From Cannabis to Cabernet
Lebanon has produced wine for thousands of years. When Lebanese farmers started growing cannabis and opium poppies in the 1940s, the region became one of the world’s largest narcotics trafficking hubs, and the US wanted it stopped. Some farmers have been converting their fields to grapes, and reinvigorating Lebanon’s wine culture.
The Fantasy of an Enemy
“It’s still raining in Houston, and Game of Thrones is not a show about climate change, not really, because it’s possible to win The Game of Thrones.”
Hidden Costs: When Prison Labor Gets Upsold as Artisanal Kitsch
An expose on the Maine Department of Correction Industries woodshop and other prison-based businesses like it, which frame their exploitive inmate manufacturing programs as rehabilitative when in reality they’re more like state-sanctioned slavery.
America, Home of the Transactional Marriage
The disappearance of good jobs for people with less education has made it harder for them to start, and sustain, relationships.
Reflections of an Accidental Florist
When a painter stumbles into a floral career, she sees the ugly truth behind a colorful, fragrant industry.
America’s First Addiction Epidemic
The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, astonishingly high mortality rates, the desperate exodus of entire nations — and a successful sobriety movement.
You Are the Product
Facebook is really in the surveillance business, and it uses our data to market us stuff. Mark Zuckerberg wants to make sure you don’t know this, because if you did, why would you still use Facebook?
Shock Tactics
A 911 plea for help, a Taser shot, a death — and the mounting toll of stun guns.
Teaching White Students Showed Me The Difference Between Power and Privilege
In a poignant personal essay, Kiese Laymon examines black intergenerational wealth and class privilege.
The Exile
In January, 2017 — before Trump’s inauguration — physician Khaled Almilaji spent a week in Syria to check on his many humanitarian projects, leaving his pregnant wife Jehan behind in the United States. Expecting to return well before Trump’s inauguration, Khaled discovered at the airport that his visa — along with those of 40 other medical students, mostly from the Middle East — had been revoked in the month before Trump took office.
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