone-Striking the Turkish Cleric in Pennsylvania? The U.S. has spent years doing the same. Abducting and killing people whom it has unilaterally decided are "terrorists"
- 2263: Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on the results of a $2 roadside drug test. Widespread evidence shows that these tests routinely produce false positives. Why are police departments and prosecutors still using them?
- 2208: The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous - Its faith-based 12-step program dominates treatment in the United States. But researchers have debunked central tenets of AA doctrine and found dozens of other treatments more effective.
- 2077: Half Of TSA's 30,000 Employees Accused Of Misconduct; Nearly A Third Multiple Times
- 1785: Michael Moore: Why Trump Will Win
- 1754: Republicans Need To Chill: Life In The United States Is Really Good On A Historical Perspective
- 3198: The University of Chicago to Freshmen: Don’t Expect Safe Spaces or Trigger Warnings. "We do not support so-called 'trigger warnings,’ we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual ‘safe spaces.'"
- 2869: Glenn Greenwald : After a black president, we are going to get Hillary Clinton elected. Then we will have a gay president. But nothing will really change. It's symbolic messaging to overshadow the real american power structure.
- 2627: Insane. Invisible. In danger. Florida cut $100 million from its mental hospitals. Chaos quickly followed.
- 2392: CIA insider speaks out: "It is the function...of the CIA...to keep the world unstable, and to propagandize the American people to hate, so we will let the establishment spend any amount of money on arms." Older but provides the basic architecture of the war on terror and all the other bogus wars.
- 2384: Ultra-rich man’s letter: “To My Fellow Filthy Rich Americans: The Pitchforks Are Coming”
- 2180: The top 10% of families, with an average of $4 million per family, held 76% of total wealth. Everyone else in the top 50% of the country accounted for 23% of total wealth, with an average of $316,000 per family. That leaves just 1% of the total pie for the entire bottom half of the population.
- 2022: The largest war in animal history is going on right now.
- 1845: Joseph Goebbels’ 105-year-old secretary: ‘No one believes me now, but I knew nothing. “Those people nowadays who say they would have stood up against the Nazis – I believe they are sincere in meaning that, but believe me, most of them wouldn’t have.”
- 1818: An innocent black man was punched, Tasered and arrested by police officers. A jury awarded him $18.
- 1695: America’s bail system is a war on the poor. Let’s get rid of it.
- 4490: The Intercept : Indians just staged one of the largest workers strike in human history. Not a single american cable news network ran a segment on it. Even on Labor Day.
- 2737: Face the facts: competition and profit don't work in health, education or prisons
- 2650: Want to Know How the Cops Actually Trace a Gun? The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated. On purpose.
- 2182: The ‘Rolling Coal’ people are completely insane
- 2038: The World Bank has released a new report highlighting the fact that air pollution costs world governments billions upon billions every year and ranks among the leading causes of death worldwide
- 1762: The Largest Prison Strike in U.S. History Enters Its Second Week
- 1729: "You don't have to be stupid to work here, but it helps", or how corporations discourage intelligence and reward compliance.
- 1563: Portugal’s Example: What Happened After It Decriminalized All Drugs, From Weed to Heroin
- 1388: Obama on Climate Change: The Trends Are ‘Terrifying’
- 1380: One Hundred Indigenous Nations in US and Canada Join Forces in Opposition of Pipeline Expansion
- 4523: Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline. That Should Scare Us All.
- 1884: Wealth of people in their 30s has 'halved in a decade' - BBC News
- 1840: The Popular Populist: Bernie Sanders is the most-liked politician in the United States. What does that mean for the future of left politics here?
- 1826: Basically, we’re the dupes in this story,” he says. “Previously, we thought that the offshore world was a shadowy, but minor, part of our economic system. What we learned from the Panama Papers is that it is the economic system.”
- 1751: Wife of Robin Williams offers Neurologists a detailed account of the depths of her Husband's suffering during his last months.
- 1669: Short-term thinking in corporate America is strangling the economy
- 1540: A Mathematician's Lament: Paul Lockhart presents a scathing critique of K-12 mathematics education in America. "The only people who understand what is going on are the ones most often blamed and least often heard: the students. They say, 'math class is stupid and boring,' and they are right."
- 1544: 2012 Washington University School of Medicine Study: Provision of free contraception counseling and free birth control reduces abortion rates by 70% (±8%).
- 1548: Poor kids who do everything right don’t do better than rich kids who do everything wrong
- 1413: How car company marketing initiatives made "jaywalking" an offense against the law. Cars were see as dangerous, but the automotive industry wanted people to view streets as places for cars ... and to shift the blame for accidents from automobiles to pedestrians. Their plan worked.
- 3210: When the USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law it erased many of the vital checks & balances that stood between the American people & their government. The civil liberties world warned them: "Your president has just fashioned a weapon that will be wielded by all who come after him."
