A River Runs Through It
A history of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios, which became a safe haven for artists during a time when record companies operated with an “ironfisted grip,” and went on to mentor artists like Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Mos Def and Talib Kweli, Santigold and Bilal.
What Ruth Bader Ginsburg Taught Me About Being a Stay-at-Home Dad
Ryan Park decides, after his clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to spend a year at home with his daughter before pursuing a corporate job. What he learned about the state of stay-at-home dads in America.
The Murder that Has Obsessed Italy
In Italy, the 2011 murder of Yara Gambirasio has sent shockwaves through entire communities, prompting the police to launch the most complex investigation in the country’s history — an investigation that would end up exposing family secrets that had been buried for decades.
What to Eat After the Apocalypse
Engineer Joshua Pearce explains how to feed 7 billion people after a global catastrophe. Hint: get ready to eat some bugs.
Mainline Street
How heroin grabbed hold in the small town of Laramie, Wyoming, thanks to a drug dealer named Ory Joe Johnson, who started selling after getting addicted to prescription pain medication.
Burying My Family’s History in Bakersfield.
An essay about clearing out a dead father’s home, and the evolution of a landfill in California’s Central Valley.
To the Office, with Love
What do we lose when the traditional office job disappears? An examination of the forced freelance future.
The Town Without Wi-Fi
People afflicted with “electromagnetic hypersensitivity”—ailments related to being around devices like cell phones that emit electromagnetic frequencies—have flocked to the town of Green Bank, West Virginia, where modern technology has been banned due to their possible interference with a government telescope. The locals aren’t happy about the stream of newcomers.
The Politics of Drinking Water
A brief examination of drinking water’s place in American history, and the current politics of clean water.
The Story Behind Jeff Bezos’s Amazon Fire Phone Debacle
Insider-y account of what went wrong with the Fire phone: Bezos himself served as head of product for the device, which meant teams would be hesitant to question his ideas. The stumble means more questions about whether Amazon is on the right track.
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