• Nation with Crumbling Bridges and Roads Excited to Build Giant Wall, The New Yorker
• Step Inside Manhattan’s Only Underground Chef’s Farm Supplying Rare Herbs to NYC Restaurants, Untapped Cities
• For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It, Nat Geo
• 'I felt I was being punished for pushing back': pregnancy and #MeToo, The Guardian

• AN INTEREST IN READING -- MONTESSORI YOUNG TODDLER WEEK 15, thekavanaughreport
• Parenting Doesn’t Matter, The Slate
• Why America's Teachers Haven't Been Getting Raises, The Atlantic
• Silent Barn’s Demise Is a Cautionary Tale for DIY Spaces, Village Voice

• Running From the Pain, Slate
• Does Recovery Kill Great Writing?, NY Times
• Thoughts as nest eggs, Austin Kleon
• WHY CHOOSE MONTESSORI AT HOME?, the kavanaugh report
• Sharon Stone Opens Her Doors to AD, Architectural Digest
• Annamarie Tendler Mulaney Taught Herself How to Make Victorian Lampshades—and Now It's Her Full-Time Job, Architectural Digest
  I follow a woman on IG from the UK who makes refreshingly beautiful lampshades, but had yet to find such a detailed description of making one!
• These Are the Women of Color Who Fought Both Sexism and the Racism of White Feminists, The Root
• The Trump Administration Is Using the Parkland Massacre as an Excuse to Roll Back Civil Rights, ACLU
• Easter Island is critically vulnerable to rising ocean levels., NY Times
• In Defense of Trends (Keep Calm and Let Them Be), Design Sponge

• Q&A: Practicing Inclusivity in the Design Industry with People of Craft, Design Sponge
• Bad Color, Design Observer
• Millions of Students Are Quietly Being Taught the Koch Brothers’ Whitewashed Version of Black History, The Root
• Is Millennial Minimalism On Its Way Out?, Eye ON Design
• Pantherpedia: A guide to the cottage industry of essays about Ryan Coogler's 'Black Panther', LA Times
• Carnival of the Grotesque: Kara Walker’s Insistent Resistance in New Orleans, Village Voice
• Someone Yarn-Bombed a Guggenheim Museum Toilet with Gold Crochet, Hyperallergic

• Julie Washington’s Quest to Get Schools to Respect African-American English, The Atlantic
• America's junk epidemic, The Week
• In Britain’s Playgrounds, ‘Bringing in Risk’ to Build Resilience, NY Times

• This Is 40—And Pregnant, Vogue

• The Seductive Confinement of a Weighted Blanket in an Anxious Time, The New Yorker
• Thriving in the Gig Economy, Harvard Business Review
• For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned., NY Times
• Dorm Living for Professionals Comes to San Francisco, NY Times
  I basically lived in a dorm in SF with foreign exchange students. Of course, back then, it was a fraction of the price!
• Productivity Is Really About What You Don’t Do, Jocelyn K. Glei
• Filmmaker Leslie Harris Looks Back at Fort Greene Set of ‘Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.’ 25 Years Later, Brownstoner
• Yumna Al-Arashi captures the last generation of Muslim women with facial tattoos, It's Nice That
• “If it’s about farts, draw a butt for god’s sakes”: Mona Chalabi tells us how to illustrate data, It's Nice That
• Elizabeth Friedlander: one of the first women to design a typeface, It's Nice That

• West Virginia Raises Teachers’ Pay to End Statewide Strike, NY Times
• The Rediscovery of 5 ‘Extinct’ Types of Heritage Apple, Atlas Obscura
• The Real Reason the Investor Class Hates Pensions, NY Times
• A French graphic designer faces an uphill battle to prove Disney copied his work, Quartz
• Secret NYPD Files: Officers Can Lie And Brutally Beat People — And Still Keep Their Jobs, Buzzfeed news
• ‘Decolonizing’ Roller Derby? Team Indigenous Takes Up the Challenge, NY Times
• Her Tiny Apartment is New York’s Most Secret Jazz Club, Messy Nessy Chic
• About New York; Sweet Sounds Ease the Pain, Then and Now, NY Times
• Architects discuss the future of the NYPL’s soon-to-be-transformed Mid-Manhattan branch, Curbed
• ‘The Bachelor’ tries to do damage control after disastrous finale, but only makes things worse, Washington Post
• The Death and Life of a Great American Building, NY Review of Books
  Such a lovely ode to an old building

• 202 CITY-OWNED LOTS SOLD TO HOUSING DEVELOPERS FOR $1 EACH SINCE 2014, MAPPED AT ONEDOLLARLOTS.ORG, 596 Acres
• The future of Israel’s “dreamers”, Washington Post
• Decolonizing Birth: Women Take Back Their Power as Life-Givers, Yes Magazine
• Destination POV, Document
• 'Mega-colonies' of 1.5 million penguins discovered in Antarctica, The Guardian
• The Struggle of Keeping a Roadside Attraction Alive, Atlas Obscura
• Two Very Different Kinds of Illustration, Subtraction

