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Midwest

Best Article History

Detroit Arcadia

Wanders through the emptied post-American landscape.

Rebecca Solnit Harper's Jun 2007 Permalink

Travel

Journeys on the Cuyahoga

Legacy, beauty, and danger, 50 years after the river caught fire.

Sheehan Hannan Cleveland Magazine Jun 2019 20min Permalink

Politics Health

All-American Despair

For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers.

Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone May 2019 35min Permalink

History Media

Whirl

For 60 years, the weekly Evening Whirl attacked the drug lords, whoring preachers, and hypocritical bourgeoisie of St. Louis’ black community, sometimes in rhyming Iambic couplets.

Scott Eden The Believer Nov 2006 25min Permalink

Crime

Rambo's End

The fallout from a 1987 Wisconsin manhunt.

Robert Mentzer Wausau Daily Herald Sep 2014 20min Permalink