Recommending stories from Mariana Serapicos, Camille Bromley, Devon Fredericksen, Georgia Brown, and Sarah Golibart Gorman.
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Have You Been to the Library Lately?
“Librarians once worried about shushing patrons. Now they have to deal with mental health episodes, the homelessness crisis, and random violence.”
Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life.
“For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown—pivoting as he’s been outmatched. He’s also lost his job and become a target.”
The Olympics Are Ditching PFAS Waxes—and the ‘Ridiculous’ Speed They Gave Skiers
“After years of concern over so-called “fluoro” waxes, the Milan Cortina Games will be the first Olympics without them.”
The Villa Where a Doctor Experimented on Children
“As a girl in Austria, Evy Mages was confined to a mysterious institution in Innsbruck. Decades later, she learned why.”
Sick City
“My dad grew up in Robert Moses’s New York City. His story is a testament to how urban planning shapes countless lives.”
Finding Jordan Neely
“He had places he belonged and people looking out for him. How did he end up dying, alone, at the hands of a stranger?”
The Genocide the World Ignored
Ayder Comprehensive Medical Hospital was the second largest in Ethiopia and the jewel of the Tigrayan health system—and for two horrific years, it became a war zone.
Flat Places
“Whenever I stand in a flat landscape, I feel myself becoming weightless, taken out of my childhood full of painful nothing.”
Compost Modernity!
“The vision of solarpunk: joining nature with technology in vibrantly inclusive ways to create a world that truly blooms.”

