The Whiplash Decade

A special package of stories about the 2010s, an era that started in one place and is ending somewhere very different.

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Women of Color
The ZORA Canon: 100 Best Books by African American Women Authors
Medium - ZORA Editors
The 100 greatest books ever written by African American women The ZORA Canon, our list of the 100 greatest books ever written by African American …
January 7
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How Adam McKay Turned Post-Recession Anger Into Entertainment
Medium - Elisabeth Donnelly
At the end of a decade, culture likes to look at itself and its offering to the world, with neat round numbers as bookends. But when it comes to the …
Dec 13, 2019
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March for Our Lives
The Decade We Marched for Our Lives
Medium - Max Ufberg
I showed up at Zuccotti park around week three. I’d heard about the plans for the protest on Facebook and was extremely skeptical. “That’s not going …
Dec 12, 2019
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The Least Influential People of the 2010s
Medium - Drew Magary
Congratulations, America! You’ve survived the Twitter decade! How does it feel? Pretty shitty, right? We opened this decade with the first black …
Dec 11, 2019
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The Decade We Ate the Rich
Medium - Sarah Jones
This piece is part of the The Whiplash Decade, a package on the wild ride that was the 2010s. A decade ago, everyone was hungry. The Great Recession, …
Dec 10, 2019
Medium
The Decade the Internet Lost Its Joy
Medium - Clio Chang
This piece is part of the The Whiplash Decade, a package on the wild ride that was the 2010s. At the beginning of 2015, Alex Balk, then-editor of the …
Dec 10, 2019
Medium
The Decade Political Comedy Stopped Being Funny
Medium - Eve Peyser
This piece is part of the The Whiplash Decade, a package on the wild ride that was the 2010s. The 2010s was the decade political comedy became …
Dec 10, 2019
Medium
The Decade We Paid to Feel Something
Medium - Kyle Chayka
Material goods were so 2000. Now we consume on a higher plane. This piece is part of the The Whiplash Decade, a package on the wild ride that was the …
Dec 10, 2019
Medium
The Decade Comic Book Nerds Became Our Cultural Overlords
Medium - Alex Pappademas
This piece is part of the The Whiplash Decade, a package on the wild ride that was the 2010s. The most significant pop-culture story of the decade is …
Dec 10, 2019
Medium
The Decade We Tore Down Our Racist Past
Medium - Dr. Cynthia R. Greenlee
This piece is part of the The Whiplash Decade, a package on the wild ride that was the 2010s. On December 10, artist Kehinde Wiley’s Rumors of War will …
Dec 10, 2019
Medium
The Decade Conspiracy Theories Went Mainstream
Medium - Michelle Legro
Anna Merlan: A reader emailed Jezebel’s general tip line as a joke a couple months before the Conspiri-Sea cruise set sail: “You should send Anna …
Dec 10, 2019
Medium
The Decade Gender Was Revealed
Medium - Meredith Talusan
With the binary shattered, millions of people are now able to define themselves on their own terms For centuries in the United States, gender was …
Dec 10, 2019
Medium
The Decade America Terrorized Itself
Medium - Patrick Blanchfield
This piece is part of the The Whiplash Decade, a package on the wild ride that was the 2010s. On November 9, 2009, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan opened …
Dec 10, 2019