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“Deep in the valley below us, in the middle distance, gaped the great black cauldron of Litli-Hrútur, its insides awash in a churning fiery stew. We stood in silence on the observation mound with our hands on our hips, faces cast in childish masks of wonder and awe.” Last week, I hit the natural hazard […]
“The war on Gaza is at its core retributive: an act of collective punishment.”
“For many newcomers to the U.S., electronic surveillance is the only way to evade detention.”
“Twenty-six years ago, Barton McNeil called 911 to report that his three-year-old daughter had died in the night. It was the worst thing that could ever happen to any parent. Then a new nightmare began.”
“How a scandal-plagued health care giant profits off a failing child welfare system.”
“The San Francisco of my youth was full of small shops whose friendly eccentricity felt like part of the place.”
“To watch any ghost story set in a city like New York requires this kind of sensitivity, an awareness that every building is haunted, and that these hauntings happen in layers: as much as each generation tries to wipe out the traces of those who’ve come before, those memories are always there.” As we approach […]
“BuzzFeed News was more than a website: It defined an era.”
“After suffering decades of abuse, Helen Naslund was sentenced for killing her husband on their Alberta farm.”
“The majority of home water use takes place in the bathroom, so that’s where I started. I scaled back my showers to once a week and only flushed the toilet when the need was overwhelming. I wandered my dark little apartment doing calculations on a loop. How many gallons of water does the Livingston faucet […]
