Feeding Our Kids, In Fatness and in Health By Michelle Weber If struggling parents feed their kids KFC, is it nutritional neglect or love?
The Last Place Where No One Is Looking: Embracing the End Times of Snapchat By Cheri Lucas Rowlands As once-popular Snapchat becomes an increasingly irrelevant platform, Helena Fitzgerald finds beauty in its uselessness.
Does Outdoor Recreation Correlate With Environmental Values? By Aaron Gilbreath Being an outdoorsy person doesn’t make you a conservationist, sadly.
Endurance: It’s All in Your Head, Apparently By Krista Stevens “But what if extreme athletes are the worst sources of wisdom, and that is precisely what makes them fascinating?”
‘I Feel Closer to My Faith Than I Did Before’: Holding On to Ramadan By Danielle Jackson Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on why he still fasts during Ramadan.
The Future is Female … Politicians By Sari Botton A Teen Vogue series covers women getting involved in government at various levels.
In the End, It’s All Just the Stories We Tell By Michelle Weber 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.
Life After Life: Offering Dignity to Fellow Prisoners Through Hospice Care By Krista Stevens On the lowest paid, but perhaps most rewarding job at The California Medical Facility — a medium-security prison in Vacaville, CA.
Will Big Pharma Help Save Some of the Oldest Marine Life on Earth? By Aaron Gilbreath To save threatened shorebirds, one pharmaceutical biologist had to figure out how to save the crabs they depend on.
Man vs. Gig: Doug Schifter’s Last Stand By Michelle Weber An important look at a dysfunctional industry, and a master class in profile writing.
A Family’s Pear Pie Tradition Binds Them Together By Danielle Jackson A woman makes sand-pear pie with her grandmother and remembers a family ritual.
The Healing Crystal Community Needs to Confront Its Connection to Dubious Mining Operations By Aaron Gilbreath Maybe healing your body and Mother Earth with crystals extracted by environmentally dubious means isn’t the best approach to healing.
Great News Everyone, We’ll Never Have Shared Food Experiences Ever Again By Michelle Weber To every man and woman their own Dorito.
The Painful Resilience of Hope By Michelle Weber How do you bring yourself to plan for a baby after three miscarriages in a row?
Margot Kidder: 1948-2018 By Krista Stevens Margot Kidder passed away at her home in Montana on Sunday, May 13th, 2018 at age 69.
Why Psilocybin and LSD Don’t Deserve Their Bad Rap By Krista Stevens 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.
Turning Love and Grief into Outsider Art By Aaron Gilbreath How one London man transformed his house into a work of art, and a physical love story to the people he’s lost.
Blame It All on Tibbles: The Case for Keeping Fifi Indoors By Krista Stevens At Smithsonian Magazine, Rachel E. Gross explores why keeping your pet cat inside is for the birds.
Is Conservative Life Behind the ‘Orange Curtain’ at an End? By Michelle Legro Democrats can flip Orange County, California, from red to blue, as long as they don’t mess it up.
The “Maddening Labyrinth” Aging NFL Players Face for Dementia Compensation By Krista Stevens George Andrie’s daughter, Mary Brooks, is speaking out against the NFL’s slipshod settlement claims process.
The Man Who Painted the Cover of Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung’ Album Didn’t Get Paid What It’s Worth By Aaron Gilbreath Artists are always getting screwed, even by other artists.
Zadie Smith on the Work and Influences of Deana Lawson By Danielle Jackson Lawson’s photographs capture the divinity and stateliness of its working-class subjects.
My Puppy, Myself By Sari Botton Jason Diamond moves into a new apartment and adopts a dog that begins terrorizing his neighbors.
Desperately Seeking Company: Male, Age 85, Up for Adoption By Krista Stevens One elderly man’s attempt to combat crushing loneliness.
But a Novel Will Never Love You Like Your Children Do By Krista Stevens Does each of your children represent a novel you’ll never write? Michael Chabon is okay with that.
You’ll Dream What We Tell You To Dream and You’ll Like It By Michelle Weber Looking for an Instagrammable way to spend your Saturday? Mediate your imagination through the forced whimsy of the Dream Machine.
A Kendrick Lamar Syllabus By Danielle Jackson The Pulitzer Prize-winner’s work always feels honest, as writers have found when they dive deep into his literary influences.
The Startup Stampede to Warby Parker Everything By Aaron Gilbreath Venture capitalists are helping launch a number of direct to consumer startups, or DTCs. But do sofas, toothbrushes, and suitcases need the Warby Parker business model?