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The No. 1 Ladies’ Defrauding Agency
What a 19th-century scammer can teach us about women, lying, and economic boom-and-bust cycles
Posted inCurrent Events, Feature, Story
Faith and Reproductive Justice Are Not in Opposition
Black women face outsized threats if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Story
I’ve Done a Lot of Forgetting
When I was a kid, I wanted my antisemitic tormentors to accept me. I wanted to be their friend.
Posted inNonfiction
Total Depravity: The Origins of the Drug Epidemic in Appalachia Laid Bare
In an excerpt from his essay collection, Australian journalist Richard Cooke reports on the American opioid crisis through the astonished eyes of a foreigner visiting steel and coal country.
Posted inNonfiction
We Still Don’t Know How to Navigate the Cultural Legacy of Eugenics
From abortion to immigration, a long-debunked scientific movement still casts long, confusing shadows over our most fraught debates.
Posted inCurrent Events, Profiles & Interviews, Reading List, Unapologetic Women
Stacey Abrams’ Historic Win in Georgia: A Reading List
Stacey Abrams’ win in Georgia could put one of the U.S.’s most populous red states in play for progressives for the first time in decades.
Posted inNonfiction
The Geography of Risk
Americans have built $3 trillion worth of property in some of the riskiest places on earth, so why do taxpayers have to pay for the hurricane damage to rich coastal communities?
Posted inNonfiction
Dispatch from Puerto Nowhere
Robert Lopez examines what it means to be an assimilated American from Puerto Rico, and what was gained and lost in the process.
Posted inCurrent Events
What’s The Matter With Texas? How Long Do You Have?
Look to Texas for the future of electoral politics, writes Lawrence Wright. Unfortunately, the future is already here.
