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  1. 5 minutes ago

    Our Top 5 Newsletter comes out each Friday! Check out last week's edition here: and be sure to sign up to receive it each week:

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  2. Aug 14

    The Top 5 of the Week, featuring excellent work by , , , , and

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  3. Aug 14

    The Top 5 of the Week, with excellent reading from , , , , and

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  4. Aug 14

    "Each attendee was served one celebration bagel, a bag of chips, and a soda...After they returned their cells, each man sat in silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. And then they began to eat."

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  5. Aug 14

    "So we’ve spent 230 years trying to reclaim the promise that was in our Declaration of Independence, this promise of equality. But we can only reclaim it if we have the power of the vote." — in conversation with

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  6. Aug 13

    "We have this responsibility to fight back against voter suppression because suppression is all about maintaining power for a small cadre of folks who have been afraid of sharing it from the beginning of our country." —

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  7. Aug 12

    '"This was our way of paying tribute to George Floyd and all of the rest of those that gave their lives unnecessarily."'

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  8. Aug 12

    "Bourdain was beloved for his obsession with work (which made his personal life messy and complicated) in a way that I don’t think a woman can yet achieve because for us, obsession gets defined as selfishness."

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  9. Aug 11

    interviews : "But if you can’t choose representation that sees you, that hears you, and that speaks for you, then the democratic part doesn’t really work. So my mission has been to ensure that representation meets democracy."

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  10. Aug 11

    "Eating is the ultimate act of personhood. It is a declaration that you are here, now. This meal made a movement on the outside real for men who’ve spent much of their lives on the inside."

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  11. Aug 11

    "Their feathers were the color of ash and only tinged green near where the heart used to beat 1,260 times per minute." At , read on love and the confining roles that women are expected to play.

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  12. Aug 11

    interviews : "But what I’ve learned from my parents and my grandparents and from the long sweep of history is that we have been waiting for this moment where our desires can be met with our capacity."

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  13. Aug 11

    "Although the world has made space for more diverse women, we are still expected to fill the role of the one who wants to be loved, to be a mother when we only ever wanted to paint, to write, to explore the world alone, on our own terms.”

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  14. Aug 8

    "Displacement isn’t just about losing the roof over your head; it’s about losing the community you’ve built over the course of years."

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  15. Aug 7

    "Many of us have experience with the sense of well-being tied to sharing food with friends and family or sharing service through volunteering. These interactions don’t just feel good—they keep communities going."

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  16. Aug 7

    "And newer platforms aimed at these workers — apps that facilitate money transfers or help them report abuse — can even offer a sense of autonomy. But these moments are fleeting."

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  17. Aug 7

    "When we stop for lunch, I can’t find the utensils to spread the peanut butter, so I use a 19 millimeter wrench. If I were Cormac McCarthy this is the kind of thing I’d put in my post-apocalypse book, I think."

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  18. Aug 7

    What if the Olympics were gone for good? A new story by explores the once-unthinkable.

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  19. Aug 5

    "The seeming incomprehensibility of what Biles does inflects the language used to describe it; over the course of her career, it has gotten more grandiose and more hyperbolic." on the real woman behind the backflips:

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  20. Aug 4

    Did you miss the Top 5 on Friday? Great writing from , , , , @nielaor, , , and is still waiting for you:

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