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Posted inEditor's Pick
Throwaway Society: Rejecting a Life Consumed by Plastic
Japan is the second-biggest producer of plastic waste per capita, after the US. One journalist tries to spend a week without using single-use plastic and discovers how dependent Japan’s food system has become on disposable plastic.
Posted inNonfiction
‘This Wasn’t His First Time’
A kidnapping deemed a hoax, the newbie detective who cracked the case, and the Harvard-trained lawyer whose mental unraveling set the whole story in motion.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Secret History of America’s Oldest Tofu Shop
Back before hippies and health nuts discovered cultured soy. Before Portland, Oregon gave the world the Gardenburger, a man from Okayama, Japan opened a tofu shop there in 1911. The United States was filled with racism and fear. But even after the Ohta family was released from WWII internment camps, Ota Tofu never stopped making […]
Posted inStory
Shelved: Yoko Ono
On Yoko Ono’s 1974 album “A Story,” and stepping out from behind the ever-present shadow of John Lennon.
Posted inStory
Notes on Citizenship
Nina Li Coomes reckons with the quandary of citizenship and the meaning of home.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
After the Tsunami
After the 2011 disaster, which killed his grandmother and laid waste to his ancestral home, an American journeys to Japan to search for what the tsunami left in its wake.
Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, History, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes, Sports
‘Shots fired. Male on ground, bleeding out.’
When “Who gets to go jogging without getting shot?” is an actual question a society has to ask, that society is fundamentally flawed.
Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
In Hot Pursuit of STS-50, High Seas Scofflaw
What’s in the hold, captain? Oh nothing, just tonnes upon tonnes of illegal Chilean bass — nothing to see here!
