New York City’s Final Frontier: Underground By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight What lays beneath New York City affects life above ground. One team is mapping the city’s below-ground infrastructure.
Instagram Wants to Make the Internet a Nicer Place to Be By Mike Dang Highlight The photo sharing service has been creating tools and algorithms to let its users close comments and ban offensive words.
Exploiting Mexico’s Indigenous People to Get the West Its Drugs By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How Mexican drug cartels prey on the indigenous Tarahumara people, using endurance runners to run drugs across the border.
How Patagonia Continues to Operate As a Model of Responsible Capitalism By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight With America’s public lands and the world’s climate under attack, the outdoor industry needs leaders more than ever and Patagonia is out in front.
Swabbing Filthy Surfaces for Tomorrow’s Cures By Aaron Gilbreath Commentary As the world faces a global health catastrophe from drug-resistant microbes, one scientists is searching the natural world for the antibiotics of the future.
The Flavor of Childhood: Sweet Medicine By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One person searches for the anonymous fruit flavor of the pediatric amoxicillin that so many of us, somehow, came to love.
A Son’s Ambitious Plans to Give His Father Everlasting, Artificial Life By Mike Dang Highlight James Vlahos gave his father eternal life using a little bit of programming.
Architecture and Religious Bias: A California Case Study By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight When a group of Sufis wanted to build a large sanctuary in the California hills, locals pushed back and the town grew divided.
Roger Federer Isn’t Stopping Any Time Soon By Mike Dang Highlight Federer is the oldest man to win a Wimbledon singles title in the Open Era, and he doesn’t appear to be slowing down.
The Celebrity Jesuit Connecting With LGBTQ Catholics By Em Perper Highlight Father James Martin wants to change the relationship between the queer Catholic community and the Church.
The Making of ‘Meatballs’: Is Bill Murray Even Going to Show Up? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The 1979 summer camp comedy was Bill Murray’s breakout film. It also almost didn’t happen.
Talking with Multi-Genre Writer Walter Mosley By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The author talks with The Paris Review about writing, crime fiction, and his depiction of Black American life.
Deporting Billions of Tax Dollars, Farm Work, Good People, and Affordable Food Right Out of America By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight TheHudson Valley offers a glimpse of the ways deportations will effect America’s farm economy and food system.
Nina Simone’s Three Years of Freedom By Danielle Jackson Highlight At Guernica, Katherina Grace Thomas turns a lens on the years Nina Simone spent in Liberia in the mid-1970s.
Monocle: The Magazine As Boring, Lifestyle, Branding Infastructure By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight On Monocle’s tenth anniversary, one writer analyzes the magazine’s vision, business model, and what place this globalist outlet has in an age of increasing nationalism.
These Law Enforcement Officers Wield Handguns and Vet Supplies By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Nevada’s “cow cops” work a unique beat where crimes range from cattle rustling, bovine homicide, and animal abuse.
Prog Rock: The Musical Genre That Won’t Die By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The “progressive” form of 1970s rock and roll still has as many devoted fans as it does diehard enemies. Why?
The New Age of Anxiety By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight W.H. Auden named it 70 years ago, and our latest age of anxiety is one of Xanax, fidget spinners, and constant swiping.
How One Porn Mogul Made His Fortune and Ruined Everything By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Michael Thevis built a lucrative pornography empire in the 1970s only to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Following John McPhee’s Path to ‘Oranges’ By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Fifty years after he published Oranges, one writer traces McPhee’s story to Florida to assess the state of American citrus.
David Sedaris Is Depressed By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight David Sedaris tallies a few of the many reasons he feels shame and sadness being an American in the time of Trump.
How Wells Fargo Bankers Gamed Customers to Make Sales Goals By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight In 2016, Wells Fargo paid a $185 million fine for alleged fraud on its own customers without an admission of guilt. Has anything changed?
Haruki Murakami’s Advice to Young Writers By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight In the essay “So What Shall I Write About?” from Monkey Business magazine, Haruki Murakami gives readers a glimpse into his creative process and how to become a novelist.
Inside the Canadian Credit Bubble, Where Too Many Canadians Live Beyond their Means By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Canada’s new middle class lives paycheck to paycheck, unwilling to give up certain lifestyle choices.
Coming of Age in the Army By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight After a series of dead ends, a young man finds direction and identity in the Army. Despite his parents’ pride, the lingering question becomes: at what personal cost?
Treating Our Border As a Battle Zone By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Twenty years after Marines fatally shot an innocent 18-year old man in West Texas, the War on Drugs and militarization of the US-Mexico border has left many local people feeling less safe.
America’s Small Farmers Need More Slaughterhouses By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A dearth of facilities able to process small farmers’ animals keeps costs up and prices high.
The Internet Won’t Prioritize Quality Without an Intervention By Catherine Cusick Highlight Ev Williams admits that the internet is broken and suggests course corrections, apologizing for Twitter’s role in putting Trump in the White House.
The ‘Artwashing’ of East Los Angeles By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight In Boyle Heights, activists are fighting art galleries that represent the first wave of gentrification.
Yes, We Could, But Can We Now? Reflections on Obama’s Speeches By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Presidential speeches can motivate a people and set the national tenor. Oh, how we will miss them.
