David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
Capitol Rioters Planned for Weeks in Plain Sight. The Police Weren’t Ready.
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. This story was originally published in ProPublica by Logan Jaffe, Lydia DePillis, Isaac Arnsdorf and J. David McSwane/ProPublica The invasion of the…
U.S. Sen. Schumer of New York poised to become Senate majority leader, based on Georgia results
By Delphine Luneau | The Center Square/January 6th, 2021 (The Center Square) – U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the leader of the Democrats in the upper chamber of Congress, appeared poised to become Senate majority leader based on the results…
Georgia’s elections rely on ‘Black Voters Matter’
How LaTosha Brown helped build a get-out-the-vote powerhouse in the South. Errin Haines Originally published by The 19th In the days after Georgia went blue for the first time in a generation, LaTosha Brown wasn’t taking a victory lap —…
Soul-Searching for America’s Broken Ethics
What would it take for America to become a better version of itself? By Bruce Corsino • Dec 03, 2020 Each year, a slew of “What’s America’s Biggest Problem?” surveys appear. They identify and quantify the most pressing issues of the day, focused on those…
“Nobody” Hurt, “Just a Perp,” Say Officers After NYPD Shot and Killed Man in His Own Home
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. by Eric Umansky/ProPublica Twenty months after Kawaski Trawick was shot and…
‘It’s never too late’: The entrepreneurial spirit of older women
When asked why they wanted to set up a business later in life, twice as many women than men said they wanted to realize a long-held ambition. Mariel Padilla Originally published by The 19th Mary Rawles worked full-time as a…
Heading Off the Next Pandemic
Jim Robbins January 4, 2021 As the covid-19 pandemic heads for a showdown with vaccines it’s expected to lose, many experts in the field of emerging infectious diseases are already focused on preventing the next one. They fear another…
Why good people turn bad online
Meet the scientists finding out how we can defeat our inner trolls and build more cooperative digital societies. On the evening of 17 February 2018, Professor Mary Beard posted on Twitter a photograph of herself crying. The eminent University…
Would you eat indoors at a restaurant? We asked five health experts
Laurie Archbald-Pannone, University of Virginia; Kathleen C. Brown, University of Tennessee; Ryan Huerto, University of Michigan; Sue Mattison, Drake University, and Thomas A. Russo, University at Buffalo Earlier this fall, many of the nation’s restaurants opened their doors to patrons…
Global Climate Leadership: How To Rebuild It With Biden and Kerry
Dolf Gielen, Colorado School of Mines and Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines John Kerry helped bring the world into the Paris climate agreement and expanded America’s reputation as a climate leader. That reputation is now in tatters, and President-elect…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor