Killer Mike’s Ghetto Gospel
How an Atlanta rapper’s “ghetto gospel” is changing his community, and what the odyssey of Killer Mike says about race and music in the American South.
What Your 1st-Grade Life Says About the Rest of It
Lessons from a groundbreaking Johns Hopkins study of children in Baltimore: Researchers followed them through their lives and found that different factors (like summers off from school) contributed to heightened disadvantages facing lower-income children without a tradition of college attendance in their families.
The Rising
Colorado residents recount surviving one of the worst natural disasters in Colorado history.
Stories From Writers From the National Book Festival: A Reading List
“We went to the National Book Festival for different things, but also the same thing: books and our love of them. Here are four essays and excerpts written by the authors I was lucky enough to see.”
Can Jill Soloway Do Justice to the Trans Movement?
Taffy Brodesser-Akner profiles Jill Soloway, whose new show “Transparent” centers around a family whose patriarch comes out as transgender. Soloway strives to create a truly inclusive environment on her set, complete with gender-neutral bathrooms and a “transfirmative action program,” which favors the hiring of transgender candidates over nontransgender ones.
Jerry Football
He’s one of the most infamous owners in professional sports, in need of one more Super Bowl. The complete story of Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys.
The Man Without a Mask
How the drag queen Cassandro—known as Saúl Armendáriz outside the ring—became a lucha libre star.
This Psychologist Helps Keep Comedians Laughing
An interesting look into the work of Ildiko Tabori, who serves as the in-house psychologist at a Los Angeles comedy club. The club’s owner hired her after he became alarmed by the number of premature deaths in the comic world.
Acting French
Ta-Nehisi Coates on learning a new language, scholastic culture, and the way we “border patrol” class and race.
Confessions of a Fat Bastard
The life of Texas Monthly’s full-time barbecue editor.
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