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The Dark Roof Lobby That May Be Heating Your City
An investigation into how dark roofing manufacturers quietly lobby against reflective roof rules that could cut cities'…
The Economist - World News, Economics, Politics, Business
Weekly publication offering analysis and commentary on world politics, economics, business, finance, science, and techno…
The Guardian - News, Sport and Opinion
British newspaper offering global news, opinion, sport, culture, and long-form journalism with a progressive editorial s…
The High Cost of Saying No
An essay on why cities struggle to build housing, contrasting Atlanta's growth with San Francisco's fights over everythi…
The man who saved North Carolina from nuclear disaster
The story of Dr. Jack ReVelle, who disarmed two hydrogen bombs that fell near Goldsboro in 1961, and of the remarkable l…
The Never-Ending War Over Rent Control
An analysis of why rent control keeps returning to the political agenda, weighing economists' objections against moderat…
The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Satirical news organization publishing fictional articles and headlines that parody mainstream journalism.
The Other Sean Byrne Doesn't Exist
An investigation into how a fictitious employee of an Irish aircraft-parts company ended up on a US government restricte…
The Poetry and Brief Life of a Foxconn Worker
Translations of poems by Xu Lizhi, a young Foxconn assembly-line worker in Shenzhen who died in 2014, with notes on his…
The Speed Report
A ranking of news websites by how fast they load, showing which outlets serve their stories quickly and which ones lag b…
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The Third Atomic Bomb
Hidden History digs into the US plans to drop a third atomic bomb on Japan after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the narrow…
The Transport Politic
A blog analyzing transit expansion projects and policy debates in cities across North America, tracking new rail lines a…
The Wall Street Journal
US-based business and financial newspaper covering markets, economy, corporate news and global politics.
The White Man in That Photo
The story of Peter Norman, the Australian sprinter standing beside Tommie Smith and John Carlos in the famous 1968 Olymp…
They Thought They Were Free
An excerpt from Milton Mayer's 1955 study of ordinary Germans under Nazism, including the famous passage about how gradu…
Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell
Thomas Jefferson's 1807 letter on how a newspaper should be run, famously lamenting that nothing can now be believed whi…
UNCTAD Least Developed Countries Reports
Free annual reports and data from the United Nations trade body analyzing the economic challenges facing the world's lea…
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Unnecessariat
A powerful, much-cited essay comparing the American opioid epidemic to the AIDS years and describing the people an econo…
US Historical Newspapers Online by State
A state-by-state guide to hundreds of digitized historical newspapers you can browse online, a handy starting point for…
US Indian Boarding School History
An overview of the US Indian boarding school system - its origins, the policies of forced assimilation, the numbers of c…
USA Political Election Logos 2008 - 1960
A visual roundup of US presidential campaign logos and bumper sticker designs from 1960 to 2008, showing how designers k…
Vox - Understand the News
Explanatory news site that breaks down politics, policy, science, and culture to help readers understand the news.
War Is a Racket
The text of Major General Smedley Butler's famous 1933 speech, in which a twice-decorated Marine describes his career as…
Warsaw Rising 1944
A ten-chapter story about Warsaw, the city that stood up to totalitarian regimes and rose from the ashes, centered on th…
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