America, I Think?
From Daytona to Disney to divorce, Matthew Armitage's illustrated recollection of a manic two weeks in Orlando.
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A life well lit.
Steve Bannon meets behind closed doors with the House panel on Russia. Mr. Trump sends a preemptive tweet, “The Russian Collusion Hoax is dead.” 1/15 African immigrants who come to the US are generally the continent's best and brightest, with superior educations. 2/15 Photographs of streets
What lies ahead in a crystal wavepool.
The future of surfing, to the shrugs of traditionalists? This fake, perfect wave endlessly looping in dusty, landlocked California.
Mars is frozen. Earth is not.
Whether New Yorkers recover from opioids at home or must travel to a clinic correlates with race and income. 1/15 “It’s the prescription thing that’s really severely scary to me. It’s the scariest. I had to go to the street to get it. We were just
Make that 2,001.
Trump denies calling Haiti, El Salvador, and all of Africa “shithole countries”—a comment even the White House hasn’t tried to claw back. 1/22 “This is CNN Tonight, I’m Don Lemon. The president of the United States is racist. A lot of us already knew that.” 2/
A great life of working with a great friend.
A pair of hot-air balloon repairmen find great contentment in satisfying work, longlasting friendship, and flexible schedules.
We’re going to need more mats
Last fall, a crowdsourced spreadsheet titled “Shitty Media Men” began privately circulating among women in media. A new variation on a whisper network, it named powerful men in media who were known by female colleagues to have engaged in inappropriate—sometimes criminal—sexual behavior. As the spreadsheet grew longer and
That tree, though.
A stunning time-lapse of raging storms.
One might even say you lost your marbles.
Here is Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers" synchronized to a chain reaction marble run—all done entirely by hand. According to the creator, "After listening to parts of this song hundreds of times to match things up, I went a bit crazy."
We’re going to need more mats.
At least 13 are dead from mudslides in Southern California, the region’s “worst-case scenario” after the recent fires. 1/18 Canyon dwellers in California defend their way of life—offline and tightly knit—no matter what the weather brings. 2/18 Among recent extreme weather events, here is