The culmination of a 10-month investigation, Ronan Farrow’s piece in The New Yorker tells the stories of 13 women accusing Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment or assault, including three who said he raped them. Their stories are supported by interviews with 16 current and former executives and assistants at Weinstein’s companies.
Danielle Tcholakian
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Sports
Jemele Hill Was Doing Her Job
ESPN Sportscenter host Jemele Hill has been suspended for two weeks for simply doing what she was hired to do: provide commentary on the news.
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Nonfiction
When You’re Broken by Breaking News
If reporting becomes excessive, it can do more harm than good.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Touch of Madness
David Dobbs writes about Nev Jones, a psychologist who experienced psychosis as a Ph.D student, and psychosis more broadly in historic and global context.
Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Crime, Current Events, Science & Nature, Unapologetic Women
We Need to Talk About Madness: A Reading List
Talking about it is terrifying, but not talking about it is deadly.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Long Live the Group Chat
Aaron Edwards explores the function the group chat serves in the lives of black and brown Americans today.
Posted inEditor's Pick
These Women Are the Last Thing Standing Between You and Nuclear War
Danielle McNally profiles the female Air Force missileers protecting the U.S.’s nuclear arsenal. There are now enough women in their ranks that sometimes all of the missileers on duty are female.
Posted inBlog Post, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Jemele Hill Knows What You Really Want to Call Her
The host was brought on to help redefine the floundering ESPN brand. Now she’s under attack, and the channel is nowhere to be seen.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Summer in the Heartsick Mountains
This sweet and lyrical read will make you fall in love with fireflies and think much harder about how we are everyday chipping away at the world that made us.
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Deep Six: Jamele Hill and the Fight for the Future of ESPN
Bryan Curtis profiles Jamele Hill, the ESPN Sportscenter host under fire on Twitter, and from the White House, for calling President Donald Trump a white supremacist.