How a brilliant marketing campaign to bring more tourists to Utah’s parks created a monster. (Outside, ~28 min.)
The heart-wrenching story of a heart transplant recipient who bikes across the country to meet his donor’s parents. I’m not crying, you’re crying. (Bicycling, ~20 min.)
Meet the two women who charge white women $2,500 to attend a fancy dinner and learn how they’re racist. (The Guardian, ~8 min.)
Inside the incredible alternate universe of Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign. I couldn’t put this one down. (The Atlantic, ~37 min.)
At home with Huey Lewis as he grapples with mysterious hearing loss, and the possibility that he may never perform again. (Esquire, ~11 min.)
A captivating conversation with sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom, whose Twitter feed is among my favorites. (The Sun, ~33 min.)
Margot Robbie came to Hollywood and was quickly pigeonholed as the hot blonde. Then she took matters into her own hands. (BuzzFeed News, ~22 min.)
What if there is no swing voter, and everything we think we know about American elections is wrong? The most interesting piece of political journalism I’ve read in years. (Politico, ~20 min.)
American restaurants have changed remarkably in the past decade. Here’s how. (New York Times, ~7 min.)
The true story of Africatown, an Alabama community forged from the horror and trauma of America’s last slave ship. (National Geographic, ~21 min.)
Let It Go from Frozen still stuck in your head? An Oregon baby boomer is the man responsible. (The Oregonian, ~5 min.)
A Florida retirement community is all in for Trump — except for 71-year-old Ed McGinty, whose courageous one-man protest is a sight to behold. (Washington Post, ~8 min.)
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