Best of 2021: The Stories We Missed

Exceptional essays often form around the connections a writer can make from their particular place in the world. In “Nuclear Cats, “ Vivian Blaxell connects life experience in legal and health systems with wild and domestic animals, the function of language, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the nature of consciousness…. And it ’ s funny. Blaxell ’ s voice is addictive!

Daniel Hale was an Air Force intelligence analyst who hated American empire, found Edward Snowden too compromising, and taught us almost everything we know about the drone war. The documents he leaked were published in 2015. But nothing changed.

Why is it so difficult to prevent unnecessary medical procedures in the U.S. health-care system?

Towards a collective, lyric "I"