'But when you can make someone laugh in that language — well, that gets at the heart of communicating. A joke manages to transcend borders, even the impossible ones between family members.'
The manosphere promises to fix young men’s lives. Instead, it’s making them miserable.
By: CT Jones   |   Rolling Stone   |   May 2023
How one viral video resurfaced one of the longest-running serial killer theories — and sparked a conversation about the ethics of true crime
By: Michael Berens   |   Reuters   |   May 2023
Medical practitioners and providers paid $26.8 billion over the past decade to settle federal allegations including fraud, bribery and patient harm, a Reuters investigation found. Paying up means staying in business and, for some, avoiding prison. U.S. prosecutors helped them do it.
By: Amit Katwala   |   Wired   |   Aug 2023
So many people are nearsighted on the island nation that they have already glimpsed what could be coming for the rest of us.
By: Andrew Deck   |   Rest of World   |   July 2023
The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.
By: Irena Long   |   Economist   |   July 2023
Young soldiers have buoyed the country’s fight for freedom, but at great cost. Irena Long meets them in their jungle hideout
'She wakes to the sound of breathing. The smaller children lie tangled beside her, their chests rising and falling under winter coats and wool blankets. A few feet away, their mother and father sleep near the mop bucket they use as a toilet.'
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.
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race pushes participants to the brink on an unforgiving trek to the end of the world. And, as one writer who tracked the race by air discovers, that is exactly the point.