Apocalypse Now? Now? How About Now? By Krista Stevens “And yet I am also, in the darkest corners of my heart, a doomsday prepper myself.”
‘What’s this guy doing loose in Malheur County?’ By Michelle Weber He faked an insanity defense, got out, and immediately committed another crime, and this time people are dead. He’s going to plead insanity again.
Can Mickey Mouse Coexist with Bears, Panthers, and Alligators? By Krista Stevens “The treasures of wild Florida — landscapes, waterways, flora, and fauna — will soon disappear without drastic efforts to save them.”
Don’t Pretend Like You Don’t Love Wikipedia By Michelle Weber Without it, you’d have to actually, y’know, be productive.
I Have No Idea What You Corporate People Are Talking About By Aaron Gilbreath Before I can parallel-path that project and route it back to you, you’ll need to explain what you’re asking in actual English, please.
Novelist Charles Portis Was a True Original By Aaron Gilbreath Every Portis fan has a different favorite passage from his novels, but they agree on one thing: no one wrote like Portis.
The Misogyny Is the Point By Michelle Weber I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free… to be reduced to a uterus and some boobs! Good times.
Making Periods Green To Topple Tampax By Carolyn Wells Will a pain-relieving, CBD-infused, biodegradable cotton tampon be enough to beat Tampax?
Closing the Loop on Diabetes By Carolyn Wells Open source code could be the key to transforming the life of diabetics.
When It’s Time to Tell By Aaron Gilbreath The silence that once protected one woman from memories of her abusive ex-boyfriend and further abuse was now the silence she needed to free herself from.
Meet the 14-Year-Old Dancer Who Invented The Renegade By Mark Armstrong A ninth grader’s creation explodes on TikTok, without acknowledgement or credit.
Finding Answers about Life and Love in the Mountain Death Zone By Krista Stevens “There’s no reflective surfaces when you’re climbing. You’re just who you are.”
Black America Unwittingly Provided the Soundtrack to Its Own Displacement By Aaron Gilbreath American music may be Black music, but it has now become the music of displacement.
How the US Spied on Allies and Adversaries Alike By Krista Stevens The “United States and its allies exploited other nations’ gullibility for years, taking their money and stealing their secrets.”
When Your Father Recruits You for a Life of Crime By Krista Stevens Archie Moretti believed he could steal and get away with it. It’d just take a little nepotism.
What If This Is It: Will Huey Lewis Sing Again? By Krista Stevens ‘The music went away slowly and then all at once. So what if it never comes back? “I haven’t allowed myself to go there yet,” Huey says, worry in his voice.’
The Most Common Airbnb Scams: A Roundup By Krista Stevens “…these emails paint a portrait of a platform whose creators are fundamentally unable to track what goes on within it, and point to easily exploitable loopholes that scammers have steamed their way through by the truckload.”
Closure in Service of Grief: the Septuagenarian Couple Who Locate Bodies Under Water By Krista Stevens “What Gene and Sandy offer is not the hope of rescue, but the solace of finality. They have spent years crisscrossing North America in the service of grief.”
Why Amanda Fortini Won’t Soon Be Leaving Las Vegas By Krista Stevens “Las Vegas is a place about which people have ideas. They have thoughts and generalizations, takes and counter-takes, most of them detached from any genuine experience and uninformed by any concrete reality.”
Sit Back, Relax, and Try Not To Think About the Hole We’re Making In Your Skull By Michelle Weber You can understand how the dura mater connects to the arachnoid mater, but that doesn’t mean you understand the mind.
Vivian Gornick on ‘Political Activism as a Path Toward a Coherent Self’ By Krista Stevens “But writing itself, living a life defined by work and intellect rather than love or marriage, became her primary feminist commitment.”
Behind the Magic: The Story of Prince’s Super Bowl Halftime Show By Krista Stevens “No it’s not about me. It’s about the music, it’s about this moment.”
Please Don’t You Be My Neighbor By Krista Stevens “To watch those people vanish and be replaced by people who shine like glass, who cut through the sidewalks like knives but reflect nothing back, has been another scraping out. Am I still here? I don’t know anyone here anymore.”
Science Says Life is Better in Intentional Communities By Krista Stevens Intentional communities are a prophylactic against the plague of loneliness and a gateway to a meaningful life.
Can Japan Break Its Addiction to Disposable Packaging? By Aaron Gilbreath One of the most technologically advanced countries in the world pays a high ecological price for its many culinary conveniences.
The Early Years of Elif Batuman’s Interest in Russian Authors By Aaron Gilbreath How a college student’s scholarly investigation into whether Tolstoy was murdered led to her first book, about the people obsessed with Russian literature.
Why the 9/11 Families May Never Get Closure By Krista Stevens LSS: Because Trump wants to be pals with Saudi crown prince Mohammad Bin Salman.
Making Something Out of Nothing With a Scratch and a Hope: The Ballad of Shovels and Rope By Krista Stevens “We had nothing to lose,” Cary Ann said. “Fuck it. Band. Family. Let’s give it a shot. . . . Handshake, spit on it. If it gets too nasty we’ll cut and run.”
China’s Communist Government Has a Strong Hold on Chinese Corporations By Aaron Gilbreath China’s largest e-commerce company is not only changing the way people in China shop, but how they think about commerce and each other in a Communist country.
N.K. Jemisin: ‘I am still going to write what I am going to write.’ By Krista Stevens Hells to the yes, says I.