- 2552: The North Pole is 36 degrees warmer than normal as winter descends
- 2384: Glenn Greenwald : Western Elites stomped on the welfare of millions of people with inequality and corruption reaching extreme levels. Instead of acknowledging their flaws, they devoted their energy to demonize their opponents. We now get Donald Trump, The Brexit, and it could be just the beginning
- 2305: Donald Trump will be the only US president ever with no political or military experience
- 2223: Trump presidency a 'disaster for the planet'. A political novice who calls global warming a “bullshit” Chinese-invented hoax is taking the helm at the world’s foremost superpower.
- 2003: Donald Trump, the First President of Our Post-Literate Age
- 1923: Glenn Greenwald : Democrats just lost the White House, Senate and the House. You would think they would engage in introspection and self-critique. They are now blaming Vladimir Putin, Julian Assange, James Comey, Fake news websites, Bernie Sanders, Millenials, Facebook and Jill Stein
- 1881: The US government is finally telling people that homeopathy is a sham
- 1672: Computer Scientist says manually checking the ballots is an essential security safeguard.
- 1671: The U.K. Has Passed a New Law Permitting Outrageous Surveillance. The U.S. Could Be Next. Some of the most disappointing moves to limit people’s human rights have already taken place in Europe.
- 4260: "In truth, fake news is not a shocking betrayal of media principles, it is the logical end point of for-profit news — not a disease in its own right, but a symptom of an almost purely commercial media system that prioritizes profit above all else."
- 3947: An extraordinary level of tension has emerged - The CIA confirms american elections were undermined. NSA officials warn FBI can't be trusted. In unprecedented move, President Obama orders federal security investigation while Senators clash and President Trump attacks security state establishment
- 3279: Trump team says they'll kill open Internet "as soon as possible"
- 3133: It’s time to congratulate the real winner of the 2016 election : Goldman Sachs. Trump named two Goldman bankers to his cabinet and the President of Goldman Sachs just became his top advisor. As for Hillary Clinton, they paid her and she is family. Her win would have been a great victory too
- 2992: The Obama administration will send $30 billion dollars to Israel, a rich country with healthcare and nuclear warheads. Usually, when someone hands you billions of dollars, you don't demand more. But Israel says it's not enough
- 2949: MIT Professor Chomsky in 2010 : I’m old enough to have heard Hitler’s speeches. In 2 years Nazis went from 2% of votes to millions of votes. America is looking exactly like Weimar Germany. This level of anger and fear is like nothing I can compare in my lifetime. I fear fascism will come to America
- 2580: What Happened When 18 States Raised Their Minimum Wage? Earnings rose, but not at the cost of employment.
- 2443: Donald Trump will have his own private security force and private intelligence force - "We’re going to have to do things that we never did before. Some people are going to be upset about it, security is going to rule. We’re going to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago"
- 2162: Pentagon hires world's most expensive consulting firm to tell the world's largest bureaucracy that it's wasting $125 billion on overhead
- 2003: A Year Later, Unfiltered Flint Tap Water Is Still Unsafe To Drink
- 4859: Trump filed for reelection in 2020 on Jan. 20th 2017. This means that he, acting as candidate instead of president, can receive large sums of money from citizens as "donations" and nonprofits such as the ACLU and Planned Parenthood can not "campaign" against him without risk losing nonprofit status
- 3945: Senator Cory Booker Joins Republicans to Kill Measure to Import Cheaper Medicine From Canada - He says it's all about safety. That's why he took more pharmaceutical cash over the past six years than any other Democratic senator
- 3881: Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S.
- 3601: Man Boasts Of Sexual Assault, Later Inaugurated 45th President Of United States
- 3520: Bannon gets a permanent seat on the National Security Council, while the director of national intelligence and chairman of the joint chiefs are told they'll be invited occasionally.
- 3461: New Evidence Proves That Nixon Sabotaged Vietnam Peace Talks in 1968. That's Worse Than Watergate
- 3289: George Soros : Law is now a business. Medicine is now a business. Money controls american politics. Markets don't produce ethics or justice. Market fundamentalism is pushed by the wealthy because it benefits them. I run a hedge fund but as a Citizen I think capitalism is undermining democracy
- 3158: With the most recent proposal to defund PBS, it is perhaps appropriate to repost Mr. Rogers' exceptionally eloquent defense of public broadcasting to the US Senate
- 2860: It took 3 years for George W. Bush to hit 50% disapproval. Trump is there after 8 days.
- 2828: Whenever there is an authoritarian coup, people insist that it can’t persist because the results are going to be so bad for the people who believe in it. This is never the way it works. There is no political cost for Trump in being contemptuous of truth and reason. This is how he achieved power.
