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The Tight-Knit World of Kamala Harris’s College Sorority

How are members of A.K.A.—which Harris joined at Howard University—responding to their most famous sister’s Presidential campaign against Donald Trump? Jazmine Hughes reports.

2024-10-21T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Jazmine Hughes 6,000 words

Rated 2024-11-03T19:57:14-0800 - sethherr

Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster

From Coinbase to OpenAI, the tech sector is pouring millions into super PACS that intimidate politicians into supporting its agenda. Charles Duhigg reports.

2024-10-07T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Charles Duhigg 8,000 words

Rated 2024-10-13T20:01:27-0700 - sethherr

Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media

Gideon Lewis-Kraus writes about the tension between Scott Alexander, of the rationalist blog Slate Star Codex, and the New York Times. #Journalism #New York Times #Silicon Valley #Social Media

2020-07-09T08:10:18-0700 The New Yorker Gideon Lewis-Kraus 5,000 words

Rated 2024-07-16T14:10:04-0700 - sethherr

An Unexpected Turn in the Evangelical Culture Wars

A proposal to ban Southern Baptist women from serving as pastors failed a two-thirds-majority vote, signalling that the far right has not yet consolidated its control of the Church. #Christianity #Religion

2024-06-12T13:52:49-0700 The New Yorker Eliza Griswold 2,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T18:02:02-0700 - sethherr

Not Your Childhood Library

Paige Williams writes that an ambitious experiment in Minneapolis is changing the way librarians work with their homeless patrons and challenging how we share public space. #Homelessness #Libraries #Minnesota

2024-05-23T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Paige Williams 4,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:50:26-0700 - sethherr

Can Turning Office Towers Into Apartments Save Downtowns?

Nathan Berman has helped rescue Manhattan’s financial district from a “doom loop” by carving attractive living spaces from hulking buildings that once housed fields of cubicles. D. T. Max reports.

2024-04-29T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker D. T. Max 5,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:24:05-0700 - sethherr

How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals

3M found that many of its products, including Scotchgard and Scotchban, leached toxic chemicals called PFAS. Sharon Lerner reports on why the company kept making them.

2024-05-20T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Sharon Lerner 7,000 words

Rated 2024-05-30T14:40:17-0700 - sethherr

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Anthony Lane writes about Blinkist, one of a number of phone apps that aim to boil down entire books into synopses lasting as little as ten minutes.

2024-05-20T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Anthony Lane 4,000 words

Rated 2024-05-29T15:49:12-0700 - sethherr

The Hidden-Pregnancy Experiment

Jia Tolentino on an experiment in which she tried to hide her pregnancy from her phone and on how we are increasingly trading our privacy for a sense of security. #Parenthood #Pregnancy #Surveillance

2024-05-04T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Jia Tolentino 2,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:38:39-0700 - sethherr

The Ex-N.Y.P.D. Offcial Trying to Tame New York’s Trash

The city has lived in filth for decades. Can the commissioner of the Department of Sanitation, a scion of one of the country’s richest families, finally clean up the streets? Eric Lach reports.

2024-04-08T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Eric Lach 6,000 words

Rated 2024-04-14T09:00:12-0700 - sethherr

What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?

Sam Knight on the Tory U.K. Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak, and issues including Brexit, the N.H.S., inflation, housing, and the economy.

2024-03-25T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Sam Knight 8,000 words

Rated 2024-04-06T07:06:14-0700 - sethherr

Vaclav Smil and the Value of Doubt

David Owen interviews the author and scientist Vaclav Smil, whose books on environmental issues include “Size: How It Explains the World” and “How the World Really Works.” #Climate Change #Environmentalism #Renewable energy #Science

2024-02-20T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker David Owen 4,000 words

Rated 2024-03-19T22:44:49-0700 - sethherr

How “Co-regulation” Became the Parenting Buzzword of the Day

Jessica Winter on why parenting experts claim that co-regulation is the single goal from which all other family aspirations can flow. #Parenting

2024-01-25T09:17:16-0800 The New Yorker Jessica Winter 1,000 words

Rated 2024-01-28T15:22:11-0800 - sethherr

A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft

James Somers, a professional coder, writes about the astonishing scripting skills of A.I. chatbots like GPT-4 and considers the future of a once exalted craft.

