In an in-depth interview, Sanders offers a candid and passionate assessment of Trump, Clinton, and the future of his movement.
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“She woke up, but she woke up broken.” When Leslie Kendall Dye’s mother woke up after a massive brain bleed, she wasn’t the same mother.
On the Dark Side of Literary Fame
After publishing a critically acclaimed first novel, Merritt Tierce reflects on the harsh economic realities that all but a few best-selling authors face.
The White Flight of Derek Black
How the 27-year-old son of white nationalist leaders quit following his parents’ footsteps and began building bridges with the communities he previously worked to eliminate.
Mystic Nights
After Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize win, it’s worth revisiting some of the early artistic efforts that got him there. Here’s a detailed account of the recording of his masterful 1966 album Blonde on Blonde, with all that record’s first scrapped attempts and captured 3AM magic.
Present-Day Witchcraft: Seven Stories About Witches
Seven stories about the modern rituals of witchcraft and how they inform our past.
A Stranger in the World: The Memoir of a Musician on Tour
The Hold Steady’s Franz Nicolay on DIY touring in the punk underground of the former Soviet Union.
Van Doren And The In Vogue
After 50 years, Vans shoes are going stronger than ever. Here’s how a hunk of canvas became and stayed an international icon of cool.
The String Theory
What happens when all of a man’s intelligence and athleticism is focused on placing a fuzzy yellow ball where his opponent is not? An obsessive inquiry (with footnotes), into the physics and metaphysics of tennis.
The Professor Wore a Hijab in Solidarity — Then Lost Her Job
A graduate of evangelical Wheaton College herself, journalist Ruth Graham writes about the ousting of its first tenure-track black professor, Larycia Hawkins, after she wore a hijab during Advent in solidarity with Muslim students.
