When Anne with an E Fans Waged War against Netflix

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Arts & Culture

When Anne with an E Fans Waged War against Netflix

August 5, 2020October 13, 2020 - by John Semley

In their campaign to save the show, fans stopped behaving like an audience and started acting like owners

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Uncategorized

The Fight to Save Public Transit

August 4, 2020August 17, 2021 - by James Wilt

COVID-19 has accelerated an already dire transit crisis. Why can’t we make ridership free?

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World

Writing in My Father’s Voice

July 31, 2020August 15, 2022 - by Madhur Anand

My parents lived through the Partition of India. To tell their stories, I had to put myself in their shoes

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Arts & Culture

In Conversation: Buffy Sainte-Marie and Angela Misri

July 30, 2020July 30, 2020 - by Angela Misri

The two writers on pet adoption, children’s literature, and Sainte-Marie’s new picture book

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Environment

The Butterfly Effect

July 29, 2020April 6, 2021 - by Sherina Harris

Climate change can feel impossible to solve. But, as monarchs show, small actions can have world-altering results

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Sports

Inside Skateboarding’s New Counterculture

July 28, 2020July 29, 2020 - by Cole Nowicki

Social media has democratized skateboarding by inviting in a new audience unaware of the “rules”

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Business / September/October 2020

Is Dining Out Dead?

July 23, 2020August 21, 2020 - by Corey Mintz

Some experts predict that 60 percent of restaurants won’t survive the lockdown. Here’s what chefs, owners, and their employees are doing to stay alive

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Business

The Struggles of Sustainable Farming

July 23, 2020July 24, 2020 - by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

If you’re paying $1 for lettuce, somebody’s being exploited. So is the environment

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Science / September/October 2020

Invasion of the Ticks

July 21, 2020September 9, 2020 - by Stephanie Nolen

Inside the quest to track one of humanity’s tiniest deadly predators

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Fiction / July/August 2020

The Ones We Carry With Us

July 20, 2020July 23, 2020 - by Sara O'Leary

Here’s the thing I now know about dying. It looks like almost anything else

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