psychology Stanford's massive tobacco ad archive reveals a century of psychological manipulation Ellsworth Toohey

health How tobacco companies used stress research to trick people into thinking cigarettes were healthy Mark Frauenfelder

politics Addicted to cigarette taxes, New Zealand scraps plans to restrict sales Rob Beschizza

climate change Big oil published "research" denying that fossil fuels drove climate change. Privately, they knew otherwise. Elías Villoro

cats Crispy and friends have a cat-nip hotbox party Elías Villoro

junk science Oil and tobacco lobbyist blames Trans-Atlantic slave trade on wind Thom Dunn

PSAs The story behind the classic 1980s "This is your brain on drugs" TV PSA David Pescovitz

prohibition The Economist: "Joe Biden is too timid. It is time to legalize cocaine" Mark Frauenfelder

politics The origins of student debt Elías Villoro

corruption Meet the man who spent 2 years on house arrest after suing an oil company. Thom Dunn

murder Leaks reveal how the "Pitbull of PR" helped Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers ignite the opioid crisis Cory Doctorow

mistakes BBC apologizes after interviewer confuses politician's resting smirk for actual laughter Rob Beschizza

carceral state Edelman PR drops GEO Group after employee revolt at the prospect of laundering the reputation of private US concentration camps Cory Doctorow

Business Juul's strategy for success: target children, steadily ramp up nicotine levels Cory Doctorow

addiction Public ignorance about "drunk/drugged up losers" is expensive and deadly Maureen Herman

law The oil industry just told a judge that climate change is undeniably real, but they still found a way to weasel Cory Doctorow

security IBM Security survey finds users value "security" over "convenience" Cory Doctorow

climate As climate deniers claim credit for killing Net Neutrality, the FCC's internal auditor reveals that Neutracide was based on a lie Cory Doctorow

cancer Tobacco giant Philip Morris is quietly funding an "anti-smoking" foundation offering $1 billion in "grants" to public health leaders Cory Doctorow

videos For the next year, TV, newspapers, and the web will run massive ads from tobacco companies admitting that their products kill people, that they were engineered to be addictive, and that they covered this up Cory Doctorow