Joe Lawson

Joe Lawson is a science reporter who studied journalism at the University of Southern California with five years of experience in the news. He contributes to Fortune, The Washington Post, and The New Republic. Lawson has written for National Geographic, The Atlantic, Popular Science, and Wired.

Is AMC going to the Moon?

Remember the time when you took your sidekick to see a movie at AMC? I don’t either, but that doesn’t mean that the movie theater business is over, actually far from over. We have heard the bears. ” Netflix, Amazon Prime, Dinsey… “, Yes, it’s true that digital movie launches have taken over but there

Despite being the most expensive, American healthcare is struggling

When it comes to this country’s healthcare, our priorities have always been more than a little skewed. Preventative maintenance is a term foreign to many Americans; worse still is the staggering epidemic of citizens who remain completely uninsured. In the middle of a world-altering pandemic, the fact that approximately 31 million Americans (per the Congressional

The Middle Class Is Dead

Maybe there was, long ago—in a time before the sort of person who gets their news online was born. But those days are over and with them, the concept of financial security driven by the simple, honest ethic of American work.  Few people can agree on what the “middle class” even is—CNBC estimates that 70%