Fake Or Real? How To Self-Check The News And Get The Facts

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/12/05/503581220/fake-or-real-how-to-self-check-the-news-and-get-the-facts

In capitalist Russia, a socialist garden flourishes

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2017/0906/In-capitalist-Russia-a-socialist-garden-flourishes

How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/smarter-living/workplace-burnout-symptoms.html

Relationship Problems? Try Getting More Sleep

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/well/family/relationship-problems-try-getting-more-sleep.html

Opioids Aren’t the Only Pain Drugs to Fear

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/well/opioids-arent-the-only-pain-drugs-to-fear.html

For India, Toilets Are a (Mostly) Serious Issue

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/world/asia/india-toilet-movie.html

You’ll Never Be Famous — And That’s O.K.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/opinion/middlemarch-college-fame.html

The last Nazi hunters

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/aug/31/the-last-nazi-hunters

In Mexico, a rethinking of the skills taught at tech high schools

https://www.csmonitor.com/EqualEd/2017/0830/In-Mexico-a-rethinking-of-the-skills-taught-at-tech-high-schools

A journey through Hajj, Islam's special pilgrimage

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/30/middleeast/hajj-journey-by-the-numbers-2017/index.html

The Empire Stopper

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/world/asia/afghanistan-graveyard-empires-historical-pictures.html

The Making and the Breaking of the Legend of Robert E. Lee

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/books/review/eric-foner-robert-e-lee.html

Starting a college admission search? Here are a professor’s tips.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/08/26/starting-a-college-admission-search-here-are-a-professors-tips/

The once-glamorous resort city Acapulco is now Mexico’s murder capital

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/27/acapulco-mexico-murder-capital/

A New Skin Lightening Procedure Is Short on Evidence

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/health/skin-lightening-glutathione-bleaching.html

Shop at Whole Foods? You’re not elite anymore

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article169502387.html

It rains solid diamonds on Uranus and Neptune

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/08/25/it-rains-solid-diamonds-on-uranus-and-neptune/

Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/opinion/tips-for-aspiring-op-ed-writers.html

Wine War in Southern France Has Streets Running Red

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/business/french-wine-trade-war.html

Pot Was Flying Off the Shelves in Uruguay. Then U.S. Banks Weighed In.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/world/americas/uruguay-marijuana-us-banks.html

Denver’s new apartment building caters to homeless who have been traumatized after years on the streets

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/25/denver-trauma-informed-apartments-homeless/

Hunting a Killer: Sex, Drugs and the Return of Syphilis

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/health/syphilis-std-united-states.html

Powerball: You can be rich even if you don’t hit the jackpot

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get-there/wp/2017/08/24/powerball-you-can-be-rich-even-if-you-dont-hit-the-jackpot/

The Double Standard in the Progressive War against the Dead

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450749/confederate-statues-removed-while-racist-progressive-statues-remain

How Powerball manipulated the odds to make another massive jackpot

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/22/how-powerball-manipulated-the-odds-to-make-another-massive-jackpot/

Why those Confederate soldier statues look a lot like their Union counterparts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/why-those-confederate-soldier-statues-look-a-lot-like-their-union-counterparts/2017/08/18/cefcc1bc-8394-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html

See the cool kids lined up outside that new restaurant? This app pays them to stand there.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/08/16/see-the-hipsters-lined-up-outside-that-new-restaurant-this-app-pays-them-to-stand-there/

Why George Guidall Is the Undisputed King of Audiobooks

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/books/george-guidall-audiobooks.html

What Robert E. Lee Wrote to The Times About Slavery in 1858

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/robert-e-lee-slaves.html

When Families Lead Themselves Out of Poverty

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/opinion/poverty-family-independence-initiative.html

How to Roll Back Fanaticism

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/opinion/fanaticism-white-nationalists-charlottesville.html

The other James A. Fields: He rose from slavery to success in segregated Virginia

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/14/the-other-james-a-fields-he-rose-from-slavery-to-success-in-segregated-virginia/

70 years later, survivors recall the horrors of India-Pakistan partition

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/70-years-later-survivors-recall-the-horrors-of-india-pakistan-partition/2017/08/14/3b8c58e4-7de9-11e7-9026-4a0a64977c92_story.html

Antarctica Fruitcake Is Over 100 Years Old, and ‘Almost’ Edible

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/world/europe/fruitcake-antarctica-scott.html

You’ll Never Be as Radical as This 18th-Century Quaker Dwarf

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/opinion/sunday/youll-never-be-as-radical-as-this-18th-century-quaker-dwarf.html

The Mystery of S., the Man with an Impossible Memory

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-mystery-of-s-the-man-with-an-impossible-memory

Stop Treating 70- and 90-Year-Olds the Same

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/opinion/sunday/vaccinations-elderly.html

Baby switch: How a Mormon family dealt with the fallout of a decades old secret

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865686581/Baby-switch-How-a-Mormon-family-dealt-with-the-fallout-of-a-decades-old-secret.html

