How to Return a Farm to the Wild—And Maybe Save the Planet
With unstoppable vigour, thickets of thistles three-foot-high were advancing over our land, engulfing acre after acre like the Day Of The Triffids. Every day, as my husband Charlie and I walked...
American Slavery, Reinvented
Crops stretch to the horizon. Black bodies pepper the landscape, hunched over as they work the fields. Officers on horseback, armed, oversee the workers.To the untrained eye, the scenes in Angola for...
How to tell if your computer has been tampered with
Whether you're in an open office where colleagues regularly wander past, or live somewhere—like a college dorm—where you may feel comfortable leaving your laptop unattended in the presence of relative strangers,...
Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Wendy’s franchisee gives $200K more to Trump reelection campaign
Wendy's is facing backlash online after Business Insider reported that a franchisee on President Donald Trump's restaurant-recovery roundtable donated more than $400,000 to reelect the president.
In mid-May, the White House announced that Muy Cos. CEO...
Home prices in some Virginia suburbs have shot up $100,000. Thank Amazon
Home prices in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., have jumped more than $100,000 since Amazon announced last year that it planned to build a corporate headquarters in Crystal City,...
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Seth Rogen Hosted an Adults-Only, Marijuana-Fueled Carnival To Battle Alzheimer’s
When Seth Rogen appeared before Congress in 2014, he said what was likely on every legislator’s minds.
“First I should answer the question I assume many of you are asking, yes I’m aware this...
How Vietnam veterans expanded America’s cannabis strains
Veterans in the U.S. and Canada are becoming increasingly open to trying cannabis when first-line drugs aren’t working. But their governments aren’t making it easy.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs still...
Australia lowers Great Barrier Reef outlook to ‘very poor’
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The government agency that manages Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has downgraded its outlook for the corals’ condition from “poor” to “very poor” due to warming oceans.
The Great...
Has legal cannabis killed the bong?
‘To the fraternity of underground cannabis users, they were akin to sacred totems.’ Illustration: George Wylesol
In the stoner culture that flourished under cannabis prohibition, nothing signified one’s love of the plant...