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#153 Jul 26, 2018 #153: While We Sleep – My whole life, I’ve been fascinated with sleep. How is it possible that we’re able to change consciou
#152 Jul 19, 2018 #152: Extinction of the Middle Child – Happy Thursday, Loyal Readers! Hope you’re enjoying the middle of summer. This week’s articles span a
#151 Jul 12, 2018 #151: Segregation in America – Last week I visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture as part of a trip to
#150 Jul 5, 2018 #150: The Road to Asylum – Last week’s issue about trans kids sparked a lot of discussion. Thank you. Several of you offered an
#149 Jun 28, 2018 #149: When Kids Say They’re Trans – Ask me to have a conversation about race or sexual orientation, and I can (mostly) hang with you, eve
#148 Jun 21, 2018 #148: The Death of a Once Great City – I’ve lived in San Francisco for a long time. By no means do I identify as a San Franciscan; that titl
#147 Jun 14, 2018 #147: Avenging Emily Doe – It’s Thursday, Loyal Readers, which means it’s time for another great issue of The Highlighter! Have
#146 Jun 7, 2018 #146: The Earth Is Flat – Loyal Readers, good morning! Happy Thursday to you. After last night’s hugely successful HHH #6 (than
#145 May 31, 2018 #145: Bach at the Burger King – Have you had a good morning so far, Loyal Readers? I hope so. This week’s issue focuses on the effect
#144 May 24, 2018 #144: What Happened in Vegas – Loyal Readers, hello and welcome to The Highlighter #144! Don’t tell anyone, but it’s almost summer,
#143 May 17, 2018 #143: The 79 Bus – Happy Thursday, Loyal Subscribers! It’s time for some serious reading. This week’s articles run the g
#142 May 10, 2018 #142: All-American Nazis – Welcome, Loyal Readers, and thank you for navigating your inbox and clicking on the most important em
#141 May 3, 2018 #141: The Trauma of Gun Violence – Good morning, loyal readers! Want to know a secret? Last week’s issue was the most opened in Highligh
#140 Apr 26, 2018 #140: What Fullness Is – Happy Thursday, Loyal Subscribers! Thank you for opening Issue #140 of The Highlighter. This week’s i
#139 Apr 19, 2018 #139: Fear and Uncertainty in Coachella – Good morning, Loyal Subscribers! Last week’s issue was the most popular in the newsletter’s history.
#138 Apr 12, 2018 #138: A Betrayal – Hi Loyal Subscribers! Today’s issue is my favorite so far this year. It’s big and serious. It’s about
#137 Apr 5, 2018 #137: The Death Row Book Club – Welcome, loyal subscribers! Today’s issue of The Highlighter includes all my favorite topics: reading
#136 Mar 29, 2018 #136: The Privilege Predicament – Hi Loyal Subscribers! The Highlighter #128 featured an article that questioned whether acknowledging
#135 Mar 22, 2018 #135: Race & Economic Mobility in America – Loyal subscribers, thank you very much for opening today’s issue of The Highlighter. This week, there
#134 Mar 15, 2018 #134: Ball Breakers – Take the morning off and dive into The Highlighter! I have 2 1/2 hours of quality material for you on
#133 Mar 8, 2018 #133: The Lottery Hackers – Hello and welcome to The Highlighter #133! This week’s issue includes great pieces on lottery hackers
#132 Mar 1, 2018 #132: March Is College Month 🎓 – Hi Loyal Subscribers! I’m happy to announce that March is College Month at The Highlighter. Each issu
#131 Feb 22, 2018 #131: The Recipe for Life – Our country is broken if it thinks that arming teachers is the right way to protect kids in schools.
