Here’s an archive of all the articles we’ve featured so far in our weekly newsletter. You may need a subscription to read but it’s pretty cheap and is a good investment to help develop your RC skills.
The Economist’s articles are very similar to RC passages, and the many topics they cover will prepare you and give you background context for subjects that will appear on the LSAT. You can sign up for a subscription here.
These articles were selected as they are very similar to the LSAT’s RC passages. In general, the Economist sections most similar to the LSAT are: Book Reviews, Science, Obituary.
As you read these articles, ask yourself:
- What is the primary purpose of the passage?
- What is the author’s opinion about the subject of the passage?
- What information or ideas can you infer from the passage?
- Describe the organization/structure of the passage.
- Do later sections of the article refer back to earlier sections? How are the parts of the argument interrelated?
- October 1st, 2020, Newsletter #8: German Porcelain
- October 8th, 2020, Newsletter #9: Shark Skeletons
- October 15th, 2020, Newsletter #10: China’s Labor Laws
- October 22nd, 2020, Newsletter #11: Bodies in Forests
- October 29th, 2020, Newsletter #12: Life in Venus’ Clouds
- November 5th, 2020, Newsletter #13: AI Writes Poetry
- November 12th, 2020, Newsletter #14: Green Bonds
- November 19th, 2020, Newsletter #15: Analyzing Waste Water
- November 26th, 2020, Newsletter #16: Icebreaker in the Arctic
- December 3rd, 2020 Newsletter #17: Kobe Bryant
- December 10th, 2020 Newsletter #18: Ants and Humans
- December 17th, 2020 Newsletter #19: French Film “Cuties”
- December 23rd, 2020 Newsletter #20: Ancient Bird Skulls
- December 31st, 2020 Newsletter #21: Japanese Mingei
- January 7th, 2021 Newsletter #22: Search for Aliens
- January 14th, 2021 Newsletter #23: Do dreams reflect reality?
- January 21st, 2021 Newsletter #24: Space Law
- February 4th, 2021 Newsletter #26: Japan Under the Shogunate
- February 11th, 2021 Newsletter #27: The Shadowlands of Language
- February 17th, 2021 Newsletter #28: BBC’s “Pride and Prejudice”
- February 24th, 2021 Newsletter #29: Phylloxera Genome
- March 3rd, 2021 Newsletter #30: Speech-to-Text Software
- March 10th, 2021 Newsletter #31: Are Humans Innately Good?
- March 16th, 2021 Newsletter #32: New York Accent
- March 24th, 2021 Newsletter #33: Papers Should Print Offensive Language
- March 31st, 2021 Newsletter #34: Fish Paying Rent
- April 7th, 2021 Newsletter #35: Jane Eyre
- April 14th, 2021 Newsletter #36: Wind Turbines
- April 21st, 2021 Newsletter #37: Otessa Moshfegh’s New Book
- April 28th, 2021 Newsletter #38: Roddy Doyle’s New Book
- May 5th, 2021 Newsletter #39: Executive Shares
- May 12th, 2021 Newsletter #40: Best Market Model
- May 19th, 2021 Newsletter #41: Common vs. Civil Law
- May 25th, 2021 Newsletter #42: Chadwick Boseman
- June 2nd, 2021 Newsletter #43: America’s Economy Beating Forecasts
- June 8th, 2021 Newsletter #44: Paid Leave For Parents
- June 16th, 2021 Newsletter #45: Poland’s New Memory Law
- June 23rd, 2021 Newsletter #46: “The Prisoner” TV Show
- June 30th, 2021 Newsletter #47: New way to review scientific literature
- July 7th, 2021 Newsletter #48: Could miniature forests help air-condition cities?
- July 14th, 2021 Newsletter #49: Will Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic jaunt boost space tourism?
- July 21st, 2021 Newsletter #50: Fool’s gold is a good source of the real stuff
- July 28th, 2021 Newsletter #51: A long view of work shows how little it has changed over millennia
- August 4th, 2021 Newsletter #52: Could sympathy for debtors help boost consumption in China? [Article has since been removed from The Economist].
- August 11th, 2021 Newsletter #53: Robots are poised to start unloading lorries
- August 18th, 2021 Newsletter #54: Predicting viral evolution may let vaccines be prepared in advance
- August 25th, 2021 Newsletter #55: Artificial chameleon skin can mimic its surroundings
- September 1st, 2021 Newsletter #56: New, 800v, electric cars, will recharge in half the time
- September 8th, 2021 Newsletter #57: Is a self-driving car smarter than a seven-month-old?
- September 15th, 2021 Newsletter #58: Why scientists are deliberately infecting volunteers with covid-19
- September 22nd, 2021 Newsletter #59: The world’s biggest carbon-removal plant swithces on
- September 29th, 2021 Newsletter #60: Tracking space debris is a growing business
- October 6th, 2021 Newsletter #61: Floating offshore farms should increase production of seaweed
- October 13th, 2021 Newsletter #62: A novel way to heat and cool things
- October 20th, 2021 Newsletter #63: A posthumous novel from John le Carré
- October 27th, 2021 Newsletter #64: The hard job of teaching autonomous cars to drive
- November 3rd, 2021 Newsletter #65: How cement may yet help slow global warming
- November 10th, 2021 Newsletter #66: It is becoming easier, cheaper, and quicker to diagnose dementia
- November 17th, 2021 Newsletter #67: Researchers have found a way to grow better blackcurrants using probiotics
- November 24th, 2021 Newsletter #68: Sung Tieu unpacks “Havana Syndrome” in her latest work
- December 1st, 2021 Newsletter #69: How to generate better, cheaper, more abundant random numbers
- December 8th, 2021 Newsletter #70: Evidence for the “great resignation” is thin on the ground
- December 15th, 2021 Newsletter #71: Chickpeas, a neglected crop, may soon get a high-tech makeover
- December 22nd, 2021 Newsletter #72: Honey bees, Varroa mites, and unintended consequences
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