The OutlineCoffee Unfair trade theoutline.com - Benjamin Y. Fong Coursing through the veins of the modern world and the modern subject alike, coffee is the spirit of exploitation in brewed form. To the well-known …
The OutlineDogs An open letter to my dog, who won’t come out from under the couch theoutline.com - Drew Millard Nora, please. Come out from under the couch. It gives me no pleasure to write you this letter, especially in a forum as public as this one; however, …
The OutlineThe Future “We just intuit what they need”: A zookeeper describes caring for animals during the coronavirus outbreak theoutline.com - Noah Kulwin The seventh part of "As Told To," our ongoing series about how the coronavirus is reordering peoples’ lives. Stories about the way the world works, in …
The Outline Transfixed by Scott Stapp’s big Christian energy theoutline.com - Alexandra Ilyashov The Creed frontman offered a model of religious ostentatiousness for believers and nonbelievers alike. is a series about people who fascinate us, for …
The Outline Hanging on the telephone theoutline.com - Shuja Haider The pandemic has turned our social lives into software. I got a frankly rude notification on my phone recently, telling me that my screen time had …
The Outline The Australian scientist who got magnets stuck up his nose should inspire us all theoutline.com - Tom Whyman There is nothing but time for creative pursuits. Every now and then, the world produces a perfect news story: a wondrous gem of sheer happening, in …
The OutlineHealth Care America doesn’t have a health care system theoutline.com - Jameson Rich Our collection of disparate and competing public and private companies were never going to be able to handle a pandemic. Last November, I found myself …
The Outline “I can’t imagine getting six feet of space”: A Starbucks barista on slinging lattes in a pandemic theoutline.com - Noah Kulwin The sixth installment of "As Told To," our ongoing series about how the coronavirus is reordering peoples’ lives. Stories about the way the world …
The Outline Area man not Joe Biden, despite tweets to the contrary theoutline.com - Drew Millard We talked to the comedian Brandon Wardell, whose recent tweets pretending to be Joe Biden became the subject of a Russiagate-style conspiracy …
The OutlineCulture The secret resistance behind the world’s most dangerous cheese theoutline.com - Mark Hay Sardinia’s casu marzu teems with maggots, and might eat through your stomach. Why can’t people stop eating it? In 2009, the Guinness World Records …
The Outline Watch now: These people’s lives are ruined theoutline.com - Jeremy Gordon Two new documentaries, ‘Tiger King’ and ‘Dark Side of the Ring: Benoit,’ probe events both unbelievably stupid and unspeakably cruel. Back in 2016 — …
The Outline There was always a way to pay for the programs we need theoutline.com - Sam Adler-Bell Money printer go brrrrrrr. One (yes, one) month ago, on February 24, during a CNN town hall, Chris Cuomo asked Sen. Bernie Sanders how he planned to …
The Outline “Hey, how’s Billy doing?”: An Ohio social worker on the toll coronavirus takes on disabled job seekers theoutline.com - Noah Kulwin Part five of "As Told To," our ongoing series about how the coronavirus is reordering peoples’ lives. Stories about the way the world works, in the …
The Outline A Good Place: The alternate history of the C-SPAN archives theoutline.com - Noah Kulwin It's not really the first draft of history, so much as it is the raw notes. The internet is too much, but this place is just right. Cable television as …
The Outline An “explosion of mediocre rubbish coming out online” theoutline.com - Noah Kulwin An actor assesses the prospects of the theater under pandemic. Stories about the way the world works, in the words of people living in it. Jemma Kahn …
The Outline There’s no such thing as “productivity” during a pandemic theoutline.com - Drew Millard Working from home isn’t going to make this any less scary. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but many of us who are still working are doing so from home …
The Outline Your neighbors are not the disease theoutline.com - Tom Whyman It can be tempting to blame each other for the spread of a pandemic, but the real villains are not the idiots standing too close to each other in the …
The Outline So what are you playing right now? theoutline.com - Jeremy Gordon Gaming is a uniquely versatile entertainment built for staying indoors — if you can spare a moment to think about anything but current events. As the …
The Outline ‘You gotta think outside of the box to keep yourself entertained’ theoutline.com - Noah Kulwin A professional soccer photographer considers the effects of the pandemic. Stories about the way the world works, in the words of people living in …
The OutlineCulture Well, at least there’s golf theoutline.com - Drew Millard Coronavirus disrupts our lives more and more each day, but I can still take comfort in golf, which has survived, almost but not quite unchanged. I …
The Outline Tenured faculty should be showing up for striking grad students theoutline.com - Clare Busch Unlike most workplaces, tenured professors have a near-ironclad degree of job protection. They should be leveraging that to help their exploited …
The Outline ‘We’re not going anywhere’ theoutline.com - Noah Kulwin A mail carrier reflects on the impact of coronavirus Stories about the way the world works, in the words of people living in it. Debbie Isser is a …
The OutlineCulture We have already reached alarming levels of bad quarantine content theoutline.com - Darcie Wilder While the internet offers a support system for those practicing social distancing, some celebrities can’t help but view everyone stuck at home as a …
The Outline Accutane cured my acne. But I had to go to India to get it. theoutline.com - Madhuri Sastry iPledge, a government compliance program, makes the barrier to obtain Accutane unreasonably high, especially for women of color. As an anxious person, …
The Outline 10 recipes for non-bakers with flour and time on their hands theoutline.com - Shuja Haider Advice on taking up quarantine's hottest new hobby. Many of you reading this have large quantities of flour sitting in your cupboard. I began to …
The OutlineThe Future ‘It took me 10 years to get to where I got’ theoutline.com - Noah Kulwin A New Jersey barber on the toll that COVID-19 is taking on his life. Stories about the way the world works, in the words of people living in it. Zane …
The Outline Imagine there’s no apocalypse theoutline.com - Sean T. Collins Movies like Clive Barker’s ‘Nightbreed’ show how the erosion of society need not mean the erosion of our shared humanity. Getting shut in your …
The Outline RuPaul is fracking at the end of the world theoutline.com - Alex V Green The ongoing collapse of our institutions will not be felt equally, despite what the rich and famous want you to imagine. On March 16, during the first …
The OutlineCulture The Saddening theoutline.com - Leah Finnegan I recently discovered two things: a term from fabric dyeing about how to drain things of their vibrancy, and an old family letter. They are somewhat …
