How Child Care Became the Most Broken Business in America
By Claire Suddath Bloomberg Deanna Cohen was 20 years into a career in the music industry when she realized it wasn’t going to work out. On paper she looked like […]
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Omicron: The Variant that Vaccine Apartheid Built
By Matiangai Sirleaf Just Security In January 2021, Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS warned, “We are witness to a vaccine apartheid that is only serving the interests of powerful and […]
How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer
By Raffi Khatchadourian The New Yorker On Thanksgiving morning, 1987, Rick Bart, a homicide detective in Snohomish County, Washington, got word that a pheasant hunter had discovered a body in […]
Xi Jinping’s Terrifying New China
By Michael Schuman The Atlantic China’s social media was briefly aflutter this fall about an impressive feat in the popular online fantasy game Honor of Kings. A player had completed a […]
Cases of Missing Trans People are Rarely Solved. A Married Pair of Forensic Genealogists is Hoping to Change That
By Erica Lentl Xtra They found Markham Doe among the evergreens on the east side of 11th Concession, in Markham, Ontario, on July 16, 1980. It was a humid, rainy […]
After Crafting American Criminal Justice, Christians Keep Changing the Rules
By Chris Hutton The News Station In the 1640s, New England had a peculiar problem: “Something close to a bestiality panic,” historian John Murrin wrote. Teenagers were whipped, and at least […]
The Moon is Full of Money: Capitalism in Space
By Pope Brock Nautilus I was slung in my favorite deck chair, drink in hand, having a gawk at the night sky. Andromeda, Pisces … I trawled the constellations, mind […]
All the White Churches
By Jennifer C. Martin Los Angeles Review of Books Anthea Butler has spent the bulk of her career studying the influence of white religion on Black people. Formerly a Pentecostal […]
How Big Tech Created a Data ‘Treasure Trove’ for Police
By Matt O’Brien & Michael Liedtke Associated Press When U.S. law enforcement officials need to cast a wide net for information, they’re increasingly turning to the vast digital ponds of […]
Can We Survive Extreme Heat?
By Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone On a scorching day in downtown Phoenix, when the temperature soars to 115°F or higher, heat becomes a lethal force. Sunshine assaults you, forcing you to […]
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