France wants to end snobbery, democratize culture, through multimillion-dollar app
The $496-million-a-year plan will target 10,000 18-year-olds, giving them €500 ($577) in credit to spend in the app.
“It’s like a blood bath”: Inside the student protests rattling Bangladesh
Document's New Vanguard Special Reportage winner Tahia Farhin Haque reports from the front lines of the student protests in Dhaka.
Vegans be wary: A plant-based diet won’t be viable in the future
Researchers from six American universities discovered that a future of living solely off the land isn’t the most efficient way of farming.
Belgium fights back against Facebook’s problem with Old Master nudes
The Flemish Tourism Board created a video in response to Facebook censoring nude works by Paul Rubens from the Maison de Rubens in Antwerp.
Ai Weiwei’s studio demolished in wave of destruction against Beijing’s contemporary art community
Beijing authorities destroyed Ai Weiwei's studio without warning last Friday, three years after the artist relocated from China to Berlin.
Project depicting names of drowned refugees mysteriously disappears from Liverpool Biennial
The List by Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu has not been seen since last Saturday when it was removed from a new development in Liverpool’s Chinatown.
Why is our criminal justice system still failing to help the LGBT community?
A study at the University of California at San Francisco discovered that sexual minority offenders are more likely to get stuck in the system.
20 states sue Donald Trump to curtail bizarre 3D-printed gun u-turn
Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson announced in a federal lawsuit that downloadable weapons are a serious national security threat.
The ghosts of historical lynchings still walk among us
A new study in the "Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities" examines the effect of lynchings from 1877 to 1950 on present-day death rates.
The child separation crisis at the border is far from over
Even with today's deadline to unify refugee children with their parents.
The Document Agenda: There’s no such thing as the middle ground
Every week Document has an agenda: digging up dispatches from the creases of global culture. With this information, go forth.
Colorblind in a heatwave
Japan is applying its progressive design ethos to heatmaps that can be visible to those with colorblindness.
The Document Agenda: pretty on the surface
Every week Document has an agenda: digging up dispatches from the creases of global culture. With this information, go forth.
In a world of media-driven paranoia, perhaps doomsday prepping isn’t that crazy?
According to one researcher who spoke with survivalists in 18 states across the U.S., it's actually a natural response to a media environment of constant...
Uber’s self-driving car purposefully ignored the pedestrian it fatally struck
The company's flawed programming extends beyond the self-driving program and into deep-set racial bias, as well, drivers claim.
Big books and bigger sticker prices are for big boys, only, researchers conclude
An analysis of over 2 million books published between 2002 and 2012 by researchers at the City University of New York finds that publishing, after...
Researchers are measuring your ego’s development by combing through 25 years worth of human language
Researchers at Florida Atlantic University discovered that ego-centric words are used less as humans age.
Why does the Trump administration want the Census citizenship question?
Total erasure of immigrant communities.
A New York City bill aims to protect a worker’s right to ‘disconnect’
A bill filed by City Councilman Rafael L. Espinal would require companies with more than ten employees to refrain from off-hour communications.
The Document Agenda: “The inner architectural voice of the city”
Los Angeles now has a design Czar, it turns out humans began innovating much earlier in history than assume, and the Vatican comes clean about...
The Document Agenda: “An enchanted world now exists alongside the disenchanted one”
Half of the world's wildlife may be gone in the next century, the devil is trending, and listening to your favorite song while studying isn't...
The Document Agenda: “Learning tools for young surgeons”
The iPhone may be a brain surgeon's best friend, meet the Cobalt Cowboy, and were Hubert de Givenchy and Audrey Hepburn the original influencers?
The Document Agenda: “No deference to a good looking face”
Wearing makeup may come at cost for women in leadership roles, Leonardo Da Vinci's notes on urban planning may be of use today, and DJ...
The Document Agenda: “Living in the loudest cities”
A survey of noise pollution across the world, the Frida Kahlo Barbie Doll is problematic, and Russia now legally recognizes contemporary art.
The Document Agenda: “To dabble in the occult of orange”
There is a toxic history to the pigment that makes the color orange, a shanty-town is home to the thriving Ugandan film industry, and is...
