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Plasma For Sale (Used) — $20 a Pop
Sarah Smarsh’s brother has sold his plasma for the last decade to make ends meet under mounting credit card debt and student loans.
Posted inCurrent Events, Discussions, Essays & Criticism, Media, Story
Is Journalism a Form of Activism?
It’s time to take another look at the definition of activism and where journalism fits in.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Who’s Trying to Monopolize Mary Jane?
Amanda Chicago Lewis tries to track down the people behind BioTech Industries, a company trying to get strict, blanket utility patents on pot.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
Life on the Oil Frontier
What it was like living in one of America’s most patriarchal societies.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
A Motherless Daughter, Mothering
An unexpected pregnancy not long after her troubled mother’s passing forces Ashley Abramson to navigate a kind of dual citizenship she couldn’t have anticipated.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
A Motherless Daughter, Mothering
An unexpected pregnancy not long after her troubled mother’s passing forces Ashley Abramson to navigate a kind of dual citizenship she couldn’t have anticipated.
Posted inNonfiction
The Rub of Rough Sex
Chelsea G. Summers considers the ways in which outwardly ‘progressive’ men like former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman use kink as a cover for abuse.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Weighing Justice With a Jury of Her ‘Peers’
While serving as foreperson on a grand jury, Susana Morris confronts power and privilege in the criminal justice system.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Addicts Next Door
Margaret Talbot reports on the opioid epidemic in West Virginia. There, the overdose rate is the highest in the United States and many are fighting to help loved ones, friends, neighbors, and sometimes complete strangers get healthy. Among several sources, she profiles an emergency paramedic who routinely sees to multiple overdoses a day (sometimes the […]
