To date, 21 disembodied feet have washed up on the shores of Seattle’s Salish Sea. What at first looked like the work of a serial killer turned out to be something even more unsettling: A message from the ocean about who we are.
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Seeing the Modern World In the Disposable Plastic Straw
How our planet came to be filled with more disposable plastic straws than most of us will ever need.
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“What Do I Know To Be True?”: Emma Copley Eisenberg on Truth in Nonfiction, Writing Trauma, and The Dead Girl Newsroom
“We were interested in dead girls, but so interested in them that we were trying to do the opposite of what had been done before.”
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Under the Knife
Margot Harris grapples with guilt following a labiaplasty procedure.
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Live Through This: Courtney Love at 55
Lisa Whittington-Hill on why Courtney Love deserves to be the girl with the most cake.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Born Again
“Rebirth therapy” was meant to help a troubled girl start over, but it ended her life instead.
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Queens of Infamy: Lucrezia Borgia
History may have pigeonholed her as Renaissance Italy’s most notorious seductress, but it’s high time we give the Duchess of Ferrara a closer look.
Posted inCrime, Story
“We Are Not Lost Causes”
How youth in Rochester, New York, are working to save their neighborhood — and themselves — by forging pathways away from violent street crime.
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Current Events, Media, Story
The Contradictions of Twitter’s ‘We Care’ Campaign
With bots, fake news, and an angry right-wing flank, Twitter is crashing against the limits of ideological neutrality.
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Let Me Show You the World
Almost everything you think you know about Aladdin is wrong.
