Jacqui Shine

We drove from Milwaukee, Wis., to Kansas City, Mo., stopping along the way to talk to people about civic duty, national pride and the symbols often used as stand-ins for Americanness.

An interview with Briallen Hopper, the author of “Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions” (Bloomsbury, 2019)

Recaps of the CBS reboot of Murphy Brown, Fall 2018.

Americans care about being nice. How do we disagree with our neighbors about guns?

An oral history of the show's legendary episode about animal trafficking.

Fifty years in the life of Tom Gallagher, diplomat, advocate, and pioneer.

A quiet place for experiencing the grief of solitude.

So gay! So girly! The history of the Styles section of the New York ‘Times’—and the real New Journalism.

He was was a self-made, blue-collar millionaire in Reagan’s America. But when Percy Ross decided to give away his fortune, he made things simple: all you had to do was ask for it.

In the middle of the past century, a gentle crew of puppets united the TV watchers of America.

It was the marriage of a Schermerhorn to an Astor that changed everything.

Everything you didn't even know you wanted to know.

My mother, her history, and ours.

In my other life, I'm a Roberta.

For the Awl's end-of-year series.