“Is This My Life Now?” Justin Foster’s—and My—Struggle With Long-Haul COVID

“From our first conversation, we connected about what it was like to suddenly no longer be yourself, and the constant self-doubt that came with it. If we can’t do the things we used to do, then who are we?”

Author: T.J. Quinn
Source: ESPN
Published: Sep 3, 2021
Length: 21 minutes (5,378 words)

Grace: An Unfinished Draft, A Fire

“In Texas—Georgia—in Alabama—all over this vast canvas of fear that we call America, women will die. They won’t have time to run away. They will be great-Aunts only in name, and in death. And their deaths will disappear into a language made and remade by men to cover their shitty sins.”

Published: Sep 2, 2021
Length: 9 minutes (2,405 words)

The Last Summer of Roe v. Wade

“Young people don’t remember life when abortion was illegal. Now they’re grappling with the erosion of a national right.”

Source: Vice Magazine
Published: Sep 2, 2021
Length: 14 minutes (3,524 words)

Two Land In My Mind

“Imaginary friends, it is thought, are part of the same family — they help children to find a sense of themselves, and accompany them through crucial years of development and adjustment as they become their own individual beings, separate from their mother. They are by definition temporary: there to serve a purpose, and then discarded.”

 

Source: Aeon
Published: Jul 10, 2013
Length: 10 minutes (2,500 words)

Heeding Steve Bannon’s Call, Election Deniers Organize to Seize Control of the GOP — and Reshape America’s Elections

“The stolen election myth inspired thousands of Trump supporters to take over the Republican Party at the local level, exerting more partisan influence on how elections are run.”

Source: ProPublica
Published: Sep 2, 2021
Length: 21 minutes (5,342 words)

How to Grieve for a Very Good Dog

“When Sunny was euthanized in my backyard two days earlier, I knew that adjusting to life without her would be hard. What happened instead was more like a tsunami of grief that swept me out to sea. Now that I’m pushing 60, I thought I was fully experienced in coping with the death of loved ones. But the sadness from losing Sunny was far greater than what I had previously endured after the passing of my parents, grandparents, and other dogs. I was surprised and somewhat terrified that I had the capacity to cry so much.”

 

 

Source: Outside
Published: Sep 2, 2021
Length: 11 minutes (2,753 words)

Nothing but Pitch Black Darkness

“Ahmed Rabbani’s journey through the U.S. dark prison system to Guantánamo.”

Source: Foreign Policy
Published: Aug 14, 2021
Length: 17 minutes (4,383 words)

How Time’s Up Failed Sexual Assault Survivors and Cozied Up to Power

“Survivors and advocates told VICE News they’ve failed to see Time’s Up, a cornerstone of the #MeToo movement, live up to its lofty promises.”

Source: Vice Magazine
Published: Sep 1, 2021
Length: 17 minutes (4,300 words)

UN Peacekeepers Fathered Dozens Of Children In Haiti. The Women They Exploited Are Trying To Get Child Support.

“The newborns became toddlers, and the toddlers school children. Soon, they began asking questions. Where is my father? Why don’t I look like the other kids?”

Source: BuzzFeed News
Published: Aug 30, 2021
Length: 15 minutes (3,971 words)

The Shadowy Business of International Education

“Foreign students are lied to and exploited on every front. They’re also propping up higher education as we know it.”

Source: The Walrus
Published: Aug 18, 2021
Length: 29 minutes (7,330 words)