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."
A profile of the actor.
Finding the author of Pictures for Sad Children.
How the real estate boom left Black neighborhoods behind.
An essay on audiobooks.
For a decade, Dustin Stockton and Jennifer Lawrence had surfed the wave of populist-right politics like few other people in America. Then came Jan. 6.
The joys—and absurdities—of finding oneself abandoned in a desolate landscape.
Sunken by grief, Alenka Artnik found herself alone on a bridge, contemplating suicide. Ten years later, she is the world’s greatest female freediver and getting stronger with each record-breaking plunge. How one woman emerged from mental health struggles to push the limits of the human body.
Pregnant and facing decades in prison, the mother of Tupac Shakur fought for her life—and triumphed—in the trial of the Panther 21.
A profile.
In “the trial of the century,” a Houston socialite was accused of plotting her husband’s murder—and of having an affair with her nephew. But Candace Mossler was only getting started.
The story of the 1977 Revolt at Cincinnati, and the men who changed the course of the NRA forever.
An examination of Brazil’s immense tannery industry shows how hides from illegally deforested ranches can easily reach the global marketplace. In the United States, much of the demand for Brazilian leather comes from automakers.
A writer’s quest.
A hundred years ago, in the midst of an American food crisis, two spies who had once sworn to kill each other came together with a plan to feed America: hippo meat.
Ben Austen is a journalist and the author of High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing. Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Together they host the podcast Some of My Best Friends Are.
”We're not pretending to have all the answers, but we are attempting to say, ‘this is a real issue and it can't be covered up by simply ignoring it.’ And if you can see it for what it is and all of its full dimensions, you have a better shot at bringing people along to get the work done to fix it.”
A profile of philosopher Timothy Morton.
In the “smart nation,” robot dogs enforce social distancing and an app can claim to neutralize racism. The reality is very different.
How a touring dance company battles the Chinese Communist Party.
How your family tree could catch a killer.
In Oakland, California, when it comes to Black homelessness and dispossession, dystopia is already here.
For nearly 200 years, San Francisco has been the last stop of petty thieves, con artists and killers. Iva Kroeger was all three.
In Austin and cities around the country, prices are skyrocketing, forcing regular people to act like speculators. When will it end?
Inside an international smuggling operation.
Scandal, conspiracy, and cover-ups in the theft of the “Irish Crown Jewels” from Dublin Castle.
