Media and entertainment grounded in empathy are a critical part of a saner culture — and we can all help by actively producing, seeking, and supporting it.
2019
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Rachel Sugar, Kate Knibbs, Mark Arax, and Anna Wiener.
Posted inEditor's Pick
This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry
Grossly inefficient and often just gross, beef looks increasingly antiquated as alternative meats keep improving.
Posted inNonfiction
Mountains, Transcending
“Ever since I was five years old,” wrote opera singer–turned–Buddhist lama Alexandra David-Néel, “I craved to go beyond the garden gate, to follow the road that passed it by, and to set out for the Unknown.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
When Friendship Fades But the Images Linger
Eryn Loeb looks back on a summer spent taking pictures, and a friend she lost touch with.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News
How two moderators are trying to make a popular Silicon Valley forum a thoughtful and productive space to have a conversation.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Elizabeth Warren’s Classroom Strategy
“Warren believed that the law and its remedies should not be simply the domain of the already powerful, and her approach to communicating with her students — and later, as a more public figure, with a wider audience — came back to her drive to make seemingly complicated concepts available to those who didn’t already […]
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Beautiful Power of Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jesmyn Ward interviews “one of our most essential public intellectuals.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Great Escape
The explosion of escape rooms make total sense in a world mostly without order.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Drink Up, Stoners
Beer producers from Lagunitas to Anheuser-Busch are betting big money that the drinkable marijuana market will be the next Red Bull or kombucha market, but will alcohol consumers buy fizzy THC water that makes you sleepy rather than amped to hit the club? As Amanda Chicago Lewis puts it, “The people who can’t handle being […]