“Across these years, hundreds of thousands of young men and women signed on in good faith and served in the lower and middle ranks. They did not make policy. They lived within it.”
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The Watson Files
What if there were a blueprint for climate adaptation that could end a civil war? An English scientist spent his life developing one — then he vanished without a trace.
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Quotes
Anthony Bourdain: 1956-2018
Anthony Boudain passed away in Strasbourg, France, on Friday, June 8th, at age 61.
Posted inNonfiction
MACHO: On Black Holes, and the Fantasies of Men
Frances Dodds recalls two men who laid bare the fragile lines between desire, pain and manipulation — and questions the framework of her own fantasies.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
Steve Bannon’s New Scheme
Exactly what has Steve Bannon been up to since leaving the White House in August?
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
From Kyiv to Kentucky
California native Katya Cengel contemplates whether living in Ukraine prepared her for life in the South.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
George Washington Lived in an Indian World, But His Biographies Have Erased Native People
Telling Washington’s story without erasing the people and lands that preoccupied him leads to important new questions; like, just how consequential for American history was the first president’s addiction to land speculation?
Posted inNonfiction, Story
A Chance to Rewrite History: The Women Fighters of the Tamil Tigers
How during a brutal, 25-year civil war in Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers failed the women soldiers who sacrificed everything to fight for a sovereign state for the Tamil minority.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
My Brown Dad Voted for Trump
Anjoli Roy struggles to understand the conservative father she dearly loves.
