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High Expectations: LSD, T.C. Boyle’s Women, and Me
“Outside Looking In” dramatizes the discovery of LSD and the cult of personality surrounding Timothy Leary. Our reviewer drops acid and thinks about how, for women, it can be safer to be a downer.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Hot Wet Goobers
Peanuts are essential to baseball games school lunches, state fairs, and even prison commissaries: the fascinating, sometimes ugly, history of the world’s favorite ground nut.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Banished
After passing a series of restrictive housing laws, Miami-Dade County faces an odd predicament: bands of nomadic sex offenders and a cat-and-mouse game to move them.
Posted inReading List
Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Here’s a List of Longreads about Love for You
Jacqueline Alnes brings us eight stories on love in its many-splendored guises.
Posted inArts & Culture, Audio, Books, History, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘The Very Top Guy in the Stasi was Personally Involved in Figuring Out How to Destroy Punk.’
Author Tim Mohr talks about East Germany’s dissident punk rock scene, and its role in bringing down the Berlin Wall in 1989 — the story behind his remarkable new book, ‘Burning Down The Haus.’
Posted inNonfiction
The Criminalization of the American Midwife
New York midwife Elizabeth Catlin faces 95 individual felony counts at her upcoming trial. For what? For doing her job. Politics and patriarchy make the work of many credentialed, experienced midwives illegal — to the detriment of women and underserved communities.
Posted inCrime, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Sorry, But Drug-Induced Homicide Laws Aren’t Going to Solve Our Opioid Crisis
Another ineffective technique has been added to the ineffective war on drugs: Drug-induced homicide charges.
Posted inCrime, Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Vacating Convictions from Crooked Chicago Cops
A group of Chicago cops spent years framing innocent men, but thanks to one determined woman, their convictions are finally getting overturned.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
A Certain Kind of Mammal
Meaghan O’Connell on the joy, the triumph, and the prison of breastfeeding.
