• This Is the Story Behind Madagascar's Incredibly Long and Unpronounceable Names, Culture Trip

• ‘Appalling’ Video Shows the Police Yanking 1-Year-Old From His Mother’s Arms, NY Times

• Charges Dropped Against Brooklyn Mother Who Had Baby Ripped from Her Arms by Police, NY Times

• The most important lessons from the emotionally charged breastfeeding debate, Quartz

• Why Are Gender Reveal Parties a Thing?, NY Times

• Smithsonian to Open Its First-Ever Gallery Devoted to Latinx Experiences, Receives $10M Donation, Hyperallergic

• Activists Protest at Whitney Museum, Demanding Vice Chairman and Owner of Tear Gas Manufacturer “Must Go”, Hyperallergic

• Why Are Even “Feminist” Book Cover Designs Still So Sexist?, AIGA Eye on Design

• Don’t worry, be angry: how politics and creativity collided in 2018, It’s Nice That

• Folding as Craft Tech, Kelli Anderson

• Ladybugs Pack Wings and Engineering Secrets in Tidy Origami Packages, NY Times

• It’s the End of News As We Know It (and Facebook Is Feeling Fine), Mother Jones

• Doctors Aren’t Sure How This Even Came Out of a Patient, The Atlantic

• Chase’s plan to shrink public space at new Midtown HQ met with skepticism, Curbed

• What if you could walk to the airport?, Curbed

• Making President Trump’s Bed: A Housekeeper Without Papers, NY Times

• Closing New York’s Penal Colony, Design Observer

• More Designers and Illustrators Than Ever Are Saying, “Oh My God, Maybe I’m a Socialist.”, Eye on Design

• The Simple Joy of “No Phones Allowed”, raptitude

• #KEITHJACKSONMATTERS: The Kid That Sold Crack To The President, POINTS: THE BLOG OF THE ALCOHOL & DRUGS HISTORY SOCIETY

• New Public Spaces Are Supposed to Be for All. The Reality Is More Complicated., NY Times

• Unraveling the Mysteries of Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’, NY Times

• How artist Sandy Rodriguez tells today's fraught immigration story with pre-Columbian painting tools, LA Times

• In Dallas, Ida O’Keeffe Could Finally Escape Georgia’s Shadow, Texas Monthly

• Graphic Advocacy Project
  FASCINATING and amazing

• Don’t Cry for Him, Argentina: Goodbye to the Lesser-of-Two-Evils Bush, Village Voice

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Will Pay Her Interns 'At Least' $15 an Hour, Broadly

• A mother and her girls tried to reach the US border. Then they got tear-gassed, CNN

• REAL STORIES FROM THE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN TRAVELING ON THE CARAVAN, Elle

• Number Of U.S. Kids Who Don't Have Health Insurance Is On The Rise, NPR

• Why New York Lags So Far Behind on Natural Childbirth, NY Times

• The Over-celebration of Life Events, The Atlantic
  ALL OF THIS MAKES ME ANXIOUS. Can nothing be private anymore?

• 48 of the Coolest Kids in New York, NY Times Magazine

• WATCH: Kids Try 100 Years of School Lunches | Bon Appétit

• Mother sues US for $60 million after toddler detained at immigration facility later died, CNN

• Steph Curry responds to 9-year-old’s letter asking why his shoes aren’t made for girls, Motherly

• A Plea to Protect the Strand , vanishing new york

• 33, Married, & Ready For A Baby: I Am The Face Of Late-Term Abortion, Refinery 29

• Historic homes 101: What exactly is a ‘summer kitchen’?, Curbed

• White People Are Noticing Something New: Their Own Whiteness, NY Times Magazine

• What is white culture, exactly? Here's what the stats say, The Guardian

• A Sad Day: Never Trust a City Lawyer

• Beloved Lower Manhattan Sculpture Garden Defends Itself as City Demands Total Removal, Hyperallergic

• The Case for Black With a Capital B, NY Times

• Black Athena, White Power, Medium

• Pseudoarchaeology and the Racism Behind Ancient Aliens, Hyperallergic

• A Ramp Contraption May Have Been Used to Build Egypt’s Great Pyramid, Scientific American

• White Settlers Buried the Truth About the Midwest’s Mysterious Mound Cities, Smithsonian

