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How the cult of consumerism ushered in an era of badly made products.

Today on TAP: Like the Jacobins and Stalinists of yore, today’s Republicans have extirpated their moderates and have no one left to execute besides themselves.

Fewer friends, relationships on the decline, delayed adulthood, trust at an all-time low, and many diseases of despair. The prognosis is not great.

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Twelve experts on what the world needs to learn from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“A List of Predictions Made in 1923 About 2023 🧵”

In 1923, experts took a stab at making predictions about what life would be like in 100 years. These predictions included four-hour workdays, women with shaved heads, and a complete lack of ugly pe…

The lower house of Congress can neither convene nor adjourn.

At the annual NFL Scouting Combine, Black football players’ every movement is measured, quantified, and appraised. The event’s college-aged men are at the heart of football’s billion-dollar industry.

The sharpest opinions on the debate from around the web

Today on TAP: The GOP’s ‘We can’t even convene’ circus commences

There was an article last year in the New York Times about a California start-up called Inversion that wants to “speed delivery of important items by storing them in orbit.” [Image: Collage by BLDG…

A California start-up company believes it can one day speed delivery of important items by storing them in orbit.

Quality deterioration, not factored into inflation statistics, means that we spend the same amount for inferior products.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning multimedia feature about an avalanche in Washington State changed the way The New York Times approaches storytelling.

Mouse Print exposes the strings and catches in advertising fine print.

Far from being profoundly destructive, we humans have deep capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight

It's slow, expensive, the engineering is mostly port-a-potty chemistry, and the best-case outcome is that thirty years from now we’ll get to watch someone remotely operate a soil scoop from Mars instead of Pasadena

Millionaire survivalist nutjob builds bunker for the helter skelter race war. Non-millionaire survivalist nutjob with AR-15 thinks, "I would like to live in that bunker, so I will just murder the family in their sleep and move in." Zillow: 1266 Willis Branch Rd, Richmond, KY 40475. $6,500,000. NYT: "My feelings were that we were going to have civil unrest because there was so much going on ...

I don't always agree with the president, but this year wasn't without accomplishment for his administration.

When the residents of Pripyat had to flee the terrifying explosion of Chernobyl’s number 4 reactor, they were forced to leave their pets behind. Decades later, the descendants of their dogs h…