E Pluribus, Gen X
Generation X has always been able to fashion its own best outcome. Now it’s time to take that DIY attitude and fix the nation. Because you know who really won the American Revolution? That’s right: Slackers.
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Finding Boundaries to Cross
Journalists must go further in search of the full story.
August 1, 2013: Afternoon
* Commerce Department’s gross domestic product revisions say the Great Recession wasn't so bad. * Assessment of the state of the male contraceptive pill: for both scientific and social reasons, there's no bright future ahead. * Winners from climate change include brain-eating parasites that flourish in America&
Put These on My Byline
In line at the grocery store, the economics of online writing.
August 1, 2013: Morning
* Zimbabwe's prime minister Tsvangirai calls election a "huge farce," with elaborate vote-rigging by Mugabe. * Reporters struggle to describe bustling neighborhood completely destroyed by Assad in Syria's third-largest city, Homs. * Portraits of possessionless, religious nomads in India and Nepal. * Occupy-style protests, underwritten
July 31, 2013: Afternoon
* New Snowden documents show NSA program "XKeyscore" collects nearly everything people do on the internet, with "real-time" interception. * Round-up of journalists' and politicians' reactions to the Manning verdict. * Dos and don'ts of escalator etiquette, where "leisure"-oriented commuters
Pope Fabulous
Pope Francis’s recent remark that he would not judge gay priests was a revolutionary moment for the church—a moment, in fact, worth twerking into verse.
July 31, 2013: Morning
* A fair election will find Mugabe pushed out of power; only Africa's other leaders can make that happen. * Assessment of what America would look like, based on internal documents and interviews with former aides, 200 days into Mitt Romney's first term. * Toyota donates efficiency in lieu
Teacher
The city of New York employs nearly half a million citizens, more than any other municipality in the country. We decided to speak with some of those employees about their work and what it takes to keep the biggest city in America running.
July 30, 2013: Afternoon
* There have been few openly gay ambassadors—and that's absolutely about to change. * For the past 10 weeks, oil has been leaking into Alberta—no one's saying how much and no one knows how to stop it. * "Medical marijuana advocates become unlikely opponents to pot