The Fight for Health Care Has Always Been About Civil Rights

“Of all the inequalities that exist” said Martin Luther King in 1966, “the injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman.” The ACA did the most in American history to extend coverage to people of color; “they have never been closer both to racial equality of, access and to, the federal protection of health care as a civil right. But if Republicans have their way, that dream will be deferred.”

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jun 27, 2017
Length: 10 minutes (2,500 words)

A Weekend of Nazi Dress-Up Fun in the Heart of Trump Country

Head to a fun weekend event and you’ll likely post pictures of yourself all over social media. But the attendees of a World War II reenactment in Reading, Pennsylvania, are more likely to delete any pictures they’re tagged in, especially when dressed in a Nazi uniform: “People don’t understand that just because you wear this uniform doesn’t mean you believe what they believed.”

Author: Zoë Beery
Source: Fusion
Published: Jun 27, 2017
Length: 10 minutes (2,600 words)

Two Brothers, Two Deaths

One brother died accidentally, hit by a police cruiser that was trying to pull over a speeding car. Three years later, the other was shot and killed by an officer. In each case, the officers who killed them were absolved of any wrongdoing.

Author: Paul Blest
Source: The Outline
Published: Jun 28, 2017
Length: 18 minutes (4,500 words)

The National Enquirer’s Fervor for Trump

The National Enquirer has made political careers, but more often it has broken them. (John Edwards ended his presidential candidacy after the magazine revealed he’d had a child out of wedlock.) But during a presidency rife with scandal, the tabloid has remained quiet thanks to its owner David Pecker, who makes no secret of his love for his old friend Donald Trump.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jun 27, 2017
Length: 26 minutes (6,700 words)

What’ll It Be For The New York Diner?

Diners were once essential threads in the fabric of New York City life. Now they’re dying off. Their loss signals a fundamental shift in not only the city’s tastes and economy, but the city’s evolving identity and values. Thankfully, not all are giving up their 22 different hamburgers and 24 types of omelettes yet.

Author: Adam Platt
Published: Jun 28, 2017
Length: 11 minutes (2,990 words)

Father of Migrants

Alice Driver visits a migrant shelter in Juárez, Mexico where she meets migrants who appear to be in simultaneous state of movement and limbo, desperate to escape violence, poverty, and other misfortunes in their lives. Their desire for a better life often leads them to become victims of human trafficking.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 29, 2017
Length: 22 minutes (5,698 words)

Drag Race winner defies conservative rule: ‘Drag is a form of activism’

“People before have been eliminated for being over thinkers, and I’ve succeeded because of it. I’m an over-thinker with a fighter’s spirit. I hope my legacy is that sometimes that level of thought is an asset, especially now in this political moment, because this political moment is very anti-intellectual, anti-information, and anti-historical.”

Author: Joey Nolfi
Published: Jun 23, 2017
Length: 8 minutes (2,170 words)

Serena Williams’s Love Match

How the greatest tennis player of all time met an internet entrepreneur, fell in love, got pregnant, and won a grand-slam.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Jun 27, 2017
Length: 19 minutes (4,905 words)

Why My Guitar Gently Weeps

The slow, secret death of the six-string electric. And why you should care.

Source: Washington Post
Published: Jun 22, 2017
Length: 11 minutes (2,838 words)

Nowhere Mag

For ten years, Monocle has successfully catered to the world’s status-conscious, globe-trotting elite by offering them exclusivity, materiality and identity. So does the rise of nationalism threaten a lifestyle magazine that treats the world as one big upscale mall?

Published: Jun 27, 2017
Length: 9 minutes (2,428 words)