Compound Observer

How 4 companies control the beef industry

Published 2021-09-29 13:40:00 UTC

R. Kelly was convicted. Are we finally listening to Black women?

Published 2021-09-29 18:47:00 UTC

How mental health became a social media minefield

Published 2021-09-30 08:00:00 UTC

Americans do not see all Afghan refugees as equal

Published 2021-09-30 09:00:00 UTC

What “extinction” really means — and what it leaves out

Published 2021-09-30 12:18:08 UTC

Britney Spears’s conservatorship isn’t over. Yet.

Published 2021-09-30 15:30:00 UTC

Kilauea is erupting in Hawaii. Here are 7 things to know about volcanoes.

Published 2021-09-30 16:31:44 UTC

The Vox Book Club is spending October reading and talking to Lauren Groff

Published 2021-09-30 16:30:00 UTC

Venom: Let There Be Carnage has a bombshell post-credits scene

Published 2021-09-30 20:30:00 UTC

“Try us”: House progressives finally flex their power

Published 2021-09-30 22:51:00 UTC

The case for a more radical climate movement

Published 2021-10-01 08:00:00 UTC

Why people who don’t trust vaccines are embracing unproven drugs

Published 2021-10-01 08:10:00 UTC

Why I felt betrayed by Netflix’s Midnight Mass

Published 2021-10-01 08:30:00 UTC

Apple picking is a bizarre imitation of hard work

Published 2021-10-01 09:00:03 UTC

What could the rejection of the NCAA’s “student-athlete” label mean for US workers everywhere?

Published 2021-10-01 09:00:00 UTC

Brexit didn’t create the UK’s fuel crisis. But it did make it worse.

Published 2021-10-01 09:30:00 UTC

October’s must-see movies, from long-delayed blockbusters to gorgeous arthouse gems

Published 2021-10-01 12:00:00 UTC

A pill to treat Covid-19 that seems to actually work

Published 2021-10-01 16:30:00 UTC

The state of infrastructure talks in Congress, explained

Published 2021-10-01 19:20:00 UTC

The nihilism of Neil Gorsuch

Published 2021-10-02 08:00:00 UTC

The Sopranos vs. the end of history

Published 2021-10-02 09:00:00 UTC

Why Ethiopia wants to expel UN officials sounding the alarm on famine

Published 2021-10-02 17:30:15 UTC

When the world actually solved an environmental crisis

Published 2021-10-03 08:00:00 UTC

The best $200 I ever spent: A stroller that made me feel welcome in public

Published 2021-10-03 09:00:00 UTC

Mail delays and price hikes are coming to USPS. Here’s why.

Published 2021-10-03 17:10:00 UTC

Why this Facebook scandal is different

Published 2021-10-03 20:15:57 UTC

Google’s plan to cut pay for remote workers who relocate is a bad idea

Published 2021-10-04 08:00:00 UTC

The refreshing, bad romance of Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Published 2021-10-04 08:30:00 UTC

Should you invest in little bits of paintings, cars, and comedians?

Published 2021-10-04 09:00:00 UTC

Six, the long-delayed pop musical about Henry VIII’s wives, is glorious nonsense

Published 2021-10-04 16:40:00 UTC

The status games we all play

Published 2021-10-05 08:00:00 UTC

Every version of the Monica Lewinsky story reveals America’s failure of empathy

Published 2021-10-05 08:30:00 UTC

24 hours offline with the VIPs of NYC TikTok

Published 2021-10-05 09:00:00 UTC

One Good Thing: A campy, colorful martial arts epic to stream after Shang-Chi

Published 2021-10-05 09:10:00 UTC

Why nuclear plants are shutting down

Published 2021-10-05 11:10:00 UTC

Earth’s climate is chaotic. The winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize in physics found patterns in the noise.

Published 2021-10-05 12:30:00 UTC

Even small oil spills are disasters

Published 2021-10-05 14:30:00 UTC

Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads is an opus on humiliation. It’s very good.

Published 2021-10-05 15:00:00 UTC

Facebook’s whistleblower tells Congress how to regulate tech

Published 2021-10-05 19:50:00 UTC

Self-driving cars: The 21st-century trolley problem

Published 2021-10-06 07:00:00 UTC

The Supreme Court confronts the CIA’s worst-kept secret

Published 2021-10-06 08:00:00 UTC

The great book shortage of 2021, explained

Published 2021-10-06 08:30:00 UTC

Americans throw away too many clothes. Poorer countries are left with the waste.

