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How philanthropy benefits the super-rich
~16 min read · 223 saves · Sep 8th · Paul Vallely · The long read: There are more philanthropists than ever before. Each year they give tens of billions to charitable causes. So how come inequality…
The Next Reconstruction
20+ min read · Paywall possible · 162 saves · Sep 8th · Adam Serwer · The United States has its best opportunity in 150 years to belatedly fulfill its promise as a multiracial democracy.
The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite
10 min read · Paywall possible · 138 saves · Sep 20th · Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort, but artificial intelligence will take them to a whole new level.
A New Theory of Western Civilization
9 min read · Paywall possible · 116 saves · Sep 6th · Judith Shulevitz · Could a marriage policy first pursued by the Catholic Church a millennium and a half ago explain what made the industrialized world so powerful—and…
Mark Zuckerberg Is the Most Powerful Unelected Man in America
4 min read · Paywall possible · 94 saves · Sep 3rd · Charlie Warzel · Facebook is too big for democracy.
The Terrible Cost of Presidential Racism
5 min read · Paywall possible · 94 saves · Sep 3rd · Gary J. Bass · Recently declassified White House tapes reveal how President Nixon’s racism and misogyny led him to ignore the genocidal violence of the Pakistani military in…
Let’s get real. No vaccine will work as if by magic, returning us to ‘normal’
3 min read · 90 saves · Sep 6th · To dream of imminent solutions is only human. But progress will come from controlled expectations
What You Can No Longer Say in Hong Kong
~14 min read · Paywall possible · 84 saves · Sep 4th · A new law takes aim at dissent, creating a challenge to free expression. We documented the changing nature of speech.
‘The United States is in crisis’: Report tracks thousands of summer protests, most nonviolent
4 min read · Paywall possible · 83 saves · Sep 4th · Though 93 percent of demonstrations calling for racial justice were peaceful, extremist conflicts pose a growing threat, the researchers concluded.
Our world is built for profit. Let’s build one that protects us instead
~14 min read · Paywall possible · 82 saves · Sep 10th · We live in a society where it’s easier to get a Michelin-star meal delivered to our doorstep than it is to get a medical…