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An Unsettling New Theory: There Is No Swing Voter

Rachel Bitecofer’s radical new theory predicted the midterms spot-on. So who’s going to win 2020?

How Private Equity Buried Payless

Finance-driven capitalism was supposed to make the economy more dynamic. A failed shoe chain shows why it hasn’t happened.

The battery invented 120 years before its time

At the turn of the 20th Century, Thomas Edison invented a battery with the unusual quirk of producing hydrogen. Now, 120 years later, the battery is …

What We Lose by Hiring Someone to Pick Up Our Avocados for Us

Will the proliferation of mobile ordering destroy civic life?

Cool It, Krugman

The self-sabotaging rage of the New York Times columnist

Mitt Romney’s checks plan: up to $350 per month, per kid for parents

Inside WallStreetBets, the Reddit army that's rocking Wall Street - CNN

The New Kinship Engineering - The New Atlantis

Russia Has Massed 500 Tanks For An Attack On Kupyansk. Thousands Of Ukrainian Drones Await Them.

‘How to Live in this World’ | J. Krishnamurti

How design factored into "the mother of all tech demos"

Seth’s Top 100

Why do we need to be right?

Jennifer Rudolph Walsh on Breaking the Busy Stigma, Finding Essentialness, and Transcending Bullshit | Goop

Pokémon Legends: Arceus Review

| J. Krishnamurti

Choosing Love: Scarlett Lewis on Overcoming Tragedy

Katy: a short story by Bryan Washington

The future of electric cars isn’t Tesla. It’s golf carts.

An Astronaut's Guide to Mental Models

On writing better documents

American torture

The Translator’s Funeral, a new short story by Rónán Hession

9 Questions Interesting People Ask to Cut Through the Small Talk

Forget the Iowa Fiasco. Trump Is the Democrats’ Real Problem.

¡A´hooo!, el grito de resistencia de Los cogelones, desde Neza

Upskilling, not ISAs

Is the "Death Drive" Real?

Diamonds Aren’t Special and Neither Is Your Love

Better logging with Emoji

The Untold History of Facebook’s Most Controversial Growth Tool

The 3-ladder system of social class in the U.S.

Deliberate Anti-Productivity

Spotify Invents A New Way To Recommend Music—By Monitoring Your Speech

How poetry can make us both laugh and think (providing added reasons to read it)

Seeing the Pentagon Papers in a New Light

Apple Privacy Chief: North Dakota Bill 'Threatens to Destroy the iPhone as You Know It'

11 Habits that changed my life (and will yours too)

Thunder in Her Head - The American Scholar

5 ways to support parents right now

Media that matters: Peter Walker talks Digital Media Art