Optimizing Meat 2.0 By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Can Impossible Foods’ meat facsimiles save us from our carnivorous appetites?
How Refugees Die By Longreads Feature Wars and heightened border security have created a humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean.
The Fraught Culture of Online Mourning By Rachel Vorona Cote Feature Nowadays, we live online, and so we grieve here too. But there are limits to the comfort digital mourning can provide.
‘Give It Up For My Sister’: Beyonce, Solange, and The History of Sibling Acts in Pop By Danielle Jackson Feature Family dynasties are neither new nor newly influential in pop.
Why Can’t California Public Schools Quit Teaching a Eurocentric Version of State History? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight 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.
Canada’s Breeding Ground for Hate By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How Canada’s new, educated, organized far-right has been using a video game app to try to influence mainstream politics and create a white ethno-state.
Keeping the Focus on the People: An Interview with Joe Kloc By Aaron Gilbreath Commentary It took eight years to write the story of Richardson Bay’s boat community, known as the anchor-outs.
We All Work for Facebook By Livia Gershon Feature Digital labor is valuable even when we do it for free. Should we get paid?
Living Off the Grid in California’s Coastal Waters By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Living off the grid isn’t just for landlubbers.
The Politics of UFOs By Anna Merlan Feature In the past few years the world of UFO “researchers” has been afflicted by the kinds of conspiratorial cracks that have appeared throughout American culture: Who can be trusted?
Zuckerberg’s Trash Is a Subculture’s Treasure By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight An entire subculture of Bay Area residents survives by reselling wealthy residents’ trash.
When the Climate Change Story Becomes Your Life Story By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Moving from bustling, expensive Seattle to tiny Ashland, Oregon seemed like an improvement, until the forest fire season began.
“This Is the Glittering Fringe”: On Drag Inclusivity at the Rosemont By Krista Stevens Highlight ‘“The drag here is messy, not vanilla,’ one regular tells me over the din. He sips his drink and settles on a word. ‘Genuine.'”
Dancing Backup: Puerto Ricans in the American Muchedumbre By Carina del Valle Schorske Feature Carina del Valle Schorske traces a lineage of Puerto Rican backup dancers in American entertainment from Rita Moreno to JLo.
Busting Broncos and the Patriarchy By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight After nearly a century of being denied the opportunity, women are riding bucking broncos in American rodeo once again, and regaining the respect they deserve.
I’m Writing You from Tehran By Longreads Feature A French-Iranian journalist writes a letter to her grandfather about the ten years she spent in Iran, trying to make sense of her identity and a country living very different public and private lives.
Into the Wild On an E-Scooter By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight What happens when you ride an e-scooter out of the city limits — until its battery dies?
‘Play Another Slow Jam, This Time Make It Sweet’ By Danielle Jackson Feature The term “slow jam” became widely popular when a song performed by Midnight Star debuted in 1983.
‘Women Can Be Required To Wear Something That’s Painful.’ By Victoria Namkung Feature Summer Brennan talks about femininity and suffering, beauty and biology, and the startlingly dark turn she found herself taking when writing about women and power in her new book ‘High Heel.’
Deciphering the Language of the Body in China By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight In China, a British expat learns a whole new way to speak with her body.
What to Read After ‘Leaving Neverland’ By Danielle Jackson Reading List A list of longreads to make sense of ‘Leaving Neverland.’
The Blaming of the Shrew By Sara Fredman Feature Golden Age antiheroes and the nasty women who humanized them.
Living to Tell About It By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Struggling with trauma, sexual objectification, and self-harm, the teenage T Kira Madden found salvation in her close relationships with other young women.
Parenting in the New Age of Anxiety By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Are we sacrificing our childrens’ inner lives by protecting them too much?
The Hackers Who Led a Young Woman to Her Death By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How did an ambitious, kind 23-year-old go from working at a California cannabis dispensary to living in Manila with an internet criminal?
The Precarity of Everything: On Millennial (Blacks and) Blues By Danielle Jackson Feature Reniqua Allen — the author of It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America — on Black millennials, millennial burnout, and hope in a time of uncertainty.
Remembering James Ingram By Tom Maxwell Commentary The R&B singer and songwriter made it look easy, even when it wasn’t.
Preparing for the Worst in Arkansas By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The Arkansas Defense Force is prepared for disaster. Are you?
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee By Longreads Feature “Our cultures are not dead and our civilizations have not been destroyed. Our present tense is evolving as rapidly and creatively as everyone else’s.”
