From the Archives: 5/22/2014 Edition

The case for reparations 

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

 

The only time I’ve been to Connecticut: The worst informational interview ever

http://the-toast.net/2014/05/20/time-ive-ever-connecticut/

 

Pakistan, worse then we knew

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/jun/05/pakistan-worse-than-we-knew/

 

The truth about Chicago’s crime rates, Part 2

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/June-2014/Chicago-crime-statistics/

 

Will you hire someone to do your grocery shopping for you? (yes, please)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/technology/personaltech/online-grocery-start-up-takes-page-from-sharing-services.html

and Let’s demolish laundry! (yay for not doing boring things!)

http://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/#

 

Bill Gates on Jeffery Sachs and the Millennium Villages Project

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/bill-gates-explains-why-the-millennium-villages-project–though-a-failure–was-worth-the-risk

 

How a Russian medical project funded one of Putin’s Palaces (who still builds palaces anymore?)

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/russia/

 

How Youtube and internet journalism destroyed Tom Cruise (obviously a very timely piece of reporting)

http://www.laweekly.com/2014-05-22/news/the-last-movie-star/?showFullText=true

 

How a bill makes it through the worst(?) congress ever

http://www.vox.com/2014/5/22/5723878/how-a-bill-becomes-a-law-in-2014

From the Archives: 4/9/2013 Edition

Does Buzzfeed Know the Secret?

http://nymag.com/news/features/buzzfeed-2013-4/

and 

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/04/09/the-disruptive-potential-of-native-advertising/

 

George Soros has more to say about Europe

http://www.project-syndicate.org/blog/a-european-solution-to-the-eurozone-s-problem

 

Things Genes Can’t Do

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/nature-and-cosmos/kenneth-weiss-anne-buchanan-genetics/

 

Can I get in the van? Hitchhiking to Texas to audition for Black Flag

http://www.vice.com/read/can-i-get-in-the-van-000288-v20n4

 

How the FBI taps your smart phone

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/verizon-rigmaiden-aircard/all/

 

Felix Baumgartner: The man who pierced the sky

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/05/felix-baumgartner-jump-story

 

This whole Aereo thing is confusing and scary and exciting all at the same time! 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/as-aereo-threatens-to-alter-tv-landscape-major-networks-promise-a-fight/2013/04/08/adc01b52-a077-11e2-be47-b44febada3a8_story.html

 

How a single spy turned Pakistan against the US

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/magazine/raymond-davis-pakistan.html

What’s John Reading? 4/02/2013 Edition

Climate Science: A Sensitive Matter

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21574461-climate-may-be-heating-up-less-response-greenhouse-gas-emissions

Watch the Throne: All you ever wanted to know about politics in Pakistan

http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/watch-throne

The Ghost in the Machine: A Profile of D.O.C

http://www.playboy.com/playground/view/hip-hops-ghost-writer-in-the-machine

Al Qaeda Wants Africa

http://www.vice.com/read/al-qaeda-wants-africa-000251-v20n4?Contentpage=-1

Drew Magery gets Kidnapped

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/mens-lives/201304/how-to-be-kidnapped-abducted?printable=true

The authors of The Org answer questions

http://www.freakonomics.com/2013/01/18/the-authors-of-the-org-answer-your-questions/

Why the euro is doomed in 4 steps (I’ll believe it when I see it)

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/why-the-euro-is-doomed-in-4-steps/274470/

The trouble with North Korea

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/explaining-north-korean-belligerance-by-ian-buruma

From the Archives: 10/18/2012 Edition

On Moore’s Law, the Law that really matters

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57526581-76/moores-law-the-rule-that-really-matters-in-tech/

 

Alpha Centauri and new astronomy

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=25109

 

How an Accused Guatemalan War Criminal Got US and Canadian Citizenship

http://www.propublica.org/article/accused-guatemalan-war-criminal-who-won-u.s.-and-canadian-citizenship-faces

 

What did Daredevil Felix Baumgartner Accomplish

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8515367/felix-baumgartner-space-jump

 

How Japans Politics derail its military strategy

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138194/takashi-yokota-and-kirk-spitzer/tokyos-missing-muscle?page=show

 

The writing revolution

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/the-writing-revolution/309090/?single_page=true

 

Citi’s Big Shake up

http://dealbreaker.com/2012/10/citi-is-pretty-proud-of-how-it-handled-abruptly-sort-of-firing-its-ceo-the-day-after-earnings/

And

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/10/17/give-corbat-some-time/

And

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-18/a-daunting-to-do-list-for-citigroups-new-ceo#p1

 

Cardboard Bicycle

http://news.yahoo.com/cardboard-bicycle-change-world-says-israeli-inventor-090732689.html

 

The Scariest Little Corner of the World

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/magazine/the-corner-where-afghanistan-iran-and-pakistan-meet.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

From the Archives: 9/19/2012 Edition

Grandmaster of Russia’s Pyramid Cult

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/17/us-russia-pyramid-idUSBRE88G08H20120917

 

Why patient harm is one of the leading causes of Death

http://www.propublica.org/article/qa-marty-makary-m.d.-author-of-unaccountable

And

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/09/how-transparency-can-empower-patients-and-fix-health-care/262531/

 

Inside a controversial new text about Jesus

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Inside-Story-of-the-Controversial-New-Text-About-Jesus-170177076.html?c=y&story=fullstory&src=longreads

 

The Mystery of Einhorn

http://dealbreaker.com/2012/09/the-mystery-of-einhorn/

 

India and Pakistan: Embarrassing Questions

http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/india/articles/20120919.aspx

