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What My Great-Grandfather Taught Me About Trump and the Press
The way Trump treats journalists (and journalism) has no parallel to past presidents.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
‘Herr Blatter, Have You Ever Taken a Bribe?’
In a recent piece for the Washington Post, Michael E. Miller profiled Andrew Jennings— a doggedly obsessed, “curmudgeonly” investigative reporter who helped expose the FIFA scandal that brought down Sepp Blatter. According to Miller’s piece, if Blatter’s downfall can be traced to a single moment it was when Jennings grabbed the microphone at a Zurich press conference after […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Unapologetic Women
The Consent of the (Un)governed
“Freedom” is just another word for being under the thumb of a powerful white man — for now.
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction
The Successful Boycott of #DeleteUber and a New Era of Activism
#DeleteUber and the power of protest in 2017.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Assertiveness Training
Susan Sheu considers her estrangement from her conservative mom, who tried to teach her to stand up and be heard in a male-dominated world — but not to be too unladylike about it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story
The True Story of Refugees in an American High School
The politics of immigration ignores the reality: a classroom of young people adjusting to life in the United States, and a teacher driven to help.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. * * * 1. The Agency Adrian Chen | The New York Times | June 4, 2015 | 33 minutes (8,452 words) Adrian Chen takes a […]
Posted inBlog Post, Story
An Elegy for DNAinfo, Local Media’s First Responders
We were the watchdogs, showing up when no one else did.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Consent of the (Un)governed
“Freedom” is just another word for being under the thumb of a powerful white man — for now.