How to Handle a Sleepwalker

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/magazine/how-to-handle-a-sleepwalker.html

5 Lessons from Bad Guys in the Bible That We Need to Hear Today

http://www.ldsliving.com/5-Lessons-from-Bad-Guys-in-the-Bible/s/77057

The astonishing village where little girls turn into boys aged 12

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/12/the-astonishing-village-where-little-girls-turn-into-boys-aged-1/

Political Donors Put Their Money Where the Memes Are

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/business/media/political-donors-put-their-money-where-the-memes-are.html

Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html

Speaking of Science ‘My sister says I am an alien’: A 9-year-old applies to be NASA’s planetary protection officer

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/08/06/my-sister-says-i-am-an-alien-a-9-year-old-applies-to-be-nasas-planetary-protection-officer/

Let Forest Fires Burn? What the Black-Backed Woodpecker Knows

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/science/let-forest-fires-burn-what-the-black-backed-woodpecker-knows.html

Should I Help My Patients Die?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/05/opinion/sunday/dying-doctors-palliative-medicine.html

Gene Editing for ‘Designer Babies’? Highly Unlikely, Scientists Say

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/science/gene-editing-embryos-designer-babies.html

FIRED/REHIRED Police chiefs are often forced to put officers fired for misconduct back on the streets

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/police-fired-rehired/

How Air-Conditioning Conquered America (Even the Pacific Northwest)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/upshot/the-all-conquering-air-conditioner.html

The Secret Life of the City Banana

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/nyregion/the-secret-life-of-the-banana.html

Being rich wrecks your soul. We used to know that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/being-rich-wrecks-your-soul-we-used-to-know-that/2017/07/28/7d3e2b90-5ab3-11e7-9fc6-c7ef4bc58d13_story.html

A Robot Can Be a Warehouse Worker’s Best Friend

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-robot-can-be-a-warehouse-workers-best-friend-1501752600

The Unusually Popular Summer Travel Spots For Each State

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/03/sunday-review/summer-vacation-travel-destinations.html

The Best Path to Long-Term Change Is Slow, Simple and Boring

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/your-money/the-best-path-to-long-term-change-is-slow-simple-and-boring.html

The Secret Life of Pain

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/well/live/the-secret-life-of-pain.html

Meet the woman who brings Haruki Murakami works to an enthusiastic Poland

https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2017/0802/Meet-the-woman-who-brings-Haruki-Murakami-works-to-an-enthusiastic-Poland

A day in the life of President Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2017/08/01/a-day-in-the-life-of-president-trump/

She Was Convicted of Killing Her Mother. Prosecutors Withheld the Evidence That Would Have Freed Her.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/magazine/she-was-convicted-of-killing-her-mother-prosecutors-withheld-the-evidence-that-would-have-freed-her.html

Marijuana grows leaving more Colorado homes filled with mold

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/31/marijuana-leaving-colorado-homes-mold/

WHO WAS SHE? A DNA TEST ONLY OPENED NEW MYSTERIES.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/lifestyle/she-thought-she-was-irish-until-a-dna-test-opened-a-100-year-old-mystery/

The night I found the lord at a traffic stop

https://www.policeone.com/uniform-stories/articles/231418006-The-night-I-found-the-lord-at-a-traffic-stop/

I saved an old man’s life. He didn’t want it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/i-saved-an-old-mans-life-he-didnt-want-it/2017/07/28/f3ae6936-4d50-11e7-a186-60c031eab644_story.html

These college students lost access to legal pot — and started getting better grades

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/25/these-college-students-lost-access-to-legal-pot-and-started-getting-better-grades/

This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit

https://medium.com/the-mission/the-enemy-in-our-feeds-e86511488de

With New Vacuums, M.T.A. Workers Make Grimy Subway Tracks Shine

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/nyregion/with-new-vacuums-mta-workers-make-grimy-subway-tracks-shine.html

Britain to ban gasoline and diesel car sales by 2040

https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2017/0726/Britain-to-ban-gasoline-and-diesel-car-sales-by-2040

Boomer parents: 'One day, this will all be yours.' Grown children: 'Noooo!'

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2017/0725/Boomer-parents-One-day-this-will-all-be-yours.-Grown-children-Noooo

The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/upshot/the-company-behind-many-surprise-emergency-room-bills.html

Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/opinion/sunday/lets-get-excited-about-maintenance.html

Bad Israel, bad, bad, bad

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/bad-israel-bad-bad-bad/

It’s High Time for Ticks, Which Are Spreading Diseases Farther

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/health/ticks-disease-united-states.html

Someone strapped a 360-degree camera to a rocket

https://www.cnet.com/news/360-degree-video-rocket-launch-maxus-9/#ftag=CAD590a51e

For Ethiopia’s Underemployed Youth, Life Can Center on a Leaf

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/world/africa/ethiopia-khat-leaves.html

Extreme Commuting

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/realestate/extreme-commuting.html

Thanks to Venmo, We Now All Know How Cheap Our Friends Are

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/style/venmo-cheap-friends-transaction-history.html