aow archive
Below are links to the Article of the Week files for the past five school years.
2023-2024
“Guilty: Trump Becomes First Former President to Be Convicted of Felony Crimes” by Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, Eric Tucker, Michelle L. Price and Jill Colvin for the Associated Press
“Five Things to Know about Memorial Day, including Its Evolution and Controversies” by Ben Finley for the Associated Press
“If You Think You Can’t Focus for Long, You’re Right” by Sandee LaMotte for CNN.com
“Deep-Sea Mining: Can It Help Solve Our Climate Problems?” by Harriet Marsden for The Week UK
“If Schools Won’t Ban Kids’ Cellphones, Some Lawmakers Say They Will” by Elaine S. Povich for OklahomaVoice.com
“Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers with AI” Wired.com
“What the Supreme Court Case on Tent Encampments Could Mean for Homeless People” by Rachel M. Cohen for Vox.com
“Most Work Is New Work, Long-Term Study of U.S. Census Data Shows” by Peter Dizikes for the MIT News
“The April 8 Solar Eclipse Will Bring Weird Sights, Sounds and Feelings” by Robert Lea for Space.com
“NAACP Calls on Black Student-Athletes to Boycott Florida Public Colleges over Anti-DEI Policy” by Daniel Arkin for NBCNews.com
“Rising Cocoa Prices May Cause a Chocolate Shortage” by Elias Nash for TheDailyMeal.com
“Dartmouth Men’s Basketball Team Votes to Unionize” by Jimmy Golan for APNews.com
“Daylight Saving 2024: When and Why Do The Clocks Change?” by Jireh Deng for the Los Angeles Times
“Chatbots Sometimes Make Things Up. Is AI’s Hallucination Problem Fixable?” by Matt O’Brien for APNews.com
“The Ecosystem Inside You” TheWeek.com
“Jury Finds Jennifer Crumbley, the Michigan School Shooter’s Mother, Guilty of Manslaughter” by Ed White and Corey Williams for APNews.com
“Why Scientists Are Starting to Worry about the Moon Shrinking” by Kasha Patel for the Washington Post
“Can Trump Be on the Ballot?” by Mark Sherman for the Associated Press
“Stress Drains Your Body’s Battery. Here’s How You Can Recharge It” by Elissa Epel for the Los Angeles Times
“Even a Little Alcohol Can Harm Your Health” by Dana G. Smith for the New York Times
“U.S. and British Militaries Launch Massive Retaliatory Strike Against Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen” by Lolita C. Baldour for the Associated Press
“Feeling Caucus Confusion? Your Guide to How Iowa Works” by Robert Yoon for APNews.com
“We Carry DNA from Extinct Cousins Like Neanderthals. Science Is Now Revealing Their Genetic Legacy” APNews.com
“At My School, the Closing of the Teenage Mind Is Almost Complete” by Zach Gottlieb for the Los Angeles Times
“The Very First Thing Hackers Do as Criminals” by Kurt Knutsson for FoxNews.com
“Tires Are Saving Us—and Killing Us, too” by Tim Stevens for TheVerge.com
“How to Live in Less Fear” by Nicole Pajer for Shondaland.com
“The Surge in Child Labor” TheWeek.com
“Everything I Thought I Knew About Nasal Congestion is Wrong” by Sarah Zhang for The Atlantic
“Opposites Don’t Attract: Couples More Likely to Be Similar than Different, Study Shows” by Ian Sample for TheGuardian.com
“How Many Transgender and Intersex People Live in the US?” by Rebecca Boone and Jeff McMillan for APNews.com
“Israel-Hamas War: The Gaza Strip and Its History, Explained” by Timothy Bella for The Washington Post
“NASA Collected a Sample from an Asteroid for the First Time—Here’s Why It Matters” by Georgina Torget for TheVerge.com
“Surgeons Perform Second Pig Heart Transplant, Trying to Save a Dying Man” by Lauren Neergaard for APNews.com
“A Black Student Was Suspended for His Hairstyle. The School Says It Wasn’t Discrimination” by Cheyanne Mumphrey and Juan Lazono for the Associated Press
“The ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Our Water” TheWeek.com
