But we’re not. Instead, the effects on cities tend to be edited out or statistically minimized.
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In Silicon Valley, Transportation Innovation Is a Flat Circle
Tech wizards may say they want driverless cars or the hyperloop, but what they really, really want is a bus.
Posted inBooks, Science & Nature, Story
We Should Be Talking About the Effect of Climate Change on Cities
But we’re not. Instead, the effects on cities tend to be edited out or statistically minimized.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Learning to Swim in a Sea of Uncertainty
Katie Prout was all set to teach her homeward-bound Navy Officer brother everything she learned in swim class. Then the Trump administration issued new orders.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
American Sphinx
Civil War monuments in the North erased an emancipated Black population. But the Sphinx looked to a new world: an integrated Africa and America.
Posted inCurrent Events, History, Nonfiction, Story
American Dolchstoss
The German “stab-in-the-back” myth springs back to life in America, this time through scapegoating over lost jobs.
Posted inUnapologetic Women
On Becoming a Woman Who Knows Too Much
Through my education I’d become a trusted source of specialized knowledge. But how could I become the kind of leader who is surrounded with people like me?
Posted inStory, Unapologetic Women
On Becoming a Woman Who Knows Too Much
Through my education I’d become a trusted source of specialized knowledge. But how could I become the kind of leader who is surrounded with people like me?
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Story
The High-Water Mark: The Battle of Gettysburg, the Jersey Shore, and the Death of My Father
Contemplating history, family, and today’s America, Dane A. Wisher tells the story of spreading his father’s ashes on the battlefield at Gettysburg National Park and coming to terms with his life and death.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction
The Month That Killed the Sixties
An oral history of how everything went to hell in December 1969. Fred Hampton was killed by the police, the hippie spirit died at Altamont, and the Weathermen went underground.
