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Reuters Smart Weapons Need to Be Smarter
No missiles should shoot down civilian airliners by mistake.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters How Taxpayers Keep the NFL Rich
The league has long taken advantage of public dollars to pay for stadiums, hotel suites, and exorbitant salaries. The sport—and fans—would be better off if that ended.
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Peter Yang What Happens When We All Live to 100?
If life-expectancy trends continue, that future may be near, transforming society in surprising and far-reaching ways.
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Reuters The Rotten NFL Scheme at the Heart of the AT&T-DirecTV Merger
The Sunday Ticket arrangement assures that only a small share of the American population can enjoy viewer choice on Sunday afternoons. And AT&T wants to own it.
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CBS America's Creepy, Surveillance-Endorsing Love of NCIS
By featuring warrantless agents who thwart domestic terrorists with fantastical technology, shows like NCIS essentially ask Americans to root for Big Brother.
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AP Reminder: Most People Endangered by Football Don't Play in the NFL
President Obama says it's OK to enjoy events like the Super Bowl because the players are consenting adults. But most of the country's players are kids and teens who don't know better.
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Matt Lehman How the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers
Taxpayers fund the stadiums, antitrust law doesn't apply to broadcast deals, the league enjoys nonprofit status, and Commissioner Roger Goodell makes $30 million a year. It's time to stop the public giveaways to America's richest sports league—and to the feudal lords who own its teams.
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Outage Outrage: The Politics of Electricity
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley wants to run for president in 2016, but he can't even deal with a dismal power utility in his home state.
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NASA/solar dynamics observatory/Getty Images Star Power
What we don’t know about the sun may kill us—or erase our iPods.
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The Revolutionary Ideas of Nobelist Adam Riess
"Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed," Riess told our interviewer
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Privatize the Seas
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Buffalo Shuffle
Can a deal with Toronto save an American football team—and its decaying hometown?
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The Sky Is Falling
The odds that a potentially devastating space rock will hit Earth this century may be as high as one in 10. So why isn’t NASA trying harder to prevent catastrophe?
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A 401(k) for a Warming World
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Global Warming: Who Loses—and Who Wins?
Climate change in the next century (and beyond) could be enormously disruptive, spreading disease and sparking wars. It could also be a windfall for some people, businesses, and nations. A guide to how we all might get along in a warming world
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Some Convenient Truths
Runaway global warming looks all but unstoppable. Maybe that’s because we haven’t really tried to stop it
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Who Needs Harvard?
The pressure on smart kids to get into top schools has never been higher. But the differences between these schools and the next tier down have never been smaller
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Long Shot
Defying the odds, even before the recent loss of the space shuttle Columbia, an eccentric company called Sea Launch has become the first private enterprise to send large rockets into space—from an enormous floating launch pad that sails to the equator for blast-off. Has the era of private space travel begun?
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In Defense of C. S. Lewis
A rebuttal of recent denunciations of the classic Chronicles of Narnia as racist, misogynist, "poisonous" works
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Hybrid Vigor
A funny thing happened on the way to the demise of the plug-in car.
