This Is How I Post
Over the past decade, social media has made us all big communicators, but we’re giving off more noise than signals. An argument for the handwritten note.
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A collection of 14284 issues
Let It Stop
Disney’s “Frozen” juggernaut has been criticized for “sexy walking.” But the roots of what’s wrong lie in Midwestern pageants, not hip-hop videos.
May 27, 2014
* Why US junk-food brands should stop targeting young people of color: disproportionate rates of diet-related disease. * Non-whites are more likely to breathe foul air than whites, even after correcting for income, according to a recent study. * A Syrian children's magazine publishes stories about "anger
May 23, 2014
* Weeks after slaughtering hundreds and kidnapping more than 300 girls, Boko Haram receives UN sanctions. * Turkish women launch online campaign to shame men for hogging space on public transportation. * Violent, angry grandmothers defend Ukraine's pro-Russia breakaway Donestk People's Republic. * US military has troops on the
May 22, 2014
* Friendship blooms on Twitter between the nationalist leaders of India and Japan ever since Modi won. * Anyone born in violation of China's one-child-per-couple policy does not exist legally. * See also: Ta-Nehisi Coates on the case for reparations to African-Americans. * Beth Israel gives patients
A Country’s Width
Years go by easier when there are 2,000 miles separating a father and son. Then an American flag turns up in your lap.
May 21, 2014
* Retired NFL players allege they were illegally administered dangerous narcotics to keep them playing through the pain. * Most of the world's newborn deaths...enter and leave the world without a piece of paper to record their existence. * How developmental disorganization—where organs and tissues evolve at different rates—
Glad I’m Not You
The instinct to applaud boot-strapping and the comeback kid is as American as apple pie. So why does schadenfreude make us feel so good?
The Cantina Scene
Returning to America after five years in the Middle East calls for a no-sleep jaunt back to Beirut for drinking, partying, and tying up loose ends.
May 20, 2014
* Thailand’s Army declares martial law, but hasn't picked sides between the pro- and anti-government protesters. * Camille Lepage, inspiring 26-year-old French photojournalist, killed while covering the Central African Republic. * Everyone should have a museum dedicated to the worst day of their life and be forced