Karen Brown recalls the pain and joy of fulfilling a deathbed promise.
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How Do You Get Help When No One Believes You?
“Asylum” technically means “a place of safety or refuge,” but that’s not now many psychiatric in-patients experience their time on psych wards.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Sandra Sidi, Lena Solow, Aubrey Hirsch, Noelle Mateer, and Amanda Hess.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Unapologetic Women
Preparing for a Post-Roe America
Activist and author Robin Marty says the biggest threat facing women in a post-Roe America would be arrest, not death.
Posted inEditor's Pick
High Tide of Heartbreak
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes (Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, Water by the Spoonful, In the Heights) reflects on how the narrow aesthetics of legacy theatre institutions have hurt her health, her heart, and her career.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Crime, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
Meet Michael Gillespie, the Ransomeware Superhero of Normal, Illinois
Michael Gillespie has automated a way to decrypt ransomeware, and he gives his code away for free just to help people in need.
Posted inNonfiction
Public Education’s White Flight Problem
More than 50 years after the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, little has changed, and several groups are hoping to use policy and practice to fix this longstanding issue.
Posted inReading List, Unapologetic Women
Labor Pains: A Reading List
No one ever said expelling a tiny human our of your body would be easy — or if they did, they shouldn’t have.
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
The Bat-Borne Virus That Threatens to Become the Next Pandemic
Steven Bedard, a former field biologist, travels around Bangladesh with a team of public health investigators studying Nipah, a bat-borne virus with the potential to become the next pandemic.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Chimayó
Esmé Weijun Wang discovers a new interpretation of faith while on two kindred pilgrimages: one to find an accurate medical diagnosis, one to a sacred site in New Mexico.
