Amanda Ripley

4 weeks ago | slate.com | Amanda Ripley

Our series about coexistence amid conflict turns to two local leaders who definitely got off on the wrong foot. Choose your preferred player: For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Thanks! Check your phone for a link to finish setting up your feed. Please enter a valid phone number.

1 month ago | courtney.substack.com | Courtney Martin |Amanda Ripley |Anna Sale

Thank you so much to all of you that became paid subscribers last week in response to my little plea. Interestingly, right after writing it, I found out that I didn’t get a fellowship that I applied for—something that would have given me more space and time to write about eldercare—so it was especially sweet to see that my paying membership scooted upwards. You cushioned my rejection with your generosity. I am now at 826 and I’m still shooting for 1,000.

1 month ago | bigthink.com | Amanda Ripley

AMANDA RIPLEY: In the past, we would find the news, and today the news finds us, whether we want to be found or not. You get a text message from a friend with a headline, you'll open Instagram, there it is, you can't escape it. But these days, no national news outlet is trusted by more than half of American adults. And that's a problem, right, which we can see. If we don't have a common sense of reality, then it's very hard to solve problems, even the problems that we could solve.

1 month ago | courtney.substack.com | Courtney Martin |Amanda Ripley |Katherine Goldstein

If you read this newsletter (and over 20,000 of you do! How thrilling!) then you know that I pour my heart into delivering essays on the personal, the political, and the ethical every single week (sometimes in the midst of some pretty intense caregiving). In the last year, I’ve been really leaning into voicing what it’s like to be someone caring, not just for two beautiful, small weirdos, but my parents, and most especially, my dear dad, whose dementia is very advanced.

Dec 6, 2024 | bigthink.com | Amanda Ripley

Sign up for the Smarter Faster newsletter A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. We all have ideas about how we’re gonna behave in a crisis or emergency, but it’s almost never how it actually plays out when we’re faced with a disaster situation, says bestselling author Amanda Ripley.