She Got Hacked So You Don’t Have To By Krista Stevens Highlight At GQ, Sarah Jeong willingly got “spearphished,” a sophisticated email hack that uses your trust against you.
Can an Old Satire, Reborn, Survive the New Political Climate? By Sari Botton Highlight Meghan Daum is nervous about the reception for her reissued debut novel, a satire of small towns and coastal elites.
The Revolution Will Be Handmade! By Krista Stevens Highlight Knitting and sewing circles have long been the perfect environments for women to organize.
Letters to My Molester: Unraveling a Decade of Childhood Abuse By Krista Stevens Highlight Karen Durrie examines the feelings of complicity that encouraged her to correspond with her attacker.
The “Facebook of Money” That Wasn’t By Ben Huberman Highlight Tilt was once a start-up with extravagant soirées, hazy business plans, and a $375 million valuation. Then it came to the end.
‘But Islam Does Not Forbid Love’: How Young Muslims Define ‘Halal Dating’ By Krista Stevens Highlight Today’s young Muslims are finding ways to develop romantic relationships and while observing Islamic beliefs forbidding pre-marital sex.
Rolling Down the Highway with the Sum Total of Human Knowledge By Michelle Weber Highlight Google had a plan to scan every book in the world. 25 million books later, the project lost its way.
“Texas is Gilead and Indiana is Gilead” By Michelle Weber Highlight The Handmaid’s Tale is a classic case of “be careful what you wish for” for conservative women.
Before Becoming an Art Critic, Jerry Saltz Wanted to Draw 10,000 Dante-Inspired Altarpieces By Ben Huberman Highlight On the project that almost drove Jerry Saltz into despair.
When Alzheimer’s Disease Relieves Us of the Pain in Our Past By Krista Stevens Highlight For Maria Browning’s mother, Alzheimer’s Disease has dimmed old torments.
Where Were You the First Time You Realized the Government Wasn’t Always On the Ball? By Michelle Weber Highlight The 1969 oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara galvanized environmental activism, and Pacific Standard’s oral history is a great read.
Ijeoma Oluo Has the Last Word on Rachel Dolezal By Michelle Legro Commentary Oluo’s interview is a master class in confrontation, in which the hard questions are asked and the answers are pushed.
Alexander Chee: ‘He thought I wanted monogamy more than him, and I didn’t.’ By Krista Stevens Highlight Alexander Chee didn’t realize that his boyfriend, M., was pretending to be someone content to be monogamous.
Top of the Muffin to You! 25 Great Food Moments in “Seinfeld” By Krista Stevens Highlight From the chocolate babka to the big salad, Eater serves up 25 favorite food moments from Seinfeld.
Coretta Scott King Fuelled the Civil Rights Movement with ‘Courage, Dignity, and Poise’ By Krista Stevens Highlight How Coretta Scott King’s “grace, diginity, and poise” in the face of horrific tragedy fuelled the Civil Rights Movement.
Opioid Addicts Are Losing Their Memories and Doctors Don’t Know Why By Krista Stevens Highlight How does opioid overdose permanently damage the hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for memory?
The Pitfalls and Promise of the Horseshoe Crab, Unlikely Biomedical Hero By Michelle Weber Highlight Pharmaceutical companies catch half a million horseshoe crabs a year to drain their blood for medical use. But is this practice sustainable?
The Slacklash Is Here. You Should Do Something About It. By Michelle Weber Highlight Is the app that ate email eating into a whole lot more—like privacy, productivity, and personal time?
#Vanlife: Selling Their Staged World, One Social Media Post at A Time By Krista Stevens Highlight Is the social media movement a form of free-spirited nomadism, or a clever selling of the soul to brands?
Once You Reach the Top of Mt. Everest, There’s Nowhere to Go But Down By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Climber and explorer Cory Richards shares his challenges with PTSD, alcoholism, and infidelity.
Acting With Agency: The Power and Possibility of Heroic Women By Michelle Weber Highlight At The Paris Review, Megan Mayhew Bergman looks to history to define what makes an adventurous woman.
‘They Would Try to Love Whoever Killed Her, and Forgive.’ By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight In 1985, a girl was abducted and left to die in Winnipeg’s severe cold. While her parents, Cliff and Wilma Derksen, did not yet know the killer’s identity, they made a decision to forgive.
Haute Cuisine Has a Low Wage Problem By Ben Huberman Highlight How an army of unpaid apprentices keeps the world’s best restaurants afloat.
Ending Depression With a Push of a Button, But Only For a Moment By Michelle Weber Highlight For people with severe, depression, deep-brain stimulation offers an uncertain but potentially life-altering solution.
His Heart, Her Hands: A Pianist Helps a Musician with Fading Memory to Save the Songs in His Head By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Steve Goodwin was a talented musician, but he never recorded or wrote anything down. As his memory began to fade, his family found a professional pianist to help save the music in his head.
The (Film) Revolution Will Be Streamed By Ben Huberman Highlight “We have to get rid of the romantic part.”
‘S-Town’ Host Brian Reed Talks Ethics in Journalism By Krista Stevens Highlight Katie Kilkenny interviews S-Town host Brian Reed on ethics and his approach to reporting on the popular investigative podcast.
On the Hunt for the Romanov Easter Eggs By Pam Mandel Highlight Kind of takes the thrill out of your Cadbury Creme, your Kinder Surprise.
Queer and Black and Hiking the Appalachian Trail: Rahawa Haile on Going it Alone By Krista Stevens Highlight In hiking the Appalachian Trail solo as a queer black woman, Rahawa Haile wants “to be a role model to black women who are interested in the outdoors, including myself.”
The Barkley Marathons: Toeing the Line Between “Extreme Sports” and “Prank” By Michelle Weber Highlight The Barkley Marathon is five 20+ mile loops that runners must navigate in under 60 hours. Sarah Barker explores the event and the people who attempt this race-slash-ordeal.
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