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The Witness
Paul Kingsnorth, From Tricycle
Nickel and Dimed in 2016
By Peter Van Buren
Hawaii’s Abundant and Ignored Earth
By Michele Bigley, From Catamaran Literary Reader
Corporate Harm: Tracking Employees and Productivity
By Jessica Bruder, From The Nation
Finding the Sweet Spot of Erotic Capital
By Andi Zeisler
Video Premiere: Chaim Tannenbaum – “America the Beautiful”
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Nickel and Dimed in 2016
By Peter Van Buren
Hawaii’s Abundant and Ignored Earth
How people and nature are intertwined on the islands.
Corporate Harm: Tracking Employees and Productivity
How workplace surveillance, telematics and tracking employees has become a menace to health and safety.
Finding the Sweet Spot of Erotic Capital
A brief look at how women can take advantage of the beauty premium that erotic capital affords them—or be penalized because of it.
Holocaust Humor
By Shai Oster, From Moment
Fish To Eat Always, Never, and Sometimes
An ethical guide to seafood.
The Americano Dream
An immigrant's daughter remembers her father's assimilation (and what happens when you wear a Red Sox cap in Queens)
Betrayed by the Angel
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Holocaust Humor
By Shai Oster, From Moment
Fish To Eat Always, Never, and Sometimes
By Taras Grescoe, From Bottomfeeder
The Americano Dream
By Angela M. Balcita From Red Mountain Review
Betrayed by the Angel
By Debra Anne Davis
Arts
The Slow Death of Creativity in Sound
Without evolving creativity and changes, new music will become a lost art.
The Summer of Dead Birds: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Ali Liebegott’s new book circles death like a buzzard.
Old Hollywood’s Forgotten Filmmaker
Take a closer look at James Stuart Blackton, a revolutionary filmmaker in old Hollywood who has received little credit.
The Nile Project: Bringing the River Basin Together and to the World
Think watershed, act local.
Community
How to Turn Neighborhoods Into Hubs of Resilience
Three places showing how to make the transition from domination and resource extraction to regeneration and interdependence.
An Economy of False Profits
Our national allegiance to the monetary bottom line threatens to negate other measures of personal and communal wealth. What’s being sacrificed to the cult of money?
Can Blockchain be Used to Achieve Racial Equity?
Achieve racial equity through checks and balances a blockchain network provides by connecting everyone as nodes while still providing anonymity.
Stop Trying to Understand Neutrois
Julia Eff talks about the daily struggles of life as someone without a gender.
Mind And Body
Growing Up Hippie
Maybe it was the earnest meditation practices or the homemade cardboard lunch box that caused me to rebel. As the adult daughter of flower children, I crave structure, tidiness, and lots of sugar....
Into the Rafters
Reflections on a football dream cut short.
Football Helmets and Concussions
Take a look at the concussion epidemic plaguing football players.
The Will-to-Live-Until Phenomenon
Sometimes, the human body fends off death for reasons we don’t yet fully understand.
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