Sarah Menkedick suggests that America has everything to lose if it can’t reject the resurgence of nativist (white) populism to embrace this generation of smart, ambitious, second-generation Mexican Americans.
Nonfiction
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R.E.M.’s Political Songs Still Resonate Today
The band was never afraid to push social activism through their music.
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Weight Loss Does Not Cure Depression: How the World’s Heaviest Man Lost it All
Paul Mason lost 700 lbs. after bariatric surgery and finds happiness elusive; dramatic weight loss does nothing to treat the underlying depression and emotional trauma that caused him to eat to excess in the first place.
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‘There Was a Lot of Spontaneous Crying’: Chrissy Teigen on Her Postpartum Depression
Model, television host, and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen wrote a personal essay for Glamour, in which she confesses to having postpartum depression.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Sports
‘I Am Not a Role Model’ and the Resurgence of Athlete Activism
More athletes are publicly taking a political stance, echoing activists who came before them.
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Where Cult Fame and Real-Life Tragedy Intersect: ‘Zelda: Majora’s Mask’
How an alternate, fan-made, sinister storyline for Zelda: Majora’s Mask called Ben Drowned connects to the online suicide of 12-year-old Katelyn Davis.
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The Face of Mass Deportation
At Guernica, journalist J. Malcolm Garcia profiles forty-eight-year-old Sixto Paz, a roofer with a family and no criminal record who moved into a church to avoid deportation.
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Uncommon Ancestry: Your Dad is My Dad?
Alison Motluk writes on how fertility doctors impregnating their own clients is more common than you might think, and on how the law around tracking sperm donors and donations is impotent against the problem.
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Mars Needs Women… Scientists
At the top of the SLS will be the Orion, the capsule designed to take astronauts—men and, yes, now women—as far as Mars (come the 2030s).
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The Relentless Relevance of ‘9 to 5’
An recent interview with Patricia Resnick, author of the screenplay for the 1980 film “9 to 5,” on how little had really changed for women by 2015.