Our Picks
Remembering Gwen
An obituary for Gwen Ifill, a pioneering journalist who covered eight presidential campaigns and served as co-anchor of the PBS NewsHour.
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Source: PBS
Published: Nov. 14, 2016
Length: 5 minutes (1400 words)
The Hidden History of Gas Station Bathrooms, By a Man Who Cleans Them
Part of Narratively's Invisible People series, which shares the stories of lives "behind the scenes and on the margins," hopefully this essay can create a greater appreciation for those unseen workers who make our lives run more smoothly.
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Source: Narratively
Published: Nov. 9, 2006
Length: 9 minutes (2485 words)
How Trump Made Hate Intersectional
"Progressives talk a lot about intersectionality — meaning, thinking about race and sex and class simultaneously — but Trump won the presidency by making hate intersectional. He encouraged sexists to also be racists and homophobes, while saying disgusting things about immigrants in public and Jews online. Hate, like love, is infectious, and it is contagious. And for so many, the adrenaline felt by blaming one group for one’s personal ills bled into blaming all the others."
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Source: New York Magazine
Published: Nov. 9, 2016
Length: 6 minutes (1513 words)
What Comes Next: Confronting a Post-Election America
"This week’s reading list is dedicated to marginalized voices. Some of these stories were written in the wake of this year’s election; others came before. I hope you read these and feel if not heartened, then more determined than ever to protest evil, protect marginalized communities/yourselves and share your lived experiences."
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Source: Longreads
Published: Nov. 11, 2016
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
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Source: Longreads
Published: Nov. 11, 2016
Will the Election Spark a Reckoning on Sexual Assault?
Dean ponders whether the parallels between Donald Trump’s and Bill Clinton’s histories of alleged sexual misconduct could spark a change in how we respond to perpetrators and victims of sexual assault.
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Source: The New Republic
Published: Nov. 11, 2016
Length: 6 minutes (1678 words)
Here's What I'm Telling My Brown Son About Trump's America
In a powerful post-election letter to her half-Indian, half-white 8-year-old son, Jacob tries to prepare him for life as a person of color in America, and to assure him that his Jewish grandparents in Florida love him, even though they voted for Trump.
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Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Nov. 10, 2016
Length: 13 minutes (3254 words)
Autocracy: Rules for Survival
Russian emigree Masha Gessen, author of The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, offers sobering pointers on how to survive under—and stand in uncompromising resistance to—the rule of a totalitarian autocrat.
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Source: New York Review of Books
Published: Nov. 10, 2016
Length: 10 minutes (2554 words)
Anton Kanevsky Jumped to His Death From a 31-Story Downtown Building. Why?
Haggard looks into the life of a 26-year-old man before his untimely death.
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Source: Nashville Scene
Published: Nov. 3, 2016
Length: 15 minutes (3807 words)
Revenge of the Forgotten Class
MacGillis talks to white workers in the small towns and cities of the Rust Belt, many of whom voted for Democrats in previous elections, but decided to vote for Trump in 2016.
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Source: ProPublica
Published: Nov. 10, 2016
Length: 17 minutes (4437 words)