Adam Aleksic on how social media is transforming our words

Jessa Crispin on what the actor’s roles tell us about the crisis of masculinity

Jonathan Gould on how Talking Heads transformed rock music

Augustine Sedgewick on the history of paternity and patriarchy

Laura Spinney on the spread of Proto-Indo-European

Ian Kumekawa tells the story of the global economy in one barge

Craig Thompson digs up memories of farm labor and the history of ginseng

Michael Joseph Gross on the importance of strength, past and present

David Sheff puts Yoko Ono in the spotlight

Padraic X. Scanlan tells the real history of the Irish Potato Famine