What Can and Can’t be Learned From a Book
How learning to swim at 24 led Syam Palakurthy to first-hand lessons in gentrification.
Buck to the Future: Why the High-Tech Ideas of Buckminster Fuller Are Back In Vogue
He’s a forgotten hippie idol, a sage of 1960s counterculture. What can we learn from Bucky Fuller’s faith in technology?
Meet The White Nationalist Trying To Ride The Trump Train To Lasting Power
Alt-right founder Richard Spencer aims to make racism cool again.
Madam Prescient: Raising the Spirit of American Radicalism
Victoria Woodhull, a former prostitute, free-love advocate, and clairvoyant (and proponent of abolition, marriage reform, and education rights) ran for President of the US — in 1872.
Donald Trump’s Companies Destroyed Emails in Defiance of Court Orders
While Donald Trump insists that Hillary Clinton should be imprisoned for destroying emails, he has routinely used stall tactics in order to erase records that courts have demanded he hand over.
What Beyoncé Taught Me
Novelist Zadie Smith reflects on the connection between writing and dancing, drawing on iconic performers like Fred Astaire, Michael Jackson, and Beyoncé.
Dribbling in the Dark
A year in the life of one teenager in Turkey reveals the tense relations between Turkish and Kurdish people, the challenges of creating diversity in schools, and the hard choices people make in times of war.
What Happens When the Police Misidentify You as the Dallas Shooter
When one person of color exercised his right to bear arms at the Dallas Black Lives Matter protest to make a point about racial injustice, the police named him as the suspect after a shooting broke out. In racially charged America, the right to bear arms does not apply equally.
Creepypasta, Shirley Jackson, and Horror Podcasts: A Halloween Reading Guide
The spookiness doesn’t have to end with the weekend—indulge in classic creepypasta, scary podcasts, and Ms. (Shirley) Jackson on your lunch break.
Final Days
“When I asked one senior Trump adviser to describe the scene inside, he responded: ‘Think of the bunker right before Hitler killed himself. Donald’s in denial. They’re all in denial.'”
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