Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
- That Pilsen’s 53-year-old Nuevo Leon was destroyed in a fire? —Mike Sula
- That the Seattle CEO who raised the minimum salary for his company’s employees to $70,000 a year has something to hide? —Tal Rosenberg
- About sex, sex education, and birth control in China these days? —Kate Schmidt
- About this secret Hollywood meeting addressing gender bias? —Brianna Wellen
- That the state is suing some inmates to make them pay for the costs of their own incarceration? —Ryan Smith
- Eula Biss on white debt and white privilege? —Aimee Levitt
- About a scientific study that has determined which people are most susceptible to bullshit? (Those are the people with lower verbal and fluid intelligence and who are more susceptible to “conspiratorial ideation” and likely to endorse alternative medicine.) —Aimee Levitt