“‘Wiretaps on Wheels’: How Your Car Is Collecting and Selling Your Personal Data” by Frank Bajak for the Los Angeles Times
“Students Can’t Get Off Their Phones. Schools Have Had Enough.” by Donna St. George for the Washington Post
“Montana Judge Hands Young Plaintiffs Significant Victory in Landmark Climate Trial” by Ella Nilsen for CNN.com
“Fulton County Grand Jury Indicts Trump, Giuliani, Other Associates in 2020 Election Investigation” by Sarah D. Wire for the Los Angeles Times
“Chatbots Sometimes Make Things Up. Is AI’s Hallucination Problem Fixable?” by Matt O’Brien for APNews.com
2022-2023
“Trump Indicted on 37 Charges including Espionage Act Violations in Classified Records Case” by Sarah D. Wire for the Los Angeles Times
“A ‘Game Changer’ for Weight Loss” TheWeek.com
“Why the Marathon to Raise the Debt Ceiling Is Not Over” by Kevin Liptak for CNN.com
“Montana Becomes First State to Ban TikTok” by Amy Beth Hansen for the Los Angeles Times
“Drinking Water from the Sea” TheWeek.com
“The Truth About Alcohol” TheWeek.com
“Turning Bodies into Soil” TheWeek.com
“A US TikTok Ban is Gaining Support in Congress. Why Some Say That Would Hurt Free Speech.” by Ella Lee for USA Today
“The Difference Between Open-Minded and Close-Minded People” FarnamStreetBlog.com
“7 Questions from the Texas Ruling on Abortion Pills” Politico.com
“What Trump’s Indictment Means for His Political Future—and His Party’s” by Noah Bierman for the Los Angeles Times
“California Bill Would Require All Public High Schools to Hand Out Free Condoms” by Vanessa Arredando for the Los Angeles Times
“Highways Are Getting Deadlier, with Fatalities Up 22%. Our Smartphone Addiction Is a Big Reason Why” by Russ Mitchell for the Los Angeles Times
“Lab-Grown Meat Made from Animals without Killing Them—Is This the Future of Ethical Eating?” by Oliver Milman for TheGuardian.com
“How Schools Are Trying to Protect Students from Shootings” TheWeek.com
“Scientists Finally Know Why People Get More Colds and Flu in Winter” by Sandee LaMott for CNN.com
“The Fentanyl Scourge” TheWeek.com
“Why Scientists Are Worried about Bird Flu” TheWeek.com
“China Balloon: Many Questions about Suspected Spy in the Sky” by Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp for the Associated Press
“The Fair Tax Act, Explained” by Joel Mathis for TheWeek.com
“What to Know About the Debt Ceiling Deadline” by Stephen Neukam for TheHill.com
“More Classified Documents Found at Biden’s Wilmington Home, White House Says” by Tyler Pager, Carol Leonnig and Devlin Barrett for the Washington Post
“‘Bots’ Can Write Good Essays, But That Doesn’t Make Writing Obsolete” by Natalie Wexler for Forbes.com
“Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough in California Seen as Milestone toward Clean Energy Future” by Corinne Purtill for the Los Angeles Times
“Stressed During the Holidays? There’s an Exercise for That.” by Danielle Friedman for the New York Times
“The Wasted Potential of Garbage Dumps” by Neel Dhanesha for Vox.com
“Does the Moon Mean Mars Is Next?” by Roger Handberg for TheSpaceReview.com
“World Population Hits 8 Billion, Creating Many Challenges” by Dan Ikpoyi and Chinedu Isadu for the Associated Press
“The FDA Announces a New Definition of What’s ‘Healthy’” by Laura Reiley for the Washington Post
“The Asylum Seekers” TheWeek.com
“How Book Bans Are Affecting Schools and Libraries” by Theara Coleman for TheWeek.com
“Cities Keep Enforcing Curfews for Teens, Despite Evidence They Don’t Stop Crime” by Josiah Bates for Time.com
“Bam! NASA Spacecraft Crashes into Asteroid in Defense Test” by Marcia Dunn for the Associated Press
“Hurricane Ian Is No Anomaly. The Climate Crisis Is Making Storms More Powerful.” by Michael E. Mann and Susan Joy Hassol for TheGuardian.com
“US Public Schools Get a D+ for Poor Conditions, and Experts Say Problems Are Getting Worse” by Christina Zdanowicz and Holly Yan for CNN.com
