Will the Election Spark a Reckoning on Sexual Assault?

Dean ponders whether the parallels between Donald Trump’s and Bill Clinton’s histories of alleged sexual misconduct could spark a change in how we respond to perpetrators and victims of sexual assault.

Published: Nov 11, 2016
Length: 6 minutes (1,678 words)

Here’s What I’m Telling My Brown Son About Trump’s America

In a powerful post-election letter to her half-Indian, half-white 8-year-old son, Jacob tries to prepare him for life as a person of color in America, and to assure him that his Jewish grandparents in Florida love him, even though they voted for Trump.

Author: Mira Jacob
Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Nov 10, 2016
Length: 13 minutes (3,254 words)

Autocracy: Rules for Survival

Russian emigree Masha Gessen, author of The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, offers sobering pointers on how to survive under—and stand in uncompromising resistance to—the rule of a totalitarian autocrat.

Published: Nov 10, 2016
Length: 10 minutes (2,554 words)

Anton Kanevsky Jumped to His Death From a 31-Story Downtown Building. Why?

Haggard looks into the life of a 26-year-old man before his untimely death.

Source: Nashville Scene
Published: Nov 3, 2016
Length: 15 minutes (3,807 words)

Revenge of the Forgotten Class

MacGillis talks to white workers in the small towns and cities of the Rust Belt, many of whom voted for Democrats in previous elections, but decided to vote for Trump in 2016.

Source: ProPublica
Published: Nov 10, 2016
Length: 17 minutes (4,437 words)

On Wisconsin

In the wake of the Presidential election, it’s fitting to highlight this evergreen personal essay from the literary magazine Witness. In it, one man meditates on his home state, a cold place where a distrustful, resistant tribalism intersects with a history of early progressivism, harkening back to a time “when the Republican Party was on the side of the righteous” and to an unjust shooting.

Source: Witness
Published: Jan 1, 2015
Length: 20 minutes (5,098 words)

What President Donald Trump Means for Muslims

As people start to project what America and the world has in store under Trump, one Muslim scholar details his bleak vision for Muslims and shares his disappointment in the America he believed in.

Author: Omer Aziz
Published: Nov 10, 2016
Length: 6 minutes (1,607 words)

The Other Residential School Runaways

Nearly 50 years ago, two 12-year-old Ojibwe boys escaped from an Ontario residential school and froze to death. The Canadian federal government used to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children inside church-run schools. Over 3,200 kids died in them. Others died while fleeing. After famously telling one escapee’s story in 1967, Maclean’s magazine finally gets to tell two of the other boys’ stories.

Source: Maclean’s
Published: Oct 20, 2016
Length: 17 minutes (4,487 words)

An American in a Strange Land

After living abroad in cities like Beijing, New Delhi, and Rome and watching the United States from afar for more than a decade, correspondent Jim Yardley returns to find a country he doesn’t recognize.

Published: Nov 4, 2016
Length: 24 minutes (6,007 words)

The Binge Breaker

While Silicon Valley works hard to keep us addicted to our devices through neurological manipulation, one young ex-Google employee is working to get designers to create more socially responsible software.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Nov 9, 2016
Length: 18 minutes (4,531 words)