Meet the Ultra-Organized Teenager Masterminding Parkland’s Midterms Push
Since Valentine’s Day, the Parkland survivors have been speaking at high schools and colleges to educate students about and win their support for ending gun violence. Mandatory at every event? A table at which attendees can either register to vote or pre-register to vote if they are currently under age.
Weigh the Costs — and Occasional Benefits — of Ethnic Ambiguity
In this personal essay, Aram Mrjoian reflects on his experiences of being part Armenian in America.
Welcome to SuperShe Island, Where Men Are Banned and Flowers Are Dinner
Sisters! Tired of heeding your “mammal-brain instinct”? Ready to find your inner light on an Instagram-perfect, man-free, dry island in Finland doing yoga to Drake and eating almost nothing? For the small, small fee of nearly five thousand dollars, you too can apply to become a SuperShe.
Musical Pleasures
Human beings have savored listening to music for centuries, but the mechanisms behind that pleasurable experience still elude comprehension.
The Imam’s Widow
As part of ProPublica’s “Documenting Hate” project, Rahima Nasa profiles the wife of a Queens imam who was murdered in 2016. Although there appeared to be no other possible motive, prosecutors failed to try the case as the hate crime it likely was.
A Day in the Life of New York City’s Subway Helpers
When New York’s complicated public transportation system gets delayed or overwhelming, commuters get frustrated and they complain. Now the Metropolitan Transit Authority sends special Customer Service Ambassadors into busy stations to help the lost, offer commuters alternate routes, fix MetroCards and offer a simple “I’m sorry.”
To Post, or Not to Post?
In this personal essay, writer Eloghosa Osunde contemplates the role of marginalized artists in online activism.
My Psychic Mom Taught Me That People Don’t Want The Truth. They Want A Good Story.
In a personal essay about growing up in Bogotá, Ingrid Rojas Contreras describes her mother’s work in divination as important to her own development as a writer.
Becoming a Woman Who Yells at Her Children
If yelling is the new spanking, where does that leave the progressive, occasionally voice-raising parent?
Hollywood’s New Golden Age
A feature on Channel 22, the television station at Hollywood’s Motion Picture Country Home, which keeps retired and disabled residents who formerly worked in film and television occupied with making new shows and movies.
You must be logged in to post a comment.