Category: Featured

“It has become a disconcerting pattern for Thunberg appearances: Greta tells the adults they are fools and their plans are lame and shortsighted. They still give her a standing ovation.”

Faylita Hicks considers what it means to be a Black nonbinary activist in the age of Trump — and questions how the social justice movement has changed the way they have sex.

“Building a relationship is important, because it makes the pictures secondary.”

“The way we die is changing. So, too, is the way we think about dying — and about the opportunity, even the right, to die at a time and place of our choosing.”

“She can be shy and insecure. And yet she didn’t hesitate to stare down the cameras on American television to call out one of the most powerful men in the world.”

‘“You shouldn’t stay here,” he says, but he gets more frightened as night comes, dreading the long hours of fever and soaking sweats and shivering and terrible aches.’

“Whether this (continuous deflection) is intentional or not, it’s a good way of avoiding giving too much away.”

“Sing Sing was going into quarantine. Our movement was limited. No gym. Hospital and commissary runs limited to groups of ten. Staggered seating in the mess hall.”

As she’s done before, Sara B. Franklin greets the specter of death by defiantly planting a life-sustaining vegetable garden.

For wealthy Americans, a dystopian future includes underground golfing in South Dakota.

“Dreams, like Scheherazade’s stories, keep us alive, keep our ships from crashing too soon, keep our candles in those ocean vessel’s rooms aglow.”

‘“Notre Dame will come out of this experience enriched,” she says. “And so will we.”’

Naz Riahi recalls her vibrant childhood in a suburb of Tehran, and considers how the harsh realities imposed by the still new Islamic Republic seeped into her family’s life.

“My dad every now and then will toe that line and be like, You could try women!” says Bowen, laughing. “And I’m like…Don’t. It’s almost an endearing kind of homophobia, if such a thing exists.”

A headline-grabbing murder-for-hire plot helped expose the dark side of exotic animal ownership in the U.S. Is there now enough momentum to reform the industry?

“We didn’t know it yet, but we were living in a kind of laboratory of the country’s future. We were the first.”

“Weiss…a subtle, under-the-radar bureaucrat who fought his country’s adversaries with red tape and a headful of contrarian ideas. I understood him as a man whose entire life was secrets. “

If you are the family breadwinner, how do you calculate the value of time with your children?

Sarah Miller thinks about climate change and other current horrors, and what it’s like just being sad forever.

“Live your life now in a positive way. Help people if you can. Don’t hurt people. That works perfectly for me, man.”

“As medicine advances, we have more survivors. But those survivors carry trauma to their graves.”

“The thinking is that fleets of tireless, automated, uncrewed vehicles could one day criss-cross our waters, making maps where humans can’t or won’t.”

Even as California’s Inland Empire loses its citrus industry to urbanization, urbanites can still keep social ties by planting fruit trees in their yards.

Trudging to the grocery store to laden up with milk and toilet roll may seem like a chore, but does it improve your health?

“He knew there were a lot of people just like him, irregularly employed, regulars in pubs, the owners of passports and phones and all the right charger leads, only with nowhere stable to live.”

“Before he died a few years later, my father told me there were almost no tocaoras — female flamenco guitarists — in the world. If I kept practicing, he said, I could be one of the first.”

An entanglement with her shrink-stalking protege teaches Susan Shapiro something about forgiveness.

What’s in the hold, captain? Oh nothing, just tonnes upon tonnes of illegal Chilean bass — nothing to see here!

Rita Strand, age 58, posed as a health inspector and got unrestricted access to South Dakota prison.

“Having children has simultaneously fried my brain and made it sharper and more focused.”