We Asked About Your Worst Gift Ever. We Had No Idea It Could Be This Bad.
Actually, socks are great gifts.leeser87/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This holiday season, we asked you about some of the worst gifts you’ve ever received. And wow, did you respond. We heard from readers—many of whom, understandably, wanted to remain anonymous—about getting old hairbrushes (with hair still in them!), being…
Factory Farms No Longer Have to Report Their Air Emissions. That’s Dangerous for Their Neighbors
Bob Nichols/USDA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rosemary Partridge has lived in Sac County, Iowa, for 40 years. She has watched the state’s agricultural landscape change, with large-scale hog farms taking over nearly all the land surrounding her home. The stink of the neighboring farms is “unbearable,” making her nauseous…
Here Are Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2018
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Reading isn’t dead yet! In fact, 2018 was another banner year for great works of nonfiction, including, if you’ll pardon the nepotism, a pair of bestsellers penned by our own editorial staffers. Reporter Shane Bauer’s American Prison—spun out from his gripping, National Magazine Award-winning account…
Claus and Effect: What Medical Researchers Say About Santa’s Unhealthy Lifestyle
VladGans/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Around Christmastime 2009, an Australian public health researcher launched a new field of inquiry with an article in the British Medical Journal titled “Santa Claus: A Public Health Pariah?” The piece, which examined the potential, um, clausality between St. Nick’s personal health and that…
An Illustrated Guide to the Swamp Creature Who Could Be the Next Interior Secretary
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Are 2,000 US Trainers All That’s Holding Back Armageddon in the Middle East?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As you know, President Trump has announced that he’s going to pull out all American troops from Syria. According to news reports, he made this decision without really telling anyone first, and the withdrawal will almost certainly be done in the worst, most slapdash way…