“The Final Five Percent” Wins 2020 Science in Society Journalism Award By Longreads Congratulations to Tim Requarth, whose Longreads essay has won the 2020 award in the Longform Narratives category.
Selling Fame By Carolyn Wells With the Cameo app, you can buy a video message from a celebrity — increasing in popularity since COVID-19, will this way of communicating become the new norm?
‘It’s An iPad, Not An usPad’: Douglas Rushkoff on Digital Isolation By Cheri Lucas Rowlands “There’s no Dropbox plan that will let us upload body and soul to the cloud. We are still here on the ground, with the same people and on the same planet we are being encouraged to leave behind.”
Death as a Work of Art By Krista Stevens “He tried to explain that the tomb was his final creative act, one that he would make with love, as he had made ceramics daily for the past forty-four years.”
The Seattle Police Shooting of Native Woodcarver John T. Williams, 10 Years Later By Cheri Lucas Rowlands “I don’t think you can talk about police accountability in our region without also talking about the murder of John T. Williams.”
‘The Sea and Sky Decide What They Will Allow’ By Krista Stevens “I’m working on a book about Arctic explorers, and that means swimming in a sea of sorrow.”
Until I Have Your Money By Carolyn Wells How multiple Canadian women entered a relationship with a man who was scamming them for money.
‘I Mostly Feel Like My Voice Matters’: A Portland Journalist on Protests, Police Violence, and Enduring Trauma By Cheri Lucas Rowlands A reporter covering the protests in Portland reflects on fear and trauma, police violence, and her voice as a journalist.
‘Their Bodies Are Not Considered Their Own’: White Privilege in the Emergency Room By Cheri Lucas Rowlands It’s against the law to examine someone without their consent — but one ER doctor’s colleagues do it anyway.
When Boomers Must Zoom By Carolyn Wells “A friend who teaches at another university tells me that a new Yiddish word has been invented: oysgezoomt, ‘over-exposed to Zoom,’ as in ‘Ich bin azoy oysgezoomt!’ (‘I’m so done with Zoom!’)”
‘Who’s Going to Take Care of Me?’: When the Coronavirus Takes Both Parents By Cheri Lucas Rowlands In the wake of their parents’ deaths, three siblings struggle to get through the day-to-day.
Let the Unexpected Expand the Landscape of the Possible By Michelle Weber “In general, I try to expect nothing and hope that everything is possible. I want the courage to need very little and demand a lot.”
Killer Mike Takes His Allies Where He Finds Them By Michelle Weber “You may start off with Professor X but Magneto got a fucking point.”
In Absentia By matthewembremner A meditation on the nature of grief, at a time when the whole world seems to be grieving.
‘You Could Literally See Our Shit From Space’: The Broken Bowels of Beirut By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Beirut’s disintegrating sewage system and corrupt politics have put its residents in a shitty situation.
I Don’t Wear Pink By Carolyn Wells “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 “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 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 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 “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 “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 Discover a website that solves crimes without its members ever leaving home.
A Beautiful and Brutal Truth By Michelle Weber “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 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 “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 Selling products you never see to people you never meet — the world of dropshipping.
Godspeed Your Journey to the Great PlayPlace In the Sky By Michelle Weber “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 “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 “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.”
