Can I Be Happy With My Male Partner When I dream About Dating a Creative, Intellectual Woman? by Alissa Nutting and Dean Bakopoulos from End It Now? A Narrative Advice Column on Catapult.com

A survivor's life: Life after a mass shooting by Eli Saslow
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For Muslims in the US, There's Before 9/11 And There's After: The distance between curiosity and fear is tragically short. by Haniff Abdurraqib

The Making and Unmaking of Iggy Azalea by Clover Hope

Was Charlottesville the Exception or the Rule? by Claudia Rankine

Colin Kaepernick Has A Job: Inside the past, present and future of this country's most inconvenient truth, by way of the most controversial black man in America by Rembert Browne

Ladies Be Tuckin' by Silvia Killingsworth

Word's We're Watching: 'Record Scratch' by Merriam-Webster