‘Is This Gonna Happen Every Day in Charlottesville?’ By Sari Botton Highlight A black mother wrestles with having to explain the violence in Charlottesville to her six-year-old daughter.
Grenfell Tower: London, England’s ‘Katrina Moment’ By Krista Stevens Highlight How gentrification, apathy, and government negligence failed the residents of Grenfell Tower.
I Want to Persuade You to Care About Other People By Danielle Tcholakian Feature After changing her conservative grandfather’s mind about affirmative action, Danielle Tcholakian commits to trying to get through to people whose politics are very different from her own.
The ‘Creative Class’ Were Just the Rich All Along By Sari Botton Highlight Urban theorist Richard Florida seems to have realized he was wrong about the broad benefits of attracting creatives to depressed cities.
Growing Up in Rural Washington as a Muslim Immigrant By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Hayat Norimine describes what it was like to grow up as an only child in a Japanese-Syrian household in Pullman, a town in the Palouse region of Washington State.
Befriending My Iranian Instagram Hacker By Krista Stevens Highlight Professor Negar Mottahedeh gets some insight into her former homeland after an Iranian hacker steals her Instagram identity.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Lighter By Michelle Weber Highlight Colin Gillis is happy with most of the changes a massive weight change have brought, but finds unexpectedness sadness and loss, too.
Putting Creativity on Your Tab By Krista Stevens Highlight Dropping acid at the office? Everybody’s doing it.
Everyone’s Welcome, But Some People Are More Welcome Than Others By Michelle Weber Highlight “Well, you might as well come and live with me now,” her employer said. “You gonna be mine eventually.”
A Roll of the Immigration Law Dice By Michelle Weber Highlight Captain Noorullah Aminyar has been in detention for three years now, his asylum application subject to a system of immigration law both complex and capricious.
In a Swimming Pool, Learning to Trust By Matt Grant Feature A swimming instructor for ten years, Matt Grant learned the most from his most challenging student.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Bee Wilson, Seyward Darby, Wil S. Hylton, Greg Milner, and Annie Dillard.
Pregnant, then Ruptured By Joanna Petrone Feature After an emergency operation, Joanna Petrone considers the medical advances and legal protections that allow women to survive ectopic pregnancies.
If Clean Food Is for Everyone, Why Are Its Gurus All Young, Pretty Women? By Ben Huberman Highlight How gendered marketing tropes continue to fuel the latest lifestyle fads.
The Sun Was Going and the World Was Wrong By Sari Botton Highlight Annie Dillard describes her experience of the 1979 solar eclipse, the last one visible in the United States until this year.
What the Future of Death Looks Like By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Commentary A look at the process of alkaline hydrosis, a more eco-friendly type of cremation, and the growing movement behind it.
Can Apple End Smartphone Addiction? By Catherine Cusick Highlight Technology platforms rely on hijacking our attention. Can Apple help us win it back?
Instagram Wants to Make the Internet a Nicer Place to Be By Mike Dang Highlight The photo sharing service has been creating tools and algorithms to let its users close comments and ban offensive words.
There’s No Overtime In This Game By Michelle Weber Highlight Georgia Cloepfil is only in her mid-twenties, but she already contemplating the end of her soccer career.
You Are a Jigsaw Puzzle with Missing Food-Shaped Pieces By Lindsay Hunter Feature Fat, thin, over-eating, under-eating. Lindsay Hunter’s relationship with food, weight, and body image has been consistently complicated.
Why the Most Beautiful Poems Defy Understanding By Krista Stevens Highlight “In a poem, we feel what is there, but also what is not.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jay Caspian Kang, Ryan Goldberg, Brendan I. Koerner, Andrew Richdale, and Ferris Jabr.
Innocence Abroad By Pam Mandel Commentary “I’d had no idea that we had ever had to define our identities at all, because to me, white Americans were born fully formed, completely detached from any sort of complicated past.”
Forever Yesterday: Peering Inside My Mom’s Fading Mind By Kevin Sampsell Feature Kevin Sampsell bears witness to the ways in which Alzheimer’s has been pulling his mother back in time, and taking over her life.
Corals and Crabs Get Moonstruck, Too By Ben Huberman Highlight For many marine species, moonlight is both aphrodisiac and metronome. Yet scientists have only recently started to study it seriously.
Grist for the Celebrity Food Mill By Michelle Weber Highlight Did Rocco DiSpirito sell his culinary soul for a paycheck and some Bertoli frozen pasta?
Body Positivity Nudges Plus-Size Fashion Forward By Sari Botton Highlight Despite a high demand for it, plus-size fashion has been largely neglected and poorly executed by major brands. But that’s starting to change.
The Beauty (and Predictability) of a Slot Machine’s Algorithm By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Commentary At Wired, Brendan Koerner takes a look into the mind of a mathematician-turned-hacker who milks slot machines around the world.
‘This Place, This Moment, Unplanned’: On Surviving a Heart Attack By Krista Stevens Highlight Jeff Sharlet on how recovering from a life-threatening event takes place moment by moment.
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