• 'Lady Bird' Was Influenced by 'Real Women Have Curves' and No One Outside the Latinx Community Is Acknowledging It, Marie Claire
• The Power of Grief-Fueled Activism, The Atlantic
• When Is a Child Instagram-Ready?, NY Times
• I’m Days Away From Giving Birth and Terrified, Man Repeller
• The Cruel Ploy of Taking Immigrant Kids From Their Parents, NY Times
• LIVING IN LIMBO, The Globe and Mail
• 60 Wild Coyotes Patrol Chicago (And Occasionally Stop At Convenience Stores), NPR
• Alone with Her Bike, the First Females to Ride Around the World, Messy Nessy Chic
• Here’s How Much Money Green Design Could Save Cities, next City
  Oh hey, I'm in this pic

• Why Paper Jams Persist, The New Yorker
• I Spent Two Years Trying to Fix the Gender Imbalance in My Stories, The Atlantic
• Beauty Brands Struggle With The Diverse Opinions That Come With Diverse Faces, NPR
• Here’s why Lego is swapping plastic for plants, Fast Co
• Why Design Thinking is bullshit, It's Nice That
• Stamps of a Revolution: Ali Mobasser’s Iranian stamp collection and incredible family story, It's Nice THat
• Celebrating The Art Form Of African Hair Threading, Refinery 29
• Quilts as Tools for Resistance, hyperallergic
• Weekend Heller: MoMA Acquires Typographic Op-Eds, PrintMag
• The Secret, Subversive + Revolutionary Language of the East African Kanga, AIGA Eye on Design
• Oil Was Central in Decision to Shrink Bears Ears Monument, Emails Show, NYTimes

“Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being.” - Bruce Lee

• Bruce Lee’s Never Before Revealed Letters to Himself About Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success, Brain Pickings
• I Know Why Black Women Are Wary of Reproductive Activism, Yes Magazine
• No Sign of Newborn North Atlantic Whales This Breeding Season, NY Times
• RESPECTING CHILDREN IN PUBLIC PLACES, the kavanaugh report
• Food Storage as Grandma Knew It, NY Times

• Ghosts of the Abandoned NY Black Yankees Stadium, Messy nessy Chic
• The Truth Behind the Pope’s Ruby Red Slippers, Messy Nessy Chic
• What Happens When White Parents Adopt Black Children and Move to Black Neighborhoods, Yes Magazine

• A Larger Role for Midwives Could Improve Deficient U.S. Care for Mothers and Babies, ProPublica
• Parkland Student Emma González Opens Up About Her Fight for Gun Control, Bazaar
• Are There Better L-Train Shutdown Solutions? City Didn’t Study Them, Village voice
• Born to Be Wild: Sleigh Bells’ Alexis Krauss Fights for Our Land, Village VOice
• The Death of a Skyscraper, ny mAG
• Worst Roommate Ever, NY Mag
• White Settlers Buried the Truth About the Midwest’s Mysterious Mound Cities, Smithsonian
• Magnificent Obsession, T Magazine

• Anni Albers’s Thoughts on Textiles Loom Large, hyperallergic
• Art’s Gender Divide in 19th-Century Paris, hyperallergic
• The Story Behind This Year’s Winter Olympics Medal Design, hyperallergic
• A New York Walking Tour Uncovers Hidden Histories of Slavery and Struggle, hyperallergic
• Exclusive: Laser Scans Reveal Maya "Megalopolis" Below Guatemalan Jungle, Nat Geo
• Everything I’ve Learned About Gun Control aka “Holy Shit, Stop Trying to Ban Assault Weapons”, Medium
• Tracing Your Roots: My Confederate Ancestor Is on Monuments; Who Did He Own?, The Root
• Armed Sheriff’s Deputy Who Never Confronted Gunman During Parkland, Fla., Shooting Thinks ‘He Did a Good Job’ , The Root
• What It's Like to Rebound as a Young, Homeless Mother, Vice
• Are Babies Able to See What Others Feel?, WSJ
• GOTHAMIST LIVES, THANKS TO A BOOST FROM PUBLIC RADIO, Wired

• OUR BAKING ESSENTIALS, the kavanaugh report
• Who Gets Left Out of the Advice to ‘Make Your Own Happiness’, The Cut
• How Conversation Dinners revolutionize the ways we communicate, Medium
• Tim Minchin: These 9 Life Lessons will Make you Laugh – and Learn, Goalcast
• The life and death of Willets Point, Curbed
• How Watermelons Became a Racist Trope, The Atlantic
• Florida Teachers’ Pension Fund Invested in Maker of School Massacre Gun, Bloomberg
• Trump Suggests Bonuses for Gun-Trained Teachers, Praises the NRA, Bloomberg
• Historic Aircrafts Are Restored by Volunteers at NYC’s Floyd Bennett Field, Untapped Cities
• City to Bushwick: Displacement Not Our Problem, Village Voice

• Feeling blocked? Play with blocks!, Austin Kleon

• THE (REALLY, REALLY) RACIST HISTORY OF GUN CONTROL IN AMERICA, MTV
• The Kids Are Not Alright, Village Voice
• Conservatives Attack “Black Panther” — But, When It Hits, Declare It Conservative, Village Voice
• You Have Millennials to Thank for All the Responsibly Sourced Decor in Your House, Clever
• Improvised Feminism: 11-Year-Old’s Barbie Reconstruction Obliterates Stereotypes, Improvised Life

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg Opens Up About #MeToo, Voting Rights, and Millennials, The Atlantic

• The Climate Crisis? It’s Capitalism, Stupid, NY Times
• What Should Grow in a Vacant Lot?, CityLab