Tag: Longreads
Saving the news media means moving beyond the benevolence of billionaires
Rodney Benson, New York University and Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania
For the journalism industry, 2024 is off to...
Hurricane hunters are flying through Ian’s powerful winds to forecast intensity...
Jason Dunion, University of Miami
As Hurricane Ian intensifies on its way toward the Florida coast, hurricane hunters are...
What the new science of authenticity says about discovering your true...
Matthew Baldwin, University of Florida
After following a white rabbit down a hole in the ground and changing sizes...
Chief Keef changed the music industry – and it’s time he...
Jabari Evans, University of South Carolina
Before he was arrested in December 2011, Chief Keef was a 16-year-old budding...
How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished...
Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University
When Ludwig von Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion...
How religious fervor and anti-regulation zealotry laid the groundwork for America’s...
Conor Heffernan, University of Texas at Austin
Spend any time watching television or scrolling through social media, and you’ll...
Being a pop star once meant baring skin – now, for...
Kristin J. Lieb, Emerson College
In Billie Eilish’s 2019 video for “Bury A Friend,” the then-17-year-old singer blurs the...
Misery and memory in Glendora, Mississippi: How poverty is reshaping the...
Dave Tell, University of Kansas
In August of 1955, Emmett Till was lynched in the Mississippi Delta. The 14-year-old African American reportedly whistled at a...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
