Getting the word out on increasing government surveilance of its citizens.

This story shows that despite the backtracking the contempt for the 47% is still strong. Claims that winning the votes of whites with over $50k of income was a moral victory.

A well written summary of gerrymandering and its effects.

Goes well beyond the attack soundbytes and provides specifics to the extent they are available and comments by experts in the field.

If you're going to claim massive election fraud in 49 states you'd better have some very compelling proof. This article falls far short of that. No independent outside review of the data or the methods used is ever mentioned. No smoking gun (keyboard?) of who/when/how the giant computer fraud is ever brought out. This is a conspiracy theory masquerading as a news article.

It has been shown that the way the inventor took his measurements did not reflect actual power output and his approach does not work. Not to take away from the interest and initiative of a young person, but a good article would have checked up on the invention and discovered the flaws in the experiment instead of only relying on a single source.

A few questionable factoids strung together for some alarmist doomsday scare mongering.

This is a good non technical explanation of some of the technical issues in selecting processors for computer devices and the technology used to address those issues. Not a lot of depth, but after reading this you can at least know what it is the geeks are talking about and why it matters.

A summary of a proposal to target some foreign based web sites. More depth, more analysis and more expert input would improve the article, but this is a good and necessary start.

A good, not overly technical, overview of how multiple data sources are combined to improve GPS performance. This explains why Apple was saving data which could be used to track phones.

gives the NYT's Public Editor a seemingly well deserved slapping around for suggesting that newspapers, and especially the NYT should only write positive articles about each other.

This story is based on the pretense that saving any number of lives is worth any cost and because of that avoids a good opportunity to talk about the fact that we don't act that way in real life and that health and safety laws are about that tradeoff.

This story of a company town shutting down when the company does gives us real people and real lives to illustrate what is happening to a lot of families in this economy. Well written, but the company was not included.

First hand perspective on the Japan disaster.

Takes what could be a generic celebrity arrest story into a chance to comment on class, the drug war, and inequality.

Condescending explanation that Hufpost has some paid staff and some unpaid bloggers.

Explains what drives change in a common product and the impact of the changes on the environment and everyday users. A good amount of depth on something I'd only seen small articles about in other places.

Refers to TSA as goons and Gestapo in the first sentence. At least the biases are up front. Facts in the article are worth getting out.

Article tries to make a link between a poorly tested pesticide and honeybee's colony collapse disorder but does a very poor job of linking the two. Pure conjecture that tries to pass itself off as investigation. I guess if the climate change deniers can print their stuff its only fair to give unsupported alarmist articles some space too.

Excellent rebuttal to Lanier's piece.