 

Remaking Reality in a Camera Obsessed World

http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/18/3317324/hall-of-mirrors-remaking-reality-camera-obsessed-world

 

The Audacity of Bibi’s Red Line

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138124/michael-c-desch/bibis-chutzpah?page=show

 

Profile of Neil Young

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/magazine/neil-young-comes-clean.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all

 

Is Walter White’s (Breaking Bad) thing actually possible

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/09/
breaking_bad_s_blue_sky_meth_would_addicts_really_pay_more_for_higher_quality_.html

From the Archives: 9/5/2012 Edition

If you buy wine costing more than $20 a bottle, you are an extreme outlier in the US

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/04/americas-minuscule-high-end-wine-market/

Quantifying yourself

http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/how-i-quantified-myself

The Technological Siege of Academe

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/
septemberoctober_2012/features/_its_three_oclock_in039373.php

The Iranians are arming the Syrians through Iraqi Airspace (Quelle Surprise)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/world/middleeast/iran-supplying-syrian-military-via-iraq-airspace.html?_r=1&hp&pagewanted=all

Pakistans Kingpin

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/05/us-pakistan-kingpin-idUSBRE88401R20120905

Why don’t we care more about political lies?

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/fact-checking-campaign-lies-does-anybody-give-a-damn/261900/

The Man who is rewiring google

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/meet-the-man-whos-rewiring-google-from-the-inside-out/all/

Interview with a food critic

http://www.believermag.com/issues/201209/?read=interview_gold

From the Archives: 8/28/2012 Edition

Inside Vega’s hottest strip club

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/mens-lives/201209/marquee-las-vegas-nightlife-gq-september-2012?printable=true

 

India-Pakistan

http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/india/articles/20120828.aspx

 

A Brief History of Dubstep

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/28/3262089/history-of-dubstep-beyond-lies-the-wub

 

Is mobile learning the future for Africa?

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120823-what-africa-can-learn-from-phones

 

Make way for Soccer Geeks

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/make-way-for-the-soccer-geeks/261634/

 

Lance Armstrong

http://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorbutterworth/2012/08/28/the-kafkaesque-trial-of-lance-armstrong-a-former-federal-prosecutor-on-the-us-anti-doping-agencys-disregard-for-due-process/print/

 

The Billion Dollar Coach

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8308203/former-fortune-500-ceo-joe-moglia-gets-chance-leading-coastal-carolina-fcs-football-program

 

Regulators Re-Think IPO rules

http://dealbreaker.com/2012/08/sec-not-going-to-let-bankers-and-research-analysts-nod-hello-to-each-other-in-the-hallway-just-because-congress-told-it-to/

From the Archives: 7/27/2012 Edition

In Defense of The Minimum Wage

http://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2012/07/25/why-conservatives-should-support-the-minimum-wage/

JPM says “Fuck You Glass-Steagall”

http://dealbreaker.com/2012/07/jpmorgan-not-breaking-up-any-time-soon/

Conservatives need to keep Tech open

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/why-conservatives-must-heed-congressman-issas-call/260374/

How to Build a Better Teacher

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/2012/07/
how_to_improve_teaching_new_evidence_that_poor_teachers_can_learn_to_be_good_ones_.single.html

Happyism, the Economics of Pleasure

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/103952/happyism-deirdre-mccloskey-economics-happiness

And the Rebuttal

http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2012/07/26-happiness-economics-graham?rssid=LatestFromBrookings

Pakistans tough spot

http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/india/articles/20120727.aspx

The Tragic Tale of an Olympic Addict

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8199717/breaking-olympism-unraveling-addict-lifelong-obsession-olympics

Spanish Unemployment nears 25%

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/28/business/global/daily-euro-zone-watch.html

America’s funniest home videos will live forever

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_afv/all/

Affordable Care Act Reduces fund for uninsured

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/nyregion/affordable-care-act-reduces-a-fund-for-the-uninsured.html?pagewanted=all

From the Archives: 7/16/2012 Edition

Graduate Degree for $100?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2012/06/05/udacity-sebastian-thrun-disrupting-higher-education/

Sex in the Olympic Village

http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/story/_/id/8133052/athletes-spill-details-dirty-secrets-olympic-village-espn-magazine

The business deal from hell

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/business/goldman-sachs-and-a-sale-gone-horribly-awry.html?ref=business

India/Pakistan

http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/india/articles/20120715.aspx

Syria

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/15/syria-civil-war-red-cross

What do companies get when they act responsibly? Government-subsidized competition

http://american.com/archive/2012/july/the-essential-lesson-of-the-auto-bailout

The many things that can kill a data center

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/guns-squirrels-and-steal/?pid=191&viewall=true

America headed toward another (continuing) recession?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/9401574/Fed-fiddles-as-America-slides-back-into-recession.html

From the Archives: 7/9/2012 Edition

The Saudi’s are getting nervous about Iran/Pakistan

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/07/08/saudi-shocks-paks-with-pro-india-turn/

 

Why is NYU building?

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/07/09/why-is-nyu-building/

 

China’s Economy on the ropes

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/business/global/prices-tumble-across-the-chinese-economy.html?ref=business

And
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/07/will-china-face-a-lost-decade.html

 

How not to blow the coverage of your supreme court verdicts

http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/07/were-getting-wildly-differing-assessments/

 

Europe

http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/neither-grexit-nor-spexit-its-fixit-or-fexit/

 

Romney

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/opinion/krugman-mitts-gray-areas.html?_r=1&ref=opinion