May 2020
What history can teach us about COVID-19, a new housing approach to dementia, who owns your data after you die? PLUS: The business of paid social media influencers and the relevance of Bronwen Wallace’s poetry
Dementia Care Gets Its Own Village
Inside a new housing model for managing mental decline—one that prioritizes patient autonomy
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Shelter Seekers
A short story about climate anxiety and an anthropological research trip gone awry
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Why It’s So Hard to Legalize Recreational Drugs
Scientists believe that newly invented psychoactive substances might have untapped health benefits. Too bad none of us will ever get to try them
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The Poet Whose Work Helped Set the Stage for #MeToo
Twenty-seven years after her death, Bronwen Wallace’s feminist poetry feels newly relevant
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Summer Service
Every year, Sri Lankan Catholics from all over make a pilgrimage to Ontario’s cottage country
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We Turned Our Pet Chickens Into Dinner
First we bonded over our unusual pets. Then we bonded over butchering them
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We’ll All Be Social Media Sellouts Soon
Companies are turning to small-time influencers to promote their brands. Will any of us be able to resist the lure of free products and cash?
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The Digital Afterlife
The ongoing legal battle to decide who owns our data after we die
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Anatomy of a Pandemic
Like major contagions throughout history, the new coronavirus causes fear as well as illness. The remedy for both, it turns out, is the same
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