‘You Could Literally See Our Shit From Space’: The Broken Bowels of Beirut By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Beirut’s disintegrating sewage system and corrupt politics have put its residents in a shitty situation.
I Don’t Wear Pink By Carolyn Wells Highlight “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.”
‘Breonna deserved better’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “She is more than an incident report that didn’t offer her dignity in death, to tell the truth of her murder.”
‘I Saw It on Instagram, I Had to Come’: The Desire to Document Ourselves in Nature By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Are Instagrammers and selfie culture destroying the outdoors? At Outside, Lisa Chase sets off to find out.
Pretty and Dumb? Tell It to the Avocado By Carolyn Wells Highlight New arrivals didn’t hand Natives the keys to the modern world — but took the tools that built its foundations.
Sold! On Going (Once!) to Auctioneer School By Krista Stevens Highlight “Five dollar now five gidibid five dollar now ten gidibid ten, ten now fifteen digibigit now fifteen now fifteen gidibid, now twenty?”
1600 Days in Solitary Confinement, and Counting By Krista Stevens Highlight “She continued to write me, though she presumably risked retribution: more time in solitary, more nutraloaf, additional restrictions.”
Chasing Spies From the Couch By Carolyn Wells Highlight Discover a website that solves crimes without its members ever leaving home.
A Beautiful and Brutal Truth By Michelle Weber Highlight “I only know that it is incredibly sad to admit to your children that you’ve been seeing videos of black men being killed since you were their age and that you haven’t been able to stop it.”
‘Shots fired. Male on ground, bleeding out.’ By Michelle Weber Highlight When “Who gets to go jogging without getting shot?” is an actual question a society has to ask, that society is fundamentally flawed.
One of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s ‘Unsalvageables,’ 30 Years Later By Krista Stevens Highlight “Even children with treatable issues—perhaps they were cross-eyed or anemic, or had a cleft lip—were classified as ‘unsalvageable.'”
How To Make $1000 PER DAY From ANYWHERE In The World!!! Totally Not Shady! By Carolyn Wells Highlight Selling products you never see to people you never meet — the world of dropshipping.
John Lewis: ‘Get into Good Trouble’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “We are going to turn America around.”
Godspeed Your Journey to the Great PlayPlace In the Sky By Michelle Weber Highlight “Once the love-language of a brand to its audience, the place of a modern mascot has never been less sure-footed.”
If You Love the Music of the Carter Family, Thank Leslie Riddle By Michelle Weber Highlight “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.'”
Palliative Brownies By Krista Stevens Highlight “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.”
Hearing Voices By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Even after he quit smoking marijuana, one young college student couldn’t escape the auditory hallucinations that he’d first experienced during heavy use.
Four Stories from Wuhan By Krista Stevens Highlight “From the moment my mother died, I haven’t stopped thinking about how I could have saved her.”
COVID-19 and the Fight for Justice By Krista Stevens Highlight “And yet, even though this health crisis reflects our nation’s political, social, and civic infrastructure, this plague has no consideration for morality. “
Rout the Racism From Your Very Bones By Michelle Weber Highlight “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 PTSD of Everyday Life By Michelle Weber Highlight The mental and physical toll of life in a white supremacist state is unavoidable for BIPOC, even if it manifests differently for different people.
Life in the Chelsea Hotel During Pandemic By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The remaining residents face isolation, and the challenges of preserving their history while enduring the present.
India’s Journalistic Source of Narrative Nonfiction By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The dangers of journalists speaking the truth will not slow this Indian magazine down.
The Spectacular Explosion of Cannabis’ Ambitious Startup MedMen By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight This is how part of cannabis industry came down from its high.
Japan’s Lonely Cherry Blossoms By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight 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.
Jericho Brown: ‘Write into the Deep Dark Wreck’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “I grow green with hope. I’d like to end there.”
How Travel Writing May Look After the Pandemic By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Although people will always travel and write about their experiences, it remains unclear how the travel writing form will look after Covid-19.
How Covid Is Decimating British Music Journalism By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight What will England be like with fewer music magazines?
Risking Your Life For a Selfie By Carolyn Wells Highlight “With the right hashtag, anyone can view thousands of potential destinations — and choose which to visit based on aesthetics alone.”
Rosanne Cash: Living Between the Notes On Stage By Krista Stevens Highlight “It turns out that when I’m performing, I have only half the available light; the audience has the other half.”
