Catherine Texier pushes back against society’s dated ideas about older women, claiming her place among those who are determined to remain vibrant and relevant in the last decades of their lives.
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Toni Morrison, 1931-2019
An elegy and reading list for Toni Morrison, the Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who died Monday, August 5, 2019.
Posted inBusiness, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
PFAS, Cancer, 3M, and a Coverup that’s Decades Old
It’s long past time to ditch your Teflon pans.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
A Green New Jail
What does environmental justice look like in a landscape overrun by prisons? Where the incarcerated suffer from unusually polluted surroundings, and prisons are a toxin in their own right?
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The Art of Losing Friends and Alienating People
Laura Lippman, admittedly a rotten friend, is bummed by the ways in which friendships end as one gets older.
Posted inHighlight, History, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Thank You for Not Being Afraid, Pat Maginnis
Compromise and political reform only take you so far; sometimes you need to shake the whole system.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
McDreamy, McSteamy, and McConnell
Congressional fan fiction is real, it’s glorious, and it might be reshaping our political world.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
The Age of Forever Crises
We need to learn how to talk about our irreversible mistakes. Historian Kate Brown says the first step is to resist the Chernobylization of knowledge.
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Downsizing the American Black Middle Class
Government jobs helped thousands of Black families move into the middle class. Now, increasing calls for government privatization are pushing them back out.
