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.
The Cities in Me By Sorayya Khan Feature Novelist Sorayya Khan maps her path from Islamabad to Solvay.
Unpacking Forty Years of Fandom For a Losing Team By Kevin Sampsell Feature Kevin Sampsell examines his love of football — and a team that’s never won a Super Bowl.
Recovering My Fifth Sense By Kavita Das Feature Kavita Das recalls learning to self-advocate as a patient with a cleft palate — and as a child in a family full of doctors.
The Only Downside to Lower Infant-Mortality Rates? All Those Baby Books By Ben Huberman Highlight When you don’t need to worry about the big things, you can start obsessing over the small ones.
The Handgun and the Haunted Range By Justin Quarry Feature Justin Quarry hunted for himself, and a connection to his late father, with the unlikely inheritance of a firearm.
You’re On Death Row, You’ve Asked to Die, But the State Won’t Kill You By Krista Stevens Highlight Despite their hard-stance bluster, death penalty states rarely impose the ultimate sentence, even if you’re the prisoner and you ask them to.
From One Friendship, Lessons on Life, Death, AIDS, and Childlessness By S. Kirk Walsh Feature S. Kirk Walsh reflects on her friendship with a gay man battling AIDS — how he taught her to grieve her own infertility, and live life more fully.
Why Do Millennials Love Horoscopes? (Hint: It’s Not Only Because They’re Free) By Ben Huberman Highlight A new audience finds comfort and meme-ready material in an old pseudoscience.
Diary of a Do-Gooder By Sara Eckel Feature After years of trying to distinguish herself, Sara Eckel considers the value of door-to-door canvassing, phone-banking, and other anonymous tasks of everyday activism.
We’re Not Done Here By Laurie Penny Feature How the MeToo movement became a feminist sexual revolution.
To Your Door: The Human Cost of Food Delivery By Krista Stevens Highlight To earn money during a rough patch as a freelancer, Sam Riches worked as a bike courier, delivering food in Toronto during a six-month period. While the job lacked in pay, it offered one intriguing benefit: a crash course in human nature.
Changing My Mind About Pig’s Feet and Cornrows By Dara Lurie Feature Dara Lurie reflects on what she discovered about her own racism while living at a state-run home for disadvantaged children.
An Ode to Sichuan’s Singular Sensation By Ben Huberman Highlight The king of peppercorns is literally electric.
You Are What You Hear By Pauline Campos Feature Pauline Campos tries to forget the harsh words that shaped her understanding of her body growing up — for her daughter’s sake, and her own.
What to Do With a Man Who Has a Story, and a Gun By Lisa Romeo Feature Lisa Romeo recalls her first college romance, when she was willing to overlook a lot — until she wasn’t.
The More We Disrupt, The More Things Are Exactly The Same By Michelle Weber Commentary TL;DR: tech titans have a lot of sex and drug parties at which they disrupt conventional morality by… replicating conventional sexist, heteronormative behaviors.
My Daughter Died, But I’m Still Mothering Her By Jacqueline Dooley Feature Jacqueline Dooley recalls her difficult transition from being a mother with earthly duties, to becoming one with more spiritual concerns for a teenage daughter with terminal cancer.
The Other People in Springfield By Imran Siddiquee Feature Imran Siddiquee considers the ways in which his identities — as a Bangladeshi-American and as a man — were shaped by growing up in the shadow of The Simpsons.
This is How You Say Goodbye By Lillian Ann Slugocki Feature After a series of losses, Lillian Slugocki tries to make sense of death — and life in the wake of others’ passing.
The Volcanologist’s Dilemma By Ben Huberman Highlight In Naples, scientists find themselves grappling with unpredictable volcanoes and skeptical residents.
A Muslim, a Christian, and a Baby Named “God” By Rachel Pieh Jones Feature Rachel Pieh Jones, a Christian American living in Djibouti, reflects on her friendship with a Muslim woman there, and the more universal aspects of faith.
Maybe We’ll Register Your Marriage After You Walk the Bomb-Sniffing Dog By Krista Stevens Highlight All they really wanted was to live happily ever after.
Bringing Home the Bodies: Deliverance From 27,000 Feet By Krista Stevens Highlight How 12 sherpas recovered two bodies from the 27,000-foot mark of Mount Everest.
No Más Fantasía By Chris Outcalt Feature What happens when you’re sentenced to life in prison as a teenager, then released 19 years later and sent to a place that’s supposed to feel like home?
In Praise of Cowardice By Emily Meg Weinstein Feature Emily Meg Weinstein considers the ways in which her grandfather’s less than heroic choices in love and war led to her existence.
Server, Busser, Manager, Spy: Inside the High-Stakes World of Restaurant Oppo Research By Ben Huberman Highlight When a famous critic enters a restaurant, they become the most scrutinized item on the menu.
The Complicated Politics of Rescue and Recovery By Michelle Legro Highlight The Cajun Navy was an essential part of Hurricane Harvey relief. But like everything else, their efforts became politically complicated.
Restoring Neon City By Krista Stevens Highlight On the artists who labor to keep Austin weird and glowing brightly.
The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy By Melissa Chadburn Feature Melissa Chadburn goes undercover as a temp worker.
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