Stories by perfmode

Ask HN: Why Does the US President Have So Much Control over Foreign Policy?

The Köln Concert

More Than Tuskegee: Understanding Mistrust about Research Participation

Racial Bias in Perceptions of Others’ Pain

40 Years of Human Experimentation in America: The Tuskegee Study

Ramana Maharshi

The Holy Men of India

How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later, Philip K. Dick

Ask HN: Does Y Combinator support Black Lives Matter?

Morality and the Idea of Progress in Silicon Valley (2015)

US cited for police violence, racism in UN review on human rights (2015)

Best Compilers Course?

Rebuilding Civilization from Scratch?

Ask HN: friend is being sexually harassed over SMS. How to identify the sender?

Inside a Brooklyn jail’s weeklong collapse

Down with philanthrocapitalism, says an entertaining polemic

(Why) the Universal Mother Is the Antidote to the Authoritarian Father

Chigozie Obioma’s Homerian Epic

A 70 percent marginal rate could help, not hurt, innovation

Poor Can’t Afford Not to Wear Nice Clothes