Is the man behind Amazon a benevolent benefactor or a manipulative monopolist?
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Posted inBusiness & Tech, History, Nonfiction
My Journey to the Heart of the FOIA Request
Fifty years ago, the Freedom of Information Act gave the public access to government secrets — all you had to do was ask. How a simple request became a bureaucratic nightmare.
Posted inNonfiction
The Red Zone: A Love Story
A severe form of PMS puts Chloe Caldwell’s new relationship to the test.
Posted inCurrent Events, Science & Nature, Uncategorized
Despair All Ye Who Enter Into the Climate Change Fray
A climate change feature at New York Magazine leads a scientist to take on its extraordinary claims.
Posted inDiscussions, Nonfiction, Quotes, Reading List
On Being Fat
Sara Benincasa’s essay “Why Am I So Fat?” was one of our top five reads last week, and with good reason — it was honest and cutting in all the right ways. It was brash and unapologetic and funny as hell (and also suggests that perhaps Fader was slightly premature in declaring, earlier this year, that […]
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
Is the Internet Changing Time?
“Fragments of the past are for the first time on tap, not stored away in boxes,” writes Laurence Scott.
Posted inBooks, Science & Nature
We Should Be Talking About the Effect of Climate Change on Cities
But we’re not. Instead, the effects on cities tend to be edited out or statistically minimized.
Posted inBlog Post, Commentary, Current Events
Trump’s Twitter Usage May Be His Downfall
Donald Trump is in love with Twitter, “Brokeback Mountain”-style.
Essay
Between the Wolf in the Tall Grass and the Wolf in the Tall Story “It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the unconscious is laboring under a moral compulsion to educate us.” —Cormac McCarthy, “The Kekulé Problem,” Nautilus, April 20, 2017 I. The Smartest Person in the Room I often say that one of the […]
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
A Muslim, a Christian, and a Baby Named “God”
Rachel Pieh Jones, a Christian American living in Djibouti, reflects on her friendship with a Muslim woman there, and the more universal aspects of faith.
