Books of 2018
Recommended Reading 2018
- I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America by Lauren Hough, Huffington Post, December 30
- The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Kiini Bikini by Katherine Rosman, The New York Times, December 20
- And What Can You Say About Paul Ryan? by Matt Fuller and Arthur Delaney, Huffington Post, December 19
- The secret to good health may be a walk in a Twin Cities park by Jane E. Brody, The Star Tribune, December 10
- America Probably Has Enough Parking Spaces for Multiple Black Fridays by Laura Bliss, CityLab, November 27
- Six Years With a Distraction-Free iPhone by Jake Knapp, Medium, November 27
- I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back by Mark Wilson, Fast Company, November 26
- Somali Workers in Minnesota Force Amazon to Negotiate by Karen Weise, The New York Times, November 20
- ‘Nothing on this page is real’: How lies become truth in online America by Eli Saslow, The Washington Post, November 17
- What would a smog-free city look like? by Gary Fuller, The Guardian, November 13
- We Thought We Knew Faith, Until We Didn’t by Anna Silman, The Cut, November 9
- Debt: A Love Story, Wealthsimple, November 6
- The Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Language of Dieting by Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, October 30
- At Minneapolis homeless camp, recovering addicts seek refuge amid the squalor by Chris Serres, The Star Tribune, October 15
- Horror Lives in the Body by Megan Pillow Davis, Electric Literature, October 10
- Safe streets are the best tool we have to combat climate change by Alissa Walker, Curbed, October 10
- The case against despair on climate change by Ryan Cooper, The Week, October 10
- Casual Cruelty by Barry Petchesky, Deadspin, September 26
- To Restore Civil Society, Start With the Library by Eric Klinenberg, The New York Times, September 8
- To Post, or Not to Post? by Eloghosa Osunde, Longreads, September
- Once More Unto the Echo Chamber by Isaac Butler, Slate, August 24
- Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle by David S. Glosser, Politico, August 13
- Instagram Is Ruining Sushi in NYC by Daniel Geneen, Eater NY, August 10
- Minnesota Attorney General — Now Democratic Frontrunner for Governor — Relied on Government Employees for Campaign Work, They Say by Rachel M. Cohen, The Intercept, August 6
- Twitter Made Everything a Joke by Ken Jennings, The New York Times, July 28
- When Rape Is Reported and Nothing Happens by Brandon Stahl, Jennifer Bjorhus and MaryJo Webster, The Star Tribune, July 22
- Alt-Right Troll to Father Killer: The Unraveling of Lane Davis by Joseph Bernstein, Buzzfeed News, July 18
- Why Is Nancy Pelosi So Afraid of Socialism? by Mehdi Hasan, The Intercept, July 6
- Summer of Rage by Rebecca Traister, The Cut, June 29
- The America We Thought We Knew Is Gone by Lili Loufbourow, Slate, June 28
- Chasing White House officials out of restaurants is the right thing to do by Tom Scocca, The Washington Post, June 26
- We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners by Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times, June 25
- The Changing Sound of Male Rage in Rock Music by Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, June 25
- The Trouble with Johnny Depp by Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, June 21
- Toys “R” Us: The World’s Biggest Toy Store Didn’t Have to Die by Susan Berfield, Eliza Ronalds-Hannon, Matthew Townsend, and Lauren Coleman-Lochner, Bloomberg Businessweek, June 6
- “Find Some High Ground, And Hunker Down” by Ben Rhodes, Crooked.com, June 5
- Trump’s legal memo to Robert Mueller is a recipe for tyranny by Matthew Yglesias, Vox, June 3
- The Housewives of White Supremacy by Annie Kelly, The New York Times, June 1
- I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore by Dan Nosowitz, Select All, May 14
- A Socialist Silicon Valley by Ben Tarnoff, Jacobin, April 18
- The Racist Fixation on the ‘White Working Class’ by Hamilton Nolan, Splinter, April 17
- American Sports Needs More Fair-Weather Fans by Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, April 17
- How Far Can Becky Hammon Go in the N.B.A.? by Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, April 16
- Too Many Atheists Are Veering Toward the Alt-Right by Chris Stedman, Vice, April 2
- The Perfect Man Who Wasn’t by Rachel Monroe, The Atlantic, April
- The Man Who Knew Too Little by Sam Dolnick, The New York Times, March 10
- Retweets Are Trash by Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, March 4
- The Very Bad Politics of Putting ‘Healthcare Over Politics’ by Tim Faust, Splinter, February 8
- The House That Spied on Me by Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu, Gizmodo, February 7
- How to Not Die in America by Molly Osberg, Splinter, January 31
- 1 Son, 4 Overdoses, 6 Hours by Katharine Q. Seelye, The New York Times, January 21
- Why Birds Matter, And Are Worth Protecting by Jonathan Franzen, National Geographic, January 14
- I Started the Media Men List. My Name Is Moira Donegan. by Moira Donegan, The Cut, January 10
- The War on Terror Is a War on Minnesota’s Peaceful, Entrepreneurial Somali Immigrants by Eric Boehm, Reason, January 3
- The Old and the Restless by Chris Walker, The Atavist Magazine, January
- Diary of a Do-Gooder by Sara Eckel, Longreads, January
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