The working class is walking away from America’s favorite business transaction — traditional marriage — as good jobs disappear.
The Atlantic
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Bee Wilson, Seyward Darby, Wil S. Hylton, Greg Milner, and Annie Dillard.
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The Sun Was Going and the World Was Wrong
Annie Dillard describes her experience of the 1979 solar eclipse, the last one visible in the United States until this year.
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Annie Dillard’s Classic Essay: ‘Total Eclipse’
Dillard’s 1982 personal essay — excerpted by The Atlantic from her new collection, The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New. She writes in exquisite detail about the haunting, surreal experience of witnessing the last solar eclipse, on February 26th, 1979, after driving five hours inland in Washington State to catch it from a hill top.
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Swabbing Filthy Surfaces for Tomorrow’s Cures
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.
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The Flavor of Childhood: Sweet Medicine
One person searches for the anonymous fruit flavor of the pediatric amoxicillin that so many of us, somehow, came to love.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
Deporting Billions of Tax Dollars, Farm Work, Good People, and Affordable Food Right Out of America
TheHudson Valley offers a glimpse of the ways deportations will effect America’s farm economy and food system.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Renee Montagne, Nina Martin, Alex Tizon, Mary Mann, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, and Andy Newman.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
Not Really A Distant Aunt: My Family’s Slave
“Once, when I was sick for a long time and too weak to eat, she chewed my food for me and put the small pieces in my mouth to swallow.”
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Playing Football to the Beat of Their Own, Literal Drummer
Gallaudet University has tensions between its deaf and hearing students, but the deaf football team brings the campus together.