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 […]

The authors describe the river as a “postindustrial terra incognita,” a place “of discarded things and marginalized people”. Can the city change that?

If struggling parents feed their kids KFC, is it nutritional neglect or love?

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.

“But what if extreme athletes are the worst sources of wisdom, and that is precisely what makes them fascinating?”

Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on why he still fasts during Ramadan.

A Teen Vogue series covers women getting involved in government at various levels.

Diana Arterian’s sad, lyrical essay on the legacy of the Armenian Genocide in the diaspora centers on a family story that everyone has heard — but that no one knows the truth of.

On the lowest paid, but perhaps most rewarding job at The California Medical Facility — a medium-security prison in Vacaville, CA.

To save threatened shorebirds, one pharmaceutical biologist had to figure out how to save the crabs they depend on.

An important look at a dysfunctional industry, and a master class in profile writing.

A woman makes sand-pear pie with her grandmother and remembers a family ritual.

Maybe healing your body and Mother Earth with crystals extracted by environmentally dubious means isn’t the best approach to healing.

To every man and woman their own Dorito.

How do you bring yourself to plan for a baby after three miscarriages in a row?

Margot Kidder passed away at her home in Montana on Sunday, May 13th, 2018 at age 69.

A survey of recent reads says that psychedelic drugs like psilocybin and LSD are not only enjoying a renaissance — they might actually be helpful to humans.

How one London man transformed his house into a work of art, and a physical love story to the people he’s lost.

At Smithsonian Magazine, Rachel E. Gross explores why keeping your pet cat inside is for the birds.

Democrats can flip Orange County, California, from red to blue, as long as they don’t mess it up.

George Andrie’s daughter, Mary Brooks, is speaking out against the NFL’s slipshod settlement claims process.

Artists are always getting screwed, even by other artists.

Lawson’s photographs capture the divinity and stateliness of its working-class subjects.

Jason Diamond moves into a new apartment and adopts a dog that begins terrorizing his neighbors.

One elderly man’s attempt to combat crushing loneliness.

One vape pen to rule them all.

Does each of your children represent a novel you’ll never write? Michael Chabon is okay with that.

Looking for an Instagrammable way to spend your Saturday? Mediate your imagination through the forced whimsy of the Dream Machine.

The Pulitzer Prize-winner’s work always feels honest, as writers have found when they dive deep into his literary influences.