April 28, 2016
- Prince was the rare rock star who took his female collaborators and bandmates seriously.
- Google knows who you'll vote for. What if we let them?
- Flourishing natural habitat at Chernobyl mirrors modern understanding of radiation's therapeutic upsides.
- "In the Republican presidential frontrunner's telling, even the knottiest problems in geopolitics are simple exercises in brinksmanship."
- Sanders' rejection of incrementalist climate policy—legislation to tax carbon and quit extraction on public lands—will last beyond his campaign.
- A fun look at how book covers are made—and rejected.
- The only thing Brazil's politicians can agree is on is that they want the Rio Olympics to succeed. That might not be enough.
- "Overtime pay, which has long been isolated to a minority of workers, is about to be extended to almost the entire middle class."
- Basic income is just another neoliberal Trojan horse that puts abstract equality ahead of shifting the levers of power.
- "Our transportation tangles may have only one possible fix: a new type of car, set up as a quasi-public utility via a ridesharing system."
- Puerto Rico is in deadly financial straits, but any bailout would have to go through Congress—hard to imagine in current conditions.
- When tragedy struck Paris, the city's Airbnb hosts responded.
- Two artists go on a tinder date, each agreeing beforehand to make a film.