Clark weaves the story of Ardelia Ali’s 1995 rape—one of 11,431 Detroit cases in which the rape kit had been left untested—into a profile of Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy, who took on the testing of those kits and the prosecution of perpetrators as a personal mission. Worthy, both the first woman and first African […]
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Anxiety, Betrayal, and Limbo: A DACA Reading List
It was an act that allowed generation to come out as documented. Now the government that once helped them now have the tools to do harm.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction
From One Friendship, Lessons on Life, Death, AIDS, and Childlessness
S. Kirk Walsh reflects on her friendship with a gay man battling AIDS — how he taught her to grieve her own infertility, and live life more fully.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
My Father’s Weakness for Beer Never Lessened His Strengths
Pauline Campos recalls her time with her late father, a functional alcoholic she never judged, and still reveres.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction
America’s First Addiction Epidemic
The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, astonishingly high mortality rates — and a successful sobriety movement.
Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Business & Tech
Why Don’t We Work Less?
Is it because we don’t want to, because we can’t, or is there something else at play?
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Resilience of Cities
From the ruin porn of Detroit to China’s ghost towns, images of failed growth haunt our imaginations. Darran Anderson argues that humanity is robust enough to survive its own poor planning.
Posted inCurrent Events
Zadie Smith Takes on Black Pain With a Light Touch
At Harper’s, Smith doesn’t really feel like she is engaging in her subject matter with much care or heart.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
My Father’s Weakness for Beer Never Lessened His Strengths
Pauline Campos recalls her time with her late father, a functional alcoholic she never judged, and still reveres.
Posted inEditor's Pick
How One Man’s Fight for His Detroit Neighborhood Went Viral
Armed with nothing more than a video camera and a YouTube channel, Jonathan Pommerville has become a one-man neighborhood patrol—fighting to protect his blighted Detroit neighborhood from dumpers, drugs and prostitution.
