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DOCTORED STATS

Your Surgeon Is Probably A Republican, Your Psychiatrist Probably A Democrat

12 diggs The New York Times Data Viz Politics 11h

The new research is the first to directly measure the political leanings of a large sample of all doctors. Earlier research — using surveys of physicians and medical students, and looking at

IS HAROLD T MARTIN III THE NEW SNOWDEN?

NSA Contractor Arrested In Possible New Theft Of Secrets

15 diggs The New York Times News Crime 1d

The FBI secretly arrested a National Security Agency contractor in recent weeks and is investigating whether he stole and disclosed highly classified computer codes developed to hack into the networks of foreign governments, according to several senior law enforcement and intelligence officials.

IT'S STILL NOT A VEGETABLE

Engineering A Healthier Frozen Pizza

11 diggs The New York Times Food Science 1d

In the food labs across the world, scientists are trying to save their companies by creating healthier junk food.

IT TAKES GUTS

Life As A Meat-Factory Video Activist

6 diggs The New York Times Food Agriculture Long Reads Politics 4h

Inside the effort to pry open the meat industry.

NOT SWEET

Why The Obamas Failed To Take On Big Food

13 diggs The New York Times Agriculture Food Long Reads Politics 1d

After lofty promises from the Obamas to reform a predatory industry — we got nothing better than cornflakes.

MORE THAN 'SERIAL' SUCCESS

MailChimp And The Un-Silicon Valley Way To Make It As A Start-Up

20 diggs The New York Times Technology Business Internet Long Reads 1d

No venture capital, no Bay Area presence, no crazy burn rate: MailChimp’s founders built the company slowly by anticipating customers’ needs and following their instincts.

EYE CANDY

The Dizzying Grandeur Of 21st-Century Agriculture

12 diggs The New York Times Food Business Curious Photos 1d

Images of what it takes to feed a nation.

THE RIGHT MOVE

How Republican Politicians Learned To Love 'Working Mothers'

2 diggs The New York Times Election 2016 Gender Politics Donald Trump Hillary Clinton 2d

When Republican politicians held stay-at-home motherhood as the ideal, they often treated women who worked as radioactive. So Donald Trump's Sept. 13 speech, if nothing else, stands as a marker of how much the party’s campaign rhetoric has changed.

BLUE COLLAR IS THE GOLDEN TICKET

Why Are Politicians So Obsessed With Manufacturing?

8 diggs The New York Times Election 2016 Economics Politics 1d

American presidential candidates spent the better part of the 20th century promising to help family farmers in the face of urbanization. Now they promise to help factory workers in the face of globalization.

HALLOWEEN CANDY IS COMIN'

This Is Probably The Least You’ll Weigh All Year. Sorry.

4 diggs The New York Times Health 2d

Congratulations. If you are anything like the Americans in a study by a Cornell University professor, your weight will reach an annual low this week or the next. But don’t get too excited — you’ll most likely get fatter soon.

THE COLD (WAR) SHOULDER

The US Suspends Talks With Russia Over Its Involvement In A Recent Aleppo Bombing

7 diggs The New York Times News Warfare Politics World 3d

The decision was announced less than a week after Secretary of State John Kerry threatened to suspend the talks with Russia aimed at reviving the cease-fire agreement.

'WINNING BACK THE STREETS'

What New York Can Learn From Barcelona’s ‘Superblocks’

30 diggs The New York Times Cities 3d

Barcelona has decided that many of its car-clogged streets and intersections will hardly have cars at all. Instead, they will be turned over to pedestrians.

SKIES AND LIMITS

The Fight Over Hawaii's Billion-Dollar Telescope

15 diggs The New York Times Long Reads 2d

The Thirty Meter Telescope, which would be the expensive stargazing machinery ever built in the Northern Hemisphere, has been 14 years and $1.4 billion in the making. Unless a group of native Hawaiians can stop it.

HOW THE SAUSAGE GETS SCOOPED

The Time I Found Donald Trump’s Tax Records In My Mailbox

28 diggs The New York Times Media Election 2016 News Politics Donald Trump 4d

I walked to my mailbox and spotted a manila envelope, postmarked New York, NY, with a return address of The Trump Organization. My heart skipped a beat.

TAXES? HE DIDN'T PAY NO STINKING TAXES

Trump's 1995 Tax Records Reveal He Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes For 18 Years

40 diggs The New York Times Donald Trump Election 2016 Law News Politics 4d

Donald Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for almost two decades.

INSANITY

Philippines President, Citing Hitler, Says He Wants To Kill 3 Million Addicts

22 diggs The New York Times World News 1w

“Hitler massacred three million Jews,” Mr. Duterte said after returning to the Philippines from a trip to Vietnam, understating the toll cited by historians, which is six million. “Now there is three million, there’s three million drug addicts. There are. I’d be happy to slaughter them.”

A NEW TRAIN OF THOUGHT

Can Penn Station Be Resurrected?

17 diggs The New York Times Architecture Cities 1w

Decades ago, New York lost one of its grand entryways. What if a new one were hiding in plain sight?

OUT IN LEFT FIELD

Can New Technology Bring Baseball’s Data Revolution To Fielding?

9 diggs The New York Times Sports Long Reads Science Technology 1w

For years, players have been valued for their hitting. Now a groundbreaking tool makes it possible to measure how much their defense contributes to a team’s success.

MICHIKO SHADE

How Hitler Rose to Power

38 diggs The New York Times Books Politics 5d

There is one word missing from this review.

FOR A MOMENT, EMPATHY

Shimon Peres Funeral Brings Together Allies And Rivals In Mourning

4 diggs The New York Times News Beliefs Politics World 1w

From across the ocean and across the Green Line, they came on Friday to the mountaintop sanctuary of Mount Herzl to bid farewell to Shimon Peres, who did as much as anyone to build modern Israel and then became its leading advocate of peace.