The Lede

As it ran

A Glass of Red Wine Equals an Hour at the Gym, New Study Finds

Unburies to

The “wine equals a workout” study was run on rats.

Read the article.
Not the headline.

Save anything worth reading. The Lede reads it closely, unburies the real story, files it by beat, and writes the strongest honest case the piece can make. Your queue becomes a magazine, not a pile of tabs.

The queue

Your saves file themselves into a magazine.

Every story comes back renamed for what it’s actually about and shelved on its beat. The queue reads like sections you pick by mood.

Business

The millionaire who blamed avocado toast had his grandfather’s money.

Ran as “Millionaire: if you stopped buying avocado toast, you could afford a home”

4 min read

Culture

London pays medieval rent in objects, not money.

Ran as “London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211”

5 min read

Science

The aging-reversal breakthrough was in mice.

Ran as “Scientists Have Reached a Key Milestone in Reversing Aging”

5 min read

The Lede's queue for iPhone — four saved stories, each renamed for what it is actually about and filed to a beat, with the original headline kept underneath.

The brief

The strongest honest case, before you commit to the read.

Every save comes back as a short brief: the fairest version of the argument, enough to know what you’re dealing with. When something matters, send The Lede out to dig deeper: more reporting, other angles, an honest bottom line. It works the same on a news story, a how-to, or the history thread you fell into at midnight.

A note on sourcing

It finds the reporting under the opinion.

The Lede reads every source as it is. It doesn't rank outlets and it reads every one. The one thing it changes: when a piece is opinion, it builds the brief from the original reporting underneath, and shows you the reporting it used. Same rule for every publication. More on how The Lede handles sources.

As it ran

Beer Was Banned in Iceland for Nearly 75 Years, Until 1989

Iceland banned beer for patriotism, not morality.

Dig deeper

Wine and spirits were legal again by the 1930s. Beer stayed banned because it stood for Denmark, the rival Iceland was breaking from. The first legal pint came in 1989.

“I built The Lede because I got tired of headlines that bury the story, or sell one that isn’t there.”Charles Klein, maker of The Lede