- 3917: Apple's headquarter is based in California. The executives work in California and live in California. Instead of paying the California’s tax rate of 8.84%, Apple create a fake empty office in Nevada and said it was their headquarter. How much did Apple pay California ? Zero
- 3687: What Happens When You Give Basic Income to the Poor? Canada Is About to Find Out. Poor Citizens to Receive $1,320 a Month in Canada's 'No Strings Attached' Basic Income Trial.
- 3431: Gerrymandering is the biggest obstacle to genuine democracy in the United States. So why is no one protesting?
- 3300: Democracy Wins One as a Federal Court Strikes a Big Blow Against Gerrymandering
- 3270: Legalizing Marijuana Would Hurt Mexican Drug Cartels More Than Trump's Border Wall
- 2999: There are over 320 million people in America. But only 158 families - less than 0.0001% of the population - have paid half of presidential campaign spending. How much power do they have ? They are worth several billion dollars. Here are their names
- 2495: Reddit Is Being Manipulated By Marketing Agencies
- 2423: The mysterious disappearance of the biggest scandal in Washington. Whatever happened to the Trump-Russia story?
- 2415: The Intercept releases 200 classified FBI documents. These include internal rules on informants, the use of mass surveillance, investigations on white supremacy in law enforcement, demands for online data, racial profiling for the targeting of terrorists, and the spying of journalists.
- 2375: Hundreds of coders spent the weekend trying to save scientific data before Trump can delete it.
- 3612: "In 2014, for the first time in recorded history, police in the United States seized more money and property through civil asset forfeiture than all burglars and thieves combined."
- 3422: Imagine that after each year’s Super Bowl the winning team got to rewrite the rules of the game, tweaking them to play to its particular strengths, increasing its chances of victory in subsequent seasons. That’s essentially how America’s electoral system functions today.
- 2948: How did Donald Trump—a thrice-married, biblically illiterate sexual predator—hijack the religious right?
- 2593: Millennials are half as wealthy as those now in their 40s were at the same age
- 2419: How the baby boomers destroyed everything: The boomer attitude of "Me first and damn the consequences" has been a disaster for the country
- 2364: It costs 1.8 cent to manufacture each penny, costs as much as $1 billion in opportunity cost per year, and the penny does not even facilitate trade — the penny must die.
- 2356: MIT Professor Noam Chomsky : Sooner or later, Trump supporters will recognize Donald Trump lied to them. If Trump Falters with supporters, don't put aside the possibility of staged terrorist attacks
- 2311: Millennials aren’t coddled—they just reject abuse as a management tactic
- 2304: Dissecting Trump’s Most Rabid Online Following
- 2299: French workers win legal right to avoid checking work email out-of-hours
- 3841: You want to understand Russia ? At the end of the Soviet Union 22 Capitalists stole 40% of Russian wealth. 150 million people fell in poverty, nurses became prostitutes, life expectancy collapsed. Western bankers didn't just ignore it, they joined the looting. This is how Vladimir Putin happened
- 3229: 'Fearless Girl' versus patriarchal capitalist bull? Not quite. The bull was guerrilla art, and the girl is part of a trillion-dollar investment firm's advertising campaign hijacking the artist's message - and feminism itself - to sell a product
- 2661: Wealthy L.A. Schools' Vaccination Rates Are as Low as South Sudan's. Hollywood parents say not vaccinating makes "instinctive" sense. Now their kids have whooping cough.
- 2413: Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong
- 2392: San Francisco has gotten so expensive, some tech companies can't convince employees to move there
- 2219: This Is Spinal Tap’s $400 Million Lawsuit. The creators of This is Spinal Tap, the most influential mockumentary ever made, have been paid almost nothing. The rock gods are angry.
- 2181: Populism is the result of global economic failure. Political revolts are inevitable in a world where employees are wage slaves and bosses super rich.
- 2078: First fake news, now fake history: Glenn Beck wants to train young people to promote an alternative history - In Barton’s history, the Founding Fathers’ idea of government was rooted in fundamentalist Christianity, instead of Enlightenment philosophy
- 1957: Not Guilty Verdicts Will Now Protect People From Civil Forfeiture In Utah (Unlike Almost 40 States)
- 1887: Media Gets Story Wrong: United Passenger Removal Was Not "Overbooking"
- 5552: My Family’s Slave - She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.
- 2652: We’re Seth Rich’s parents. Stop politicizing our son’s murder.
- 2476: Sandy Hook father Lenny Pozner on death threats: ‘I never imagined I’d have to fight for my child’s legacy’ -- Noah was the youngest victim killed in the 2012 school massacre. His parent talks about dealing with the conspiracy theorists and hoaxers who have taunted him ever since
- 2354: The Unfreeing of American Workers: "Workers in America, supposedly the land of the free, are actually creeping along the road to serfdom... and the people pushing them down that road are the very people who cry 'freedom' the loudest."
