Every piece we selected as our top story of the week in 2023, all in one place.
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Posted inEditor's Pick
The Best Abortion Ever
“It lasted about ten seconds. I was just about to say, ‘This really hurts,’ when, suddenly, it didn’t hurt anymore, and the doctor was snapping off her gloves.”
Posted inFeature
The Women Who Built Grunge
Bands like L7 and Heavens to Betsy were instrumental to the birth of the grunge scene, but for decades were treated like novelties and sex objects. Thirty years later, it’s time to reassess their legacy.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Malcolm Harris, Tom Lamont, Melissa Jeltsen, Moe Tkacik, and Lavinia Spalding.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The GOP Has Its Final Anti-Abortion Victory in Sight
They’ve been playing a long, long game that leads to the death of Roe v. Wade by a thousand procedural cuts. Or for women, death by botched underground abortion.
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 inEditor's Pick
When Choice is 221 Miles Away
A post-Roe world is already here for women in Mississippi who need abortions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
Apocalypse Now? Now? How About Now?
“And yet I am also, in the darkest corners of my heart, a doomsday prepper myself.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Quotes
The Misogyny Is the Point
I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free… to be reduced to a uterus and some boobs! Good times.
