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Demetrius Freeman How American Women Are Amplifying Their Political Power
“I am not interested in building the capacity of people who are in office that want to take away my health care.”
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Joerg Sarbach / AP The Hospital Is Too Damn Loud
The average hospitalized patient endures 350 alarms each day.
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Lucas Jackson What Classical Music Can Learn From Kanye West
Whether or not Ye was forward-thinking, the musicians behind the Yeethoven project want to bring two very different genres together.
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Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Coachella The Grandeur of Great Protest Music
Political art that outlasts its times needs more than just a powerful message.
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Denis Balibouse / Reuters Is Empathy the Essence of Soul Music?
The genre’s sound, sentiments, and politics all aim for the same connection.
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Riccardo Savi How Do You Measure a Country?
MacArthur “genius” award winner Carrie Mae Weems’s reflections on police violence ask the audience to understand that, yes, brutal violence is America.
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Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters James Comey Continues to Argue With Himself
In an interview with Katie Couric, the ousted FBI director excoriated Trump for undoing America’s norms—but let himself off the hook for slipping out of the FBI’s.
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Yusuf Ahmad / Reuters Could Quantum Computing Be the End of Free Will?
On the fear that too much processing power will make us cease to be human
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters Can Sacrificing Privacy Stomp Out Disinformation Online?
One way to ward off bad actors could be more information sharing between social-media platforms, researchers, and governments.
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Courtesy of Robhat Labs A Web Tool That Lets People Choose Their Own ‘Sources of Truth’
Two 21-year-olds believe they have a way to bring consumers of unreliable news closer to objectivity.
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Horacio Villalobos / Corbis / Getty Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet
The site’s head claims that the policy of not collecting personal information allows people to be “more true to themselves.”
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Disney Making Innovative Art Is a Form of Generosity
An experimental composer proposes a new way to think about tradition versus progress.
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Ted Horowitz / Corbis / Getty Are Male and Female Brains Biologically Different?
The scientific debate around this question keeps raging, but one neuroscientist says we’re more alike than we think.
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Mark Kauzlarich/ Reuters Khizr Khan: 'Go Seek Your Neighbor'
The Gold Star parent who made headlines at the Democratic National Convention offers advice on how citizens can “materially progress the American experiment.”
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Can Capitalism Reinvent Itself?
Senator Mark Warner says that the current economy isn’t working for many workers—and now is the time to fix it.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Budget-Reform Idea That Won’t Die
The Simpson-Bowles plan has been rejected at every turn. Why is it resurfacing now?
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Ian Wagreich / The Aspen Institute Who Would the Founders Impeach?
As discussion of removing Trump ripples through the political world, a legal scholar argues that impeachment is both an essentially American tool and widely misunderstood.
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Riccardo Savi / Aspen Institute The Power of Art That Makes You Pause
Culture can change the world, the art historian Sarah Lewis and the architect Michael Murphy argue, if it can get people to slow down.
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters What Right-Wing Populist Movements Share: Blaming Immigrants
Fareed Zakaria argues that the core of Donald Trump’s message in 2016 was, “your life sucks—it's because of Mexicans, Chinese people, and Muslims.”
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Cheryl Gerber / Reuters Where Will the Removal of Confederate Monuments Stop?
An eminent historian explains why taking down Civil War statues doesn’t erase history—and why statues to slaveholding Founding Fathers aren’t next.
