Under-Remarked Trends, Developments & Issues

Creator	Title/Description	Recommenders
Wil S. Hylton	Broken Heartland The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains	Jane Fields Web Maven Robert Winter
Charles Fishman	The Insourcing Boom General Electric and other companies are discovering ways of saving money by bringing manufacturing back to the United States	Robert Winter Web Maven Jane Fields
Robert D. Kaplan	The Vietnam Solution How a former enemy became a crucial U.S. ally in balancing China's rise	Robert Winter Web Maven
Caitlin Flanagan	Sex and the Married Man How Cosmopolitan's Helen Gurley Brown inspired a generation of home-wreckers, and brought down John Edwards	The Atlantic Monthly Web Maven Robert Winter
Brian Christian	Mind vs. Machine How to convince a panel of expert judges you're human, and not a computer	The Atlantic Monthly Web Maven Robert Winter Amy Matthews
Thomas 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 AIDS	The Atlantic Monthly Robert Winter Amy Matthews
Harvey 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 (Note: Since this article is from 1999, some of the 'current' references are out of date, but the central thesis hasn't lost any force since the day it was written.)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 Web Maven Robert Winter
Andy Isaacson	Are You Following a Bot? How to manipulate social movements by hacking Twitter	The Atlantic Monthly Bart Hendrickson
Michael 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