Marie Myung-Ok Lee finds herself conflicted about attending a controversial author’s reading and wonders: what does “speaking up” actually mean?
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Politics and Prose
Marie Myung-Ok Lee finds herself conflicted about attending a controversial author’s reading and wonders: what does “speaking up” actually mean?
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Pushups Are Inspiring
Ben Schreckinger meets Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal trainer and tries to emulate RBG’s routine.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
‘BRB, Killing ISIS Guys’: An American Bro in Syria
When Brace Belden left his job in San Francisco to fight ISIS, he had no idea he’d become a prominent figure in the Syrian Civil War.
Posted inScience & Nature, Story
Atomic City
On January 3, 1961, a nuclear reactor the size of a small grain silo exploded in the Idaho desert, causing one of the only recorded nuclear fatalities on U.S. soil.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Making Peace with the Site of a Suicide
One woman reconciles with her father’s death on her family’s property.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Rise And Fall (And Rise) Of ‘Marines United’
Marines United, a private Facebook group for vets and active military personnel that shared revenge porn and rape threats between news stories and image macros, was reported again and again for violating community standards. But like a many-headed-hydra, every time it was killed it would rise up again.
Posted inNonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Wheel, the Woman, and the Human Body
How the newly evolved bicycle helped liberate women and modernize America’s concept of fitness.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Science & Nature
Welcome to the Center of the Universe
For the men and women who use the Deep Space Network to talk to the heavens, failure is not an option.