• A Follower-Free App Asks You to Photograph Moments You Normally Don’t Share, Hyperallergic

• Video: Turkey Devours Leftover Turkey On Subway Train, Gothamist

• The Japanese Prints that Inspired Vincent van Gogh, Hyperallergic

• Discerning Photography’s White Gaze, Hyperallergic

• Big in Japan, NY Times Magazine

• The Tenement Museum Maps a Century of Deadly Diseases and Their Human Stories, Hyperallergic

• A Syllabus for Making Work About Race as a White Artist in America, Hyperallergic

• Rose McGowan's gender-fluid partner Rain Dove was MACED in a public bathroom by mother who thought the model was a man - and then GLOATED about the violent attack on Instagram, Daily mail

• Salt Lake City’s ‘street without a street’ is a 90-year-old hidden gem —one that homeowners and historians hope to preserve, Salt Lake Tribune

• The Insect Apocalypse Is Here, NY Times Magazine
  This makes me sad as I have a lovely fondness for insects.
  The Latin root of the word “amateur” is, after all, the word “lover.”

• 'Outrageous' Gold Rush-Style Grab of Public Lands to Begin Friday, EcoWatch

• This Artist Photographs Her Lovers — Using A Camera Placed In Her Vagina, Bust

• How This Dutch Graphic Designer Became a Civic-Architecture Star, Architectural Digest

• Meet Wrappy Paper, the Gift-Wrap Brand Changing Everything, Clever

• Rethinking Bed Rest For Pregnancy. NPR

• Twin's Difficult Birth Put A Project Designed To Reduce C-Sections To The Test, NPR

• HOW TO TALK TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT THANKSGIVING, Mother Mag

• Helping My Fair-Skinned Son Embrace His Blackness, The Atlantic

• Ohio Republicans declare motherhood “necessary,” want to make it mandatory, Salon

• Tests Showed Children Were Exposed to Lead. The Official Response: Challenge the Tests, NY TImes

• Snøhetta-designed Far Rockaway library breaks ground, Curbed

• ‘Yeah, I’m Not for Everyone.’ Lena Dunham comes to terms with herself., NY Mag

• UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It’s Actually Worse Than That., NY MAg

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Right about Amazon’s Corporate Welfare, National review

• Why Is It So Hard To Compost, And What Happened To The Brown Bin Program?, Brklynr

• Why Everyone's Obsessed with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Instagram Stories, Broadly

• New York State to Launch Medicaid Doula Pilot Expansion, USA Herald

• Why I Dread Returning to an American Public School, NY Times

• Handicrafts Made in Poland, Culture. PL

• The Biggest Lies We Teach American Kids About Thanksgiving and Native Americans, Mic

• National Day of Mourning Reflects on Thanksgiving’s Horrific, Bloody History, Boston Globe

• How To Talk To Kids About Thanksgiving, NPR

• Decolonizing Thanksgiving: A Toolkit for Combatting Racism in Schools, Medium

• When Families Un-Adopt a Child, The Atlantic

• America Is Blaming Pregnant Women for Their Own Deaths, NY Times
  I’m glad there is increased media attention on this issue but it doesn’t feel like anything is getting done.
  

• 'Farming While Black': A Guide To Finding Power And Dignity Through Food, NPR

• Old Roots, New Shoots: Immigrant Farmers Cultivate Ginger in a New Land, Edible Hudson Valley

• Growing your own ginger: easy as 1, 2, 3, . . . erm . . . 4, Vomiting Chicken

• Rue: The Forgotten Herb, The Heirloom Gardener

• It’s time to explore Ethiopian coffee, here’s why, SBS

• Just Say No to HQ2 , Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York

• City, state announce Amazon’s arrival—which may trigger $3B in subsidies, Crain’s

• Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Isn’t Just Shameful—It Should Be Illegal, City Lab

• Indigenous women kept from seeing their newborn babies until agreeing to sterilization, says lawyer, CBC

• NY Politician: We Need to Block $3 Billion Handout for Amazon & Use Money to Forgive Student Debt, Democracy Now

• 'Jinn' Is a Remarkably Honest Portrait of Black Muslim Girlhood, Broadly

• What Are Jinn: The Arab Spirits Who Can Eat, Sleep, Have Sex, and Die, Broadly

• Excited for Amazon’s Arrival in Long Island City? The Results for New York’s Art Community Won’t Be Pretty, ArtNet

