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First Person

First Person

First-person essays and interviews with unique perspectives on complicated issues.

First Person

“I don’t want to be a nurse, a purse, or worse”: 5 seniors on dating online

What it’s like to try online dating for singles who are 65 or older.

By Julie Vadnal

The hell that is remote learning, explained in a comic

By Aubrey Hirsch September 22

The best $40 I ever spent: A not-quite-tarot deck

By Mike McClelland September 22

From BTS fandom to video games: How 4 new friendships formed during lockdown

By Rachel Ramirez September 17

Meet the students thriving in remote learning

By Luke Winkie September 14

I did Shop With a Cop as a kid. Now I realize it was police propaganda.

By Arriel Vinson September 10

The best $141 I ever spent: A skateboard

By Steve Rousseau September 8

The NBA strike is a big moment for athlete activism — and the labor movement in America

By Paul Frymer and Jacob M. Grumbach September 4

What it’s like working at the polls in the middle of a pandemic

By Benton Graham September 1

1 in 3 Black Americans knows someone who died of Covid-19. These stories capture the toll taken by the disease.

By Tiffanie Drayton August 26

“I miss my friends a lot”: 5 students on the uncertainty of school openings

By Karen Turner and Isabella Simonetti August 25

“For the first time in my life, I had money in my savings”: Workers on the relief of the $600 weekly benefit

By Michael Waters August 19

The unexpected joy of the worst summer of our lives

By Christine Mi August 19

The best 80 cents I ever spent: A pen I use to write to my friends

By Vivian Lee August 18

3 renters on getting screwed over by landlords during the Covid-19 housing crisis

By Luke Winkie August 17

A police officer killed my father 27 years ago and went unpunished. It changed my life forever.

By Montinique Monroe August 14

Worried parents have become an easy target for online misinformation in this pandemic

By Katherine Goldstein August 6

The best $295 I ever spent: Spanish classes as a Latina in Trump’s America

By Maria Teresa Hart August 4

How some Black Americans are finding solace in African spirituality

By Nylah Burton July 31

How anti-vaxxers are thinking about a Covid-19 vaccine

By Jennifer Reich July 28

It’s “white supremacy normalized”: A historian on why Stone Mountain should come down

By Isabella Simonetti July 23

Meet the 2020 grads entering the bleakest economy in decades

By Michael Waters July 22

The best $129 I ever spent: Baby formula

By Dina Gachman July 21

The case for unschooling

By Tyshia Ingram July 20

I am Native American and a former football player. Our history is much darker than racist mascots.

By Rory Taylor July 19

Money Talks: The couple navigating child care in the pandemic

By Nicole Dieker July 14

My patient caught Covid-19 twice. So long to herd immunity hopes?

By D. Clay Ackerly July 12

The best $14 I ever spent: A plastic kiddie pool

By Kristen Arnett July 7

5 first-time protesters on why they showed up for Black lives now

By Isabella Simonetti July 2

Beauty companies are changing skin-whitening products. But the damage of colorism runs deeper.

By Rachel Ramirez July 1

Money Talks: The friends who met raising money to feed Black Lives Matter protesters

By Julie Vadnal June 25

1960s coverage of Stonewall shows that mainstream press has always struggled to cover protests

By Chad Painter June 24

How a 50-year-old report predicted America’s current racial reckoning

By Gwen Prowse and Vesla Mae Weaver June 24

Global protests reveal that white supremacy is a problem everywhere

By Tiffanie Drayton June 23

For contact tracing to work, public health authorities must regain the trust of Black communities

By Katelyn Esmonde June 23

Why organizers are fighting to center black trans lives right now

By Joshua Allen June 18

Indigenous communities have moved powwows to the internet

By Rory Taylor June 17

“It may be that I never go back to the grading system”

By Isabella Simonetti June 12

My cousin was killed in the Charleston church shootings. Here’s what happens after the cameras leave.

By Zoe Christen Jones June 11

Minnesota’s unrest is decades in the making. Most Americans just forgot that black Midwesterners exist.

By Malaika Jabali June 10

Money Talks: They’ve been together for 15 years and are never getting married. It makes money complicated.

By Julie Vadnal June 9