What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane
Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.
July 2019
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The Workplace Report: The problem with HR, the end of expertise, and managing your professional decline. Plus William Langewiesche on MH370, watching extinction in real time, gay hookup culture and consent, the Earth’s deepest secrets, and more.
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The Problem With HR
For 30 years, we’ve trusted human-resources departments to prevent and address workplace sexual harassment. How’s that working out?
At Work, Expertise Is Falling Out of Favor
These days, it seems, just about all organizations are asking their employees to do more with less. Is that actually a good idea?
Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
Here’s how to make the most of it.
Essay
Arsh Raziuddin Cruising in the Age of Consent
Gay men once developed codes to ensure safety in the hunt for sex. Can they help #MeToo do the same?
Dispatches
Edmon de Haro Better Schools Won’t Fix America
Like many rich Americans, I used to think educational investment could heal the country’s ills—but I was wrong. Fighting inequality must come first.
Rami Niemi Boy Scouts Are Holding Together a War-Torn Country
In the Central African Republic, peacekeepers come in all sizes.
John Cuneo The Last of Its Kind
The biologist David Sischo has a tragic assignment: keeping vigil over a species’ sole survivor, then marking its extinction in real time.
James Graham People Who Pay People to Kill People
The twisted logic behind hiring a hit man
Gosia Herba The Worst Patients in the World
Americans are hypochondriacs, yet we skip our checkups. We demand drugs we don’t need, and fail to take the ones we do. No wonder the U.S. leads the world in health spending.
Joe McKendry Put That Cow on a Diet
A very short book excerpt
The Culture File
Katie Martin ‘A Work of Art Designed by the Devil’
Dispatched by Life magazine to cover the Apollo 11 mission, Norman Mailer saw the lunar landing not as a triumph for mankind but as evidence of our hubris.
Hokyoung Kim What Lies Beneath
Burrow far below the planet’s surface, and even there, humanity has left its imprint.
Oliver Munday Doublethink Is Stronger Than Orwell Imagined
What 1984 means today
Golden Cosmos The New Science of Building Baseball Superstars
“Sabermetrics” changed the national pastime. Now another technological revolution is transforming the game, for good or ill.
Departments
The Conversation: The Trouble With Dentistry
Readers respond to “The Trouble With Dentistry” and more.
Graham Roumieu What Lost Treasure Would You Most Like to Find?
A big question
Poetry
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