5+ day, 19+ hour ago  (289+ words) It happens all too often. You're nearing the end of an episode of Planet Money, particularly an episode that successfully thrashes away all of the gobbledegook so we can get a clearer, plain-spoken story about our own personal economy. You…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago  (574+ words) SARAH GONZALEZ, BYLINE: Hey, Ailsa. GONZALEZ: We were cohosts together. CHANG: It's so fun. But I don't remember us ever talking about making a book. So I'm a little jealous here. Tell me, what did you guys set out to…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago  (410+ words) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is accused of bullying his late second wife, Mary Richardson, in a new biography about the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Richardson died by suicide at age 52 in May 2012, two years after Kennedy, 72, filed for divorce....

13+ hour, 6+ min ago  (350+ words) In the early 1920s, the art historian Aby Warburg arranged the books in his private library in Hamburg according to a principle he never fully wrote down but that his colleagues understood well enough to preserve after his death. He called…...

9+ hour, 14+ min ago  (275+ words) Was Ivan the terrible really that bad? Or was he just a sick man affected by his times? Continue reading on Medium " Ivan The Terrible'Or Ivan the Somewhat Morally Justified? Alright, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. Ivan the terrible was…...

16+ hour, 30+ min ago  (1225+ words) The Index on Censorship magazine in March featured an interview with a former UK librarian, hounded out of a job she loved due to fallout from a book censorship drive by school management. Over 50 percent of school librarians have reported…...

13+ hour, 1+ min ago  (190+ words) Songs of praise | Adding up on Countdown | Books by numbers | EU frenemies | Passing up on money Phew! Such a relief to read the corrections column (1o April). As a former maths teacher, I love the Countdown quiz, but last week defeated…...

15+ hour, 16+ min ago  (495+ words) Mythos: Why It Is So Dangerous by Peter Ng " only available on Etsy I've spent my career in cybersecurity, advising banks, government agencies, and tech companies on how to stay safe. I thought I had seen it all. Then, on…...

15+ hour, 46+ min ago  (301+ words) In the waning years of the Hapsburg Empire, a strange child with translucent skin is born into the L'z'r family. His name is Lajos, and he will be the last baron in an aristocratic lineage about to plummet headlong into…...

22+ hour, 8+ min ago  (210+ words) We chat with author Anna Dorn about'American Spirits, which is a love letter to pop music and charts an icon's fall'and an obsessive fangirl's rise. I'm the LA-based author of Perfume & Pain, Exalted, Vagablonde, and American Spirits. As soon as…...