The Atlantic
Emmett Till – The Barn
In the Mississippi Delta, an unmarked building sits 100 yards from a gravel road. Sixty-six years ago, just past daybreak, a Chevrolet truck pulled up. Four white men rode in the cab. A 14-year-old child was in the back. His name was Emmett Till.
10+ min |
September 2021
The Atlantic
This Is The End Of Affirmative Action
We have to face the reality that our education system is, and always has been, separate and unequal.
9 min |
September 2021
Guideposts
The Legacy of Flight 93
An Army officer remembers his cousin Rich Guadagno and the other 39 heroes who died in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on September 11
5 min |
August/September 2021
Girls' Life magazine
12 Underrated Reasons To Love School
Early alarms and pop quizzes aside, the truth is that school *is* actually pretty awesome. Here are 12 reasons why…
1 min |
August/September 2021
Backpacker
Smoke Eaters On The Front Lines
The new era of wildland firefighting is a war with no end in sight.
10+ min |
July - August 2021
The Atlantic
Estebanico's America
The story of Africans on this continent is longer and more varied than the version I was taught in school.
10+ min |
June 2021
Reader's Digest US
Trapped At The Bottom Of The Sea
It was supposed to be a routine job for a team of men who repair underwater pipelines. Then one diver’s air-supply cord snapped—when he was 300 feet down.
10+ min |
July - August 2021
Bloomberg Businessweek
Young U.S. Jews Shift on Israel
Millennial and Gen Z progressives question American support of Israeli policies, a point of tension for the Democratic Party
4 min |
June 14, 2021
Bloomberg Businessweek
Bridging the Endowment Wealth Gap
A new venture fund aims to help HBCUs get in on promising startups
5 min |
May 31 - June 07, 2021 (Double Issue)
Inc.
Fighting Fire With Founders
Silicon Valley startups are taking aim at deadly wildfires. But saving lives will require cutting through red tape, fast.
10 min |
May - June 2021
New York magazine
Doing the Work at Work
What are companies desperate for diversity consultants actually buying?
10+ min |
May 24 - June 06, 2021
New York magazine
The Room Where It Happened
Derrick Ingramam is still shut inside the hell’s kitchen apartment the police tried to invade.
7 min |
May 24 - June 06, 2021
Reader's Digest US
I Cry for the Mountains
After a wildfire swept through the land where his family raised their cattle for more than a century, a rancher takes a tour of what’s left—and what might come next
10+ min |
June 2021
Mother Jones
Black Land Matters
After a century of dispossession, young Black farmers are restoring their rightful place in American agriculture.
10+ min |
May/June 2021
Mother Jones
The Truth About Reconciliation
Can America heal itself? The reckoning after the Greensboro Massacre provides some lessons.
10+ min |
May/June 2021
Newsweek
Too Little, Too Slow, Too Late Is Not an Option
On climate change, it is a lot later than a lot of us want to admit
6 min |
May 21 - 28, 2021 (Double Issue)
Bloomberg Businessweek
Facebook Won't Apologize for Instagram Youth
It’s making a kid-focused version of its photo-sharing app, regardless of what critics say
3 min |
May 10, 2021
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
The Virtues of Volunteering
My column on fulfilling ways to spend retirement (“Living in Retirement,” April) continues to generate inspirational responses from readers, many of whom have sung the praises of volunteering. You also volunteered the names of additional service groups that you have found rewarding. I’ll cite a number of them for those of you in search of a cause that strikes a chord.
3 min |
June 2021
New York magazine
The System: Zak Cheney-Rice
We’ll Be Here Again Chauvin’s verdict is self-preservation disguised as redemption.
6 min |
April 26 - May 9, 2021
Bloomberg Businessweek
Forests – Last Stands
The soothing escapes that old-growth forests provide are probably much closer than you think. But they’re under siege
10 min |
April 26 - May 03, 2021 (Double Issue)
Reason magazine
When the Government Makes Wildfires Worse
Federal policies are subsidizing people’s choices to build homes in harm’s way.
10+ min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
'The Intellectual Johnny Appleseed Of The Counterculture'
A conversation with Whole Earth Catalog founder, Merry Prankster, and woolly mammoth de-extinctionist Stewart Brand
10+ min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
Cult Country
Is this a new age of cultism— or a new cult panic?
10+ min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
‘It's Always Been About Exclusion'
America is a diverse nation of immigrants—but it was not intended to be, and its historical biases continue to haunt the present.
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
The Human Side of Fracking
Living with the allure and danger of a lucrative, dirty industry
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
How Will We Remember The Pandemic?
The science of how our memories form— and how they shape our future
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
Return the National Parks to the Tribes
The jewels of America’s landscape should belong to America’s original peoples.
10+ min |
May 2021
Fast Company
The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies – Education
Adamas Belva Syah Devara – Cofounder and CEO of Ruangguru
3 min |
March - April 2021
New York magazine
58 minutes with … Julia Galef
The tech elite’s favorite pop intellectual.
6 min |
April 12-25, 2021
New York magazine
Richard Carranza's Last Stand
Mayor de Blasio hired an ''equity warrior'' as schools chancellor. How parental politics-and the pandemic-left him defeated
10+ min |