A Privately Funded Experiment in a Universal Basic Income
Dozens of villages in Kenya will soon be receiving payments.
Culture
A Quarter of Transgender People Report Restroom Confrontations
New poll gives insight in what has become a national debate.
Can Egg Producers Recover from November's Great Fall?
Large farms have been stung by two recent setbacks. What's next?
Robert Ford Killed Jesse James—Or At Least That's What They Want You to Believe
Friday A/V Club: Jesse James trutherism
So This Is (Your Annual War on) Christmas
Maybe Santa should just put everybody on the 'naughty' list and be done with it.
FDA Salt Guidance Could Kill More People Than It Saves
Treat people as individuals not just as members of an undifferentiated public health herd
4 Incredibly Dumb Ways the Government Is Spending Your Money to Punish People for Having Sex
And making a mess of civil liberties and people's lives in the process
Movie Review: Jackie
Natalie Portman in a stillborn bio-snippet from the Kennedy years.
LGBT Lives Are Better Than Ever, Yet The Culture War Grows Louder
In the future, everybody's religious beliefs will be newsworthy for 15 minutes.
Media Attacks on HGTV's Gaines Family and Victoria's Secret Might Make You Welcome Trump's Apocalypse
Casually labeling too many as racist, sexist bigots-sometimes for good reason, other times not so much-had something to do with Trump's election in the first place.
Ask Elizabeth Nolan Brown Your Burning Questions About Sex Policy
And then donate to the magazine that lets you do stuff like that!
Who Should Decide if 'Hydroponic' is 'Organic'?
A controversy highlights the need to get the USDA out of organic food altogether. (Even a major newspaper thinks so!)
Thanksgiving: A Day For Thumbing Your Nose at Those Haughty Elites!
Food historian Rachel Laudan on why we never add truffles to our turkeys.
Hey Boomers, Give Thanks To the Millennials We're Like Totally Ripping Off!
The cost of today's and tomorrow's lavish public pensions and entitlements will be borne by younger Americans.
Movie Review: Allied
Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard in a retro wartime romance.
A Day Trip to Dearborn, Michigan, Helps Puts Election Results in Perspective
Will the rest of America eventually converge with the coasts?
The World Health Organization's Tough Tactics Against Tobacco and E-Cigs
The United Nations' public health agency achieves consensus through mass detentions and media censorship.
Fashion Designers Are Boycotting Melania Trump. Shouldn't Bakers and Florists Have the Same Right?
Free association should not be for powerful liberals only.
What Trump's Win Means for Food and Agricultural Policy
Should we expect a scaling back of regulations or even repeals?
Kanye West Would've Voted for Trump; Admired 'Futuristic' Style of Campaign
Says the country and world are racist so people need to stop focusing on it.
Movie Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Eddie Redmayne in a return to Potter World, or someplace sort of like it.
Listening to Sex Offenders
Their stories are stereotypical and repetitive in ways we've all heard a million times, all our lives-and mostly not from sexual offenders.
This Professor's List of 'Fake News' Sites Goes Predictably Wrong
How did sites like Breitbart and Red State get included?
Killer Mike Offers Self-Righteousness for Sale Package
The famed rapper and activist promises to care for cash.
Policing 'Fake News' Is Our Own Responsibility, Not Facebook's
Calling for the social media outlet to censor things, even completely made up stories, can end up in bad places.
6 Fast Facts About the FBI's New Hate-Crime Report
Hate crimes against persons decreased in 2015 over the previous year. Anti-black, Jewish, and gay-male sentiment was most common.
Politicians vs. Tasty, Delicious Food: Q/A with "Food Freedom" Advocate Baylen Linnekin
New book Biting the Hands that Feed Us says too many dumb laws get in the way of a sustainable, freer, better food system.
Biting the Hands that Feed Us: Food Laws vs. Culinary Reality
"Food Freedom" advocate Baylen Linnekin says fewer, smarter laws would make our food system more sustainable.
There Is No Violent Hate-Crimewave in 'Trump's America'
Please stop spreading unsubstantiated stories of Trump-induced terror.
Colleges Canceled Exams for Students Traumatized by Trump's Election
Lack of ideological diversity left campuses unprepared to cope with reality.
Porn-Regulating Prop 60 Faces Final Showdown Tonight in California
Condoms-in-porn measure pits adult-film industry and public-health groups against public hysteria and a would-be porn czar
Americans Are Still Freer Than Most, But the Trend Line Are Worrying
Freedom of the press, government accountability and transparency, and economic freedom have all been trending down, while corruption is trending up.
Single Mother Facing Prison for Selling Homemade Mexican Dish to Undercover Cop
Prosecutor: 'I don't write the laws, I enforce them.'
The Go-To Reference for People Afraid of Mass Culture
And one of many go-to references for pundits trying to explain Trump
Seeing Trump on the Silver Screen
What A Face in the Crowd and Meet John Doe tell us about populism, pop culture, and fear.
Election Focus on Food Policy Is Lacking
As the presidential race drags into the home stretch, food issues don't even rate as a blip on the polls.
Get Your Tabloid Television On and Revisit Serial Killers, Karen Carpenter
Tired of prestige dramas? These two guilty pleasures have you covered.
Movie Review: Doctor Strange
Benedict Cumberbatch pumps new life into the ever-expanding Marvel universe.