- 2322: Few Americans know that Iran hasn’t attacked another country in more than 200 years, or that the first foreign operation of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, in 1953, was to overthrow Iran’s popular and democratically elected Prime Minister, Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh.
- 2325: Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies”
- 2229: Borneo, once called 'the lungs of the planet', now has lung cancer. Climate change and palm oil production has turned it's fertile peatlands into a barren tinderbox. Air quality Index -50 being healthy, 300 being hazardous- regularly soars to 3000 and can say that high for months.
- 2150: A female Uber driver was sexually assaulted and beaten up by passengers. Uber refused to disclose the passenger’s name to the police. "They didn’t care. They’re not willing to do anything to help"
- 2083: Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt. Student loan defaults are a bonanza for the debt collection industry.
- 2078: The East India Company: The original corporate raiders - For a century, the East India Company conquered, subjugated and plundered vast tracts of south Asia. All of this to enrich the wealthy capitalists. The East India Company remains history’s most terrifying warning about corporate power
- 2717: The U.S. Has Forgotten How to Do Infrastructure. The nation once built things fast and cheaply. Now experts are puzzled why costs are higher and projects take longer than in other countries.
- 2661: How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business
- 2627: USA Today found trucking companies forced drivers to lease their own trucks and trap them in jobs that left them destitute. If drivers quit or missed payments, companies fired them and kept everything.
- 2566: Tax evaders exposed: why the super-rich are even richer than we thought. Analysis of a massive trove of data – much of it leaked from tax havens – suggests that inequality levels across the world should be revised upwards dramatically
- 2453: Donald Trump's America First Plan : Instead of simply using taxes to fix american infrastructure, he will borrow money to enrich Saudi Arabia and Billionaire Steven Schwartzfman with the interest. Public-Private Partnerships are going to be very profitable for the Saudis and Wall Street
- 2175: ‘Trump Is What Happens When a Political Party Abandons Ideas’
- 2093: House Passes CHOICE Act In Move To Roll Back Consumer Financial Protections
- 2029: Outcry Over EpiPen Prices Hasn’t Made Them Lower
- 2018: The Wrong Kind of Entrepreneurs Flourish in America - Crony capitalists seek to generate profits without producing anything of value.
- 1840: EpiPen’s 400 percent price hike tells us a lot about what’s wrong with American health care
- 3871: Since decriminalizing all drugs in 2001, Portugal's overdose rate has decreased by ~75% and now has one of the lowest overdose rates in all of Europe.
- 3596: Senator Elizabeth Warren accused JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon of engaging in illegal activities. His response ? He leaned back, slowly smiled, and then replied “So hit me with a fine. We can afford it"
- 3277: Barack Obama On Forbes Capitalist Billionaires : Unions have been undermined. Those who benefit most from globalization have used their power to undermine labor. A society asking less of oligarchs than normal citizens will rot from within. There are $8 trillion dollars hidden in in tax havens
- 2975: JP Morgan Bank CEO Jamie Dimon : We are unable to build bridges, we're unable to build airports, kids in inners cities don't graduate. It's almost an embarrassment being an American listening to the stupid shit we have to deal with in this country.
- 2351: Wells Fargo Is Trying to Bury Another Massive Scandal - The bank became notorious last year for creating fake accounts on behalf of customers. Now it's trying to kill a class-action lawsuit over shady debit card fees.
- 2308: Why Grenfell Tower Burned - The wealthy class is the class of businessmen. Governments told the businessmen they would get rid of regulations. A new law ended the requirement for inspectors to check if buildings met fire codes and shifted it to self-policing. And poor families burned alive
- 2179: The US government is removing scientific data from the Internet
- 2149: Republican Lawmakers Buy Health Insurance Stocks as Repeal Effort Moves Forward
- 2022: Astroturfing Reddit is the future of political campaigning
- 1860: Documents expose how Hollywood promotes war on behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA
- 3620: Iceland has almost eliminated Down syndrome by aborting virtually 100 percent of fetuses that test positive. Should the rest of the world follow suit?
- 2932: She Was Convicted of Killing Her Mother. Prosecutors Withheld the Evidence That Would Have Freed Her - By the time Noura Jackson’s conviction was overturned, she had spent nine years in prison. This type of prosecutorial error is almost never punished.
- 2941: FDA Deems MDMA, Banned Since 1985, a 'Breakthrough Therapy' for treating PTSD
- 2542: After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople - there are an estimated 30 million jobs in the U.S. that pay at least $55,000 per year and don’t require a bachelor’s degree.
- 2511: A federal judge put hundreds of immigrants behind bars while her husband invested in private prisons
- 2373: Let Consumers Sue Companies. The Senate is considering a proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop companies from denying groups of consumers the option of going to court when they are treated unfairly.