Published 2021-10-06 09:00:00 UTC

What Squid Game’s fantasies and harsh realities reveal about Korea

Published 2021-10-06 09:30:00 UTC

The many imperfections of the Nobel Prizes

Published 2021-10-06 10:00:00 UTC

Facebook is having a Big Oil moment

Published 2021-10-06 12:00:00 UTC

The mystery of the “same sky” postcards

Published 2021-10-06 12:40:00 UTC

Our amazing sense of touch, explained by a Nobel laureate

Published 2021-10-06 14:10:00 UTC

Why lawmakers are fighting over the debt ceiling — again

Published 2021-10-06 15:25:00 UTC

Why the WHO approval of the first malaria vaccine is a big deal

Published 2021-10-06 15:55:00 UTC

How worried should we be about Covid-19 in kids?

Published 2021-10-07 08:00:00 UTC

The Supreme Court takes a lie detector test

Published 2021-10-07 08:30:00 UTC

This is America’s last, best chance for decisive climate action

Published 2021-10-07 09:00:00 UTC

Banks don’t want your money right now

Published 2021-10-07 11:00:00 UTC

The trillion-dollar coin scheme, explained by the guy who invented it

Published 2021-10-07 13:55:00 UTC

Supply chain havoc is getting worse — just in time for holiday shopping

Published 2021-10-07 15:20:00 UTC

The next steps in the interminable debt ceiling fight, explained

Published 2021-10-07 20:40:00 UTC

The best- and worst-case scenarios for Covid-19 this winter

Published 2021-10-08 08:00:00 UTC

Is Biden’s legislative agenda popular? Yes, but …

Published 2021-10-08 08:30:00 UTC

The appeal and the shortcomings of women-only gyms

Published 2021-10-08 08:50:00 UTC

Goodbye, Mr. Bond

Published 2021-10-08 10:00:00 UTC

Climate scientists should pay more attention to fish poop. Really.

Published 2021-10-08 14:00:00 UTC

How the 3-point line is breaking basketball

Published 2021-10-08 14:50:10 UTC

The Atlantic wants to hire newsletter writers — and it wants their subscribers, too

Published 2021-10-09 07:00:00 UTC

A brief history of the internet hating Jonathan Franzen

Published 2021-10-09 09:00:00 UTC

The many signals China is sending with its Taiwan flyovers

Published 2021-10-09 11:00:00 UTC

Texas’s anti-abortion law was halted. Then, suddenly, it wasn’t.

Published 2021-10-09 18:00:10 UTC

Is socially responsible investing all a lie?

Published 2021-10-10 08:30:00 UTC

Lebanon’s electricity was down for a day, but the crisis was years in the making

Published 2021-10-10 17:30:00 UTC

A better way to legalize marijuana

Published 2021-10-11 08:00:00 UTC

Why the best aliens are just a little bit human

Published 2021-10-11 10:00:00 UTC

The problem with America’s semi-rich

Published 2021-10-12 08:00:00 UTC

One Good Thing: Only Murders in the Building plays like a Nora Ephron murder mystery

Published 2021-10-12 08:30:00 UTC

Couch Guy and the nightmare of going viral

Published 2021-10-12 09:00:00 UTC

Jaguars were hunted out of America. Should we bring them back?

Published 2021-10-12 09:30:00 UTC

Startups are betting on a psychedelic gold rush

Published 2021-10-13 08:00:00 UTC

Biden’s incoherent immigration policy

Published 2021-10-13 08:30:00 UTC

Can the US cut drug prices without sacrificing new cures?

Published 2021-10-13 09:00:00 UTC

Why so many people undercharge for their work

Published 2021-10-13 09:30:00 UTC

Bryan Stevenson on tracing the legacy of American enslavement to mass incarceration

Published 2021-10-13 12:50:00 UTC

When removing a statue actually is antidemocratic

Published 2021-10-13 16:20:00 UTC

Maybe losing the AI race to China isn’t such a bad idea

Published 2021-10-13 17:09:16 UTC

Why Hollywood loves this creepy bird call

Published 2021-10-13 18:10:00 UTC

The dark, enthralling power of Succession

Published 2021-10-14 08:00:00 UTC

Money Talks: The couple that grew up with very different relationships to spending

Published 2021-10-14 09:00:00 UTC

The lies of the TV abortion storyline

Published 2021-10-14 11:20:00 UTC

Why so many new buildings are covered in rectangles

Published 2021-10-14 14:04:32 UTC

Dave Chappelle vs. trans people vs. Netflix

Published 2021-10-14 16:40:00 UTC

Americans are ready to tax the rich

Published 2021-10-15 08:30:00 UTC

A last will and testament can be a huge fight for families

Published 2021-10-15 09:00:00 UTC

The Last Duel is a medieval epic about believing women, and it’s a mess

Published 2021-10-15 11:00:00 UTC

The $5 trillion insurance industry faces a reckoning. Blame climate change.

Published 2021-10-15 11:10:00 UTC

The case against means testing

Published 2021-10-15 11:50:00 UTC

In Lauren Groff’s Matrix, medieval nuns build a feminist utopia

Published 2021-10-15 12:30:00 UTC