“The New Normal of ‘Weather Whiplash’” TheWeek.com
“A Comeback for Nuclear Power” TheWeek.com
“Plastics Everywhere” TheWeek.com
“Trump Search: What May Come Next in Inquiry with Legal Peril” by Erik Tucker for the Associated Press (AP)
“The Rise of Monkeypox” TheWeek.com
2021-2022
“Addicted to Distraction” by Tony Schwartz for the New York Times
“The History of Memorial Day” History.com
“Astronomers Snap First-Ever Image of Supermassive Black Hole Sagittarius A*” by Jennifer Chu for MIT News
“Where Abortion Could Be Banned Without Roe v. Wade” by Allison McCann and Taylor Johnston for the New York Times
“Augmented Reality Is What’s in Store for Commerce” by Laura Forman for The Wall Street Journal
“As Dollar Stores Proliferate Food Deserts, Some Communities Push Back” by Wesley Brown for CivilEats.com
“The Death of the Gas Station” by Rebecca Heilweil for Vox.com
“What Is Genocide and Has the Legal Threshold Been Crossed in Ukraine?” by Nadine El-Bawah for ABCNews.com
“The Risks of Cyberwar” The Week
“Nearly One-Third of U.S. Workers Make Less than $15 an Hour” by Leslie Albrect for MarketWatch.com
“Who Is a ‘War Criminal,’ Legally Speaking?” by Colleen Long, Mike Corder, and Eric Tucker for the Associated Press
“How High Could Gas Prices Go? More Pain at the Pump Likely Coming” by Don Lee for the Los Angeles Times
“What Is NATO and Why Hasn’t It Imposed a No-Fly Zone in Ukraine?” by Luke McGee for CNN.com
“What Does Putin Want in Ukraine? The Conflict Explained” by Eliza Mackintosh for CNN.com
“The Health Benefits of a Random Act of Kindness” by Sandee LaMotte for CNN.com
“12 Truths I Learned from Life and Writing” by Anne Lamott
“Teachers Are Leaving and Few People Want to Join the Field. Experts Are Sounding the Alarm.” by Christina Maxouris and Christina Zdanowicz for CNN.com
“The U.S. and Russia Prepare to Confront Each Other at the U.N. over Ukraine” by Rick Gladstone for the New York Times
“Chaos on the Roads” TheWeek.com
“Supreme Court Blocks Biden’s Workplace Vaccine Rules, Allows Requirement for Health-care Workers” by Robert Barnes for WashingtonPost.com
“What It Really Takes to Keep Schools Open during the Omicron Surge” by Anya Kamenetz for NPR.org
“The Failure to Vaccinate Africa” TheWeek.com
“Where Did the Custom of a Christmas Tree Originate?” Encyclopedia Britannica
“The Pursuit of Longer Life” TheWeek.com
“Can Omicron Overtake the Delta Variant? Here’s What It Will Take” by Rong-Gong Lin, Luke Money and Melissa Healy for the Los Angeles Times
“NASA Is Practicing Asteroid Deflection. You Know, Just in Case.” by Marina Koren for TheAtlantic.com
“Drug Overdose Deaths Top 100,000 Annually for the First Time, Driven by Fentanyl, CDC Data Show” by Deidre McPhillips for CNN.com
“The Covid-19 Numbers Seem Stuck. That Doesn’t Bode Well for Winter, Experts Say” by Maggie Fox for CNN.com
“Peering at the Edge of the Universe” TheWeek.com
“World Leaders Head to Scotland for Global Climate Talks. Here’s What You Need to Know” by Anna M. Phillips for the Los Angeles Times
“How You’ll Know When Covid-19 Has Gone from ‘Pandemic’ to ‘Endemic’” by Sigal Samuel for Vox.com
“Moody’s Warns of ‘Dark Clouds Ahead’ for the Global Supply Chain as 77% of the World’s Largest Ports Face Backlogs” by Grace Kay for BusinessInsider.com
“'Code Red’: UN Scientists Warn of Worsening Global Warming” by Seth Borenstein for APNews.com
“A Transformed Workplace” TheWeek.com
“Census: US Sees Unprecedented Multiracial Growth, Decline in the White Population for First Time in History” by Donavan Slack for USAToday.com
“How Much Water Do You Actually Need?” by Christie Aschwanden for NYTimes.com
“Sweeping New Vaccine Mandates for 100 Million Americans” by Zeke Miller for APNews.com
“Texas Passes Law Banning Abortion After Six Weeks” BBCnew.com
