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A Farewell to the Impossible Kyrie Irving
September 08, 2017
Let it first be said that The Shot was always going to go in. The shot that unfurled from Kyrie Irving’s fingertips through the air inside Oracle Arena at the tail end of the 2016 NBA Finals was destined to find a home at the bottom of the net. The Cleveland Cavaliers had come ...

After a Tragedy, the Ohio State Fair Endures
August 18, 2017
The fair—at the city, county, or state level—is one of the markers of summer, even long, difficult summers, and even if the fairs themselves occur in the fall. I have been to many: A small town fair in Virginia, the kind you see in nostalgia-drenched films where people in ...

Flint, Beyond the Crisis
May 26, 2017
To call what is happening in Flint, Michigan a “water crisis” feels both exact and not. I’m not sure there’s other language that is as definite, short, and sharp for what was a massive institutional failure on many levels, spanning several years. The story, well ...

What Work Is
May 09, 2017
We forget that the independent artist might also be the industrial worker, hustling in the hours after clocking out.

Rubber and Heroin in a Dying City
March 09, 2017
In 2001, facing an industry significantly weaker than it had seen in recent years, the Goodyear Tire Company laid off nearly eight thousand employees around the country, many in its hometown of Akron, Ohio. Akron is a town that has run on rubber since 1898, when Frank Seiberling ...