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🧵The Variables: Who Gets Tested in America?

🧵The Variables: Who Gets Tested in America?

Step Inside: We examine lives shaped by institutional forces—from fire departments to corrections to refugee resettlement. What does it mean to navigate systems rather than choose them? Plus, the personal reckoning with living as a variable in America's ongoing experiment.

🧵The Hypothesis: What America Promised to Prove

🧵The Hypothesis: What America Promised to Prove

Step Inside: We examine lives shaped by America's biggest promises - education, merit, opportunity. What did the experiment claim to test, and who believed it could work? Plus, the personal reckoning that started with a 13-year-old's refusal to pledge.

🧵 Summer Intermission: Your Favorites & What's Coming

🧵 Summer Intermission: Your Favorites & What's Coming

Step Inside: Before we launch into July, we're revisiting the three editions that moved you most this spring. Plus, your curator reveals a question that's haunted him since age 13.

🧵 Final Lessons: What Education Means at Life's End

🧵 Final Lessons: What Education Means at Life's End

Step Inside: 25 years after graduation, we examine the ultimate report cards. What fills obituaries when the degrees fade? Plus, why your midlife pivot might be your greatest education yet.

🧵 A Father's Curriculum

🧵 A Father's Curriculum

Step Inside: This Father's Day, discover what obituaries reveal about the unofficial universities men create in garages, on mountains, and wherever life happens. Plus, why today's boys are desperate for these lessons.

🧵 The Price of Admission: When Diplomas Don't Deliver

🧵 The Price of Admission: When Diplomas Don't Deliver

Step Inside: They promised education would be your ticket. But to where, exactly? This week's obituaries reveal the truth about degrees, debt, and what actually creates economic security.

🧵 Lessons that Last: The Shadow Classroom

🧵 Lessons that Last: The Shadow Classroom

Step Inside: Our June series begins with a 25-year reunion that bridges segregated past and integrated present. Discover what the lives of Frederick Douglass High School alumni teach us about education's true legacy.

🧵 What Veterans Teach Us About Living

🧵 What Veterans Teach Us About Living

Step Inside: Discover how veterans really want to be remembered through obituary patterns, why some thrive after service while others struggle (featuring insights from Disabled American Veterans), and how Memorial Day evolved from cemetery visits to BBQs 🍔 Plus: Echo hosts a data-driven virtual cookout!

🧵 Treasures That Tell Our Story

🧵 Treasures That Tell Our Story

Step Inside: Explore the stories hidden in the objects we leave behind, preview our Memorial Day tribute to veterans, and get a first look at our summer exploration of how education shapes our legacies.

🧵 What Mothers Give Us (Beyond our DNA)

🧵 What Mothers Give Us (Beyond our DNA)

Step Inside: Our Mother's Day collection explores what mothers leave behind, 3 things Ethan's mother wants her children to know, the surprising science of mother-child cellular exchange, and more

🧵 How Family Values Evolve Over Time

🧵 How Family Values Evolve Over Time

Step Inside: Explore how wisdom has changed across four generations, from the steady values of the 1930s to the real connections of the 1990s. Plus, see how our priorities have shifted over time, what the numbers tell us, and a peek at our special Mother's Day collection.

🧵 Memory Inequality: Who Gets a Digital Forever?

🧵 Memory Inequality: Who Gets a Digital Forever?

Step Inside: Discover which communities are being erased from digital memory and why Black stories are vanishing from the historical record. Plus, how your wealth might determine if your descendants will 'meet' you after death, and more

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