Autonomous Cars Aren’t Ready for Cyclists
> Really, it was just a matter of time. On Sunday night, the tragic scenario that many cyclists and tech writers have been wringing their hands over for years played out in Tempe, Arizona, as an autonomous vehicle hit and killed a…
What Our Editors Loved Last Month
The books, movies, music, and podcasts we couldn’t stop talking about in October The weather’s getting cooler, and so are our picks. Moody music and ’90s cannibal horror movies are cool, right? What We Read On a recent trip, Outside…
The New Subaru Forester Gets Better in Almost Every Way
> Subaru just took the wraps off the all-new 2019 Forester at the New York Auto Show. For the most part, it's bigger, safer, and better in (almost) every way. Squint just right, and you might be able to tell this…
The Best Running Moments of 2017
This year was full of famous farewells, marketing stunts, and big-time wins for team USA Until recently, being a running fan in the United States was a pretty melancholy experience. At the start of this millennium, if you cared about…
'The Terror' Is a Gory Take on an Arctic Mystery
> At one point in the opening episode of the new AMC show The Terror, Captain Francis Crozier looks out over the slushy Arctic water that surrounds his wooden ship. The year is 1846, and Crozier and his men are…
The Best Gear We've Reviewed, Now on Sale
> When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we earn an affiliate commission that helps pay for our work. Read more about Outside’s affiliate policy. REI’s End of Season Clearance Sale is one of the best…
The Unglamorous Realities of Road Life
I can’t deny the appeals of the nomad existence. But it has its challenges, too. It’s easy to idealize life in a van as all open roads, empty schedules, and fiery sunsets. But living in a trailer doesn’t eliminate the day-to-day demands…
Green Organizations Are Dropping the Ball on Inclusion
> Back in the early 1980s, during an undergraduate environmental studies class, Dorceta Taylor asked a question that would whisk her onto a path leading, in recent years, to groundbreaking research on diversity in environmental organizations. Taylor realized about midway…
Why Your North Face Jacket Is Called a "Ceptor"
> In June 2016, Will Hagna, a senior designer for The North Face, and Austin Robbs, one of TNF’s senior product managers, sat in a small room in the company’s offices in Alameda, California, drinking beers and trying to come…
Congress Just Ignored Trump’s Public-Land Cuts
> Public-land advocates received a valuable civics lesson this week: the president can talk all he wants about budget cuts, but it’s Congress that decides where the money goes. Many of President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to public-land spending were…