I keep coming back to resilience. And how I hate how we consider it to be an essential and inherent and invaluable…
It finally dawned on me yesterday, after reading that Van Jones said Jared Kushner has “the dopest job in the world.”
If you ever find yourself walking around downtown Pittsburgh on a Friday afternoon in the early fall—when the…
So it’s not so much that working while naked is a thing I need to do. I’m anemic, so I get cold easily. (I am the…
“The city is dead,” I said, aloud, to no one, while each step I took crashed the same cement I’d fallen in love…
Conceding even the tiniest thing to a hateful and violent twerp like our president feels like a total defeat.…
COVID-19 Made Me a One-Issue Voter: Get the Man Responsible for 165,000 American Deaths the Fuck Out
So I guess there’s no point in belaboring my premise since it’s right there, with a bullhorn, in the title, but I do…
“No, I don’t have any bottled water” was my reply, 12 years ago, when two women—one of whom I was dating; the other…
1. At least once a week, 50 Cent does or says a thing that makes you think “Yeah, I see why people want to kill…
While walking through some mud at Moraine State Park last weekend, I thought about how “mud” is one of those perfect…
Did Wakanda have housing projects? Payday lenders? A Wakandan Dollar General?
There are tens of thousands of Americans—nurses and uncles; bus drivers and doctors; aunties and baristas; grad…
There are places on TV, in magazines, and on the internet where you can find peer-and-eater-reviewed methods for…
Although we’re pretty much free to use whichever language we wish within the body of a piece here, headlines are…
“So,” the moderator asked, during a public (and socially distant) book talk last week—my first time being indoors…
So this morning after eating the 170,000th honey roasted peanut I’ve eaten since March OH IT WAS SO DELICIOUS THE…
There’s been a bit of a debate within The Root on how to cover Talib Kweli’s inexhaustible obsession with Maya Moody.…