April 28, 2016

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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. #opinions

“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. #video