The Abortion I Didn’t Have
“I never thought about ending my pregnancy. Instead, at 19, I erased the future I had imagined for myself.”
“I never thought about ending my pregnancy. Instead, at 19, I erased the future I had imagined for myself.”
LGBTQI groups found rare freedoms online, but this year, many were shut by censors. It feels like slowly being sanded down, said one member.
Lavender Au, Weiqi Liu Rest of World Dec 2021 Permalink
Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus got cancer—and then accidentally shared his diagnosis with the public over social media. Turns out getting sick renewed his faith, healed his old friendships, and reminded him what makes life worth living.
Chris Gayomali GQ Dec 2021 Permalink
Trees have always migrated to survive. But now they need our help to avoid climate catastrophe.
Lauren Markham Mother Jones Nov 2021 Permalink
An eccentric monk’s singular scrap cathedral reveals the chaos and genius of his mind.
Matthew Bremner Hazlitt Dec 2021 Permalink
In Sinaloa, Mexico, women recover the bodies of missing loved ones—and cook to keep their memories of the dead alive.
Annelise Jolley The Atavist Magazine Dec 2021 20min Permalink
Across the country, an unregulated system is severing parents from children, who often end up abandoned by the agencies that are supposed to protect them.
Kelefa Sanneh is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His book is Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres.
“I’m always thinking about how to not be that person at a party who corners you and tells you about their favorite thing and you’re trying to get away. It’s got to feel light and fun. And what that means in practice is writing about music for readers who don’t care about music, while at the same time writing something that the connoisseurs don’t roll their eyes too hard at.”
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An occasionally collaborative profile of the director.
Joe Hagan Vanity Fair Nov 2021 Permalink
The historian Allen C. Guelzo believes that the Confederate general deserves a more compassionate reading.
Isaac Chotiner New Yorker Nov 2021 20min Permalink
A 90-year-old amateur archaeologist who claimed to have detonated the first atomic bomb was also one of the most prolific grave robbers in modern American history.
Josh Sanburn Vanity Fair Nov 2021 30min Permalink
Hundreds of families have flocked to Colorado hoping medical marijuana will relieve their children’s epileptic seizures. This is the story of one family’s migration.
John Ingold The Denver Post Dec 2014 10min Permalink
A new pro league is paying teenagers six figures to quit high school for basketball.
Bruce Schoenfeld The New York Times Magazine Nov 2021 30min Permalink
On sugar cane production.
Shane Mitchell Bitter Southerner Nov 2020 25min Permalink
Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias.
Ian Urbina New Yorker Nov 2021 35min Permalink
Biden has a plan to make day care more affordable for parents—if the providers don’t go out of business first.
Claire Suddath Bloomberg Businessweek Nov 2021 20min Permalink
Since she first started working in the hospitality industry two decades ago, Vida Afram has cleaned nearly 60,000 hotel rooms.
Maddy Crowell Afar Nov 2021 10min Permalink
A profile of the designer, who died Sunday at 41.
Doreen St. Félix New Yorker Mar 2019 Permalink
“If the pandemic so terrified us that billions of us retreated into panicked cocoons for months, what can explain or justify our blindness and indifference towards the ten million lives ended each year by the repeated inhalation of smog?”
Pakistan has received global praise for the design and maintenance of a vast system that holds the information of 98% of the country’s population. For some, however, it is making normal life impossible.
Alizeh Kohari Coda Story Nov 2021 35min Permalink
All over the West, a housing crisis is causing workforce shortages, crippling local businesses, and threatening the culture and existence of mountain towns as we know them. But amid the doom and gloom, some people are fighting for solutions.
Gloria Liu Outside Nov 2021 25min Permalink
The American yam is not the food it says it is. How that came to be is a story of robbery, reinvention, and identity.
Lex Pryor The Ringer Nov 2021 20min Permalink
A Thanksgiving story about the limits of human empathy.
Annie Lowrey The Atlantic Nov 2018 20min Permalink
Ahmaud Arbery went out for a jog and was gunned down in the street. How running fails Black America.
Mitchell S. Jackson Runner's World Jun 2020 30min Permalink
Anita Hill is a professor and author. Her new book is Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence.
"I really do feel that my life now has purpose. And my responsibility really is to live out that purpose as much as possible. The reason that this isn’t entirely daunting is that I realize I am one individual. And that the issues will not depend on me entirely. … But I also realize that every person who has the opportunity should be involved, and that includes me."
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