features
The Revolution Will Be Illustrated: Stephanie McMillan's Occupy Cartoons
The radical, prolific political cartoonist reflects upon the failures and victories of the movement that occupied her for over a year.
Dec 22 2012
Michael Arria
Well Of Course Someone Is 3D-Printing Records
Turning digital files into physical objects on-demand.
Dec 22 2012
Kevin Holmes
This Is What Climate Change Cost the U.S. in 2012
Billions of bucks and hundreds of lives, to start.
Why Can't Washington Leaders Compromise? We Don't Really Want Them To
We often get frustrated with Congress's inability to budge on anything, but that's what we hired them to do.
features
The End of the World is a Game
Four noteworthy tales of total gaming destruction done with such gravitas and finesse they make Nostradamus look like Miss Cleo.
Dec 21 2012
Colin Snyder
Happy Launchversary to Apollo 8, the First Manned Mission to Leave Orbit
The daring, secret mission to send men to loop the Moon.
Ones and Zeros: Spider Decoys, Kickstarter Isn't Amazon, and NASA's New Spacesuit
This week's best and worst news, rated in binary.
The Flood of Guns Is Only Going to Rise in America
Between 3D-printing, rising production and still-lax regulations, Americans will have more access to guns than ever.
columns
Watch This Trailer: How 'Django Unchained' and 'To the Wonder' Sell Themselves
It's multiplex versus art house in the battle of modern auteurs' projected appeal.
Instagram Rewrote Its Terms of Service, But the New One Still Isn't Great
The issue with Instagram's ToS change isn't so much of one of privacy, but of ownership.
features
You're (Probably) Not Invited: End Times Living with the Doomsday 1 Percent
Deep inside Larry Hall's apocalypse compound, a lavish bunker designed specifically for filthy-rich survivalists.
Dec 21 2012
Jake Hanrahan
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