- 2306: You're not imagining it: the rich really are hoarding economic growth
- 2209: In the last two years, three Saudi princes, all of whom were critical of the Saudi government and were living in Europe have disappeared.
- 2176: A year ago ProPublica published an in-depth article on how Houston was prime for a major flood, due to too much concrete, too few regulations
- 2031: Bayer to acquire Monsanto: the biggest merger you never heard of
- 4370: Millennials Aren't Killing Industries. We're Just Broke and Your Business Sucks
- 3605: I watched my patients die of poverty for 40 years. It’s time for single-payer
- 2184: 'To Donald Trump,' by Leland Melvin, former NASA Astronaut and NFL Player
- 2050: Michigan, desperate because of declining population and wealth, and prodded by the DeVos family, has adopted charter schools more aggressively than any other state. The results have not been pretty, as the quality of education has dropped and system is gamed by financiers and con men.
- 2035: Stop Faking Service Dogs- Loving your pet too much is putting people with real disabilities at risk
- 1919: 'The S-word': how young Americans fell in love with socialism - According to recent polling, a majority of Americans adults under the age of 30 now reject capitalism, although that does not translate into automatic support for socialism.
- 1863: What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead Guilty. A case in Baltimore — in which two men were convicted of the same murder and cleared by DNA 20 years later — shows how far prosecutors will go to preserve a conviction.
- 1688: The Juggalo March on Washington D.C. Is Not a Joke
- 1564: I helped create the GOP tax myth. Trump is wrong: Tax cuts don’t equal growth.
- 1531: The result of unfettered deregulation: Verizon forcibly terminates cell coverage for Tens of Thousands of rural Americans, because they don't make enough money from them
- 4999: Librarian lives frugally entire life to donate a fortune to university library where he worked, university spends money on new football scoreboard 'in his honor'. UNH's tuition is among the highest in the state, thanks in large part to the enormous spending it diverts to the campus football team
- 3681: About 70% of China's "missing girls" is due to not registering their births, rather than infanticide. As these girls are now turning 18 and going to college or working, the early phase of about 20 million teen girls materializing on the census out of nowhere.
- 3369: Trump’s pick to run Environmental office says more CO2 is good for humanity: She's said renewable energy is ‘parasitic’ and that carbon dioxide ‘has no adverse environmental impacts on people.' “Her views are so out of the mainstream, it’s almost as if she falls in kind of a flat earth category.”
- 2868: Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics. Pending U.S. legislation could force manufacturers to make repair parts and information available at fair prices.
- 2613: John Oliver is the best climate change reporter on TV(To the extent that such reports actually exist on TV). His latest show delves into National Flood Insurance, a federal program enriching private insurance companies while screwing over the poor, a pattern that will worsen as floods intensify.
- 2655: Fight for your right to fix your own iPhone - The “Right-to-Repair” movement fights corporate rules that keep you from fixing your own broken stuff
- 2336: The Secretive Family Making Billions From the Opioid Crisis - You’ve heard of OxyContin, the pain medication to which countless patients have become addicted. But do you know that the company that makes Oxy and reaps the billions of dollars in profits it generates is owned by one family?
- 2019: Why America Is Prone to Mass Shootings. The reasons for these numbers are complex, researchers say, but the data suggest that the availability of guns, and perhaps the American obsession with fame, may be to blame.
- 1861: Teen Cannabis Use Keeps Declining Despite Increased Legalization
- 1814: Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular
- 2982: When Unpaid Student Loan Bills Mean You Can No Longer Work | Twenty states suspend people’s professional or driver’s licenses if they fall behind on loan payments, according to records obtained by The New York Times.
- 2589: Three billionaires are wealthier than half the US population—According to a new report by the Institute for Policy Studies, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett now own more wealth than the poorest half of the US population, some 160 million people.
- 2326: You Can Be Teacher of the Year and Still Get Fired for Being Gay
- 2422: Billionaire Ray Dalio: For the 'bottom 60 percent' of the country, it’s a ‘miserable economy'
- 2045: Diplomats Sound the Alarm as They Are Pushed Out in Droves
- 1973: When a white guy massacres 50 people, using high-powered automatic weapons, Trump tweets prayers and “warmest condolences,” but when an immigrant kills 8, using a rental truck, Trump calls for closing the border, upending the Constitution, and suspending human decency.
- 1986: 290 coaches, officials tied to U.S. Olympic groups have been accused of sexual misconduct since 1982
- 2125: "Most of the world’s equity wealth belongs to very wealthy people, so corporate tax avoidance only enriches a small group. And the taxes multinationals dodge have to be compensated for by higher taxes on lower-income households, making it harder for these people to save and accumulate wealth. "
- 2086: List of protests to #SaveTheInternet
- 1939: Researchers explain why trade school, not 4-year college, is a better way to solve the US income gap
- 3810: If you're suspected of drug involvement, America takes your house; HSBC admits to laundering cartel billions, loses five weeks' income and execs have to partially defer bonuses
- 3389: Don’t blame the election on fake news. Blame it on the media. | "In just six days, The New York Times ran as many cover stories about Hillary Clinton’s emails as they did about all policy issues combined in the 69 days leading up to the election."
