The New York Times styles Manning for her first profile—but she’s already in charge of her own image.
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Haute Cuisine Has a Low Wage Problem
How an army of unpaid apprentices keeps the world’s best restaurants afloat.
Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
The Return of the Face
Physiognomy is a discarded 19th-century pseudoscience. Why can’t we stop practicing it?
Posted inStory
No, I Will Not Debate You
Civility will never defeat fascism, no matter what The Economist thinks.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
A Roll of the Immigration Law Dice
Captain Noorullah Aminyar has been in detention for three years now, his asylum application subject to a system of immigration law both complex and capricious.
Posted inBusiness, Current Events, Op-Ed, Story
Pay the Homeless
It’s time to end the pernicious myth that giving money directly to panhandlers won’t help them.
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Reading List
A Transgender-Military Reading List
Thousands of people in the U.S.’s all-volunteer military are transgender.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
A Small Town Crushed By a Big Weight — the Military-Industrial Complex
This meticulously-reported piece explores the bungled investigation into a 1994 double murder in Oak Grove, Kentucky, a small town weighed down by the military-industrial complex.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
How We Write About the Nazis Next Door
The Nazi next door is still a Nazi.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
The Cowboy Image and the Growth of Western Music
How did cowboy hats and boots become the visual iconography of American rural music?
