Confessions of a Lapsed Catholic Dancer
In this personal essay, Kate Branca considers the body as an instrument of faith.
Work Forced
In a given year, some 3,500 unpaid prisoners make up Florida’s shadow economy. State road crews and “community work squads” incarcerated by the Department of Corrections subsidize local governments from the Panhandle to Miami-Dade: powering waste and public works departments, grooming cemeteries and school grounds, maintaining and constructing buildings, treating sewage and collecting trash.
Separated by Design: How Some of America’s Richest Towns Fight Affordable Housing
In Fairfield County, Connecticut wealth disparity is higher than anywhere else in the United States. Jacqueline Rabe Thomas shows how the local governments and populations of the county’s wealthy towns use zoning rules to thwart the building of affordable housing.
When I Couldn’t Tell the World I Wanted to Transition, I Went to Dressbarn
“Earlier this week, Dressbarn’s parent company announced that it would be closing all 650 locations to focus on more profitable brands, and I’m sad to see my sentimental favorite go. I have bought many dresses since then, but I have a special place in my heart for that particular Dressbarn, in a parking lot between an Olive Garden and a Super Cuts. I look at the store now like I look at my manhood — it was there when I needed it most, but in the end, it couldn’t last. I’m going to miss the place.”
Too Human
Anatomical models for medical education are based on “average” bodies, which means they actually represent no one at all — and therefore produce less-skilled physicians.
An Even More Inconvenient Truth
Carbon credits hadn’t offset the amount of pollution they were supposed to, or they had brought gains that were quickly reversed or that couldn’t be accurately measured to begin with. Ultimately, the polluters got a guilt-free pass to keep emitting CO₂, but the forest preservation that was supposed to balance the ledger either never came or didn’t last.
How San Francisco Broke America’s Heart
Real estate prices so high that “listings read like typos” and dwindling diversity are disintegrating America’s once alluring City by the Bay.
Becoming Family
Jennifer Berney explores how queer families challenge traditional notions of heredity and paternity.
The Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn’t Die
“Do I understand what he was up against? Mark asks me. Did I see that the disease had every single advantage? When you’re facing that kind of enemy, in that kind of battle, you’re allowed to cheat, aren’t you?”
The Black Law Students’ Association Party (or, Why Can’t I Write Joy?)
Trying to answer that question sends the author back into her past, where she examines her black middle class upbringing, black upward mobility, and the tenuous prosperity of the educated and ambitous.
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