In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The Backcountry Prescription Experiment
Mathina Calliope goes off her antidepressant and into the woods.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
‘You Could Literally See Our Shit From Space’: The Broken Bowels of Beirut
Beirut’s disintegrating sewage system and corrupt politics have put its residents in a shitty situation.
Posted inCommentary, Uncategorized
Did We Learn Nothing From the 2008 Crisis?
The continuation of the false narrative of what caused the 2008 financial collapse is alarming.
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Life in the Chelsea Hotel During Pandemic
The remaining residents face isolation, and the challenges of preserving their history while enduring the present.
Posted inBusiness, Nonfiction, Quotes
Looking Back On the Last Housing Bubble From the Precipice of the Next One
A decade later, some homeowners still haven’t recovered from the mortgage crisis of 2008.
Posted inNonfiction
Seedy
Elizabeth Logan Harris recalls an incident in ’70s-era Radio City Music Hall when unwanted attention to her teenage body put her in league with her father.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
It’s Getting Hot in Here, So Take Off All Your Constructs
Hot Girl Summer has women subverting a feminine archetype, but only if they can embody it first.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The State of Waiting
Separated by war, boundaries, and immigration policies they cannot control, one young Yemeni couple refuses to give up on love.
