This week, we’re sharing stories from Aly Raisman, Joseph Williams, Jenna Wortham, Mayukh Sen, and Sirin Kale.
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Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Current Events, Story, Uncategorized
Tax the Rich
In this economy, what’s a fair share?
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, History, Member Pick, Nonfiction, Story
America’s Post-Frontier Hangover
America binged on expansion, relying on land grabs as an engine of growth and a way to externalize racial hatred. Historian Greg Grandin asks, without a frontier, what can America be?
Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
‘They Would Try to Love Whoever Killed Her, and Forgive.’
In 1985, a girl was abducted and left to die in Winnipeg’s severe cold. While her parents, Cliff and Wilma Derksen, did not yet know the killer’s identity, they made a decision to forgive.
Posted inArts & Culture, Crime, Current Events, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Story
An Interview with MacArthur ‘Genius’ Jason De León
The anthropologist studies the objects left behind by migrants as they cross the border.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘I Inherited Luck’: Bridgett M. Davis on Her Family’s Life in the Numbers
In a new memoir, novelist Bridgett M. Davis reveals that her mother was a Numbers operator in Detroit from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Posted inStory
Talking to Big Baby
A child’s doll exerts a gravitational pull on every member of her family.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
Trump Revives a Shameful Tradition: Targeting a Minority Group with Crime Reports
The president’s executive orders and inflammatory rhetoric follow a predictable path.
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 inCommentary, Current Events
The Far Right’s Fight Against Race-Conscious School Admissions
Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department rescinded Obama-era policy documents that provided guidelines on affirmative action.