2023-11-13T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker James Somers 4,000 words

Rated 2023-11-13T20:43:44-0800 - sethherr

China’s Age of Malaise

Party officials are vanishing, young workers are “lying flat,” and entrepreneurs are fleeing the country. What does China’s inner turmoil mean for the world? Evan Osnos reports.

2023-10-23T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Evan Osnos 9,000 words

Rated 2023-11-01T08:11:05-0700 - sethherr

The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle

Offsetting is hailed as a fix for climate catastrophe—but the world’s biggest carbon firm, South Pole, sold millions of worthless credits to Gucci, Porsche, Nestlé, and many others. Heidi Blake reports.

2023-10-16T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Heidi Blake 10,000 words

Rated 2023-10-25T06:33:15-0700 - sethherr

What Happened to San Francisco, Really?

Nathan Heller on the fate of America’s most enterprising downtown and the debates over housing, homelessness, and public safety that have engulfed the city since the pandemic.

2023-10-16T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Nathan Heller 8,000 words

Rated 2023-10-18T22:05:43-0700 - sethherr

Why Gen X Dads Can Appreciate Olivia Rodrigo

Jay Caspian Kang on his appreciation for Olivia Rodrigo’s sophomore album, “Guts,” as a Gen X dad to a young daughter. #Pop Music

2023-09-13T14:38:00-0700 The New Yorker Jay Caspian Kang 1,000 words

Rated 2023-09-13T18:30:32-0700 - Jaog

Why “Alone” Is the Best Reality Show Ever Made

Jay Caspian Kang writes about the appeal of the reality-TV show “Alone” and other shows about survival in the wilderness. #Nature #Survival #Television

2023-09-06T08:39:42-0700 The New Yorker Jay Caspian Kang 1,000 words

Rated 2023-09-06T21:18:24-0700 - sethherr

What Happens to All the Stuff We Return?

Online merchants changed the way we shop—and made “reverse logistics” into a booming new industry, David Owen writes.

2023-08-14T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker David Owen 5,000 words

Rated 2023-08-27T07:39:20-0700 - sethherr

Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule

Ronan Farrow reports on how the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.

2023-08-21T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Ronan Farrow 9,000 words

Rated 2023-08-25T22:28:49-0700 - sethherr

Georgia’s Broad Racketeering Law May Now Ensnare Donald Trump

Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, often relies on Georgia’s capacious *RICO*{: .small} statute—though critics say that she has stretched it past the law’s intent. #2020 Election #Donald Trump #Georgia

2023-07-31T04:12:47-0700 The New Yorker Charles Bethea 1,000 words

Rated 2023-07-31T05:20:26-0700 - Jaog

How Gretchen Whitmer Made Michigan a Democratic Stronghold

The Governor’s strategy for revitalizing her state has two parts, Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes. To grow, Michigan needs young people; to draw young people, it needs to have the social policies they want.

2023-07-17T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Benjamin Wallace-Wells 6,000 words

Rated 2023-07-28T22:08:37-0700 - sethherr

The Magnificence of the Bluefin Tuna

Rivka Galchen on “Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas,” by Karen Pinchin, and the importance of an ancient and threatened fish. #Fishing #Ocean

2023-07-24T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Rivka Galchen 2,000 words

Rated 2023-07-25T22:24:55-0700 - sethherr

Is It Hot Enough Yet for Politicians to Take Real Action?

Bill McKibben writes on the recent temperature records set amid a global heat wave, on a global cascade of climate-change-related floods and disasters, and the lack of political will in Canada and the U.S. to take on the needed confrontation of oil and gas interests. #Canada #Climate Change #Global Warming #Wildfire

2023-07-11T11:18:01-0700 The New Yorker Bill McKibben 2,000 words

Rated 2023-07-12T09:00:10-0700 - sethherr

Rated 2023-07-11T20:11:00-0700 - Jaog

After “Barbie,” Mattel Is Raiding Its Entire Toybox

In an era when “pre-awareness” rules Hollywood, the company is ginning up plots for everything from Hot Wheels to UNO, Alex Barasch writes.

