Elizabeth Flock on the years she spent studying other people’s marriages in Mumbai.
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Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
How Lobbyists Normalized the Use of Chemical Weapons on American Civilians
Or, how we learned to stop worrying and love the gas.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Diary of a Do-Gooder
After years of trying to distinguish herself, Sara Eckel considers the value of door-to-door canvassing, phone-banking, and other anonymous tasks of everyday activism.
Posted inBlog Post
Why Quotas Still Don’t Work for Journalism
Quotas allow superiors to blame failure on subordinates and take credit for success.
Posted inNonfiction, Op-Ed
What Thomas Jefferson Taught Me About Charlottesville and America
University of Virginia grad Joshua Adams believes that if you want to understand the recent violence there, look back at history and the school’s complicated founder.
Posted inNonfiction, Op-Ed, Story
What Thomas Jefferson Taught Me About Charlottesville and America
University of Virginia grad Joshua Adams believes that if you want to understand the recent violence there, look back at history and the school’s complicated founder.
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction, Top 5
A Heart-Shaped Life: Twelve Ways of Looking at Amy Krouse Rosenthal
The author, speaker, and performance artist was far more than her final, heartbreaking Modern Love column.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Finding a ‘Prepper’ to Go on the Record Is No Easy Task
Preppers are, not surprisingly, a paranoid bunch. Locating people willing to speak with me about their habits was more challenging than finding vegans at a gun range. After emailing a dozen members of Northern Illinois Preppers, a Meetup online community whose membership has grown from about 110 to more than 150 in the past six […]
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 inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Sports
‘I Am Not a Role Model’ and the Resurgence of Athlete Activism
More athletes are publicly taking a political stance, echoing activists who came before them.
