Aaron Bady on Stranger Things and its ’80s influences.
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Inside the Federal Bureau of Way Too Many Guns
A sobering behind-the-scenes look at the antiquated system for tracing gun ownership in America.
Making House: Notes on Domesticity
Is a home something to be lived in, or looked at — or both? Rachel Cusk meditates on the duality of a life simultaneously constructed and experienced.
The Icy Elegance of Arthur Ashe … And the Passion of Muhammad Ali
The sportsmen’s lives read as a conversation on what it means to be American.
The Real-Life Superhero Who Beats the Cops to Bike Thieves
A seemingly average guy in Seattle has become an unlikely superhero on a bicycle.
Katie Rose on Top of the World
20 years after her father, climbing legend Scott Fischer, died on Everest — a tragedy chronicled in Into Thin Air — Katie Rose Fischer-Price traveled back.
The Ministry of Fun
Celebrities, skinny jeans, reality TV ─ Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr. has it all, including DJs working the baptism. This is the new breed of Capitalist America’s pastors.
The Babysitters Club
Apps like Seamless and Yelp listen in on our adult lives, then speak to us like children. “We’re in the middle of a decade of post-dignity design, whose dogma is cuteness.”
“There’s nothing good in cooking, but there are no other options.”
Inside the women-owned restaurants of Yida, South Sudan’s largest — and most tenuous — refugee settlement.
A Swarm of Controversy
In their struggle for survival against killer mites, bees get an unlikely ally: Monsanto.
