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What Iowa Is Losing as My Hometown Newspaper Crumbles

“Readers noticed the paper’s sloppiness first—how there seemed to be twice as many typos as before, and how sometimes the articles would end mid-sentence instead of continuing after the jump. The newspaper’s remaining reporters are overworked; there are local stories they’d like to tell but don’t have the bandwidth to cover. The Hawk Eye’s current […] 

At Heritage, Pokémon Cards Are the New Bitcoin

“At an auction in January, a card from the game’s first edition, which depicted the golden dragon Charizard and was graded in perfect 10.0 condition, sold for $300,000. The most expensive cards from the ‘Unlimited’ edition wouldn’t fetch quite that much, but a lucky buyer could still find himself with a card that would buy […] 

Did I Want Tony Stark—or Want to Be Him?

“When I think about the time before I ever uttered the words ‘I am a lesbian,’ I don’t think about a closet. I think about a costume trunk.” 

White Riot

“In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall—and changed New York history.” 

Michaela Coel and Donald Glover Have a Lot to Talk About

In 2020, Michaela Coel and Donald Glover had a Zoom conversation. British GQ published it all. 

‘Sun-Powered Orgasms Are Fantastic’: Why I Went to Live in a Desert Cave

“I walk out of my cave and down to the Valley of the Kings, as I call it. There are no houses, no people. Some think the “wild west” still exists in the US, but it’s hard to find a place where you can see for miles and miles without human habitation. At Garth’s, it […] 

 

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