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Caroline Tracey At the start of the COVID-19 quarantine, I moved into my girlfriend’s apartment, a renovated garage in a triangle of blocks where three Mexico City neighborhoods come together. We share it with Lázaro, a handsome, anxious, black-and-brown half greyhound that Mariana adopted four years ago after a friend found him curled up under a truck. We quickly took on a slower, quieter pace of life. We spent long mornings reading in bed, drinking coffee, and snuggling with Lázaro. We made the small space ample: I at my desk in the garage, Mariana in her woodshop on the roof. Every mea...

Emily Hansell Clark , January 23rd, 2021 09:55 In an exclusive extract from the new journal Focus on Sound, edited by Nicholas Burman, Emily Hansell Clark explores the sensory history of imperialism and enslavement The sensory faculties – seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting – played a crucial role in the flurry of European exploration that began in the fifteenth century. Making sense of encounters in Africa, Asia, and the Americas required expanding the limits of the known to encompass elements of human and nonhuman life that challenged the boundaries of European imagination....

Toward better tech journalism “Could technology journalists be in service of something better than more speech, improved content moderation, unbiased algorithms, and consensual surveillance capitalism?” Continuing Nieman Lab’s tradition of expressing hopes as predictions, I see an even better kind of technology journalism rising in 2021. Reporting on how technology shapes and reflects social, political, economic, and cultural life has improved greatly in recent years. Coverage has moved far beyond the business, innovation, gadget, and trade beats, and fewer stories, thankfully, celebrat...