Michelle Weber
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Past articles by Michelle:
You’re Not Really Going to Move to Toronto
You can probably stop browsing those real estate listings. → Read More
Reunification Will Have to Bridge the DMZ and Massive Technological Gaps
Physicians in South Korea are working to understand the health issues North Korean defectors face, in preparation for eventual reunification. → Read More
Race in America Has Never Been an Either-Or Proposition
Zadie Smith examines the racially-charged work of Jordan Peele (black) and Dana Schutz (white), and the impossibility of drawing a hard and fast line between them. → Read More
Something Unspeakable Happened in Allende, Mexico
Seven years after a vicious drug cartel massacre, residents are still looking for answers about the fates of their loved ones. → Read More
Found in the Attic: A Decade of Climate Data on Somalia
The man whose environmental research could help restore stability to Somalia, Englishman Murray Watson, was abducted there in 2008, and hasn't been heard from since. → Read More
They’re Good Mangoes, Mao
Put. That mango. Down. Mangoes are for workers. → Read More
Schrödinger’s Convict: Actually Innocent, Actually a Felon
An "Alford plea" gets an innocent man out of jail, but keeps him on the books as a convicted felon. → Read More
‘Equality Keeps Us Honest’: Rebecca Solnit on the Ignorance of Privilege
"This is why I always pair privilege with obliviousness; obliviousness is privilege’s form of deprivation." → Read More
Sometimes a Tortoise Is More Than a Tortoise
Meet Fred. He’s cold-blooded, beady-eyed, a picky eater, and likely to outlive us all. → Read More
The Birth of a City, In Fits and Starts
Communities in Haiti are building their own post-earthquake infrastructure without the help of the government. → Read More
One Nation, Under God, With Liberty and Justice for Some
Although a lot about Donald Trump seemed antithetical to conservative Christianity, he got a larger percentage of the Evangelical vote than Bush, Sr., Reagan, or Carter. Why? → Read More
They’re (Almost) All Good Tweets, Brent
Matt Nelson is a college sophomore who took WeRateDogs from spur-of-the-moment joke to data-driven fav-machine. → Read More
The Tyranny of Free Time, or How to Be Bored In Fiji
Mary Mann lays bare what most travelers are loathe to admit: it’s just as easy to be bored in Paris or on Bora Bora as it is at home. → Read More
Viral, Yet Ephemeral: Death On Your Cellphone
China’s WeChat app has become a place to both mourn death and share graphic videos of the moment itself. What does this mean for a country where data is subject to government monitoring? → Read More
Playing Football to the Beat of Their Own, Literal Drummer
Gallaudet University has tensions between its deaf and hearing students, but the deaf football team brings the campus together. → Read More
A Life Measured in Swipe-Rights
Andrew Kay found himself on the dating market and the academic job market simultaneously, and takes us through the whole stressful, performative, soul-deadening process. → Read More
The Unnecessary Beauty of Ice Hockey
Kent Russell loves hockey. A lot. I don't, but Russell's writing about the game is utterly engrossing → Read More
The Sun Never Sets on Oppression and Dominance, or Why You’re More Aztec Than You Think
Aztec priests ripped out people's hearts daily as a sacrifice to the sun, and for Sam Kriss, the contemporary West might be a lot more like them that we think. → Read More
The Portrait of an Artist Who Flattered Donald Trump
Visiting Mar-a-Lago with Ralph Wolfe Cowan, who has painted celebrities like Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, and Donald Trump. → Read More
‘Because pretending was sometimes the only way to get through the day.’
A teacher helping fidgety students pass a rainy recess with a familiar game -- don't touch the floor, it's lava! -- finds that the ability to pretend takes on an unexpected gravity. → Read More