The Food of My Youth
“When my media stream fills with the sound of children crying out for their parents, that distinct wail that only a broken-hearted child can make… it’s then that I reach for the food of my youth. Corned-beef hash. Spam. Fried Bologna sandwiches.”
How George Clinton Made Funk a World View
Hua Hsu considers the heirs and influence of P-Funk founder George Clinton on the eve of Clinton’s retirement from performing.
Conjuring Spirits in Florida
“In Sarasota, there is a community surrounding a litany of roadside psychics and more than 100 mediums and spiritual guides. Why?”
Should We Hide the Locations of Earth’s Greatest Trees?
When everyone wants to photograph themselves beside the world’s biggest coastal redwoods, the trees’ roots get trampled, soil compacted, and visitors damage the objects of their affection. So can the National Park Service protect certain ancient trees by concealing them?
A Crime and a Pastime
On skateboarding’s libertarian paranoia.
How to Tell the Bad Men From the Good Men
It wasn’t so simple at age 18, writes Caitlin Moran. (And often, it’s still not.)
Japan’s Vegetable-Eating Men
Recent cultural and policy shifts in Japan have made a previously hard-to-find species far more common: the stay-at-home dad.
My Adventures at a Camp for Transgender Men
“It was one of the most special times in my life; it was just unreal.”
A Visual History of the U.S. Census
Vulnerable communities are bracing for an undercount in 2020. It’s a familiar story that traces back to the Articles of Confederation.
Can Andy Byford Save the Subways?
The new president of the New York City Transit Authority is smart, seems almost unfailingly polite, and is very English. Whether that’s enough to enable him to wrangle the system he’s been tasked with fixing remains to be seen. William Finnegan paints a deft portrait of Andy Byford settling into his new job and getting his C train legs.
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