My Abuser’s Gender Made Me Doubt My Experience By Caroline Catlin Feature After an assault, Caroline Catlin questions the safety of queerness.
Speaking Candidly about Opioid Dependence and Legal, Safe Alternatives By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One journalist shares what her experience with prescription painkillers taught her about decriminalization and recovery.
Brendan Fraser’s #MeToo Moment By Sari Botton Highlight Actor Brendan Fraser reveals he was touched inappropriately — and says it’s behind why he vanished from the scene for more than a decade.
Grief is a Jumble Word By Ken Otterbourg Feature Ken Otterbourg contemplates love and loss and what we remember when we try to forget.
How Black Panther Asks Us to Examine Who We Are To One Another By Rahawa Haile Feature Rahawa Haile considers how, by sliding between the real and unreal, Black Panther frees us to imagine the possibilities — and the limitations — of an Africa that does not yet exist.
How Lead Poisoned People of Color in East Chicago and Beyond By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How lead contaminated the soil under East Chicago’s black and Latino communities.
We’ve Always Hated Girls Online: A Wayback Machine Investigation By Julianne Aguilar Feature Searching for a teen girl who was once internet famous for her coding skills, a former fan uncovers a story of harassment.
To Live and Die in Utopian New Zealand By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How the super rich like Peter Thiel are buying land in New Zealand to survive the apocalypse.
The Hotel of Multiple Realities By Emily Carter Roiphe Feature While recovering from an aneurysm, Emily Carter Roiphe discovers the hospital houses a series of alternate realms.
A Tale of Two Vegases By Gayle Brandeis Feature Gayle Brandeis takes two trips to Sin City with her mother — one while her mother is delusional.
Are We Getting Ripped with Protein or Ripped Off? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The rise of the protein drink industry.
What Happened Onboard the ‘Nautilus’? By Michelle Legro Highlight May Jeong searches for answers after the death of her friend, journalist Kim Wall.
The Unexpected Reemergence of an Elusive Strain of Rice By Ben Huberman Highlight Hill rice was supposed to be extinct, until a South Carolina chef stumbled on it — in Trinidad.
Black Disabled Wonder Women Need Love, Too By muteiny Feature Britney Wilson considers the lessons she learned while taking a risk on romance.
Cataloguing the Detritus of Relationships Past By Sari Botton Highlight Essayist Leslie Jamison visits Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationships.
America’s Duded-Up Kitchens By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Companies have re-coded their appliances to capitalize on men’s entry into the kitchen, and they’ve taken their stereotypes with them.
Polar Exploration: The Story of Pain By Krista Stevens Highlight It’s -40F. Your mission? Travel 20 miles back to town on skinny skis while pulling a heavy sled over the frozen earth. Oh, by the way — you have 72 hours or you fail the exam.
In a City Divided by Barbecue, Chicago’s South Side Style Gets Ignored By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight On Chicago’s Southside, there is a type of barbecue found nowhere else, and it’s too widely ignored.
A Finder, No Longer a Keeper By Jenny Klion Feature How finding someone else’s engagement ring helped Jenny Klion let go of her own.
And Headbangers Shall Know Thy Names By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The untold story of two musicians who contributed to Guns N’ Roses’ early success.
Politics as a Defense Against Heartbreak By Minda Honey Feature Minda Honey assesses the deliberate choices and external factors affecting her dating life.
Lurve You? Or Loathe You? By Sari Botton Highlight Maybe Woody Allen’s romantic comedies weren’t terribly romantic after all.
The Placeless and the Privileged By Ben Huberman Highlight On the macro forces that have made digital nomadism something more powerful, and more sinister, than just another “lifestyle choice.”
Letter to a Dog Walking Service By Diane Mehta Feature Diane Mehta adopted a rescue dog but then questioned her own salvation from the chaos of daily migraines.
Struggling to Balance Business and Conservation in the Amazon Basin By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Driving through the Amazon Basin on a single road to see whether Brazil can balance economic development with rainforest conservation.
Jimmy Buffet® Incorporated By Krista Stevens Highlight Jimmy Buffett is a master at marketing his beach bum lifestyle to the T.G.I.F crowd.
The Return and Disappearance of Football Star Jackie Wallace By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Football star Jackie Wallace’s life has taken him from the Super Bowl to the homeless camps of New Orleans, and he’s missing once again.
What If Forensic Science Isn’t Really Science? By Michelle Legro Highlight When bad forensics enter the courtroom, it can become impossible to get rid of them.
Living That Early Bird Life, But Differently By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Why is the iconic early bird special disappearing in Florida’s retirement communties?
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