The Secretive Family Making Billions From the Opioid Crisis

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12775932/sackler-family-oxycontin/

Free speech at American universities is under threat

https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21730156-fears-pandemic-snowflakery-are-overwrought-free-speech-american-universities

Ex-Green Beret Nate Boyer writes open letter to Trump, Kaepernick, NFL and America

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/21003968/nfl-2017-ex-green-beret-nate-boyer-writes-open-letter-president-donald-trump-colin-kaepernick-nfl-united-states-america

The scientists persuading terrorists to spill their secrets

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/13/the-scientists-persuading-terrorists-to-spill-their-secrets

Commit a crime? Your Fitbit, key fob or pacemaker could snitch on you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/commit-a-crime-your-fitbit-key-fob-or-pacemaker-could-snitch-on-you/2017/10/09/f35a4f30-8f50-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2_story.html

How Pet Snakes Set Off an Unlikely Chain of Events That Could Make You Sick

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/07/climate/everglades-pythons-mosquitoes.html

Before and After Photos: Fires Tear Through California’s Wine Country

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/10/us/california-fires-maps-photos.html

Our economic cannibalism

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-economic-cannibalism/2017/10/08/9a7de5a4-aab0-11e7-850e-2bdd1236be5d_story.html

The Confederacy’s ‘Living Monuments’

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/the-confederacys-living-monuments.html

Nothing Divides Voters Like Owning a Gun

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/05/upshot/gun-ownership-partisan-divide.html

Why gun experts don’t support banning – or buying – ‘bump stocks’

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2017/1004/Why-gun-experts-don-t-support-banning-or-buying-bump-stocks

DIY do-gooders direct Caribbean disaster relief efforts

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2017/1004/DIY-do-gooders-direct-Caribbean-disaster-relief-efforts

The Dogs of the Vietnam War

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/opinion/the-dogs-of-the-vietnam-war.html

I used to think gun control was the answer. My research told me otherwise.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-used-to-think-gun-control-was-the-answer-my-research-told-me-otherwise/2017/10/03/d33edca6-a851-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html

Using outer space to help cool buildings on Earth

https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy/2017/1002/Using-outer-space-to-help-cool-buildings-on-Earth

‘The Social Contract Is Broken’: Inequality Becomes Deadly in Mexico

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/world/americas/mexico-inequality-violence-security.html

How the LDS Church is changing lives in India

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865689933/How-the-LDS-Church-is-changing-lives-in-India.html

When ‘Not Guilty’ Is a Life Sentence

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/magazine/when-not-guilty-is-a-life-sentence.html

How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/magazine/how-fake-news-turned-a-small-town-upside-down.html

How to Survive the Apocalypse

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/style/how-to-survive-the-apocalypse.html

Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/science/praying-mantis-eating-birds.html

What You Need to Know About the Inspector General’s Audit of Western Governors U.

http://www.chronicle.com/article/What-You-Need-to-Know-About/241263

Dirty Air Might Harm Your Kidneys

https://medlineplus.gov/news/fullstory_168516.html

How to Fight ‘Fake News’ (Warning: It Isn’t Easy)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/business/media/fight-fake-news.html

ICE transfers immigrants held in detention around the country to keep beds filled. Then it releases them, with no help getting home.

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/09/17/ice-detention-transfers-immigrants/

Hurricane Irma’s Vast Destruction in the Caribbean, Building by Building

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/17/world/americas/irma-caribbean-damage.html

As Wildfires Burn in West, Ash Rides Wind High Across U.S.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/16/us/wildfires-smoke-pacific-northwest.html

How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/16/health/brazil-obesity-nestle.html

An ice cream truck for vegetables: Arvada Veggie Van brings affordable produce to food deserts

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/09/12/arvada-veggie-van-vegetables-food-deserts/

Why does your identity depend on one number? Security experts push to replace SSN

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/09/15/equifax-data-breach-social-security-number-replacement/

In Detroit, the end of blight is in sight

https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21728959-what-happens-when-city-accustomed-bad-government-elects-good-one-detroit-end

This Silicon Valley start-up wants to replace lawyers with robots

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/09/14/this-silicon-valley-startup-wants-to-replace-lawyers-with-robots/

It's a small world after all, say scientists warning of sand scarcity

https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2017/0914/It-s-a-small-world-after-all-say-scientists-warning-of-sand-scarcity

As Hurricane Irma bore down, Tesla gave some Florida drivers more battery juice. Here’s why that’s a big deal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/09/11/as-hurricane-irma-bore-down-tesla-gave-some-florida-drivers-more-battery-juice-heres-why-thats-a-big-deal/

The ‘internet of things’ is sending us back to the Middle Ages

https://theconversation.com/the-internet-of-things-is-sending-us-back-to-the-middle-ages-81435

PostEverything Perspective The deadliest period of a hurricane? After it’s over.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/12/the-deadliest-time-during-a-hurricane-after-its-over/

What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead Guilty.

https://www.propublica.org/article/what-does-an-innocent-man-have-to-do-alford-plea-guilty

How big is Hurricane Irma?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/how-big-is-hurricane-irma/

This Tiny Country Feeds the World

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming/

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