The president’s executive orders and inflammatory rhetoric follow a predictable path.

via Trump Revives a Shameful Tradition: Targeting a Minority Group with Crime Reports — Longreads

The Black Alliance for Just Immigration helps those affected by racial profiling and harsh immigration laws.

via An Unforgiving Legal System Welcomes Black Immigrants to America — Longreads

One young Ukrainian-American struggles to piece together a clear portrait of her parents’ difficult Soviet past, once they quit erasing, and began embracing, their legacy.

via Records on Bone — Longreads

We need to start talking about seemingly drastic approaches to the climate crisis, such as sun-dimming aerosols, right now — or we risk losing democratic control of the process.

via It’s Time To Talk About Solar Geoengineering — Longreads

Robert Lopez examines what it means to be an assimilated American from Puerto Rico, and what was gained and lost in the process.

via Dispatch from Puerto Nowhere — Longreads

Korean director Bong Joon-ho on his new film, Parasite

via Korean Director Bong Joon-ho on How to Laugh in the Face of Horror — Longreads

After a lifetime of alienation, one woman discovered how her spacial disorientation could be a gift that connected her to strangers and made her less alone.

via Where Am I? — Longreads

Why do we care about famous people?

via A Close Look at the Thing We Call ‘Celebrity’ — Longreads

Healing crystals move from poor villages to first world consumers along a trail of death, ecological destruction, and capitalistic concentration of wealth.

via Your Healing Crystals Are Part of the Capitalist Exploitation Machine — Longreads

Andrew Yang made it news, but we need a better plan.

via What Should Universal Basic Income Look Like? — Longreads