On Guthrie, Robeson, Seeger, Lomax, Dylan, the Red Scare, the fall of labor, and what folk music had to do with it.
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Behind the Scenes of Children’s Television: A Reading List
These stories explore the art and economics of making television for kids.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
How Lobbyists Normalized the Use of Chemical Weapons on American Civilians
Or, how we learned to stop worrying and love the gas.
Posted inNonfiction, Uncategorized
“IPAs Are Like Fragile Butterflies”: A Conversation with Beer Writer Josh Bernstein
IPAs currently dominate the craft beer industry in America—and they are poised to take over the world.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Most Influential Box on Earth
The container’s efficiency has proven to be an irresistible economic force. Last year the world’s container ports moved 560 million 20-foot containers—nearly 1.5 billion tons of cargo altogether. Though commodities like petroleum, steel ore, and coal still move in specially designed bulk cargo ships, more than 90 percent of the rest—everything from clothes to cars […]
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction
The War on Drugs Is a War on Women of Color
Women of color are disproportionately targeted by the war on drugs and broken windows policing.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Yearning for My Emo Days in Nostalgia-Inducing Asbury Park
Mabel Rosenheck looks back at a group of friends, and a music festival on the Jersey Shore, that came along when she needed them most.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
Hard Lessons in Living Off the Grid
A family tried to build its own sustainable paradise in Hawaii. Then Tesla’s batteries came to town.
Posted inArts & Culture, Story
The Hippies Who Hated the Summer of Love
The merchants of Haight-Ashbury advertised a summer of free food, free lodging, and free love. What they got instead was a civic nightmare.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
How Does It Feel? An Alternative American History, Told With Folk Music
On Guthrie, Robeson, Seeger, Lomax, Dylan, the Red Scare, the fall of labor, and what folk music had to do with it.
