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The Highlight Archive

Archives for April 2019

Why did we end the draft?
The Highlight

It will be considered unthinkable 50 years from now.

By Jennifer Mittelstadt
Why do we give Facebook and Google so much power?
The Highlight

They will be considered unthinkable 50 years from now. Big Tech has sacrificed us in the pursuit of profit.

By Roger McNamee
Abortion
The Highlight

It will be considered unthinkable 50 years from now. The moral case against abortion.

By Karen Swallow Prior
Why are we pushing for self-driving cars?
The Highlight

They will be considered unthinkable 50 years from now.

By Meredith Broussard
Why are we obsessed with rationality?
The Highlight

We’ll look back and cringe at our conception of humans as fully rational beings.

By Krista Tippett
Why do we think there’s a “wrong side of history”?
The Highlight

The very question is one of superstition and myth.

By Jacob T. Levy
We did we abandon public education?
The Highlight

It will be considered unthinkable 50 years from now.

By Adia Harvey Wingfield
The Great Awokening: white Democrats’ newfound racial liberalism is transforming politics
Politics

A surprisingly sudden shift.

By Matthew Yglesias
The opioid epidemic is increasingly killing black Americans. Baltimore is ground zero.
Confronting America’s opioid epidemic

On the ground with the people fighting to help the city’s most vulnerable.

By German Lopez
The impossible quest to build a better breast pump
Politics

A wave of high-tech, hands-free devices is hitting the market. But will they actually help women?

By Anna North
How to fight an outrageous medical bill, explained
Hospitals kept ER fees secret. We uncovered them.

Five patients tell us how they pushed back — and won.

By Sarah Kliff