This Route Doesn’t Exist on the Map
What would you endure to find safety and security? Now that Europe has slammed its doors shut to migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Nigeria, just to name a few countries, many are attempting to enter the United States via a long, arduous journey that includes crossing the Darién Gap — a treacherous forest without roads that connects Columbia and Panama.
Gone Baby Gone
A new breed of online real estate speculator is capitalizing on abandoned properties and people who can’t pay their mortgages, and it’s bad for you and the country.
What Happens When a Science Fiction Genius Starts Blogging?
After giving up writing fiction at age 87, fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin has started a blog. Internet citizens may want to know: does she write about her cat, Pard? Why yes, yes she does — while examining the human condition, of course.
Nowhere Mag
For ten years, Monocle has successfully catered to the world’s status-conscious, globe-trotting elite by offering them exclusivity, materiality and identity. So does the rise of nationalism threaten a lifestyle magazine that treats the world as one big upscale mall?
Pew Research
Jeff Sharlet’s review of Frances FitzGerald’s new book, The Evangelicals, is itself an important history lesson on American evangelism and politics.
The Handmaid’s Tale Is a Warning to Conservative Women
Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel lays bare the horrors of collusion with the patriarchy.
The Fire Last Time
When the Detroit police department created an undercover unit to reduce street crime in the 1970s, Detroit’s black community quickly got to know it for its lethal force, disregard for the law, and systemic racism.
Amazing Disgrace
How did Donald Trump — a thrice-married, biblically illiterate sexual predator — hijack the religious right?
The Eye of the Beholder
Rorschach tests may have fallen out of favor among psychologists, but maybe their real value is as pieces of art?
America’s New Opposition
From Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter, the left has been reborn. Can it find a way to harness the populist uprising that brought Trump to power?