“If You Think Kids Are Eating Mostly Junk Food, A New Study Finds You’re Right” by Xcaret Nunez for NPR.com
“Taliban Take Over Afghanistan: What We Know and What’s Next” by Joseph Krauss for APNews.com
2020-2021
“How the Pandemic Ends” TheWeek.com
“Black Wall Street Was Shattered 100 Years Ago. How the Tulsa Race Massacre Was Covered Up and Unearthed” by Yun Li for CNBC.com
“Boycotting the 2022 Olympics” TheWeek.com
“CDC Releases Highly Anticipated Guidance for People Fully Vaccinated Against Covid-19.” by Jen Christensen for CNN.com
“The Complicated Calculus of Mask-Wearing” by Dr. Sanjay Gupta for CNN.com
“Supreme Court to Decide if Students Have Right to Post Vulgar Comments about Teachers” by David G. Savage for the Los Angeles Times
“Is Herd Immunity to COVID-19 Possible? Experts Increasingly Say No.” by Elizabeth Weise for USA Today
“Kings of Leon Will Be the First Band to Release an Album as an NFT” by Samantha Hissong for RollingStone.com
“NASA Is Preparing to Fly the Ingenuity Helicopter on Mars, in an Otherworldly ‘Wright Brothers Moment’” by Christian Davenport for The Washington Post
“Pfizer Say Its COVID-19 Vaccine Protects Younger Teens” by Lauran Neergaard and Matthew Perrone for APNews.com
“America’s Falling Fertility Rate” TheWeek.com
“Protests Across U.S. Call for End to Anti-Asian Violence” by Cameron McWhirter, Allison Pohle and Alex Janin for The Wall Street Journal
“CDC Releases Highly Anticipated Guidance for People Fully Vaccinated Against Covid-19” by Jen Christensen for CNN.com
“Target Is Tracking You and Changing Prices Based on Your Location” by Casey Bond for HuffingtonPost.com
“The Boom in ‘Green’ Energy” TheWeek.com
“People Who Have Had Covid Should Get Single Vaccine Dose, Studies Suggest” by Apoorva Mandavilli for NewYorkTimes.com
“Senate Acquits Trump in Attack on Capitol” by Jennifer Haberkorn and Evan Halper for LATimes.com
“Poetry + Football: It’s Not as Strange as It Sounds” by Brandon Griggs for CNN.com
“Coronavirus Vaccine Guide: Everything You Need to Know So Far” by Jeva Lange for TheWeek.com
“Divisions Harden in Senate as It Prepares to Receive Impeachment Article” by Catie Edmonson for the New York Times
“Statehouses, U.S. Capitol Brace for Potentially Violent Week” by David E. Lieb and Adam Geller for APNew.com
“House Prepares for Trump Impeachment, Could Add Charges on Georgia Allegations” by Andrew Restuccia and Brent Kendall for The Wall Street Journal
“The Vaccine Velvet Rope” by Jeva Lange for TheWeek.com
“Supreme Court Rejects Texas’s Push to Overturn Biden Victory” by John Kruzel for TheHill.com
“When Can I Get a Coronavirus Vaccine” by Maggie Fox for CNN.com
“With Two Vaccines on the Horizon, Here’s What You Need to Know” by Thomas Curwen for the Los Angeles Times
“The Times Called Officials in Every State: No Evidence of Voter Fraud” by Nick Corasanti, Reid J. Epstein and Jim Rutenberg for the New York Times
“How Did Biden Do It? Wide Coalition Powered Win” by Josh Boak and Hannah Fingerhut for the Associated Press
“More than 90 Million People Have Already Voted. Here’s How that Compares with Past Elections.” by Grace Hauck for USA Today
“The Electoral College Can Pick a President Who Got Fewer Votes. Here’s Why and How.” by Josh Peter for USA Today
“Why the Coronavirus Is Killing More Men than Women” by Ben Guarino for the Washington Post
“The Black Wealth Gap” TheWeek.com
“Trump Hospitalized with Covid-19. Here’s What Happens Next” by Natasha Khan, James Hookway and Alex Leary for the Wall Street Journal
“What Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court Nomination Means for the 2020 Election” by Dierdre Walsh for NPR.com
“Trump Could Name His Supreme Court Pick in Days—and Says It Will Be a Woman” by Janet Hook, Jennifer Haberkorn and Jie Jenny Zou for the Los Angeles Times
“How the World’s Deadliest Mass Extinction Actually Helped the Rise of Dinosaurs” by Riley Black for NationalGeographic.com
