• World of Weathercraft.
• Not for Prophet, on The Weather Channel.
• Après Nous, le Déluge.
• How the NRA Undermined Congress’s Last Push for Gun Control.
• The Dystopian Vision of High School.
• A Samoan Hoax.
• Theater of Pain:

The perspective of pain is what this story is about. For fans, injuries are like commercials, the price of watching the game as well as harrowing advertisements for the humanity of the armored giants who play it. For gamblers and fantasy-football enthusiasts, they are data, a reason to vet the arcane shorthand (knee, doubtful) of the injury report the NFL issues every week; for sportswriters they are kernels of reliable narrative. For players, though, injuries are a day-to-day reality, indeed both the central reality of their lives and an alternate reality that turns life into a theater of pain. Experienced in public and endured almost entirely in private, injuries are what players think about and try to put out of their minds; what they talk about to one another and what they make a point to suffer without complaint; what they’re proud of and what they’re ashamed by; what they are never able to count and always able to remember.

• If Not Race, Then Wealth: Why Universities Should Avoid Income as a Proxy for Race-Based Admissions.
• On Abortion, Race, and the Power of Story.
• Policing African-American Motherhood from Every Angle.
• Roe at Forty: Today, in Texas, It’s Yesterday.
• The Federal Judiciary’s PACER Pricing is Illegal.
• Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Generation.
• Obama to America: Work Harder:

Obama called the declaration “that all of us are created equal” the “star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall…” That’s not what you would have heard in a Mitt Romney Inaugural Address. But Obama’s celebration of collective action was also noteworthy for the proper nouns he didn’t name: Lowell. Pullman. Flint. Memphis. Delano. Obama’s speech celebrated feminist activism, civil rights activism, and LGBT activism, but didn’t mention labor activism. That’s a noteworthy omission, not an accident of alliteration.

• Millenials and Everything They Own.
• Making War, Not Peace.
• How to Del with a Mansplainer, Starring Hillary Clinton.
• Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Parking and Snow.
• How High Could the Tide Go?
• The Man Behind the Military Patch that Obama Prizes.
• Why Everyone Films in the Same Damn New York Chinese Restaurant.