Tag: Society
All longform pieces tagged with #society on The Slow Scroll
Big Battle on the Little Wichita
Texas Monthly • 28 Jan 2025 • ~2550 words
A North Texas city wants to build a new reservoir to blunt the effect of future droughts. But many local ranchers say it would destroy their way of life.
The Case for Kicking the Stone
Los Angeles Review of Books • 28 Jan 2025 • ~2600 words
Philip Ball finds Nicholas Carr’s “Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart” disturbingly compelling.
What Happened When America Emptied Its Youth Prisons
New York Times • 28 Jan 2025 • ~6200 words
Lessons from a radical 20-year experiment and a quiet triumph of public policy.