Building Parks on Antiquities Sites Is Not OK By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How the Arizona State Parks and Trails Director got fired for violating the Arizona Antiquities Act.
Scholar of Mazes: Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse By Krista Stevens Highlight “I stepped forward into a darkness that I’m still trying to find my way out of more than 40 years later.”
Carl Weathers, You Deserved Better By Michelle Weber Highlight Maybe with Creed II, a black actor will get the Oscar nod instead of the one white guy.
Bruce Springsteen: Sadness, Love, Madness, and Soul By Krista Stevens Highlight “All you needed to do,” Springsteen says, “was to risk being your true self.” We ignore our demons at our peril.
Writing to Avoid Erasure By Aram Mrjoian Feature After finding a note left by his grandfather, Aram Mrjoian considers how writing about the Armenian diaspora could help prevent history from being forgotten.
Sign On the Dotted Line to Ensure Your Own Destruction By Michelle Weber Highlight New York’s court system aids and abets predatory lenders who prey on small business owners.
Preserving Human Life Requires Preserving Insect Life By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight While science labors to comprehend the variety and volume of insects on earth, both are declining with disturbing speed, and the ecological consequences are troubling.
The Californians Who Can’t Budge By Michelle Weber Highlight How do you hold down the fort when the fort is on fire?
‘Emerging’ as a Writer — After 40 By Jenny Bhatt Feature Jenny Bhatt recalls the rites of passage that led to her shift in identity from corporate executive to woman writer of color.
Finding Grace Between Love and Loss By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One single mother’s journey to construct a sense of self that’s true to herself, not to other people.
Alexa de Paris By Miles Marshall Lewis Feature Miles Marshall Lewis remembers a love of Prince and Paris.
Karst: the Latest Casualty of Clear-Cut Logging By Krista Stevens Highlight “On Vancouver Island, karst researchers hustle to save one of Earth’s most underappreciated—and fragile—ecosystems: an ecosystem hidden in plain sight.”
Bagels are the Best Ring-Shaped Breakfast Food and I Will Brook No Other Opinion By Michelle Weber Highlight I love bagels, but not as as much as Lloyd Squires loves bagels.
Link Wray’s Rustic Masterpieces By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Link Wray is best known for his rock instrumentals, but in the early 1970s, he and his brothers recorded three albums in a chicken shack that sound like nothing else in his massive oeuvre.
For Each Survivor of a Mass Shooting, a Different (Slow) Road to Recovery By Sari Botton Highlight Can anyone truly fully recover from witnessing — and losing loved ones — in a school shooting?
Who Really Gets to Make the Rules? By Krista Stevens Highlight “But who gets to impose those rules and who becomes subject to them can be decisions tainted with sexism and racism and transphobia and homophobia. “
Bread, Disrupted By Michelle Weber Highlight Bread: it was so terrible, right? Thank goodness the tech industry finally iterated on it so we can make a decent piece of toast after 6,000 years.
Eating to America By Naz Riahi Feature When Naz Riahi was 9, she escaped tragedy in Iran only to be confronted by a cruel new world in America. Food became her solace and her tool for assimilating.
But Who Gets Custody of the Dog? By Michelle Weber Highlight It seems like America is made up of two broad groups who don’t agree on anything — maybe it’s time for a trial separation.
How Simple Human Connection Can Help Save People from Suicide By Krista Stevens Highlight Therapist Ursula Whitehead regularly texts her clients between sessions to help them understand that they are not alone.
The Humanities Marketplace As a Circle of Hell By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The struggles of a motivated, educated academic to find sufficient work.
You Can’t Escape Everything in the Ivory Tower By Michelle Weber Highlight For her father, Jaclyn Gilbert is less a daughter than a debt.
The Wrong Pair By Lisa Williamson Rosenberg Feature After decades of shame, discrimination in the ballet world, and some serious back pain, Lisa W. Rosenberg concludes it’s time to down-size her double-E knockers.
The City I Love Is Destroying Itself By Nicole Antebi Feature Nicole Antebi interviews historian David Dorado Romo about the fight to preserve the oldest barrio in El Paso from the City itself.
The Lasting Effects of the Lolita Complex By Lacy Warner Feature Lacy Warner examines the downward turn of actress Dominique Swain’s career, and how the trouble began the moment she grew up.
The Making of Nirvana’s Most Vulnerable Album By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight An oral history of the night Nirvana recorded “Unplugged,” their most tender, original live performance.
“I know I believe in the power of lining up little hopes” By Krista Stevens Highlight At Oxford American, Michael Graff remembers his dad, Carl.
Positivity Is Relative, Depending on Which Side of the Fighting You’re On By Michelle Weber Highlight “I was not a fallen creature in a broken world reliant on grace, but a Marine in a successful army that had all the answers.”
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