“The social media impersonator on the motivations behind her viral videos, the pleasures of ‘reverse mansplaining,’ and the stakes of this election.”
Seyward Darby
The Empire of All Maladies
For indigenous people, the real pandemic has always been the contagion of colonialism.
‘I Wanna Marry Harry’ Failed Spectacularly. The Contestants Remember Everything.
“In 2014, 24 women joined a dating show under the premise that Prince Harry was their prize. He wasn’t.”
Mourning My Brother in 181 Tweets
“How do you tell the world you are grieving? In my case, it was a year-long Twitter thread about finding the things that made me feel better.”
White Supremacy Was Her World. And Then She Left.
“To stop hate, we have to understand it.”
A Brutal Lynching. An Indifferent Police Force. A 34-Year Wait For Justice.
“How the murder of Timothy Coggins was finally solved.”
John Lewis: Rooted Deep in Alabama Soil
“To see who Lewis is, you must start on the family farm near Troy, Alabama, where he spent his childhood preaching to the chickens he cared for, talking his way out of picking cotton, and dreaming of a life beyond overheated Alabama fields and Jim Crow laws.”
How Trump Is Helping Tycoons Exploit the Pandemic
“The secretive titan behind one of America’s largest poultry companies, who is also one of the president’s top donors, is ruthlessly leveraging the coronavirus crisis—and his vast fortune—to strip workers of protections.”
