Early electric cars performed better in cities than internal combustion vehicles, but didn’t give riders the same illusion of freedom and masculine derring-do.
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How Are There Still Beauty Pageants When Feminists Have Been Protesting Them for 50 Years?
Roxane Gay considers the lasting impact of protests against the Miss America Pageant that took place half a century ago.
Posted inArts & Culture, Quotes
The Flavor of Childhood: Sweet Medicine
One person searches for the anonymous fruit flavor of the pediatric amoxicillin that so many of us, somehow, came to love.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
Deporting Billions of Tax Dollars, Farm Work, Good People, and Affordable Food Right Out of America
TheHudson Valley offers a glimpse of the ways deportations will effect America’s farm economy and food system.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Guy Gunaratne on the ‘Push-Pull of Ancestry and Meaning’ in London
Guy Gunaratne’s Man Booker-longlisted “In Our Mad and Furious City” recognizes multiple, overlapping versions of London and its inhabitants, examining the ways violence can bubble up through the city’s fissures.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, History, Science & Nature, Story
The Weather and the Wall
Climate change and the border wall are more connected than you might think.
Posted inFeature, Sports, Story
The Tale of Boozy Suzy and Her Hammer Fist
Inside the Rise and Fall of the Pillow Fight League
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Sports, Story, Uncategorized
An Audience of Athletes: The Rise and Fall of Feminist Sports
Billie Jean King once tried to find a sustainable business model for feminist sports coverage. Then women’s fitness tried to revive the swimsuit model.
Posted inEditor's Pick
How the Meat Industry Thinks About Non-Meat-Eaters
The Atlantic talks to the editor of a meat industry trade publication about American meat production and publishing for a niche reader.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The First White President
In his latest for the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates posits that white identity politics forms the foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency.
