Sade’s Quiet Storm of Cool
The singer Sade takes her time between records, shuns promotions and the internet, but remains an icon of cool after more than 30 years in the recording industry.
Cashing in on the Donated Dead
In the U.S. market for human bodies, almost anyone can dissect and sell the dead.
‘Tiny House Hunters’ and the Shrinking American Dream
The dream of homeownership, now with composting toilets.
Welcome to Idaho, Now Go Home
Conservatives have been moving to Northern Idaho for twenty years, attracted to its inexpensive land, relative safety and sense of autonomy and privacy. The region is 96.2% white. Now a group of ultra-right Idaho Republicans have staged a political battle here, working to remake their own Republican Party into a far more conservative party than it is now, so-called “true Republicans.”
On Safari in Trump’s America
A journey into the next frontier of anthropological tourism: unsuspecting towns in the American “heartland.”
On the Fifth Anniversary of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘good kid, m.A.A.d city,’ California Athletes Reflect on the Epic ‘Sing About Me’
Professional athletes from Compton, California talk about what Kendrick Lamar’s critically acclaimed second album “good kid, m.A.A.d city” meant in their lives five years after its debut.
A Caby With a Disease Gene or No Baby at All
Andrew Joseph looks at a moral quandary facing genetic scientists and fertility professionals: what to do about embryos with genetic anomalies? This STATnews piece offers a thorough look at the dilemmas faced by doctors and patients grappling with a field in which there are still a lot of unknowns, despite the huge progress being made regularly.
Surviving R. Kelly
In the most recent of a more than 20-year long catalogue of R. Kelly’s alleged abuses against women, a former girlfriend speaks out speaks out about the terrifying years she spent with the singer.
It Takes a Boom
In an essay adapted from The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and Life in a North Dakota Boomtown, Blaire Briody profiles female fracker Cindy Marchello, who survived hellish working conditions and rampant misogyny trying to earn a living in service of big American companies thirsty for oil.
A Fire’s First, Fatal Hours
In Northern California, a monster firestorm became unstoppable almost as soon as it started.
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