Last Resort, Part 1: Let’s Go to Angola
“His father, a broke music promoter, had convinced him they could turn their lives around by arranging a complicated but lucrative hip-hop concert on New Year’s Eve in Angola. It was more complicated than they’d imagined.” The first installment of a three-part story, in partnership with Epic Magazine.
How Trafficked Cheetah Cubs Move From the Wild and Into Your Instagram Feed
Criminal networks in Somaliland smuggle cheetah cubs out of Africa to wealthy buyers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and other Gulf countries.
From a Window
“Tonight, a dog holds a piece of cardboard in its mouth for an entire block. I don’t know what it finds in such a small, almost useless thing, but then again, I horde so much of what is small and useless, even to me, even to a dog. In most moments, there is something beautiful about trying, even if it’s impossible.”
Misunderstanding Thoreau: Reading Neurodiversity in Literature and in Life
“Steve Edwards on Kathryn Schulz, Donald Hall, and the things we miss.”
Does Technology Have a Soul?
“Today, as AI continues to blow past us in benchmark after benchmark of higher cognition, we quell our anxiety by insisting that what distinguishes true consciousness is emotions, perception, the ability to experience and feel: the qualities, in other words, that we share with animals.”
Searching for a Lost Odessa — and a Deaf Childhood
“When I turn the hearing aids on in these streets, my parents are dead again. So, I turn them off.”
Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success
“Al Qaeda changed the world—but not in the way it expected.”
More Is More: The End of Minimalism
“In a consumer culture, minimalism was always a somewhat fancyland ruse. It was domestic anorexia sold as health; materialism repackaged as its opposite; perfectionism hawked as peace. It was the perversion of labelling a home curated down to zero the ultimate luxury or, worse, virtue.”
Knives Outback
“Allen, during his interviews, had found an undercurrent of tension among Larrimah’s remaining 12 residents, one that stemmed from years of escalating feuds both small and large, unusual even for a tiny town where everyone knows each other’s business.”
The 20 Essential Texas Rap Tracks
“Rap wasn’t meant for Texas. But it was only a matter of time before Texans started rapping, made the genre their own, and regifted it to the world.”
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