A bracing essay on late-term abortion, and how American politics have made an impossibly difficult situation even more painful and dangerous for women.
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Betting the Farm on the Drought
Farmers like sixth-generation Illinois farmer Ethan Cox can’t wait for policymakers to protect them from climate change. To survive, they have to adapt their operations now, if they can.
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In Pocahontas County, Deep Divisions and a Gruesome Discovery
In an excerpt from ‘The Third Rainbow Girl,’ Emma Copley Eisenberg interrogates various social conditions that might have contributed to a mysterious double murder in West Virginia in 1980.
Posted inBundyville The Remnant, Crime, Culture, Current Events, investigations, Nonfiction, Story
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Four: The Preacher and the Politician
If America collapses, some see that as an opportunity to reboot society. They say they have God on their side.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
Checking in on the Masculinity Crisis
If masculinity really is in crisis — and that’s a big if — we should at least be able to agree that it’s not women’s responsibility to fix it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
The Makeover Scene Gets a Makeover
Everyone laughs at how ridiculous makeover scenes are, but these swift internal metamorphoses aren’t much better.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Commentary, Culture, Current Events
Remembering Ntozake Shange
The poet, novelist, and playwright Ntozake Shange died Saturday, October 27.
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A Woman’s Work: The Inside Story
Carolita Johnson examines some of the inner workings of a woman’s body from puberty to menopause.
Posted inBooks, Crime, Essays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Story
Jill the Ripper
True crime’s massive gender gap (95% of murderers are male) isn’t really one that needs fixing. And yet, since the beginning, a steadfast minority of Ripperologists have argued that Jack was really Jill.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
Guns and Marriage
Simone Gorrindo struggles to make peace with the violence that puts food on her table.
