Jonathan Timm in The Plight of the Overworked Nonprofit Employee
August 24, 2016
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James Hamblin writes in “The Health Benefits of Decoupling Money and Masculinity”
August 19, 2016
While cheating has been around longer than the Olympics, humans have found new and more creative ways to do it.
Read J. Weston Phippen’s story
A Brief History of Cheating at the Olympics
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August 19, 2016
Even if the courts had handled the case differently—placing less emphasis on what the woman was wearing, for instance, or that she was intoxicated, or acknowledging that even though she’d had consensual sex with Parker previously, rape was possible—victim advocates think the school also could and should have done more to address the situation.
Emily DeRuy writes in
How Colleges Would’ve Handled the Nate Parker Case Today
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August 17, 2016
August 17, 2016
David Graham will continue to update his story as Republicans emerge from the fold to denounce Trump in
Which Republicans Oppose Donald Trump? A Cheat Sheet
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August 12, 2016
You either love “Suicide Squad” or really hate it. While that’s true for most movies, this most recent DC film stratified viewers and critics unlike most comic book movies have in the past.
Read Andrew McGill’s data-based take in
The Reason Suicide Squad Is Crushing? People Love It
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August 12, 2016
From the September 2016 issue, read Matthew Hutson’s story on
The Charisma Effect
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August 10, 2016
If a @RealDonaldTrump tweet is marked as being sent from an iPhone, it’s from a staffer. But if it’s sent from an Android phone—Trump’sSamsung Galaxy?—it might be from the candidate himself. Folks have noted that the Android tweets are a bit, uh, Trumpier.
Andrew McGill sources data from @TheRealDonaldTrump’s Twitter account to investigate who is primarily responsible for the prolific profile in
Is Trump’s Campaign Locking Him Out of Twitter?
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August 9, 2016
It is not unusual for science writers who regularly write about microbiology to pick a favorite bacterium, much as people would choose a favorite film or band. Wolbachia is mine. It is breathtaking in its behavior and majestic in its spread.
Ed Yong writes in
How to Beat Dengue and Zika: Add a Microbe to Mosquitoes
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