Who Do You Have for Science This Year, I Have Mr. YouTube Again By Michelle Weber Highlight “The longer these kids stayed there, the further behind they were.”
Shoot First, Ask Questions Later (Or Don’t) By Michelle Weber Highlight Officer Stephen Mader got fired for deciding not to shoot someone, and if that doesn’t say a lot about the problems with police culture in the U.S., I don’t know what to tell you.
No Justice For Old Men By Michelle Weber Highlight In 2018, we’re inured to stories of a powerful men taking advantage of girls and getting away with it, but Jeffrey Epstein’s story still manages to horrify.
Carl Weathers, You Deserved Better By Michelle Weber Highlight Maybe with Creed II, a black actor will get the Oscar nod instead of the one white guy.
Sign On the Dotted Line to Ensure Your Own Destruction By Michelle Weber Highlight New York’s court system aids and abets predatory lenders who prey on small business owners.
The Californians Who Can’t Budge By Michelle Weber Highlight How do you hold down the fort when the fort is on fire?
Bagels are the Best Ring-Shaped Breakfast Food and I Will Brook No Other Opinion By Michelle Weber Highlight I love bagels, but not as as much as Lloyd Squires loves bagels.
For Each Survivor of a Mass Shooting, a Different (Slow) Road to Recovery By Sari Botton Highlight Can anyone truly fully recover from witnessing — and losing loved ones — in a school shooting?
Bread, Disrupted By Michelle Weber Highlight Bread: it was so terrible, right? Thank goodness the tech industry finally iterated on it so we can make a decent piece of toast after 6,000 years.
But Who Gets Custody of the Dog? By Michelle Weber Highlight It seems like America is made up of two broad groups who don’t agree on anything — maybe it’s time for a trial separation.
You Can’t Escape Everything in the Ivory Tower By Michelle Weber Highlight For her father, Jaclyn Gilbert is less a daughter than a debt.
Positivity Is Relative, Depending on Which Side of the Fighting You’re On By Michelle Weber Highlight “I was not a fallen creature in a broken world reliant on grace, but a Marine in a successful army that had all the answers.”
We Could Fell a Redwood Forest With This Anger By Michelle Weber Highlight Sometimes, the only way to vent your rage so you can be a useful member of society is with an axe.
Consider Who Can Afford the Oyster By Michelle Weber Highlight If the personal is political, then food is political — and food writing should be, too.
The Chance of a Lifetime By Krista Stevens Highlight If you had one chance at the adventure of a lifetime, would you go despite the dangers?
The Post on Anti-Semitism I Never Thought I’d Write By Sari Botton Highlight Like many non-religious Jews of my generation, I naively assumed Nazism could never rise — and hurt us — again.
A Confederacy of (Dangerous) Dunces By Sari Botton Highlight Rebecca Solnit argues that the American Confederacy lives on, with Donald Trump at the helm.
Help Us Fund More Original Essays (and Great Art to Go with Them) By Sari Botton Highlight Member contributions help us to amplify diverse voices and give chances to new writers.
Maybe Beauty Doesn’t Have to Mean Pain By Michelle Weber Highlight Little girls flock to ballet classes, but the art isn’t kind to their bodies, autonomy, or sense of self. What has to change?
‘Do you like scary movies?’ By Michelle Weber Highlight We voluntarily watch horror movies, despite the very real fight-or-flight physical reactions they provoke. Why?
The Trans Parent Whose Journey Inspired a Television Show By Sari Botton Highlight Her father’s gender transition was the impetus behind Jill Soloway’s show.
Filmmaker Barry Jenkins’ Adaptation of James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk” By Danielle Jackson Highlight “I think when I found film,” he said, “I found a way — I still hide a bit — but a way to not hide as much. I felt like I could put these things into the work because it’s the movie. It’s not me.”
Lady Gaga, Celeb Profiles, and the Third Remake of “A Star is Born” By Danielle Jackson Highlight Rachel Syme profiles Lady Gaga and dives deep into the mystique and mythology of “A Star is Born.”
Of Politics and Prose By Sari Botton Highlight Roxane Gay writes about the necessary and inevitable influence of politics on literature at this fraught time in history.
The Art of the Pan By Sari Botton Highlight Sarah Miller recalls her days in the ’90s as a fickle movie critic.
The Meaning of “Aquemini” By Danielle Jackson Highlight OutKast’s masterful 1998 album “Aquemini” defined a bold and Black South and predicted today’s pop music landscape.
25 Years of Vibe Magazine By Danielle Jackson Highlight From its first issue in 1993, Vibe magazine reflected the “multicultural mainstream.”
It’s Time to Stop Painting Joyce Maynard as an ‘Oversharer’ Already By Sari Botton Highlight In the #metoo era, there’s no excuse for continuing to deride women like Maynard who speak out about their experiences with men who had much more power.
We’re Fat, Not Stupid By Michelle Weber Highlight Oh, did you think we didn’t realize that we’re fat? We’re all set, thanks, because the world never lets us forget it.
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