Reading Lessons By Irina Dumitrescu Feature You never stop learning how to read — probably because you also never stop forgetting how to read.
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Five: The Remnant By Leah Sottile Feature The Kingdom of Heaven, borne out of blood
American Green By Longreads Feature How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America, and what is the ecological cost?
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Four: The Preacher and the Politician By Leah Sottile Feature If America collapses, some see that as an opportunity to reboot society. They say they have God on their side.
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Three: The Widow’s Tale By Leah Sottile Feature When LaVoy Finicum was shot by law enforcement, the anti-government movement called him a martyr. That message is spreading.
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter One: A Quiet Man By Leah Sottile Feature When a bomb exploded in a tiny desert town, there was no doubt who did it. But no one could understand why.
The No. 1 Ladies’ Defrauding Agency By Rose Eveleth Feature What a 19th-century scammer can teach us about women, lying, and economic boom-and-bust cycles
The Shames of Men By Don Kulick Feature An anthropologist on a return visit to a remote village in Papua New Guinea learns that all the village’s young men are terribly wounded.
Murder in the Name of Drug Prevention By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Filipinos are reckoning with their presidents’ violent approach to the drug trade.
‘They Happen To Be Our Neighbors Across the Span of a Century, But They’re Our Neighbors.’ By Adam Morgan Feature One hundred summers ago, black Chicagoans were terrorized by whites during the Red Summer. Poet Eve Ewing talks about reaching out to her neighbors across time in “1919.”
‘If Any of My Old Friends Are Reading This, It Is Okay Out Here.’ By Jacqueline Alnes Feature Amber Scorah talks about committing the one unforgiveable sin: believing, then not believing.
Lumbersexuality, a Sport and a Pastime By Jonny Diamond Feature Why do people — mostly men — want to throw axes and dress like lumberjacks?
How the Cosby Story Finally Went Viral — And Why It Took So Long By Longreads Feature A journalist who reported on the accusations long before they went viral wonders, “What kind of profession am I in, where stories have no logical reason for unfolding?”
True Roots By Longreads Feature One woman quits coloring her gray hair and investigates the human and environmental costs of this contentious female beauty standard.
How One Artist Publicly Dealt With the Aftermath of Her Rape By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight For one woman, holding her employer accountable meant painting the story of her rape on a billboard above a busy LA freeway.
And What of My Wrath? By Sara Fredman Feature Cersei Lannister could have been a great antihero, but she was on the wrong show.
To Protect Children from Sexual Abuse, the Catholic Church Must Eliminate the Clergy By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One ex-priest shows how the clergy lies at the root of the Catholic Church’s problems.
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.