- 2767: Wyoming police took an innocent man's $91,800. After a Vox report, he will get it back.
- 2959: Young people born to rich families who don't go to college are 2.5 times more likely to end up in the richest quartile than young people born to poor families who do go college
- 2398: Universal basic income is, according to its many and various supporters, an idea whose time has come. The deceptively simple notion of offering every citizen a regular payment without means testing or requiring them to work for it has backers as disparate as Mark Zuckerberg, Stephen Hawking
- 2903: CEOs agree: Corporate tax cuts won't trickle down - the bills making their way through Congress are tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations, at the expense of working families.
- 2720: Trump White House preparing sweeping attack on the poor--The administration aims to help pay for its $1.5 trillion tax cut for the wealthy by slashing spending on food stamps, Medicaid, low-cost housing and veterans’ care.
- 2503: U.S. Congress new tax bill, passed by the Senate, contains provisions which allow oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the largest Wildlife Refuge in the country.
- 1932: The American People Need to Know More About the Costs of Our Wars
- 2255: Dr. Phil says he rescues people from addiction. Others say he actually encourages destructive behaviour for better ratings. Todd Herzog, who struggled with alcohol and abuse, said that when he arrived on the Dr. Phil studio he found a bottle of vodka in his dressing room and was given a Xanax
- 5126: David Brooks : I miss Barack Obama. I disagreed with many of his decisions but Obama had basic integrity and humanity. He had elegance. He had respect for people working for him. He avoided despair, cynism or fear. He had self-control under extreme pressure. I really miss him
- 4843: Giving every adult in the United States a $1,000 cash handout per month would grow the economy by $2.5 trillion by 2025, according to a new study on universal basic income.
- 4947: The Dutch are developing a machine that rewards crows with food for picking up and throwing away cigarette butts.
- 3966: Jeff Sessions is helping the police to take your stuff away. The Trump administration has decided to support the deeply unpopular policy of civil forfeiture.
- 3146: Aziz Ansari Is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind Reader.
- 2941: How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudoscientific American Fantasyland
- 3273: The Same Democrats Who Denounce Trump as a Lawless, Treasonous Authoritarian Just Voted to Give Him Vast Warrantless Spying Powers
- 3533: Why is Appalachia such a miserable place ? Because it resembles resource-rich developing countries like Venezuela, Russia or Congo. All the wealth is funneled to a few capitalist families and political officials while the population suffers and is ignorant. And they make sure that it stays that way.
- 3359: Warren Buffett and his two friends just spooked health care stocks after announcing they're creating a non-profit health insurance company
- 2430: A new program in New York is severely restricting the books available to people in prison. The first five vendors combined offered just 77 books. 24 were coloring books.
- 3105: The Unsexy Truth About Millennials: They’re Poor | If you’re wondering why millennials don’t have much sex, and don’t buy cars, forget social theorizing: the harsh truth lies in their near-empty wallets.
- 2541: How Benito Mussolini Took Power: "It was something that happened gradually, in stages, when institutions that should have been able to bring him to heel did nothing, either due to their own lack of resolution or tacit support of his power grab."
- 2771: David Attenborough, renowned British naturalist and TV presenter, has some pretty scathing words for humanity: “We are a plague on Earth.”
- 2755: Bill Gates Says He Should Have to Pay 'Significantly Higher' Taxes
- 1979: CDC Scientists Plea to Congress: Let Us Research Gun Violence
- 2164: Billionaires Made So Much Money Last Year They Could End Extreme Poverty Seven Times
- 1879: Ending the Amazon Hunger Games: Luring corporations like Amazon with hefty tax breaks impoverishes cities and starves public services. We should put an end to it once and for all.
- 1898: The Great Online School Scam - Students are performing worse than ever, but private companies are making millions.
- 1858: As of last month, the US government has earned a profit of $87B from returns on it's 2008 bank bailout.
- 2033: Sheldon Adelson contributed $25 million to the Trump campaign and $5 million to his inauguration ceremony. It is widely believed that Adelson is the man who pressured the White House into making the embassy shift in the first place, and now he is offering to help pay for the new building.
- 3459: The Senate just quietly passed the biggest rollback of Wall Street regulations since the financial crisis
- 3304: Alabama Sheriff Legally Took $750,000 Meant To Feed Inmates, Bought Beach House
- 3220: John Bolton didn’t just pretend to have evidence that Cuba had biological weapons in 2002. He berated and tried to fire intelligence analysts who challenged him on it.
