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The Top Better Strangers Articles of 2024

Merry Spooky Christmas!

Better Stranger's Best Books of 2024

American Christianity vs. "My body, my choice."

How power works (and how it stops good things from happening)

The internet is killing us

Why Americans don't get to have healthcare

The anti-despair reading list (2024 edition)

Links to make you feel less hopeless

"The worst form of government, except all the others."

Scary songs to play in the dark

The gut-wrenching terror of having kids in America

What does it mean to be human?

Do crows get human rights?

On getting to know your mind

Notes on the coming apocalypse

A squirrel confronts the void

"An unbearably sensitive barometer of American dread"

Rethinking your relationship with nature

(re)Introducing Better Strangers!

Your paid subscription is back!

Are superheroes inherently fascist?

The streets are ours!

Capitalist monsters and Taoist plants

"The fuckers burned the lot."

Against Forgiveness

Time is eternal, time is an illusion

Integrity and "the last inch of us" in the fight against fascism

Imagination and the search for a better future

Strange Magic: How art, language, and the imagination conspire to make magic

On the sanity of worshipping sock puppets

"You could be a wondrous creature"

Three of my most popular pieces, now free

Mutual Aid 101: Articles and Resources

"The most good you can do": Effective altruism vs. mutual aid

How to build a community fridge

Where is mutual aid happening today?

Did COVID really prove that humans are terrible?

How disasters can rebuild your faith in humanity

Is mutual aid inherently revolutionary?

What does mutual aid look like in the real world?

Why mutual aid is one of the most important concepts to understand in the 21st century

The most popular Better Strangers articles of 2023