Can Impossible Foods’ meat facsimiles save us from our carnivorous appetites?
Aaron Gilbreath
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The Black Law Students’ Association Party (or, Why Can’t I Write Joy?)
Trying to answer that question sends the author back into her past, where she examines her black middle class upbringing, black upward mobility, and the tenuous prosperity of the educated and ambitous.
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Impossible Foods’ Rising Empire of Almost-Meat
A story of a bloodless culinary coup in the trillion-dollar market for meat? It’s possible!
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The Ways of a Wandering Spirit
For many of us, road trips are also trips through the self.
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Drifters (Interstate 35)
Traveling is about more than freedom on the open road. It is a state of being for some people, and a form of self-discovery.
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Why Can’t California Public Schools Quit Teaching a Eurocentric Version of State History?
Despite decades of effort, activists are still trying to get California public schools to teach an accurate history of the state’s indigenous people and the cruelties of European settlement.
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Indigenous Educators Fight for an Accurate History of California
For too long, California’s public school history curriculum has reduced Indigenous people to peaceful workers at the Spanish missions, and omitted their enslavement and suffering. Can California Assembly Bill 738 correct that?
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Learning About Love from Strangers
There are the marks lovers leave on trees and rocks, and the marks lovers leave on each other.
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How the Apple Store Lost Its Luster
This is what happens when a company concerns itself more with marketing than with retail service.
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Kokoro Yasume
Perched between her family’s Unitarianism, her Japanese mother’s shinto, and a world infused with beauty and death, an atheist daughter wrestles with mythology, ritual, and ways to stay connected to who she is, where she comes from, and where is going.