• 22 Years Later, Everyone Is Still Copying Lil' Kim's 'Hard Core' Style, Broadly

• Amazon HQ2 Goes to New York City and Northern Virginia, City Lab

• Austin's Fix for Homelessness: Tiny Houses, and Lots of Neighbors, City Lab

• A Secret Archive in New York City that Saved Tiffany Lamps from Extinction, Messy nessy Chic

• Sugar Works, NY Times

• Why There’s No Place Quite Like the American Garage, Atlas Obscura

• The myth of the postpartum love rush, The Outline

• Why Co-ops and Community Farms Can’t Close the Racial Wealth Gap, Yes Magazine

• NATIVE TRIBES ARE TAKING FIRE CONTROL INTO THEIR OWN HANDS, Wired

• Wildfires Are Essential: The Forest Service Embraces a Tribal Tradition, Yes Magazine

• On Whiteness: Positionality, Sacrifice, and Collective Responsibility, Medium

• How the mushroom dream of a ‘long-haired hippie’ could help save the world’s bees, Seattle Times

• Site of Bed Stuy’s Former Slave Theater Back on Market for $37.95 Million, Brownstoner

• Downtown church shopping itself around, Brooklyn Paper

• Everyone Believed Larry Nassar, The Cut

• Keystone XL Pipeline: US judge orders halt on construction, BBC

• Rediscovering Mecca Flats, a Legendary Chicago Apartment Building, Atlas Obscura

• US Supreme Court allows historic kids’ climate lawsuit to go forward, Nature

• Abrams doesn't concede in Georgia, predicts runoff in governor's race, NBC

• Night of Firsts: Diverse Candidates Make History in Midterm Elections, NY Times

• Kentucky Clerk Who Refused Gay Marriage Licenses Loses Election, NY Times

• NYC’s ballot measures all receive decisive approval, Curbed

• She drank kratom tea while pregnant. Then her newborn went into withdrawal, CNN

• This Midwife Is Fighting to Make Vaginal Breech Births a Thing Again, Healthline

• Trump Forces Out Jeff Sessions and Installs Top Aide as Acting Attorney General, NY Times

• Brian Kemp’s Lead in Georgia Needs an Asterisk, The Atlantic

• The Husband Stitch Isn’t Just a Horrifying Childbirth Myth, Healthline

• Cleveland doulas fight infant mortality in their neighborhoods, one birth at a time: Saving the Smallest, Plain Dealer

• The macho sperm myth, aeon

• WHAT DO MY {SCREEN FREE} KIDS DO AFTER SCHOOL?, the kavanaugh report

• Designs for Bushwick Inlet, Box Street Parks Unveiled to Mixed Feedback, Greenpoint Post

• CityViews: A Teen Calls for Opening Up Community Boards—Via Term Limits, City Limits

• Fat White Women Owe Credit to Black Actresses, Say Rebel Wilson's Critics, Broadly

• Convicted Felons on What They Want You to Know About the Midterms, Broadly

• My State Has the Highest Maternal Death Rate—Stacey Abrams Plans to Change That, Broadly

• The Absolute Necessity of the New-Mom Friend, NY Times

• Joe Manchin’s Yes on Kavanaugh Finds Sympathy in West Virginia, NY Times

• Boro Prez: Community board term limits are a gift to developers, The Villiager

• Extreme Birth, NY Mag

• The Strangest Form of White Flight, City Lab

• How a Trump Birthright Citizenship Order Would Affect Millions of Children, City Lab

• Georgians 'Overwhelm' the Polls Despite Voter Suppression Anxiety, Broadly

• Meet The Whisperers: The Christian Folk Healers of Eastern Poland, Culture.Pl

• What Is Known About Slavic Mythology, Culture.Pl

• WITCHES, HEALERS AND SPELL CASTERS FROM POLAND, The Other
  “To be a witch means to be a woman of knowledge. Every woman has access to this aspect of herself. The women I photographed and interviewed for the book are more aware of the potential of this part of them-selves and have decided to cherish it.  Their scope of activity is broad – herbs, midwifery and healing to art, social activism, and the initiation of new religions”, comments Katarzyna.