The Big Feature – Page 2

Why is Everybody Hating on Richie Rich?

Michael Mechanic / 06/05/2025

For kids like me, who grew up in the 1960s and ’70s, comics were a big deal. Our media landscape otherwise consisted mainly of books and records, commercial radio, and, in my family’s case, a small black-and-white TV with a coat hanger antenna that got four staticky channels. So we periodically raided our piggy banks […]

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Anatomy of an Extinction

Jackie Flynn Mogensen / 21/04/2025

Late in September, as Hurricane Helene struck the Southeast, Wally Smith immediately thought of the salamanders. Of course, he fretted over the safety of his parents, brother, and extended family in the path of the storm in the north Georgia mountains, but he couldn’t help but worry about the amphibians in harm’s way, too. As […]

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“We’re Going to Do Whatever It Takes to Keep Her Safe”

Henry Carnell with Madison Pauly / 14/04/2025

On Susan’s birthday five years ago, her 10-year-old slid a note under her door. Today, she can recite it from memory: “Hey Mom, I wanted to ask, when you talk about me in the future, if you could use he/him or they/them pronouns because she/her pronouns make me really uncomfortable.” Then, “Happy Birthday.” Susan, the mother […]

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