I have been collecting a lot of great links for y'all! As I did earlier this year, I'll divvy them up into Serious and Not So Serious. (Some of these may require modest subscriptions. Support the journalism that's important to you!)
Serious
- Slate: "That Beautiful Barbed Wire: The concertina wire Trump loves at the border has a long, troubling legacy in the West" by Rebecca Onion
- Reuters: "Separated by travel ban, Iranian families reunite at border library" by Yeganeh Torbati
- NPR: "'Retreat' Is Not An Option As A California Beach Town Plans For Rising Seas" by Nathan Rott
- Philly.com: "Rotting from within: How water intrusion in new homes turns American dreams to rot" by Caitlin McCabe and Erin Arvedlund
- The Washington Post: "Armored school doors, bulletproof whiteboards and secret snipers: Billions are being spent to protect children from school shootings. Does any of it work?" by John Woodrow Cox and Steven Rich
- The New Yorker: "Why Doctors Hate Their Computers" by Atul Gawande
- CyberScoop: "Mock grid, real threats: DARPA borrows an island for a cyberattack drill" by Sean Lyngaas
- The Cut: "The Watcher. A family bought their dream house. But according to the creepy letters they started to get, they weren’t the only ones interested in it." by Reeves Wiedeman
- NPR: "Mysterious Suitcase Helps Connecticut Man Discover His Grandfather's WWII Service" by David Desroches
- Columbia Journalism Review: "From a Myanmar jail, a children’s book about the power of journalism" by Andrew McCormick
Not So Serious
- Philly.com: "Can being nice to cows save the world? A Hindu man in the Poconos would like to believe so." by Jason Nark
- The Atlantic: "Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?" by Kate Julian
- Myth & Moor: "On loss and transfiguration" by Terri Windling
- NPR: "Why Trevor Paglen Thinks About Who's Watching Us" by Andrew Limbong
- The New Yorker: "Ink Foraging in Central Park: The founder of the Toronto Ink Company leads a group of pigment enthusiasts on a hunt for acorns, berries, beer caps, and other ingredients" by Amy Goldwasser
- The New Yorker: "The Wonderful Insanity of Collecting Abandoned Treasures on the Street" by Charlotte Mendelson
- AV Club: "The legacies of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby square off in DC’s Mister Miracle #12" by Oliver Sava
- The Washington Post: "‘Mister Miracle’ turned real-world anxiety into a hit superhero series" by David Betancourt
- The Independent: "Satanism and The Rolling Stones: 50 Years of ‘Sympathy for the Devil’" by Simon Hardeman
- Atlas Obscura: "Before Envelopes, People Protected Messages With Letterlocking" by Abigail Cain
- BBC: "Why does Britain have such bizarre place names?" by James Harbeck
- We Are The Mutants: "Muppets, Weebles, and Cooties: The 1975 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade"
what I loved about being a kid in the pre-internet era was the hours and hours of boredom and how it would drive you to daydream, draw maps, pick a book off the shelf at random and succumb to its quiet magic. wish we could bring that back.
— the library haunter 🦉👻🎃 (@SketchesbyBoze) November 26, 2018
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