A software engineer looks in (great) detail at the well-document Boeing 737 Max issues from a software, design, and hardware perspective. He looks at the “market and technical forces” that could have lead to a less safe environment.
When news broke of a Chinese scientist creating the world’s first gene edited babies, he was presented as a lone, rogue operator. This story suggests that in fact a number of people in fact knew of his work.
The story of India’s Green Gang, “a gang of hundreds — no, thousands — of women, almost all of them poor and low-caste”. Their mission – to take on ” anyone who dared to hurt a woman, including violent in-laws, philandering husbands, domestic abusers, land-grabbers, bootleggers, molesters, and rapists.”
A political profile that goes beyond the norms of the format, particularly in exploring the dynamics of San Francisco power networks that helped forge Kamala Harris’s political career. Harris’s poll numbers spiked after an impressive performance in the recent Democratic primary debates.
James Meek on the dual characters of Jacob Rees-Mogg and their impact on Brexit Britain. Jacob 1 – “a member of Parliament performing a rolling re-enactment of steak-and-kidney-pudding Edwardian Britishness”, and Jacob 2 – “master of the spreadsheet…shrugging off the opening and closing of factories in this or that country as no more than the fluttering of gills on Mammon’s throat.”
A woman goes on a scientific free trip to observe water cranes in Texas days after calling off her engagement. In this powerful essay she reflects on the relationship she walked away from, and life ahead.
The Erdogan administration’s assault on Ankara University’s illustrious school of political science.
A story examining the intersection between business and politics in China.
In this thoughtful essay, a photographer recounts life on the road with Fan Bingbing, a Chinese film star who caused global headlines in 2018 when she disappeared from public view for several months.
A profile of the celebrated economist Raj Chetty, and his studies of economic (im)mobility at scale.