This Is Meant to Hurt You
A beautiful essay by Leah Sottile on love and illness.
Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move From Above
Since January, police have been testing an aerial surveillance system adapted from the surge in Iraq. And they neglected to tell the public.
A Family Matter
The story of a Californian family torn apart by a child protective services agency, and the law firm helping them fight back.
Sex on Campus Isn’t What You Think: What 101 Student Journals Taught Me
Not every college student might be having casual sex, but the cultural forces that encourage casual encounters over other types, called hookup culture, is alive and well. Students at two schools kept journals about their sex lives to help one researcher understand how hookup culture, finances, looks, gender normativity, privilege and “sexually hot, emotionally cold” encounters affect them.
Pin Kings
Wrestling teammates Alex DeCubas and Kevin Pedersen grow up to oppose each other in the drug wars: one as a smuggler, the other as a DEA agent.
The Secret Nazi Attempt to Breed the Perfect Horse
The bestselling author of The Eighty Dollar Champion describes the Nazis’ secret stud farm, where dubious visionaries imagined a breed of perfect (and perfectly white) horse.
The Farmers of Tanner Creek
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Chinese farmers in Southwest Portland sold their fruits and vegetables to white Portland residents, until real estate conditions shifted and drove them out. These are the same forces currently at work on Northeast Portland’s black community.
My 14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday’s Endless Appetizers
Gawker had a contentious existence. Let’s celebrate the variety of its material by rereading this hilarious story of one reporter’s self-destructive marathon of cheap mozzarella-stick-eating spent without reading material, wi-fi or sleep, just the satisfaction of winning a bet. It gets ugly fast.
Best Sisters
“The way we describe ability and care has changed over the centuries, but my relationship with Kiddo doesn’t need to be defined.”
The Sissies, Hustlers, and Hair Fairies Whose Defiant Lives Paved the Way For Stonewall
Before Stonewall, there was Compton’s Cafeteria: “In August 1966—fifty years ago this month—transgender and gender-nonconforming customers at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria stood up to years of abusive, discriminatory treatment by the San Francisco police.”
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