This Design Generation Has Failed
Today’s designers move too fast and break too many things. Mike Monteiro advises the next generation of designers to slow down: to unionize, pursue licensing, raise standards, embrace regulation, and care more about the consequences of sacrificing ethics for speed.
The Devil in My Dad
It’s hard to shed your religious upbringing, especially when your parents’ religion involves demonic possession.
My Abuser’s Gender Made Me Doubt My Experience
In this personal essay, for years after an assault, Caroline Catlin questions the safety of queerness.
Inside the OED: Can the World’s Biggest Dictionary Survive the Internet?
On the centuries-long quest to create the perfect, all-encompassing English dictionary.
Malls and the Future of American Retail
The mall was supposed to be a reinvention of the town square — and for nearly half a century it was, as a public space committed to shopping, eating, or merely lounging around with friends. But the retail apocalypse has taken the core out of the mall, the flagship retail that held it all together, and the new mall may have more in common with a museum, where shopping is less important than an overall mood of luxury and citizenship.
Grief is a Jumble Word
A personal essay in which Ken Otterbourg contemplates love and loss, and what we remember when we try to forget.
American Manufacturing Doesn’t Have to Die
Capitalism is framed as both a choice and an inevitability. It allows the consumer to buy whatever we want, but what’s available to purchase is due to the pressures and whims of the market. “It’s about the fact that American business have choices,” writes reporter Meredith Haggerty “and how we pretend they don’t.”
Medicaid, Marijuana And Me: An Ex-Opioid Addict’s Take On American Drug Denial
A journalist shares what her experience with prescription painkillers taught her about the value of decriminalization.
My First Year Sober
Writer and cartoonist Edith Zimmerman on how she stopped drinking.
What Ever Happened to Brendan Fraser?
A profile of actor Brendan Fraser — who was popular in the ’90s for movies like School Ties, and has been making something of a comeback since he was cast in The Affair in 2016. Fraser reveals that in 2003 he was touched inappropriately by Philip Berk, a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The incident left him feeling violated and insecure. Adding insult to injury, his reporting it seems to have possibly gotten him blacklisted for years.
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