Indian Health Services is supposed to provide government-funded healthcare for the Native American population. But compared to Veterans Affairs, Medicare, and Medicaid, it spends the lowest amount on its patients. Hospitals routinely are unable to perform specialized services, and the native population in Santa Fe sometimes must travel hundreds of miles to their reservation, just […]
June 2017
Monocle: The Magazine As Boring, Lifestyle, Branding Infastructure
On Monocle’s tenth anniversary, one writer analyzes the magazine’s vision, business model, and what place this globalist outlet has in an age of increasing nationalism.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Katherina Grace Thomas, James Lasdun, Kyle Chayka, Tay Wiles, and Buzz Bissinger.
The Press Has Always Been a Guest in the President’s Home
And they can be thrown out at any time, for any reason.
Guy Fieri’s Introspective Turn
Ten years and three presidents, later, Guy Fieri’s populist persona has proven extremely resilient.
When it Takes Being Thrown to Learn How to Land
Just after her 40th birthday, former aerialist Joanne Solomon was thrown from her bicycle while riding on the Manhattan Bridge, and it set her life on a different course.
When it Takes Being Thrown to Learn How to Land
An aerialist flies off her bike on the Manhattan Bridge, altering the course of her journey.
When it Takes Being Thrown to Learn How to Land
An aerialist flies off her bike on the Manhattan Bridge, altering the course of her journey.
The Fight for Health Care Has Always Been About Civil Rights
“Of all the inequalities that exist” said Martin Luther King in 1966, “the injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman.” The ACA did the most in American history to extend coverage to people of color; “they have never been closer both to racial equality of, access and to, the federal protection of […]
A Weekend of Nazi Dress-Up Fun in the Heart of Trump Country
Head to a fun weekend event and you’ll likely post pictures of yourself all over social media. But the attendees of a World War II reenactment in Reading, Pennsylvania, are more likely to delete any pictures they’re tagged in, especially when dressed in a Nazi uniform: “People don’t understand that just because you wear this […]