2023-07-02T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Alex Barasch 5,000 words

Rated 2023-07-12T08:01:23-0700 - sethherr

Weike Wang on Citizenship and Belonging

Deborah Treisman interviews the author Weike Wang about “Status in Flux,” her story from the June 26, 2023, issue of The New Yorker. #Fiction

2023-06-19T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Deborah Treisman 1,000 words

Rated 2023-06-19T06:02:09-0700 - Jaog

Burying Indiana Jones

Christopher Heaney on “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” and the titular character’s impact on the public’s perception of what it means to be an archeologist. #Movies

2023-06-18T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Christopher Heaney 2,000 words

Rated 2023-06-18T08:31:54-0700 - Jaog

Harvey Karp Knows How to Make Babies Happy

The pediatrician and best-selling author on the perils of excessive individualism, the moralization of baby sleep, and why when it comes to newborns he’s “a little bit like a priest.” #Babies #Interview #Parenting

2023-04-09T12:25:06-0700 The New Yorker Helen Rosner 7,000 words

Rated 2023-06-09T16:54:30-0700 - sethherr

Rated 2023-06-08T22:29:05-0700 - alexandradancing

The Talk: Accused of Plagiarism

In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, “The Talk,” Darrin Bell illustrates a conversation with a professor at U.C. Berkeley who accused him, without evidence, of plagiarism. #College

2023-06-03T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Darrin Bell 200 words

Rated 2023-06-03T15:57:45-0700 - Jaog

How to Hire a Pop Star for Your Private Party

For the very rich, even the world’s biggest performers—Beyoncé, Drake, Jennifer Lopez, Andrea Bocelli—are available, at a price, Evan Osnos writes.

2023-05-29T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Evan Osnos 8,000 words

Rated 2023-05-30T08:55:27-0700 - sethherr

How to Quit Cars

Adam Gopnik reviews “Carmageddon,” by Daniel Knowles, and “Paved Paradise,” by Henry Grabar, and considers the shortsighted history of transportation and the possibilities for its future. #Books

2023-05-15T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Adam Gopnik 4,000 words

Rated 2023-05-19T07:28:42-0700 - sethherr

The Future of Fertility

Emily Witt on the biotech startups seeking to change human reproduction.

2023-04-17T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Emily Witt 6,000 words

Rated 2023-05-02T21:39:10-0700 - alexandradancing

Rated 2023-05-02T10:22:02-0700 - sethherr

The Risky Gamble of Kevin McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Strategy

Jonathan Blitzer writes about the House Republican’s budget proposal that was bundled with its vote to raise the debt ceiling, and about Kevin McCarthy’s weakened position as Speaker.

2023-04-28T13:22:28-0700 The New Yorker Jonathan Blitzer 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-01T07:49:08-0700 - sethherr

How Much Can Duolingo Teach Us?

Carina Chocano on the company’s founder, Luis von Ahn, who believes that artificial intelligence is going to make computers better teachers than humans.

2023-04-17T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Carina Chocano 6,000 words

Rated 2023-04-30T22:45:37-0700 - sethherr

The Big Potential of Karen Bass’s Homelessness Agenda

#Homelessness

The New Yorker

Rated 2023-04-14T04:53:07-0700 - cindy

The Man Who Built Catan

The New Yorker

Rated 2023-04-09T07:33:50-0700 - Jaog

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web

The New Yorker

Rated 2023-03-31T16:37:52-0700 - sethherr

The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a Texas County

The New Yorker

Rated 2023-03-29T21:39:20-0700 - sethherr

How Russian Journalists in Exile Are Covering the War in Ukraine

The New Yorker

Rated 2023-03-16T18:17:33-0700 - sethherr