Category: Highlight

From 2008 to 2016, the amount that state Medicaid programs spend on prescription drugs almost doubled. Why?

Adrian Piper’s body of work encourages audiences to think critically about race, gender, and power, and to engage with their own perceptions.

We wear slogan tees to signal our politics and identify ourselves to like-minded thinkers — but maybe they mask more than they reveal.

Don McIntyre is not a man who shies away from a challenge — an understatement if there ever was one.

At the end of July, no one in Alaska will be able to “Make it a Blockbuster Night!”

People share their feelings with Siri all the time. What’s scary is that Siri is really listening.

Pioneering investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born July 16, 1862.

Tim Berners-Lee: “For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it.”

Henry Taylor’s portraits are sacred objects that lovingly center black subjects and black interiority.

“In Sarasota, there is a community surrounding a litany of roadside psychics and more than 100 mediums and spiritual guides. Why?”

A new essay and podcast series examines how attitudes toward age and aging have changed.

Haters could write the book on hate reading Jonathan Franzen, but he wouldn’t read it and neither would they.

Johnny Depp’s out of cash and he really has no idea why.

The untold art of the fairytale comeback, brought to you by Nintendo.

The Paris Review launches a monthly column to shine light on women writers from the past who have been under-recognized.

Police eventually figured out who killed Jaimee Mendez, but not how or why.

Anthony Boudain passed away in Strasbourg, France, on Friday, June 8th, at age 61.

Welcome to the dangerous, cramped world of the saturation diver, and the extraordinary strangeness of working 500 feet under the sea.

“Play like a man, look like a lady.” At Narratively, Britni de la Cretaz looks at the history of lesbianism in early pro women’s baseball and at the beautiful love stories that the movie “A League of Their Own” chose to ignore.

Formerly controversial comic Sarah Silverman is “on a campaign to neutralize her haters with a weapon more powerful than a million burns: empathy.”

As passports give way to fingerprinting and retinal scans, our bodies themselves become tools to limit our free movement.

“Wyoming has more guns per capita than any other state, and more than 80 percent of adults in Campbell County have firearms in their homes.”

Honoring Peter Mayer, founder of Overlook Press, and one of “the stars of book publishing.”

Annette Miller, a longtime resident of West Oakland’s Ghost Town neighborhood, has witnessed the dramatic transformation of the city as changes sweep the block she’s lived on for over 50 years.

Sprawling, crumbling, beautiful, rough — Elena Ferrante’s Naples shows us the world’s violent underbelly, with no pretense.

Terese Marie Mailhot knows from experience that speaking out against racism can come with a cost. But it’s a cost she’s ready and willing to pay.

Canadians need to learn the truth — the individual stories of those who attended Residential Schools — before we can ever begin the reconciliation process.

In an essay for the Guardian, writer and journalist Margo Jefferson considers how the new multiculturalism of the House of Windsor has refreshed the royal house’s relevancy and appeal. Markle majored in international relations and theatre at Northwestern University, Illinois. Besides becoming an actor, she became a feminist who worked for UN Women as an advocate for political […]

As once-popular Snapchat becomes an increasingly irrelevant platform, Helena Fitzgerald finds beauty in its uselessness.

Being an outdoorsy person doesn’t make you a conservationist, sadly.