“Climate Change Has Arrived” TheWeek.com
“A Mania for Mars” TheWeek.com
“Nearly 70,000 Lives Could Be Saved in the Next 3 Months If More Americans Wore Masks, Researchers Say” by Christina Maxouris and Alaa Elassar for CNN.com
“What We Know About Schoolkids and Coronavirus” TheWeek.com
2019-2020
“Spate of New Research Supports Wearing Masks to Control Coronavirus Spread” by Ben Guarino, Chelsea Janes and Ariana Eunjung Cha for the Washington Post
“Trump and the Military: A Mutual Embrace Might Dissolve on America’s Streets” by David E. Sanger and Helene Cooper for the New York Times
“U.S. Cities Fear More Destruction as Protesters Rage Against Police Brutality” by Brendan O’Brien for Reuters.com
“How Pandemics Change Society” TheWeek.com
“The Coronavirus Infodemic” TheWeek.com
“Georgia Man’s Death Raises Echoes of US Racial Terror Legacy” by Aaron Mortenson and Ross Bynum for the Associated Press
“When Will Sports Come Back?” TheWeek.com
“CDC Director Warns Second Wave of Coronavirus Is Likely to Be Even More Devastating” by Lena Sun for the Washington Post
“Is the Virus on My Clothes? My Shoes? My Hair? My Newspaper?” by Tara Parker-Pope for the New York Times
“South Korea’s Coronavirus Success” TheWeek.com
“The Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine” TheWeek.com
“How Long Will Schools Need to Stay Closed? A Pandemic Expert Weighs In” by Tim Dickinson for Rolling Stone
“The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming” Wired.com
“The Dos and Don’ts of ‘Social Distancing’” by Kaitlyn Tiffany for The Atlantic
“Coronavirus Myths, Debunked: A Cattle Vaccine, Bioweapons and a $3,000 Test” by Grace Hauck for USA Today
“What Would Happen If U.S.Schools Close Because of Coronavirus?” by Hayley Miller and Arthur Delaney for HuffingtonPost.com
“You Might Just Be Addicted: Smartphone Use Physically Affects Your Brain, Study Says” by Coral Murphy for USA Today
“Immune Cell that Kills Most Cancers Discovered by Accident by British Scientists” by Sarah Knapton for The Telegraph
“The Common Exercise Mistakes You Are Probably Making Right Now” by Dr. Melina Jampolis for CNN
“Senate Rejects Witnesses in Trump Impeachment Trial” WallStreetJournal.com
“What Is the Coronavirus and How Worried Should We Be?” TheGuardian.com
“Battle Over Impeachment Witnesses Escalates” Politico.com
“Taking the Beef Out of Burgers” TheWeek.com
“Trump and Rouhani Trade Warnings after Killing of Top General” by Radina Gigova for CNN.com
“The Struggle for Hong Kong” TheWeek.com
“Drop the SAT and ACT as a Requirement for Admission, Top UC Officials Say” by Teresa Watanabe for the Los Angeles Times
“The Threat of Killer Asteroids” TheWeek.com
“Revenge: Will You Feel Better?” by Karyn Hall for Psychology Today
“Supreme Court Case of Trump vs. ‘Dreamers’ May Come Down to Chief Justice Roberts” by David Savage for the Los Angeles Times
“The Flu Vaccine: Everything You Need to Know” TheWeek.com
“California Becomes First State in the Country to Push Back School Start Times” by Taryn Luna for the Los Angeles Times
“High Schools to TikTok: We’re Catching Feelings” by Taylor Lorenz for NewYorkTimes.com
“US Cities are losing 36 million trees a year. Here’s why it matters and what you can do to stop it.” by Amy Chillag for CNN.com
“How California Bill Will Impact College Sports, and What Comes Next” by Tom Schad for USAToday.com
“Democrats Set Rapid Timetable for Trump Impeachment Probe” by Siobhan Hughes and Andrew Duehren for The Wall Street Journal
“The Quiet Disappearance of Birds in North America” by Ed Young for The Atlantic
“Video Games and Violence, Explained” TheWeek.com
“Why We Shouldn’t Shield Children from Darkness” by Matt de la Pena for Time.com
“The Destruction of the Amazon, Explained” TheWeek.com
