“Can casting away from established society to inhabit sea-based colonies save us from the problems of modern life—or are we bound to repeat our mistakes?”
Krista Stevens
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How Do We Exit the Post-Truth Era?
“Why fact-checking alone won’t save us from fake news.”
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Chinese Cooking Helps Me Connect With My Mother—And Helps Me Prepare to Lose Her
“Michelle Zauner’s memoir Crying in H Mart showed me how bonding over food could let me cope with anticipatory grief.”
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Homeless in the Shadow of Apple’s $5 Billion Campus
“A group of ex-tech workers, gig employees, and locals priced out of the housing market are fighting for affordable housing in Silicon Valley.”
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It’s Time to Stop Policing Trans Rage
“Author Charlie Jane Anders explores how trans rage is policed — and why it shouldn’t be.”
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Hanif Abdurraquib’s Third Favorite A Tribe Called Quest Album Might Surprise You
“Author Hanif Abdurraquib on his new book, A Little Devil in America, how current Black music is shaping the racial justice movement, his favorite A Tribe Called Quest albums, and more.”
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What The Past Three Months Have Been Like For QAnon Believers
“A millennial stay-at-home mom from South Carolina, a gay couple from Texas, and a social worker in New York believed in QAnon. Now that Biden is president, they’re not sure where to go from here.”
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The Coal Plant Next Door
“Near America’s largest coal-fired power plant, toxins are showing up in drinking water and people have fallen ill. Thousands of pages of internal documents show how one giant energy company plans to avoid the cleanup costs.”
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The Deadly Fentanyl Fraud Between the Doctor and the Pharmacist
“Then, after he was done seeing patients for the day, he’d begin his other work. The work no one could find out about. The work that would destroy his life, along with hundreds of others.”
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Disney’s Disembodied Black Characters
“Green, blue — Disney has no problem with characters that are different colors, it seems, as long as that color is not brown. What does it say to Black kids watching when the world’s biggest children’s entertainment company cannot give them even one animated film that features a Black person that stays a Black person […]