- 2411: A Poisoned Russian Spy Just Inflamed Cold War 2.0: "It’s worth asking whether even Joseph Stalin would have authorized something so audacious as unleashing a highly lethal nerve agent in an English city."
- 2227: Doctors who write the most opioid prescriptions get paid the most money by pharmaceutical companies that make opioids.
- 2003: Reddit users on /r/Cringe help expose paid actors from Los Angeles pretending to be Vermont conservatives in bad political comedy videos.
- 1883: I Was Kind to Nikolas Cruz. He Still Killed My Friends.
- 1861: Amazon is complicit with counterfeiting
- 1844: The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News : Falsehoods almost always beat out the truth on Twitter
- 1780: How Russians Manipulated Reddit During the 2016 Election
- 2507: “I don’t f—ing care”: In wooing $67M from big alcohol, National Institute of Health nixed critical study - The NIH is facing mounting criticism & questions amid a series of reports outlining what appears to be an all-too-cozy relationship with the alcohol industry.
- 2474: Trump thinks any attack on him is an attack on America: Isn’t that the definition of a fascist?: Trump calls FBI raid on Michael Cohen “an attack on our country.” Because democracy is a buzzkill for tyrants
- 2415: Why are Millennials running from religion? Blame hypocrisy: White evangelicals embrace scandal-plagued Trump. Black churches enable fakes. Why should we embrace this?
- 2261: The Libertarian Who Accidentally Helped Make the Case for Regulation: George Mason economist Alex Tabarrok set out to prove that federal regulations are strangling the economy. That’s not what he found.
- 2068: “By now, those unlucky millennials who graduated at the wrong time have cascaded downward through the economy. Some estimates show that 48 percent of workers with bachelor’s degrees are employed in jobs for which they’re overqualified.”
- 1995: We hated addicts when they were black. It is different now that they are white.
- 1971: Oligarchs hide billions in shell companies. Here's how we stop them | Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer | World news
- 1810: How I got 30 years on death row for someone else's crime -- It was a ‘legal lynching’: after decades behind bars Anthony Ray Hinton was proved innocent – making him one of the longest-serving death row prisoners in America to be exonerated.
- 1774: I'm a millionaire who creates zero jobs. Why do I pay less tax than you?
- 1685: Trump Voters Driven by Fear of Losing Status, Not Economic Anxiety, Study Finds
- 3289: Average American worker takes less vacation than a medieval peasant - Business Insider
- 2680: Harvey Weinstein’s $1 million get-out-of-jail card shows the injustice of bail (and how it favors the rich)
- 2636: Oliver North Worked With Cocaine Traffickers to Arm Terrorists. Now He’ll Be President of the NRA.
- 2327: Majorities of Americans say the federal government is doing too little to protect key aspects of the environment including water (69%) and air quality (64%). And two-thirds of Americans (67%) say the government is doing too little to reduce the effects of climate change.
- 2176: Anti-Vaccination Hysteria Killed An Effective Vaccine For Lyme Disease
- 2096: Border Patrol beat, sexually assaulted, and denied medical care to immigrant children, ACLU says
- 2067: Texas school had a shooting plan, armed officers and practice. And still 10 people died.
- 1979: An ex-Reddit administrator is aiming to create the Reddit we've always wanted–Tildes is a non-profit community site driven by its users' interests
- 1934: Researchers say a breathalyzer has flaws, casting doubt on countless convictions - Two researchers say a police breathalyzer, used across the US, can produce incorrect breath test results, but their work came to a halt after legal pressure from the manufacturer.
- 1917: Stopping Americans for speaking Spanish: the latest evidence that Border Patrol agents have too much power
- 4141: Nazis separated me from my parents as a child. The trauma lasts a lifetime: I know from experience that the Trump-sanctioned brutality at the US border with Mexico will scar its child victims for life
- 3153: A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on. U.S. Customs took it without charging him with a crime.
- 2826: Wikipedia has updated America's history of concentration camps to include the migrant "detention centers" along the Texas border.
- 2585: There Was a Class War...The Rich Won. And thanks to Bush, Obama, Bernanke and Geithner both bailing the banks and financial criminals out and immunizing them from their crimes, that victory has accelerated.
- 2436: Trent Reznor: ‘You’re seeing the fall of America in real time’
- 2155: The 'lost generation' of millennials born in the 1980s may never be as rich as their parents
- 2080: Since 1999, the suicide rate in the U.S. has gone up across all racial and ethnic groups, in both men and women, in both cities and rural areas, and across all age groups below 75. Overall, the suicide rate has increased nearly 30 percent.
- 1898: Democrats are acting like a bunch of cowering dandies. They need to grow a spine and throw some punches.
