The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked writers and thinkers to tell us: What were the most important events of 2015—and what were the least?
Archive
A collection of 14284 issues
Meet the Earthship
Outside Taos, this off-grid community’s 65 homes are made entirely of natural or recyclable materials and collect and produce all their own energy and resources. See also: Photographer Antoine Bruy hitchhiked around Europe’s backcountry, photographing off-the-grid communities struggling to survive apart from society.
December 16, 2015
* A fact-check of last night's Republican debate. * History shows a mainstream Republican beats Trump. There are no mainstream Republicans in the race. * "Yellen wants borrowing costs to return to pre-recession norms so we can finally declare an end to the Great Recession era." * The
Can You Read My Lips?
Rachel Kolb’s short helps others understand the life of a lip reader and the magic of human conversation. See also: Rachel Kolb at TEDxStanford: “Navigating Deafness in a Hearing World”
December 15, 2015
* Acceding to party pressure, Merkel cites limits to multiculturalism, says Germany will soon stop accepting immigrants. * "The top Google search in California with the word 'Muslims' in it was 'kill Muslims.'" * Federal probes of police departments don’t always result in change, but Obama
George Saunders: On Story
George Saunders explains the difference between “Frank was an asshole” and “Frank snapped at the barista who reminded him of his dead wife, who he dearly loved.” See also: “I had read Ayn Rand at a vulnerable moment and I didn’t want to be one of those life-sucking
December 14, 2015
* How the DHS's shoddy beginnings begat pointless oversight and rampant fraud, smuggling, and sexual abuse. * More than 33,000 people who built America's nuclear arsenal have died from health issues sustained in their work. * Suburban office parks are becoming "obsolete." * Investigation into corrections officer-
Reconsider the Oyster
Tracking a single oyster from the Gulf to Bourbon Street, to a 1,300-ton pile of shells, provides a tour through Louisiana’s precarious coastal economy.
In Her Own Skin
A longtime leader of New York’s performance art world, Martha Wilson’s photographs exist as proof of her experiments with multiple identities.
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Watching a motorized Lego sculpture of Sisyphus pushing a rock would be enough to satisfy our brains. But the detailed frieze work puts this one in a whole new class of mind happiness. See also: A survey of the many names people call various Lego bricks