How D.C. Rapper Noochie Built a Phenomenon From His Porch
His video series Live From the Front Porch has attracted major stars and won millions of views for performances filmed at Noochie's house
How Hannah Bahng Created Her Own Path
The Korean Australian singer-songwriter is winning fans with her confessional indie-rock songs
Beautiful West Oakland, California
When global trade reshapes a city, who pays the price—and who fights back?
What We’re Reading
After we finished up The Power Broker, a bunch of people were asking us what other books we’d been reading. A group of us got together and presented some of…
Nick Cave Is Serving You Everything
One of seven brothers, Nick Cave grew up watching his family create magic out of scraps. His aunts would cut paper bags into patterns, and in just one day, make…
Why kids can’t read (and what we can do about it), with Kate Crist – Grammar Girl Episode 1062
1062. Did you know that 21% of U.S. adults struggle with basic literacy? In this eye-opening episode, literacy specialist Kate Crist talks about the literacy crisis in America, how reading…
A Beetle By Any Other Name
A tiny, unremarkable beetle hiding in the caves of Slovenia has an infamously unfortunate name—one that has sparked heated debates in the scientific world.
An Angel at My Table
An Angel at My Table is a 1990 biographical drama film directed by Jane Campion. The film is based on Janet Frame's three autobiographies, To the Is-Land (1982), An Angel…
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Work, and Algorithms | Matteo Pasquinelli and Richard Hames
What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence"—a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind, such as in its…