• 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

• FIRST ART TRAY - MONTESSORI YOUNG TODDLER WEEK 11, the kavanaugh report
• LIFE AFTER VINE, The Outline
• A Portrait of the Bed Stuy Block Where Spike Lee’s ‘Do the Right Thing’ Was Filmed, Brownstoner
• Governors Island is gearing up to rezone for new development, Curbed
• Death Toll Is at 17 and Could Rise in Shooting, NY Times
• In Her Own Words: Lena Dunham on Her Decision to Have a Hysterectomy at 31, Vogue
• PLEASE DON’T GET MURDERED AT SCHOOL TODAY, McSweeney's

• NY Cake VANISHING/MOVING, vanishing new york
• New Children's Book Shatters Monolithic Depictions of Motherhood, Colorlines

• Tiffany Brown, Head of the 1-Woman Company Which Delivered Only 50,000 of 30 Million Meals to Puerto Rico, Blames FEMA, The Root
• The Obamas’ portraits are not what you’d expect and that’s why they’re great, Washington Post

• Quincy Jones Has a Story About That, GQ
• 'Pillar of the community' deported from US after 39 years to a land he barely knows, CNN
• L.L. Bean Scraps Legendary Lifetime Return Policy, NPR
• MOM TALK: I LOVE MY KIDS, BUT SOMETIMES I DON’T LIKE THEM, Mother Mag
• Traditional Chinese Pastry Isn’t Baked–So What’s Up With Chinatown “Bakeries”?, Four Pounds Flour
  Fascinating
• New York City Has Passed Its First-Ever Urban Agriculture Policy Bill, Edible Manhattan

• The Pursuit of Emptiness by John Perry Barlow
• John Perry Barlow’s “Principles of Adult Behavior”, Carsten Knoch
• Buy a co-op at a discount: All about HDFCs and how to snag one, Brick Underground
• In Conversation: Quincy Jones, Vulture

• Aiming for Redemption, Justin Timberlake Flirts With Irrelevance, Village Voice
• Bowery Tenants Face Six More Weeks Homeless, Village Voice
• Bathrooms: Pretty in Pink, Again, NY Times

• No Children Because of Climate Change? Some People Are Considering It, NYTimes
• Medical marijuana bill passes Virginia Senate 40-0, News Leader
• Race, not abortion, was the founding issue of the religious right, Boston Globe
• Court allows Pennsylvania to redraw GOP-favored district map, AP
• North Carolina’s Legislative Coup Shows What Voter Suppression Will Look Like Under Trump, The Nation
• Colleen Coyle Mathis, Ousted Arizona Redistricting Chair, Out Of Office Pending Nov. 17 Hearing, HuffPo
• How Ethiopia’s New Railway Could Launch an Inclusive Urban Boom, Next City
• Why America Is Stuck With Only Two Parties, New Republic

• The Women Behind White Power, NY Times
• Nigel the Bird Found Dead Next to the Concrete Partner He Tried to Woo For Years, Gizmodo
• IGNORING THE SHELF WORK -- MONTESSORI YOUNG TODDLER WEEK 9, the kavanaugh report
• The past lives of a modest 1809 house in Tribeca, ephemeral new york
• JEN’S RICHMOND RENO: NEW (OLD) FIREPLACE MANTELS!, Jen Chu Design
• America’s Food Stamps Program Proves Trickle-Up Economics Works, HuffPost
• The Racial Equity Race to the Top on Cannabis in California, City Lab
• The Black Panther Party’s History of Urban Street Art, City Lab
• HUD May Push New Work Requirements for Public Housing Residents, City Lab
• Yes, the MLK Estate Did Approve That Trash Dodge Super Bowl Ad, The Root
  Glad to know that we weren't the only ones with this opinion
• America Will Not Stop Until Martin Luther King Jr. Is Completely Rebranded as a Slice of Avocado Toast , The Root
• FBI Prosecutes Its First ‘Black Identity Extremist’ and Hardly Anyone Is Talking About It, Atlanta Black Star
• [REPORT] Stress from Racism Linked to Maternal and Infant Mortality for Black Women, Colorlines
• Exploring African Americans’ High Maternal and Infant Death Rates, Center for American Progress

• “If Things Were Going Well, We Wouldn’t Be Here”: Artists Protest NYC’s Loft Board, hyperallergic
• Man Ray in LA: what happened when the pioneering artist hit Hollywood, The Guardian
• HAS INSTAGRAM COME FULL CIRCLE?, A beautiful mess
• How to Watch TV With Your Kids, The Cut
• This Is the Craziest Story About a Bachelor Contestant Ever, The Cut
• This Is the Most Boring Season of The Bachelor Ever, Vulture
• What Kids Are Really Learning About Slavery, The Atlantic
• Lid Chic, Print Mag
• Lella and Massimo Vignelli’s Home Seeks a Like-Minded Buyer, NY Times
• Can We Redesign the Way We Talk About Abortion? Meet the Women Behind 5 Very Powerful Design-led Projects, AIGA Eye on Design

• Dear Zuck (and Facebook Product Teams), Medium
• How to Design Social Systems (Without Causing Depression and War), Medium
• The Grammys Once Again Took the Sharpest Voices for Granted, The Slate
• Bookstore employee writes this on Facebook after “little old lady” shocks everyone at the register, Daily Headline
• Lower Manhattan’s celebrated 140 Broadway may get unwelcome ornament, Curbed

• 'Ideas are important, but execution wins out': Beyond the Brief featuring Eric Mayville, Wondersauce, The Drum
• Feminist bookstore Cafe con Libros sets up shop in Crown Heights, AM NY
• These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books, Atlas Obscura
• The Grim History Hidden Under a Baltimore Parking Lot, Atlas Obscura
• The Eastern Cougar Is Officially Extinct, Atlas Obscura
• The Staggering Scope of the Plastic Threat to Coral Reefs, Atlas Obscura
• How America Fell in Love With Vodka, Atlas Obscura
• Around the World in 14,000 ‘Do Not Disturb’ Signs, Atlas Obscura
• How Photographers Captured the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During WWII, Atlas Obscura

• How Religious Health Care Hurts Women of Color, New Republic
• The Fascinating and Tragic History of The Wythe Hotel, Greenpointers
• When White Parents Won't Integrate Public Schools, City Lab
• The Story Behind the Chicago Newspaper That Bought a Bar, Topic

• Moving Americans Out of Poverty Will Take More Than Money, CityLab
• From Yosemite to Bears Ears, Erasing Native Americans From U.S. National Parks, Collectors Weekly

• An Industrial Loft for Museum Directors & Avid Collectors, Design Sponge
• How the Kardashians Have Forced Us to 'Keep Up' for 10 Goddamn Years, Broadly
• Britney Spears' Las Vegas residency was the best thing she ever did for her career, Independent
• Subway Renovation Delay Isn’t Just a Bill vs. Andrew Thing, Village Voice
• LaToya Ruby Frazier Explores Community, Corrosion, and the Flint Water Crisis, Village Voice
• The Purge of New York, Jacobian
• What “demographic decline”? American women are having plenty of babies, Salon
• Walmart and Now Starbucks: Why More Big Companies Are Offering Paid Family Leave, NY Times
• Cecile Richards on Her Life After Planned Parenthood, NY Times
• Why Are Women Still Choosing the Lowest-Paying Jobs?, The Atlantic
• Degrading and Demeaning, Slate
• These kids started a book club for minority boys. It’s the most popular club in school., WashingtonPost
• Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read, The Atlantic
• Grandude? G-dawg? Nonny? Boomers Name Themselves, NY Times
• Exclusive: ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US, The Verge