An Accident Compounded By Injustice By Michelle Weber Highlight Wendell Lindsey, convicted of murdering his 10-year-old daughter in a fake drowning, has consistently maintained his innocence — and there’s a lot to suggest he’s telling the truth.
After the US Open, a History of Racial Caricature By Danielle Jackson Highlight In the wake of an Australian cartoon about the U.S. Open historian Brooke Newman traces a history of racial caricature.
The Myth of the Singular Voice By Danielle Jackson Highlight Ahistorical narratives of racial uplift and singular heroes deny complexity and are devoid of real politics.
Facebook Isn’t the Same as “The Internet” Except When It Is By Michelle Weber Highlight What happens when a tool created by a bunch of developers in California becomes the main news source of a country 7,000 miles away? Nothing good.
Do You Want to Know a Secret: The Untold Stories of Paul McCartney By Krista Stevens Highlight “Imagine realizing one day that you’re a Beatle. Think about how you might decide to handle that for the next 50, 60, 70 years.”
A Mystery Shrouded in an Enigma Wrapped in a Snazzy Tie and Smothered in Inherited Wealth By Michelle Weber Highlight Who is Tucker Carlson?
Let Them Eat Pancakes By Michelle Weber Highlight Employer loyalty is nice, but people can’t actually their pay bills with it.
Florida, White Privilege, and Racism By Krista Stevens Highlight My origin story—as a son, and later a father and a husband; as a citizen, a racist— has always begun in a crumpled car at the side of the highway. May 30, 1982.
The Columbine Generation Isn’t Going to Take it Anymore By Krista Stevens Highlight The Parkland survivors are teaming up with urban youth dedicated to ending gun violence, united by Dr. Martin Luther King’s six principles of nonviolence.
SuperShe Island: Where Finding Your Inner Light is Priceless By Krista Stevens Highlight Apparently there is no shortage of women who want to apply to pay $5000 to find their inner light.
‘Mami’s biggest lesson’: On Storytelling and the Weight of Words By Danielle Jackson Highlight The author learned how to tell stories from her psychic mother.
Take Two $275 Herbal Supplements and Don’t Call Me in the Morning By Michelle Weber Highlight Looks like you’ve got late-stage Patriarchal Medicine Syndrome. I’m so sorry.
Graduate School is Wonderful and We Are All Very, Very Happy By Michelle Weber Highlight Avital Ronell is both product and perpetuator of an abusive academy.
Viagra: The Happiest of All Happy Accidents? By Krista Stevens Highlight How a happy accident has gone on to make men happy the world over.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger Was the Newest Member of the Gym By Ben Huberman Highlight From his earliest days in California, Arnold was a polarizing, impossible-to-ignore figure.
Breast Implants, Beyond Real and Fake By Ben Huberman Highlight Nell Boeschenstein reflects on the culturally fraught discourse around post-mastectomy reconstruction.
‘I was pain incarnate.’ By Krista Stevens Highlight As she lives with terminal cancer, Teva Harrison reflects reflects on how fentanyl is helping her make the most of the time she has left.
The Case of the Poisoned Calves By Catherine Cusick Highlight Someone poisoned eighteen of Buck Birdsong’s calves in the past four years. But who? And why?
‘I’d Rather Import Water Than Export Children’ By Catherine Cusick Highlight Growth advocates in St. George, Utah want a billion-dollar pipeline to support a rising population. Conservationists don’t.
A New Citizen Leaves a Lost America By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Journalist Rebecca Mead explains why she first left England for the United States, and why she’s now moving back to a country that isn’t necessarily home.
Finding Time to Write Even During the Busiest of Times By Sari Botton Highlight How Jami Attenberg helped form a supportive online literary community with #1000WordsofSummer.
Twelve Longreads for Aretha Franklin By Danielle Jackson Reading List Aretha Franklin was born March 25, 1942 and died Thursday, August 16, 2018.
Style Ain’t Cheap, aka That Stuffed Coyote Costs Extra By Michelle Weber Highlight Going to a hotel to have a place to sleep is for suckers: it’s influencing or bust.
The Future of Decisions By Catherine Cusick Highlight If humans can’t decide, “the future of life will be decided at random.”
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things By Michelle Weber Highlight Scientists knew how serious climate change is. Politicians knew. Energy companies knew. The U.S. was ready to act, and then we… didn’t.
The Life-Changing Magic of Getting In Line at 5AM By Michelle Weber Highlight Japan is committed to waiting: its language includes the phrase gyouretsu no dekiru mise: “restaurants that have very long lines.”
War, What is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing By Krista Stevens Highlight “Across these years, hundreds of thousands of young men and women signed on in good faith and served in the lower and middle ranks. They did not make policy. They lived within it.”
Dog Cloning: Controversial and Downright Creepy By Krista Stevens Highlight A clone is not a clone, it’s a twin born at a different time — one that is only ever about 85 percent the same as the original.
Sh*t or Get Off the Composter By Michelle Weber Highlight Maybe pooping into porcelain bowls of potable water wasn’t the best idea we ever had.