“A California high school found students’ cellphones too distracting, so they’re locking the devices up” by Safia Samee Ali for NBCNews.com
“The Graying of America” TheWeek.com
2018-2019
“With Political Power at Stake, Supreme Court Is Set to Rule on Gerrymandering and The Census” by David G. Savage for the Los Angeles Times
“Everything You Need to Know About Black Holes” TheWeek.com
“Scientists Spy on Superbugs to See How They Outsmart Our Antibiotics” by Emily Baumgaertner for the Los Angeles Times
“It’s not just soda: Drinking too much fruit juice (or any sugary drink) linked to premature death risk” by Susan Scutti for CNN.com
“Let 16-Year-Olds Vote for L.A. School Board” by Michael McDonald for the Los Angeles Times
“How Exercise Affects Our Memory” by Gretchen Reynolds for the New York Times
“Measles Outbreak Infects 695, Highest Number Since 2000” by Donald J. McNeil, Jr., for the New York Times
“Sri Lanka Bombings: Police Warned that Churches Were Targets” New York Times
“Scott Kelly Spent a Year in Orbit. His Body Is Not Quite the Same.” by Carl Zimmer for the New York Times
“The Recycling Crisis” TheWeek.com
“Georgia Senate Passes Anti-abortion ‘Heartbeat’ Bill” by Maya T. Prabhu for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Can Human Mortality Be Hacked?” TheWeek.com
“College Admissions Scandal Is News, but Not New” by Mitch Albom for the Detroit Free Press
“The Anti-Vaxxers’ Impact” TheWeek.com
“Trump Says He Still Trusts Kim, but Needed to ‘Walk Away’ from a Bad Nuclear Deal” by Shashank Bengali, Eli Stoklos and Victoria Kim for the Los Angeles Times
“Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain” by Kevin Roose for the New York Times
“Halting HIV by 2030 Is a Challenge. Here’s Why It’s Especially Tough in the South” by Jenny Jarvie for the Los Angeles Times
“A History of the Southern Border” TheWeek.com
“Let Children Get Bored Again” by Pamela Paul for the New York Times
“I’ve Talked with Teenage Boys about Sexual Assault for 20 Years. This Is What They Still Don’t Know” by Laurie Halse Anderson for Time.com
“Listening Is an Overlooked Leadership Tool” by Melissa Daimler for the Harvard Business Review
“An Epidemic of Loneliness” TheWeek.com
“Trump and Democrats Meet Again on Shutdown but Remain Far Apart on His Border Wall Demand” by Eli Stokols and Jennifer Haberkorn for the Los Angeles Times
“The Most Important Question of Your Life” MarkManson.net (Note: This is the last AoW for 2018. The next AoW will be posted January 6, 2019.)
“(Scientific) Happiness Hacks” excerpted from an article by Alison Mango for Health.com
“Former President George H.W. Bush Dies at 94” excerpted from APNews.com
“When Will Self-Driving Cars Take Over?” TheWeek.com
“The Fear We All Live With” by Jeva Lange for TheWeek.com
“These 5 Healthy Habits Could Help You Live a Decade Longer, Study Suggests” by Jacqueline Howard for CNN.com
“The Private Prison Industry, Explained” TheWeek.com
“Social Media’s Impact on Students’ Mental Health Comes Into Focus” by Kira Barrett for NEAToday.org
“Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040” by Carol Davenport for the New York Times
“There Are Three Types of Failure, but Only One You Should Actually Feel Bad About” by Leah Fessler for QZ.com
“Trump Orders Limited FBI Investigation to Supplement Kavanaugh Background Check” NPR.org
“Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford Reaches Tentative Deal to Testify before Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday” by Sarah D. Wire for LATimes.com
“Afghanistan: The Endless War” TheWeek.com
"Avoid the Back-to-School Plague of Flu and Cold" by Jen Christensen for CNN.com
"'Where Is the Collusion?' Answers to All Your Questions about the Russia Investigation" by Chris Megerian for the Los Angeles Times
"Republicans Stick with Trump Despite Major Legal Trouble for Ex-Top Aides" by Kelsey Snell and Barbara Sprunt for NPR.org
