Atlantic Citylab News Today

Through a blend of prose, illustration, and collage, visual storyteller Ariel Aberg-Riger explores issues of inequity and social injustice; we spoke with her about her debut book, American Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History, and her nonlinear approach to history.

Buffalo may not be geared for Willie and Paul, but everywhere from Fargo to Kankakee to Tucson to Birmingham is. 

A conversation with Daniel Denvir about how his podcast became an essential feature of a radical education, the challenges facing leftist organizers, and much more.

Fast Fashion and Globalization: Exploring the Hidden Lives of our Blue Jeans. Join the Pulitzer Center on August 18, 2022, at 12:00pm EDT for a webinar featuring grantee Ryan Lenora Brown on the impacts of globalization and fast fashion. As Western consumers buy more and more clothing—about five times as much as we bought in 1980—African countries have become both the source of garments like our blue jeans and their ultimate resting place. Brown’s project, The Hidden Lives of our Blue Jea...

Aarian Marshall writes about autonomous vehicles, transportation policy, urban planning, and everyone’s favorite topic: How to destroy traffic. (You can’t, really.) She’s an aspiring bike commuter and New Yorker going soft on San Francisco, where she’s based. Before WIRED, Marshall wrote for The Atlantic’s CityLab, GOOD, and Agri-Pulse, an agriculture trade publication.

Ryan Lenora Brown. Ryan Lenora Brown is a freelance reporter and an Africa correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor. Her reporting interests skew long, narrative, and offbeat, with a particular interest in women, migrants, and cities. She has reported from nearly two dozen countries on the continent, and, in addition to The Monitor, she has been published in The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Runners World, Newsweek, The Atlantic CityLab, ForeignPolicy.com, The Daily Bea...