The news that Arizona senator John McCain has been diagnosed with a form of brain cancer that’s nearly always fatal has sparked an outpouring of…
TAXING DEVELOPMENTS
The US just can’t stop putting tax policy in the hands of tax-avoidance experts
David Kautter, president Donald Trump’s pick to run tax policy for the US Treasury, faced some awkward questions on July 18. Senators at his confirmation…
DARK WEB
Police had been controlling a major online black market for the past month, authorities say
The US Department of Justice announced on Thursday that AlphaBay, the world’s largest online black market, was seized and shut down after its creator was…
DO NOT PASS GO
Four big US cities say Elon Musk doesn’t have approval to build the Hyperloop, despite his claim
Elon Musk caused a stir by announcing the next great milestone in his bid to build a 500-mile underground transit link between major US cities…
BUZZ OFF
Drones are our noisy future: People find their buzzing more annoying than cars or trucks
The delivery mode of the future sounds terrible. A recent NASA study (pdf) has found that the buzz of a drone is more annoying to…
The EU has cut race and ethnicity out of its plans for staff diversity
There is a glaring omission in the European Commission’s bid to be more diverse. While the Commission has taken concrete steps to ensure there are…
TOUGH PILL TO SWALLOW
Americans hate the health care industry even more than Wall Street
Wall Street banks are among America’s least-loved institutions. According to a new national poll by Bloomberg (pdf), far more people have an unfavorable view of…
FIRE UP THE THINK PIECES
Is HBO trolling us with its show about American slavery from the “Game of Thrones” creators?
The next TV series from David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creators of Game of Thrones, will be an alternate-history drama depicting an America in…
PEACE
In 1932, Einstein asked Freud for a psychological cure to war. Now you can send their correspondence to hotheads anywhere in the world
A few months before Adolf Hitler began his reign of terror in Germany, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Sigmund Freud asking the revered psychoanalyst…
TIME FOR CHANGE
Recruiters say diverse hires are hard to find. I say they aren’t looking in the right places
I grew up happy yet humble in Tottenham in London, one of the most multicultural wards in the whole of Europe where over 90 nationalities…
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS
A short list of musicians who should really take over as SoundCloud CEO
Music-streaming service SoundCloud, loath as it may be to admit it, is having a bit of trouble as of late. As bigger rivals like Spotify…
RADIO DRAMA
How to confront your boss about the gender pay gap, by a journalist who it did it live on the air
It’s not easy to confront your boss over a contentious issue. And what’s more contentious than how much less you’re paid than your male colleagues?…
