The Religion No One Talks About: My Search for Answers in an Old Caribbean Faith
A personal essay in which, after her grandmother’s passing, writer Sarah Betancourt explores Espiritismo — the secret religion her family kept hidden in their basement laundry room.
How Nashville Became One Big Bachelorette Party
Nashville wants you to visit when you’re young, when you’re thinking about your future, perhaps even considering a move to this “it” city where Jack White and the Black Keys make their home. So the city is catering to a group that’s thinking about their future in big way: bachelorettes.
Gun Fatalism Is Reasonable in a Terrifying Country
In January, when a teenager killed two of his classmates Marshall County High School, in Benton, Kentucky, there were no protests, no uprising. The blame went to video games, bullying, parents, the culture at large. Guns were not to blame, far from it.
NFL Scoops From Heaven
Whether ESPN reporter Adrian Wojnarowski is dropping #wojbombs, or Adam Schefter is piling NFL scoop after scoop into his Twitter timeline, there are certain reporters who seem to always be the first to know who signed where and for how much money. That is, until Sports Spectrum, a burgeoning Christian website, began to beat the ESPNs and other mainstream outlets at a game they’ve long since perfected. How? By allowing athletes to express their faith and religious beliefs.
The Bottom Line
Diaper companies have poured billions of dollars into research and development to make their products better, but not cheaper, which can be hard on low-income families living on a tight budget.
Whatever’s Your Darkest Secret, You Can Ask Me
A feature on a growing secret network women who — bucking the law and the medical establishment — are getting trained to offer abortions, safely and inexpensively, in the privacy of women’s homes.
The Doctor is a Woman
An excerpt from Sloane Crosley’s new essay collection, Look Alive Out There. Crosley reflects on the experience of freezing her eggs, despite her ambivalence about having children — and as a way of putting off the pressing matter of facing that ambivalence as a woman in her late 30s.
Why Do We Think Serial Killers All Wear the Same Glasses?
A cultural survey of the myth of murders’ eyewear.
Why I’m Suing Over My Dream Internship
Illgner was paid £30 a day for working nine-hour shifts as an intern at Monocle, a magazine based in London — well below the minimum wage. She’s suing for unpaid wages and asking her former employer to start paying its current and future interns the statutory national minimum wage.
School Segregation in America Is As Bad Today As It Was in the 1960s
Unlike many Southern cities, Charlotte, North Carolina embraced federally mandated public school integration in the 20th century, but Charlotte, like America, has reverted.
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