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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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