9 Best Articles in 2020
POLITICO
Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How.
POLITICO
20+ min read · 1258 saves · Mar 19th · The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the 2008 financial crisis changed how Americans perceive their country and the world. The coronavirus pandemic has quarantined people in their homes, and altered their relationships and how they view the institutions that govern them. As with earlier crises, the coronavirus crisis may change people and US society as a whole in fundamental and lasting ways. No one can predict how this will play out. Politico Magazine asked experts and thinkers for their visions of the future.
Guardian Books
The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
Guardian Books
~11 min read · 931 saves · May 9th · Rutger Bregman · When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman
BuzzFeed News
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
BuzzFeed News
883 saves · 2019-01-05 · Some claim millennials are lazy and entitled – unable to do basic tasks that older adults have just gotten on with for years. Anne Helen Petersen, senior culture writer for Buzzfeed News, rejects those labels. Milllennials like herself, she argues, are merely trying their best to navigate trends like skyrocketing student loans and an underpaying, perk-free gig economy. Millennials will likely not be the only ones who feel that her insights and observations are almost painfully on the nose.
Visual Capitalist
How COVID-19 Has Impacted Media Consumption, by Generation
Visual Capitalist
~15 min read · 629 saves · Apr 7th · This visualization explores how each generation's media consumption is changing amid the frenzy of pandemic-induced quarantines.
The Spectator
We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously
The Spectator
5 min read · 610 saves · 2019-12-21 · Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen…
The New York Times
John Lewis: Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation
The New York Times
3 min read · 597 saves · Jul 30th · John Lewis · Though I may not be here with you, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe.
Slate
Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide
Slate
2 min read · 556 saves · May 31st · From New York to Los Angeles, police officers escalated the national outrest.
MIT Technology Review
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.
MIT Technology Review
8 min read · 554 saves · From 2018 · The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms. Taking that into account can maximize return on many kinds of investment.
medium.com
How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
medium.com
4 min read · 532 saves · Jun 1st · Barack Obama · As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the…
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The Atlantic
Why Obama Fears for Our Democracy
The Atlantic
248 saves · Nov 16th · Jeffrey Goldberg · In an exclusive interview, the former president identifies the greatest threats to the American experiment, explains why he’s still hopeful, and opens up about his new book.
Vox
The crisis isn’t too much polarization. It’s too little democracy.
Vox
6 min read · 141 saves · Nov 12th · Ezra Klein · If Republicans couldn’t win so much power while losing votes, the US wouldn’t be in the current crisis.
Literary Hub
Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
Literary Hub
8 min read · 136 saves · Nov 19th · When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …
Vox
Obama: The internet is “the single biggest threat to our democracy”
Vox
4 min read · 119 saves · Nov 16th · Peter Kafka · President Obama loved the internet. Now he has second thoughts.
The Correspondent
Not every Trump voter is racist or misled. There’s a rational Trump voter too
The Correspondent
~17 min read · 113 saves · Nov 11th · Joe Biden won the US elections last week. But Donald Trump still got a record-breaking 71 million votes. These can’t all be explained away by ignorance and racism. There’s a rational Trump voter who…
The New Yorker
How Close Is Humanity to the Edge?
The New Yorker
8 min read · 76 saves · Nov 21st · Toby Ord, a philosopher who studies our species’ “existential risk,” has been both frightened and encouraged by our response to the pandemic.
The New York Times
Recession With a Difference: Women Face Special Burden
The New York Times
7 min read · 67 saves · Nov 17th · Patricia Cohen · Hit hard by job losses and the pandemic’s effect on schooling and child care, American women face short-term difficulties and long-term repercussions.
World Economic Forum
A billion people have no legal identity
World Economic Forum
3 min read · 65 saves · Nov 20th · A tech entrepreneur is making it possible for people – many in developing nations – to open a bank account or register the birth of a child for the first time.
Pew Research Fact Tank
America is exceptional in the nature of its political divide
Pew Research Fact Tank
4 min read · 52 saves · Nov 13th · The U.S. is not the only country wrestling with political fissures. But the pandemic has revealed how pervasive the divide in U.S. politics is.
Pew Research Global
Majorities in European Union Have Favorable Views of the Bloc
Pew Research Global
10 min read · 37 saves · Nov 17th · A median of 66% across eight EU member nations rated the organization positively this summer.
