On Matthew’s Mind
An operation to remove a brain cyst changed Matthew’s identity.
Inside Citizen, the App That Asks You to Report on the Crime Next Door
The Citizen app gives everyone with a smartphone the ability to report on crimes and crises as they happen. How do you do that without opening the door to privacy invasions and profiling? That’s a lot less clear.
The Way of the Goldfinch
“Watching a goldfinch sway on a blade of grass, Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder writes to her soon-to-be-born daughter about beauty, balance, and lessons of uncertainty.”
50 Days Of Protest In Portland. A Violent Police Response. This Is How We Got Here.
“Protesters and journalists who regularly showed up at the nightly demonstrations agreed a siege was happening — but over 14 days, federal law enforcement increasingly became the occupying force.”
John Lewis: Rooted Deep in Alabama Soil
“To see who Lewis is, you must start on the family farm near Troy, Alabama, where he spent his childhood preaching to the chickens he cared for, talking his way out of picking cotton, and dreaming of a life beyond overheated Alabama fields and Jim Crow laws.”
Screen Share: A College Teacher’s Zoom Journal
For 15 years, Anne Fadiman taught her students in intimate classrooms. Covid-19 has meant reinventing the way she teaches.
How Do Women Become White Supremacists?
“Anyone who joins the hate movement is a seeker to some degree, and maybe there are circumstances that make them particularly primed to be recruited. They’re seeking something in that moment — maybe it’s power, maybe it’s meaning, maybe it’s money because they see a potential profit in running a subscription-based platform.”
Tune In, Drop Out
In South Korea, the cultural and familial pressure to conform is massive, and for many, crushing. Meet the individualist loners, the honjok, who are carving out a new way — and changing the Korean economy.
This Woman Inspired One of the First Hit Video Games by Mapping the World’s Longest Cave
“Patricia Crowther’s ex-husband coded her cave maps into one of the first hit adventure games in the 1970s, and she had no idea.”
Letters of Love: ‘Our Father Wrote Every Day As He Waited To Be Sent To Auschwitz’
“His love for his sons leaps out from all his letters, but in one of the last he had a surprise for them.”
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