Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that's been miscast in the public... more
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Here's one from our bonus vault: you sent in your stories about moments when you found yourselves changing your minds,... more
Like so many other mostly imaginary topics, human trafficking is in the news again. Michael Hobbes—ever heard of him??—came by... more
This week, Heather Radke brings us a tale of pageants, eugenics, and butts.You can find Heather online here.You can see... more
This week, Sarah tells her favorite kind of story to American Hysteria’s Chelsey Weber-Smith: one where two girls hoaxed the... more
“Why don’t something happen?” Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow died in 1934, but their legend gets bigger every year. This... more
This week, we bring you a re-release from our bonus vault as Sarah tells Carolyn Kendrick about the making of... more
This week, Sports Illustrated’s Julie Kliegman volleys with Sarah about trans athlete Renée Richards’s fight for her right to play... more
Fly with us, lesbian seagull. This week Radiolab’s Lulu Miller brings us a story of queer nature and scientists in... more
“I felt that empathy like it was directed towards me, and it helped me feel like my unhappiness was enough.”... more
“What if you were writing a profile on someone named Janet and I was your editor, and I was like,... more