Reckoning with her father’s death left her reckoning with life.
Aaron Gilbreath
McDonald’s CEO Wants Big Macs to Keep Up With Big Tech
The fast food giant is trying to modernize, but do its ambitious automation and data processing plans outstrip its stores’ abilities?
The Sum of Life: Zora Neale Hurston
A new profile of one of America’s most important writers.
All Hail Veruca Salt: The Oral History of American Thighs
With unprecedented speed after forming, the Chicago band recorded and released an album whose sound helped define the early 90s alternative era. This is the album’s story, timed to the album’s 25th anniversary.
Your Healing Crystals Are Part of the Capitalist Exploitation Machine
Healing crystals move from poor villages to first world consumers along a trail of death, ecological destruction, and capitalistic concentration of wealth.
In the Ring With India’s Most Powerful Woman
“With the exception of cricketing victories, India has a terrible sporting record. It has the lowest number of Olympic medals per head of any nation, and has only ever won one gold in an individual sport, the men’s ten-metre air rifle. In recent years this has begun to change, partly owing to the changing role […]
Dark Crystals: The Brutal Reality Behind a Booming Wellness Craze
The wellness industry has turned cheap stones into #healingcrystals, and the growing demand is damaging Madagascar, one of the Earth’s most biological diverse and fragile ecosystems, and putting its laborers into dangerous mines, many of them children. Is this how you heal yourself?
A Close Look at the Thing We Call ‘Celebrity’
Why do we care about famous people?
I Went to Wyoming to Get My MFA and It Gave My Life Back to Me
Her tech job gave her security and stability, but she craved the creativity, stimulation, and literary connection that would make her whole.
Heel Turns
An examination of celebrity culture, in all its indulgent, enduring, addictively hollow glory.
