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Beirut’s disintegrating sewage system and corrupt politics have put its residents in a shitty situation.

“I believe in reincarnation,” my 4-year-old announced, confidently. “And when I come back, I’m going to be a boy, and my name will be Shane.”

“She is more than an incident report that didn’t offer her dignity in death, to tell the truth of her murder.”

Sometimes it’s not who you work with, but who you work for.

Are Instagrammers and selfie culture destroying the outdoors? At Outside, Lisa Chase sets off to find out.

New arrivals didn’t hand Natives the keys to the modern world — but took the tools that built its foundations.

“Five dollar now five gidibid five dollar now ten gidibid ten, ten now fifteen digibigit now fifteen now fifteen gidibid, now twenty?”

“She continued to write me, though she presumably risked retribution: more time in solitary, more nutraloaf, additional restrictions.”

Discover a website that solves crimes without its members ever leaving home.

“Even children with treatable issues—perhaps they were cross-eyed or anemic, or had a cleft lip—were classified as ‘unsalvageable.'”

Selling products you never see to people you never meet — the world of dropshipping.

“We are going to turn America around.”

The soft-focus Britain of Downton Abbey bears little resemblance to the real Britain collapsing under the weight of racism, austerity, and COVID-19. As Brexit plods on, it’s time for an honest reckoning of the history and future of this outsize little island.

“Once the love-language of a brand to its audience, the place of a modern mascot has never been less sure-footed.”

“First, you exclude black people from the festivals. Then write them out by not recording them. And pretty soon, ‘you have this manufactured image of country music being white and being poor.'”

“I grew up in the grip of the epidemic, maturing as people I adored as surrogate aunties and uncles fell ill and vanished from our lives.”

“From the moment my mother died, I haven’t stopped thinking about how I could have saved her.”

“And yet, even though this health crisis reflects our nation’s political, social, and civic infrastructure, this plague has no consideration for morality. “

“What are you carrying dormant in your body that springs up when confronted with Black joy, Black power, Black brilliance, Black Blackness in the world?”

The mental and physical toll of life in a white supremacist state is unavoidable for BIPOC, even if it manifests differently for different people.

Ditching the Midwest for Southern California on the heels of a crushing divorce, the last thing Cheryl Jarvis wants is her 26-year old son for a roomie.

Millions of people turn out to see Japan’s famous sakura blossoms. This year, Covid-19 kept the usual crowds at home, though the blossom makes a fitting metaphor for evanescence.

Bernice L. McFadden ruminates on all the things her mother has endured only to find herself spending her golden years in the midst of a deadly plague and state-sanctioned racism.

Although people will always travel and write about their experiences, it remains unclear how the travel writing form will look after Covid-19.

What will England be like with fewer music magazines?

“With the right hashtag, anyone can view thousands of potential destinations — and choose which to visit based on aesthetics alone.”

“It turns out that when I’m performing, I have only half the available light; the audience has the other half.”

History may have pigeonholed her as Renaissance Italy’s most notorious seductress, but it’s high time we give the Duchess of Ferrara a closer look.

‘“People are disposable to them,” Rachel says. “They don’t care.”’

“He likes talking about polio and the lung, and about his life, because what terrifies him…is that the world will forget what polio was like, and what he achieved in spite of it.”