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Lois Parshley: On the Front Lines of Wisconsin's Big Money Small Town War

"I want to fight someone, but there’s no one to fight,” he said. "There’s just mountains.”

Vice || June 10, 2014

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Across the U.S., fast food workers are asking: “What am I worth?”

Medium || April 14, 2014

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“It’s fun, right?”

Re/code || June 9, 2014

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Perhaps it’s the perfect time for Jem, the “truly outrageous” one, to descend from her star-shaped platform in the sky. But who is Jem and where exactly did she come from?

Collector’s Weekly || June 3, 2014

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I would use my own unpaid Match.com account to scout for women, and five times a week I would send a PDF containing 10 photos and usernames to Josh. In return, he would give me precious money, $100 a week.

The Date Report || May 28, 2014

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The endeavor seemed, at first, like a joke on Silicon Valley: An online start-up was crowdfunding a shipment of single women from New York to San Francisco, so the nerd-kings of tech could finally get dates. 

New York || May 29, 2014

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On access, scarcity, and trust

The Nib || May 29, 2014 

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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, or maybe he didn’t, but either way vast ribbons of peat came to rest under what became the foothills of Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau, and in time the peat became coal, and later the railroads arrived, along with mines and coke ovens, and near one lazy arc of the Tennessee River workers built homes to return to after their long days of burrowing and burning, and the homes became a town, and the town was called Dayton.

Oxford American || May 29, 2014

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When writers attack bad PR, the un­spoken heart of their criticism is the failure on the part of the publicist to adequately conceal that she is performing emotional work for money.

Jacobin || June 2014

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Wendy Pearlman: Fathers of Revolution

How much more must Syrians pay for their uprising against the Assad government?

Guernica || May 15, 2014

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Amy Nicholson: How YouTube and Internet Journalism Destroyed Tom Cruise

The Internet finally had the tools to feed us an endless buffet of fluff, chopping up real events to flashy — and sometimes false — moments that warped our cultural memory. The first star to stumble in front of the knives was the biggest actor in the world — and the one who'd tried the hardest not to trip.

LA Weekly || May 20, 2014

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Haley Mlotek: You're A Woman, I'm A Machine

Self-help for the "working woman" isn't helping.

BuzzFeed || May 8, 2014

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Lizzie Widdicombe: Could Soylent Replace Food?

Soylent, a synthetic food product, is made from raw chemical components; its formula accounts for all the major food groups. Rob Rhinehart, Soylent’s creator, says, “It’s kind of an over-all food substitute. In theory, you could live on this entirely. In fact, you’d be pretty healthy.”

The New Yorker || May 12, 2014

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Jessica Pressler: Let’s, Like, Demolish Laundry

Silicon Valley is in a bubbly race to wash your clothes better, faster, and cooler. This is not a metaphor. Unless, you know, it is.

New York || May 24, 2014

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Molly Crabapple: On Turning 30

Age is a weapon society uses against women. Each year that you gain comfort in your own flesh, your flesh is seen as worth less.

VICE || January 27, 2014

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A handful of girls seem to defy one of the biggest certainties in life: ageing.

Mosaic || May 20, 2014

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Tavi Gevinson: Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus

"You go from 20,000 people screaming like, 'I love you, I love you!' and then you’re just in your hotel room by yourself, quiet."

ELLE || May 2014