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Under-Remarked Trends, Developments & Issues
Creator   Title/Description Recommenders Mark
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 (Note: Since this article is from 1999, some of the 'current' references are out of date, but the central thesis hasn't lost any force since the day it was written.)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