- 1773: Five years ago this month, news organizations broke stories about federal government surveillance of phone calls and electronic communications of U.S. and foreign citizens, based on classified documents leaked by then-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
- 1623: Un peacekeepers and UN civilian staff have been trading kilos of food for sex, and sexually exploiting under-age children in several African states
- 4325: Russiagate Is Far Wider Than Trump and His Inner Circle: It isn’t just the story of a few corrupt officials, or even a corrupt president. It’s the story of a corrupt Republican Party
- 2860: Almost 80% of US workers live from paycheck to paycheck. Here's why: America doesn’t have a jobs crisis. It has a ‘good jobs’ crisis – where too much employment is insecure, and poorly paid
- 2707: The Tyranny of Politeness: The proper time and place to protest, they say, is always the time and place where they feel they can most easily ignore us. When we show up at their churches, homes, and country clubs, we are no longer constrained by their rigged rules
- 2387: Trump is tearing down the Western alliance. And conservatives are cheering him on.
- 2077: Major broadcast TV networks mentioned climate change just once during two weeks of heat-wave coverage. ABC, CBS, and NBC aired 127 segments on the recent heat wave and only one noted that climate change is a driver of extreme heat
- 1960: America’s nonviolent civil rights movement was considered uncivil by critics at the time
- 1955: The Rohingya are victims of ethnic cleansing. The world has failed them.
- 1910: American elections are a battle of billionaires. We are merely spectators
- 1869: Standards for Impeachment: Trump’s Defense of Putin in the Face of Russia’s Electoral Attacks
- 1760: Climate change is supercharging a hot and dangerous Northern Hemisphere summer. Climate models for three decades have predicted exactly what the world is seeing this summer.
- 2195: It's Time for Hunters to Leave the NRA - America's proudest tradition should never be used as an excuse for anti-American politics
- 2191: To Supporters, Trump Isn't Just Right—He Controls the Truth: Trumpism has all the seeds of a genuine authoritarian movement. Chief among them is an all-consuming deference to The Leader, which even extends to granting him control over The Truth itself
- 2036: America is one of the few cultures with insults for smart people | The Japan Times
- 2013: His $109K Heart Attack Bill Is Now Down To $332 After NPR Told His Story - a story about the huge charge sparked a national conversation over what should be done to combat surprise medical bills that afflict a growing number of Americans.
- 2010: Apple now worth $1 trillion thanks to tax cuts and tax aversion schemes.
- 1872: Prison labor is modern slavery. I've been sent to solitary for speaking out | Kevin Rashid Johnson
- 1725: Democrats are in trouble for taking cash from private-prison companies that jail immigrants
- 1636: How Republicans got so mean and clueless: Trump’s Republican Party is becoming freakishly isolated and alienated from the experiences of the vast majority of Americans
- 1615: The White Nationalists Are Winning: Fox News anchors and high-profile politicians are now openly pushing the racism of the alt-right. The fringe movement’s messages have permeated the mainstream Republican Party.
- 1527: Florida's bloom of toxic algae that has darkened gulf waters is now an emergency. The red tide has made breathing difficult for locals, scared away tourists, and strewn popular beaches with the stinking carcasses of sea creatures. Climate change and unregulated agriculture are likely to blame
- 3349: In the richest nation on earth diabetics are desparate and dying due to skyrocketing insulin and diabetic care costs. One young man's diabetic care costs $1,300 a month, he died after running out. Insulin is easy to produce and not in short supply. But pharma companies see a profit opportunity.
- 3043: Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not: American workers are being shut out of the profits they are helping to generate. The decline of unions is a big reason
- 2190: A Dallas Police Officer Shot Her Neighbor, and a City Is Full of Questions. American vocabulary now includes the tragic terms— driving while black, walking while black, shopping while black. The shooting of Mr. Jean seemed to demand its own, even more disturbing version: being at home while black.
- 1956: This government loan forgiveness program has rejected 99% of borrowers so far
- 1930: Do we owe Sinéad O’Connor an apology for speaking the truth about church child abuse? Irish Central News
- 1908: It’s Time to Get Billionaires Off of Welfare by Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna
- 1898: Richard Sackler became a multi-billionaire after owing and aggressively marketing OxyContin, the drug at the heart of the opioid crisis. He's now back with a new drug to sell you. Its purpose? Its a drug to help you kick your oxycontin addiction.
- 1863: Palestinians have lost a shocking amount of land to the encroaching settlements. Israel has taken over 77.5% of land in the valley, despite the fact that there are ten times more Palestinians than Israelis living there.
- 1790: I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on: Those people and millions of others, including my immediate family, were killed by lies. My country and much of the continent was destroyed by lies.
- 1763: Billionaires v teachers: the Koch brothers' plan to starve public education: “The Koch brothers and DeVos are trying to do everything they can to divert money that should go to the public-school system, where 90%-plus of students go,”