really fucking good articles

ya, so. i really like articles and i’ve basically used facebook to share articles for the past three years nearly non-stop (like really just that, what are friends and family?). anyway over time i’ve come to find a certain type of article i really liked, so i came back and trawled through everything to pick out some of these articles and compile them into a massive list.

most of these articles that i’ve selected are selected because i feel that they are pretty objective and give a very clear-eyed view of what’s happening in a particular situation. another thing i look out for is depth and content; some of these articles really go all the way to make you understand new/basic concepts in order for you to really understand the situation. (quite a few are based on individuals, and are in-depth about the lives of these individuals.)

all of them just in general have great writing and although there are many serious topics there are numerous articles with lighthearted content as well, and some articles which simply showcase good writing or are just plain funny.

disclaimer: i do not claim to have (or actively support) the views espoused in any of these articles. they are just good articles cuz i think they are objective or in depth. an article might be objective but might still be wrong for other reasons.

also i am quite sad that, probably due to the nature of my feed, many of these articles focus on the topics of academia or american politics. there is much more happening in the world and i acknowledge that. if you know any articles about different topics (such as politics of another country) which are written in a similar style as these articles (with focus on objectivity and in depth content) do comment! i’ll look to see if i can add it.

here we go:

chinese students and ivy league
civilian casualties of airstrikes
journalist catfishes ISIS leader
trump vs clinton debate, except genderswapped
defence of clinton
small donald trump
donald trump sexual misconduct
guy pretends to be trump
derek parfit and morality
gun violence
kim jong nam’s assassination
transgender children
genetics of iq
modern witch hunts
intolerance of tolerance
entire fucking story of ISIS
female soldiers
executioners of death penalty
math ceilings
animation, disney to ghibli
sex vs gender
hayao miyazaki
street art and graffiti
anonymous VS ISIS
shakespeare, iago
masculinity in different cultures
newt scamander and toxic masculinity
stopping child marriage
cultural appropriation is toxic
creation of ISIS
pope francis the manager
marvel’s tony stark
pope benedict and church sexual abuse
overexposed works of art
suicide by text
sackler family and opioid crisis
you’ll never be famous
asean is a bloody miracle
fakeass instagram food
newton’s flaming laser sword
crispr
the art of monstrous men
virtual reality
cancer and its host
multiple translations of a poem
the law and computer code
the war against pope francis
get rid of bullshit in art academia
supreme court can’t take math
yitang zhang and bounded gaps
undercover father to find sons killers
saving lives remotely through the internet
UN peacekeepers and rape
7 days of heroin epidemic
internet language
loneliness of a generation
the last nazi hunters
language of the cockpit
assisted suicide california
limits of empathy
navigation through the natural world
emotions after 2016 election
chinese missionaries in northern iraq
assisted death
struck by lightning
bayes theorem statistics
paramore hayley williams
dumbass survival story
ancient chinese philosophy
african literature
repetition in songs
uber’s ceo
true art and flow
transhumanism
fearless girl vs charging bull
dangerous academics
russian hackers and botnets
murakami and food
smelling bullshit
war and rape
war photography
the speed of light
macedonian fake news
why you hate slam poetry
reading the skies
abortion roe v wade
not so fine tuning of the universe
man from nowhere
this is not even an article but its about trust

additional recommendations:

if y’all like this kinda stuff i highly recommend the atlantic, the new york times, guardian’s the long read, economist 1843 magazine and just economist in general, waitbutwhy (especially elon musk/future of humanity shit), aeon/nautilus/quanta/cosmos magazines for philosophy/academia/science, mit tech review for more science, washington post and cnn and foreign policy occasionally have this kinda in depth, investigative journalism stuff, al jazeera for middle eastern stuff. a lot of random blogs and sites also randomly have good articles too though. life is just messy like that.