What a week!

Here's what you missed.

This first newsletter’s a doozy, about 2 weeks’ worth of content. Enjoy.

• An outstanding celeb profile of the actor Adam Driver, a guy who rarely does interviews. (~30 min.)

• Welcome to Lisman, Ala., a rural town so small it doesn't even have a police officer. (~20 min.)

• Condé Nast was an actual person, and this is how his magazine empire came to be. (~18 min.)

• Terrific storytelling on the evolution of GM and the auto industry by Bloomberg. (19 min.)

• An absolutely brilliant BuzzFeed essay on how the 2010s have made us all crazy. (~9 min.)

• I love this teacher's approach to teaching climate change. (~8 min.)

• Behind every 2020 presidential hopeful is a woman (or two or three) running the campaign. These are their stories. (~10 min.)

• The Guardian investigates why everyone hates vegans. Seriously. (~21 min.)

• How one savvy theater employee — a woman, of course — gets 200 women through the bathroom line during the intermission of Hamilton. (~5 min.)

• The case for learning new cities via the local walking tour. (~10 min.)

• A journalism organization is trying to trademark the term “Fake news.” (~4 min.)

• Great explainer from Vox about how homeopathy went mainstream. (~18 min.)

• How a white family and a black family came together over a shared history of slavery. (~13 min.)

• With momentum and fundraising declining, where does the Biden campaign go from here? (~25 min.)

• Spotify is the streaming leader, but for how long? (~10 min.)

• Al Pacino and Robert De Niro are delightful together. (~12 min.)

• The ethnic cleansing of the Kurds is heartbreaking and horrifying. (~9 min.)

• 13 life lessons from Maria Popova. Listen to her. (~8 min.)

• I enjoyed this deep dive into Reddit’s r/relationships community so much. (~21 min.)

• A beautifully wrought essay on the American legacy of lynching. (~15 min.)

• On Trump, Cosby, Weinstein, and Epstein. (5 min.)

• How Twitter reunited an American vet and his Kurdish translator from 2003. (~5 min.)

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Thanks for reading with me!

Kirsten