Susan Sheu considers her estrangement from her conservative mom, who tried to teach her to stand up and be heard in a male-dominated world — but not to be too unladylike about it.
2017
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
How Some Apache People Deal with Intergenerational Trauma
In the mountains of northern Mexico, some of Geronimo’s decedents try to forgive the perpetrators of the wars against Native Americans.
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The Making of an American Nazi
Luke O’Brien profiles Andrew Anglin, a one-time anti-racist vegan who’s grown up to become the publisher of the world’s biggest neo-Nazi website, The Daily Stormer. By chronicling hundreds of heart-stopping details from dozens of sources across decades of dangerous behavior, O’Brien’s work sets a brave and timely example for how to report on extremism responsibly.
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Sandwich Whisperer of Victoria Street
The art of sandwich-making requires “tenacity, knowledge, know-how, flair.”
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Every Parent Wants to Protect Their Child. I Never Got the Chance.
In a heartbreaking reported essay, Jen Gann writes about raising a son who suffers from incurable cystic fibrosis that will likely lead to his early death, the midwife practice that neglected to warn her that she and her husband were carriers, and the likelihood that she and her husband would have chosen to terminate the […]
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Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death
With a population of 127 million, Japan has the most rapidly aging society on the planet. Elderly individuals often live in extreme isolation, albeit only a few feet from neighbors on all sides, “trapped in a demographic crucible of increasing age and declining births.” Their fate? A “lonely death” where their body may remain undiscovered […]
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Black American Princess in Training
In this warm and lighthearted personal essay (and excerpt from a forthcoming memoir), writer Glynn Pogue recalls the moment in her pre-teen years that she found comfort and belonging with a group of girls in black, upper middle class Brooklyn.
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When Newspapers Cover the Private Lives of Nazis
Ordinary details can furnish a room, they can set a table, they can fill the time between hushed meetings of planned genocide.
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The Recruiters: Searching For The Next Generation Of Warfighters In A Divided America
Ride along with members of the U.S. Army’s Mid-Atlantic Recruiting Battalion to see the frontlines of recruitment, in person and on social media, and how the military is working to eliminate unethical recruiting practices.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Quotes
The Fight to Escape “A World of Anonymous Abuse”
Online harassment is as serious as offline harassment, and it rarely stays “only” online.