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2018
Posted inEditor's Pick
Group Therapy for the End of the World
A chronicle of a week spent in the Swedish countryside, at a workshop designed to help participants come to terms with impending environmental doom.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Running for Alex: How Tom Sullivan Turned Tragedy Into a Political Crusade
Six years after one man’s son was murdered in the Aurora theater shooting, he’s running for a seat in the Colorado House of Representatives to prevent more gun violence. Instead of succumbing to his loss, he became, in another victim’s words, “a warrior.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Meet the Table Busser Who’s Worked at the Same Wilmette Pancake House for 54 Years
Othea Loggan made minimum wage in 1964. He makes minimum wage now. The owners are somehow fine with that.
Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Quotes
Graduate School is Wonderful and We Are All Very, Very Happy
Avital Ronell is both product and perpetuator of an abusive academy.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Business & Tech, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Uncategorized
Not Quite Democracy: Lucie Greene on the Civic Aspirations of Tech Giants
Lucie Greene’s new book “Silicon States” is about the danger of concentrating so much power in so few hands.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Vanishing Twins
After years of bonding closely with other people, one woman finally goes searching for herself.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
The Africans Who Suffer in a Deportation Purgatory
Under the Trump administration, African immigrants are experiencing increasing deportations, though these deportees receive less media attention than deportees from Mexico and Central America.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Beyond Goop and Evil
Why don’t women feel well? We’ve come down with an advanced case of patriarchy.
Posted inEditor's Pick
It Was Like There Was a Fog in the Sky Only I Could See
Under the Trump administration, African immigrants are getting deported with increasing frequency through the criminal justice system, though these deportees receive less media attention than ones from Mexico and Central America. The African nations they return to are not often home or welcoming, and deportees suffer from hostility, alienation, depression and economic hardship.