Stories by howard941

Private-equity tricks mask mounting debt

Meet the People Coding Our World: An Interview with Clive Thompson

When Socialism Was Tried in America–and Was a Smashing Success

Stop Calling It “Casual Sex”

Ancient ‘Snowball Earth’ thawed out in a flash

Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction

On-Demand Startups Are Hemorrhaging Tens of Billions a Year

The Publicist Who Dreads Getting Caught for Her Illegal Airbnb

What Loneliness Does to the Human Body

A startup is putting ads inside Ubers and Lyfts

Wall Street Is Getting Cut Out of Bond Market It Long Dominated

The legal choreography of the UK’s Art. 50 extension, and serious problem ahead

A St. Petersburg man contested a $4,308 bill. Now, he could owe nearly $150k

“World's first working thermal battery” promises cheap grid-scalable storage

In PNG, witch hunts, torture and murder are reactions to the modern world

More than 1m childless people over 65 are 'dangerously unsupported'

Deadly skin-eating fungal disease wipes out 90 amphibian species in 50 years

Revealed: Amazon employees are left to suffer after workplace injuries

“Long Peace” and Nuclear Weapons

Teen started playing video games 18 hours/day, makes more than most adults