Featuring stories from Rachel Greenley, Annalisa Quinn, Amit Katwala, Jamie Loftus, and Werner Herzog. (Yes, that Werner Herzog.)
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Map Room: A Radical Reading List on Cartographic Power, Perspective, and Possibility
Seven stories celebrating our fascination with maps.
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How One Obscure Word Captures Urban China’s Unhappiness
“Anthropologist Xiang Biao explains why the academic concept of ‘involution’ became a social media buzzword.”
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99 Problems: The Ice Cream Truck’s Surprising History
From crime panics to TikTok, summer’s favorite vehicle has driven a bumpy road.
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The Unknown Costs of Addiction Treatment and Our Weekly Top 5
“Officially, I’m a Senior Admissions Specialist, employed by a behavioral health company, and my professional objective is to assess the mental health needs of prospective patients and connect them with appropriate forms of care. Unofficially, I’m an addict who stopped doing drugs and started taking these calls.” Oh hey, weekend, c’mon in! This week, we’ve […]
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Hope in the Desert and the Week’s Top 5
“Talking with them I realized how many people, like me, had run away from hard conversations. How we did it on purpose, and sometimes without realizing. How people who needed to talk waited for invitations to spit out the hard stuff, and how good it felt when they did.” Happy Friday, y’all. Summer is drawing […]
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Love Song to Costco
“In the great halls of Costco, two of our greatest fears are assuaged — that of not having enough, and that of not being enough.”
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One Thing After Another: A Reading List for Lovers & Makers of Lists
Five stories celebrating the power and beauty of lists.
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Were They Lost Students or Inept Spies for China?
Two students from China, studying at the University of Michigan, travel to Florida during their winter break and find themselves in trouble after entering the Naval Air Station Key West, a major U.S. military facility.
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The Factories in the Camps
Forced labor on a vast scale is taking place inside Xinjiang’s detention centers.
