Feeling Unsafe at Every Size

Our new president’s predatory attitudes towards women transport Eva Tenuto straight back to a high school teacher’s abuse of power and the relentless criticism of her junior high peers that made her an ideal target.

Author: Eva Tenuto
Source: Longreads
Published: Jan 31, 2017
Length: 21 minutes (5,426 words)

How to Build an Autocracy

The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism.

Author: David Frum
Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jan 30, 2017
Length: 32 minutes (8,248 words)

Pause! We Can Go Back!

Bill McKibben’s review of the new David Sax book, The Revenge of Analog, is itself a great read on the virtues and affectations newly-hip analog items — Moleskins, Scrabble boards, vinyl records.

Published: Feb 9, 2017
Length: 11 minutes (2,959 words)

America’s Great Divergence

A growing earnings gap between those with a college education and those without is creating economic and cultural rifts throughout the country.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jan 30, 2017
Length: 15 minutes (3,811 words)

How to Love a Weird and Perfect Wilderness

Southwestern Oregon’s Kalmiopsis Wilderness is rugged, burned and way out of your way, and its inexplicable magnetism, self-governance and biodiversity embody the very reasons modern Americans need wilderness at all.

Published: Nov 28, 2016
Length: 19 minutes (4,931 words)

The Man Who Sleeps in Hitler’s Bed

“It’s so hard to know what to do with all the stuff. I really do feel like I’m just a caretaker until the next person comes along, but I must display it, I must get it out into the public — I understand that.” Kevin Wheatcroft, a man in Leicestershire, England, has amassed the world’s largest collection of Nazi memorabilia.

Source: The Guardian
Published: Jun 24, 2015
Length: 21 minutes (5,353 words)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show’s Feminist Struggle

Her iconic main character inspired millions, but some argued the show needed to go even farther.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jan 27, 2017
Length: 7 minutes (1,800 words)

Real Life: My Sister, My Brother

One woman adjusts to her sister’s transition to a man, and as she mourns the loss of the sibling she knew, she shows what a new identity requires of a family and the world.

Source: Glamour
Published: Mar 17, 2015
Length: 8 minutes (2,002 words)

My Menu For Lunar New Year: Guilt, Confusion, With A Side Of Angst

In this humorous take on passing down family holiday traditions, Kat Chow reflects on how duty and guilt mute her enthusiasm for Chinese Lunar New Year until she accepts that guilt is simply a natural part of the ritual.

Author: Kat Chow
Source: NPR Code Switch
Published: Jan 27, 2017
Length: 7 minutes (1,837 words)

The Karen Road to Nhill

200 Karen people from the Myanmar-Thailand border have resettled in Nhill, a country town halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide in Australia. The influx of refugees has revitalized the town, creating jobs, connections, and a sense of community.

Source: SBS
Published: Jan 18, 2017
Length: 17 minutes (4,338 words)