Under-Remarked Trends, Developments & Issues
Creator Title/Description Recommenders Mark Wil S. Hylton Broken Heartland
The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great PlainsJane Fields
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Robert WinterCharles Fishman The Insourcing Boom
General Electric and other companies are discovering ways of *saving* money by bringing manufacturing back to the United StatesRobert Winter
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Jane FieldsRobert D. Kaplan The Vietnam Solution
How a former enemy became a crucial U.S. ally in balancing China's riseRobert Winter
Web MavenCaitlin Flanagan Sex and the Married Man
How Cosmopolitan's Helen Gurley Brown inspired a generation of home-wreckers, and brought down John EdwardsThe Atlantic Monthly
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Robert WinterBrian Christian Mind vs. Machine
How to convince a panel of expert judges you're human, and not a computerThe Atlantic Monthly
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Amy MatthewsThomas E. Ricks General Failure
A culture of mediocrity has taken hold within the Army's senior leadership ranks. If it is not uprooted, the country's next war is not likely to go very well.Bart Hendrickson Shaun Raviv The Kindest Cut
Swaziland turns to mass circumcision as a defense against AIDSThe Atlantic Monthly
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Amy MatthewsHarvey Cox The Market as God
A theologian finds surprising similarities between his own field and what's said about markets these days. (Note: Since this article is from 1999, some of the 'current' references are out of date, but the central thesis hasn't lost any force since the day it was written.)The Atlantic Monthly
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Robert WinterAndy Isaacson Are You Following a Bot?
How to manipulate social movements by hacking TwitterThe Atlantic Monthly
Bart HendricksonMichael Hiltzik Sowing Doubt About Science
Discusses the deliberate creation of ignorance by entities like the tobacco industry (which is also said to have been deeply involved in the evolution of the Tea Party movement), highlighting the work of Stanford's Robert Proctor, a leading expert in the new field of "agnotology"Robert Winter