Exposed. Afraid. Determined.
In their own words, workers across the country who have no choice but to confront the pandemic describe life in a changed world.
The Life and Death of Juan Sanabria, One of New York City’s First Coronavirus Victims
“If you didn’t see him, you wanted to know where he was. When he wasn’t around, you felt it.”
Land-Grab Universities
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
I’ve Fled New York with My Wife, Kids and Dog – Just as my Ancestors Fled the 1918 Pandemic
After covering the plights of refugees around the world as a journalist, Bryan Mealer finds himself a refugee, fleeing New York City for his childhood home of west Texas — where his great-grandmother and her oldest daughter died in the influenza epidemic of 1918.
All That Is Lost and All That Is Remembered
On the 30th anniversary of her Navy captain father’s political execution, Naz Riahi recalls her love for him, and reveals a persistent grief that is always with her.
The Danger of Desire
Faylita Hicks considers what it means to be a Black nonbinary activist in the age of Trump — and questions how the social justice movement has changed the way they have sex.
The Unravelling of a Dancer
Sharon Stern devoted herself to Butoh. Did her mentor lead her down a dangerous path?
Notes in the Margin (Part IV)
The stray thoughts of a scattered reader.
The Source
On the eve of America’s Bicentennial, a mysterious illness terrifies the country and sends disease detectives racing the clock to find answers.
YouTube Sensation. Progressive in a Purple District. Single Mom.
What the Democratic Party could learn from first-term Congresswoman Katie Porter.
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