The Document Agenda: “A bath in radioactive water”
Doctors in the Czech Republic have been using a radioactive pool to treat patients, the field of neuroforensics comes to the courtroom, and the Vatican...
The Document Agenda: “We must also acknowledge that art is owned”
A VR hacking collective take over MoMA for a night, the first major exhibition of western art is set to show in Tehran, and one...
The Document Agenda: “The power and importance of human touch”
Holding hands might ease a partner's pain, polar regions encounter this year's spring weather before the rest of the globe, and Dolce & Gabbana comes...
The Document Agenda: “Looking into a portable funhouse mirror”
Japan rebuts cannibalistic fake news, satire could actually, maybe, be a political motivator, and selfies are warping self-perception.
The Document Agenda: “A library of the 20th century”
A pact protecting environmental activists in South America is set to be signed, 4G service comes to the moon, and the poetry collector behind the...
The Document Agenda: “A curiosity hangs by the thigh of a man”
A dangerous toad threatens the ecology of Madagascar, a painkilling alternative to opioids may exist in the brain, and the story behind one of the...
The Document Agenda: “Discovering that life has somehow found a way to make it work”
Researchers look at the impact of sea-level rise on the West Coast, there may be the possibility life on Mars, after all, and a debate...
The Document Agenda: “Some things have not changed”
One writer explores masculine identity in the age of Trump, researchers are still confused by sonic attacks on U.S. diplomats in Cuba, and mathematicians uncover...
The Document Agenda: “We thought there was one last wild species”
There are no more truly 'wild' horses left on the planet, Elon Musk's Hyperloop may finally break ground on the East Coast, and Mr. Chow...
The Document Agenda: “Solid light works”
Iran indulges its reptilian paranoia, machines are making art that's fooling the human eye, and book reviews, argues one critic, only seem to offer vapid...
The Document Agenda: “I think everybody should like everybody”
Cape Town holds off its water crisis, for now, intimate Andy Warhol recordings recently unearthed, and one of the world's largest publishing CEOs says Ebooks...
The Document Agenda: “How many times can you continue knocking on a closed door?”
Iran's first and only female conductor on the country's political climate, Sotheby's helps you visual your taste in art, and is that really Trump tweeting?
The Document Agenda: “An appropriate place for a bit of end-of-the-world hedonism”
Dubai relaunches a debauched luxury development, researchers uncover new secrets about Picasso's artistic practice, and scientists now understand the need for sleep better than ever.
The Document Agenda: “A bridge between the minuscule quantum world and our macroscopic reality”
Japan's stubborn immigration policies, the story behind the science photo of the year, and volcanic ash might be material of the future.
The Document Agenda: “They could not escape time’s eraser”
The Tea Party's racialized language studied, Tech CEOs are making an end-times retreat in New Zealand, and avant-garde artist Jef Geys died at 83.
The Document Agenda: “A new way to participate in the growing experience”
The very vocal future of hydroponics, Silvo Berlusconi's animal instincts are political, and a visual study of cultural hegemony.
Cooler Heads
A word about all the changes taking place at Document Journal dot com.
The Document Agenda: “The biggest impact to the landscape is human activity”
Man-made climate change is measure in Kenya, Wolfgang Tillmans on his latest EP.
The Document Agenda: “Blooming, buzzing confusion”
Unseen beauty at the bottom of the Antarctic, Netflix's film still methodology, and the story of a mysterious radio station.
The Document Agenda: “We need more light”
Researchers make a case for 'more light,' Chinese police break out the facial surveillance glasses, and the truth about women in the U.K,'s grime scene.
The Document Agenda: “An approach that is better aware of uncertainty is more reliable”
Uncertainty might help with making better decisions, a Vantablack house is built for the Winter Olympics, those who contemplate the future are better at waiting.
The Document Agenda: “Time is not at all something that is an immutable truth”
Director Agnes Varda sends the Academy of Motion Pictures a cut-out of her face, the first Britons may have actually been black, and Facebook’s algorithms...
