You Have to Make Money to Make Money By Michelle Weber Is that not how the saying goes? Someone tell Amazon.
For the Love of Phish: ‘The Art of Letting Go’ By Krista Stevens “This is the other thing about Phish: you can be just as earnest and dorky as you want to be.”
Who Do You Have for Science This Year, I Have Mr. YouTube Again By Michelle Weber “The longer these kids stayed there, the further behind they were.”
Shoot First, Ask Questions Later (Or Don’t) By Michelle Weber 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.
How One Alabama Sherriff Worked Openly to Oppress People of Color By Aaron Gilbreath Here’s what voter suppression looked like in Alabama in the middle of the 20th century.
‘A Beautiful Contagion’: Anthony Bourdain By Krista Stevens “I just think it’s lonelier without him in the world.”
No Justice For Old Men By Michelle Weber 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.
Building Parks on Antiquities Sites Is Not OK By Aaron Gilbreath How the Arizona State Parks and Trails Director got fired for violating the Arizona Antiquities Act.
Scholar of Mazes: Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse By Krista Stevens “I stepped forward into a darkness that I’m still trying to find my way out of more than 40 years later.”
Carl Weathers, You Deserved Better By Michelle Weber Maybe with Creed II, a black actor will get the Oscar nod instead of the one white guy.
Bruce Springsteen: Sadness, Love, Madness, and Soul By Krista Stevens “All you needed to do,” Springsteen says, “was to risk being your true self.” We ignore our demons at our peril.
Sign On the Dotted Line to Ensure Your Own Destruction By Michelle Weber New York’s court system aids and abets predatory lenders who prey on small business owners.
Preserving Human Life Requires Preserving Insect Life By Aaron Gilbreath While science labors to comprehend the variety and volume of insects on earth, both are declining with disturbing speed, and the ecological consequences are troubling.
The Californians Who Can’t Budge By Michelle Weber How do you hold down the fort when the fort is on fire?
Finding Grace Between Love and Loss By Aaron Gilbreath One single mother’s journey to construct a sense of self that’s true to herself, not to other people.
Karst: the Latest Casualty of Clear-Cut Logging By Krista Stevens “On Vancouver Island, karst researchers hustle to save one of Earth’s most underappreciated—and fragile—ecosystems: an ecosystem hidden in plain sight.”
Bagels are the Best Ring-Shaped Breakfast Food and I Will Brook No Other Opinion By Michelle Weber I love bagels, but not as as much as Lloyd Squires loves bagels.
Link Wray’s Rustic Masterpieces By Aaron Gilbreath Link Wray is best known for his rock instrumentals, but in the early 1970s, he and his brothers recorded three albums in a chicken shack that sound like nothing else in his massive oeuvre.
For Each Survivor of a Mass Shooting, a Different (Slow) Road to Recovery By Sari Botton Can anyone truly fully recover from witnessing — and losing loved ones — in a school shooting?
Who Really Gets to Make the Rules? By Krista Stevens “But who gets to impose those rules and who becomes subject to them can be decisions tainted with sexism and racism and transphobia and homophobia. “
Bread, Disrupted By Michelle Weber 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 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.
How Simple Human Connection Can Help Save People from Suicide By Krista Stevens Therapist Ursula Whitehead regularly texts her clients between sessions to help them understand that they are not alone.
The Humanities Marketplace As a Circle of Hell By Aaron Gilbreath The struggles of a motivated, educated academic to find sufficient work.
You Can’t Escape Everything in the Ivory Tower By Michelle Weber For her father, Jaclyn Gilbert is less a daughter than a debt.
The Making of Nirvana’s Most Vulnerable Album By Aaron Gilbreath An oral history of the night Nirvana recorded “Unplugged,” their most tender, original live performance.
“I know I believe in the power of lining up little hopes” By Krista Stevens At Oxford American, Michael Graff remembers his dad, Carl.
Positivity Is Relative, Depending on Which Side of the Fighting You’re On By Michelle Weber “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.”