"Our Plastic Oceans" TheWeek.com
2017-2018
"The Crisis at Veterans Affairs" TheWeek.com
"The Death Rate from Cancer Is Falling for American Men, Women and Children of All Backgrounds" by Mary Kaplan for the Los Angeles Times
"The Rise of the Ticks" TheWeek.com
"An Open Letter About Female Coaches" by Pau Gosol, NBA player for the San Antonio Spurs, for The Players Tribune
"Researchers Explore the Fascinating Biomechanics and Neuroscience of Bats" by Stephen Schmidt for PRI.org
"Bryan Stevenson calls lynchings domestic terrorism. Here's what he hopes to address with a memorial honoring black people who were killed." by Kurtis Lee for the Los Angeles Times
"Trump Says 'Long Way' to Go on North Korea Crisis" by Doina Chiacu and Heekyong Yang for Reuters.com
"What Do the US, UK and French Airstrikes Mean for Syria's War?" by Nick Paton Walsh for CNN.com
"Warning: Vaping Teens Becoming a New Generation of Nicotine Addicts" USAToday.com
"Having Your Smartphone Nearby Takes a Toll on Your Thinking" by Kristen Duke, Adrian Ward, Avelet Gneezt and Maarten Bos for the Harvard Business Review
"Facebook's Zuckerberg Says Sorry to US, UK with Newspaper Ads; Polls Show Trust in Site Is Sinking" Reuters
"America's Homelessness Crisis" TheWeek.com
"Here's How to Prevent the Next School Shooting, Experts Say" by Anya Kamenetz for NPR.org
"Seven Reasons We Are Facing a Global Water Crisis" by Leah Schleifer for World Resources Institute, WRI.org
"As Gun Debate Roils On, Teachers in This Texas School Are Already Armed" by Molly Hennessy-Fiske for the Los Angeles Times
"No, there haven't been 18 school shootings in 2018. That number is flat wrong." by John Woodrow Cox and Steven Rich for The Washington Post
"What Too Much Alcohol Can Do to Your Health" by Sandee LaMotte for CNN.com
"Why Don't Teens Read for Pleasure Like They Used To?" by Jennifer Ludden for Mind/Shift, KQED.org
"Chinese Scientists Successfully Clone 2 Monkeys, Could Lead to Human Applications" by Ben Hirschler for Reuters
"Former NFLers Call for End to Tackle Football for Kids" by Nadia Kounang for CNN.com
"The National Debt, Explained" TheWeek.com
"Why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History" by Nicholas Kristof for the New York Times
"Are Real or Artificial Christmas Trees Better for the Environment?" by Jessica Roy for the Los Angeles Times
"Movies Theaters Fight Streaming by Assaulting the Senses" by Claire Atkinson for NBCNews.com
"Trump's Immigrant Dragnet" TheWeek.com
"Black Men Sentenced to More Time for Committing the Exact Same Crime as a White Person, Study Finds" by Christopher Ingraham for The Washington Post
No AoW for the week of November 20, 2017, due to the Thanksgiving holiday
"Top 20 Pros and Cons Associated with Self-Driving Cars" AutoInsuranceCenter.com
"Mark Zuckerberg's Big Blind Spot and the Conflict within Facebook" by Aarti Shahani for NPR.org
"How to Help Someone with an Opioid Addiction" Chicago Sun Times
"Climate Change Is Complex. Here Are Some Answers to Your Questions" by Justin Gillis for the New York Times
"You Have Almost Certainly Been Hacked" TheWeek.com
Two Opinion Pieces on the Gun Control Debate from TheWeek.com
"What Every American Needs to Know about Puerto Rico's Hurricane Disaster" by Brian Resnick and Eliza Barclay for Vox.com
Two Articles Explaining the NFL Player Protests During the National Anthem from CNN.com and FoxNews.com
"Sitting Too Long Can Kill You, Even If You Exercise" by Susan Scutti for CNN.com
"5 Reasons Why People Share Fake Photos During Natural Disasters" by A.J. Willingham for CNN.com
"Trump Prepares to End DACA" by Priscilla Alvarez (an excerpt) for The Atlantic
"Sacrificing Sleep? This Is What It Will Do to Your Health" by Sandee Lamott for CNN.com
"The Great Solar Eclipse of 2017" TheWeek.com