#130 Feb 15, 2018 #130: The Joy of Black Brunch – It’s your lucky day! The Highlighter #130 includes a wide range of articles, including pieces on the
#129 Feb 8, 2018 #129: How To Teach American Slavery – Behold! It is time for The Highlighter #129! This week’s issue includes pieces on the teaching of sla
#128 Feb 1, 2018 #128: Want to Talk About Race? – Good morning, loyal subscribers! Today’s issue is quintessential Highlighter: 2 parts race, 1 part ed
#127 Jan 25, 2018 #127: Within Reach – Welcome to The Highlighter #127! This week’s articles span a variety of topics. Read about how trans
#126 Jan 18, 2018 #126: Little America 🇺🇸 – Welcome to The Highlighter #126! I am very happy that you’re here. There’s a ton in today’s issue: im
#125 Jan 11, 2018 #125: School Resegregation Explained – Hi there, loyal subscribers: It’s time for The Highlighter #125! I’d like to welcome our 40 new subsc
#124 Jan 4, 2018 #124: Millennials Are Screwed – Hi there and Happy New Year! Did you miss The Highlighter? I hope you had a restful and rejuvenating
#123 Dec 14, 2017 #123: Our Favorite Articles of 2017 – Welcome to The Highlighter #123! I’m dedicating this final issue of the year to our favorite six arti
#122 Dec 7, 2017 #122: Two Schools of Thought – Happy Thursday and welcome to The Highlighter #122. I’d like to welcome our 14 new subscribers and th
#121 Nov 30, 2017 #121: Everyone Gets Into College? – Hi there and welcome to The Highlighter #121! This week’s articles center on themes I’ve followed in
#120 Nov 23, 2017 #120: Walking While Black – Happy Thanksgiving, loyal subscribers! Welcome to The Highlighter #120 and to the holiday season. Tha
#119 Nov 16, 2017 #119: Can Racism Be Stopped in the Third Grade? – Hi there, and welcome to The Highlighter #119! A big welcome to all the new subscribers. Our communit
#118 Nov 9, 2017 #118: The Voice – Hi there and welcome to The Highlighter #118! Today’s articles center on the legacy of Whitney Housto
#117 Nov 2, 2017 #117: White Flight – Welcome to The Highlighter #117! I’m happy you’re here. The first three articles this week — which fo
#116 Oct 26, 2017 #116: The Ghosts of the Tsunami – It’s time for The Highlighter #116! Hope you’ve had a good week. For the most part, today’s pieces ar
#115 Oct 19, 2017 #115: Birth of a White Supremacist – Hello loyal subscribers! This week’s issue of The Highlighter begins all doom and gloom but gets more
#114 Oct 12, 2017 #114: Secrets of the South – Hi there, it’s time for The Highlighter #114. This issue, there are articles about millennials (and w
#113 Oct 5, 2017 #113: The Anguish of Activism – This week, we are reeling from the shock of another horrific mass murder. It is impossible to process
#112 Sep 28, 2017 #112: The College Try – Hello there and welcome to the 112th issue of The Highlighter newsletter. This week, I have four thou
#111 Sep 21, 2017 #111: Summer in the Heartsick Mountains – Welcome to The Highlighter #111! I think that you’re going to appreciate this week’s articles. The fi
#110 Sep 14, 2017 #110: The Girl Gangs of El Salvador – Hi there and welcome to The Highlighter #110! A few readers told me last week’s issue was all doom an
#109 Sep 7, 2017 #109: Touching Death – Welcome to The Highlighter #109! Now that we’ve passed Labor Day, the school year has officially begu
#108 Aug 31, 2017 #108: Forever Yesterday – Welcome to The Highlighter #108! You’re going to like the articles in today’s issue. They run the gam
#107 Aug 24, 2017 #107: Southern Comfort – Welcome to The Highlighter #107! All four articles this week follow topics that I’ve featured in prev
#106 Aug 17, 2017 #106: This Is America – Good morning, and welcome to The Highlighter #106. Today’s issue focuses on Charlottesville. In an in
#105 Aug 10, 2017 #105: The Village Where Girls Turn Into Boys – Hello and welcome to The Highlighter #105! Today’s issue is titled, The Revenge of The New York Times
#104 Aug 3, 2017 #104: “Slavery Didn’t End in 1865. It Evolved.” – Hello and welcome to The Highlighter #104! Today’s issue falls early in my birthday month, that prime
#103 Jul 27, 2017 #103: The New Jane Crow – Welcome to The Highlighter #103! Pretty soon it’s August, which means my birthday bonanza, which is v
#102 Jul 20, 2017 #102: Las Matadoras – It’s 9:10 am, and you know what that means: The Highlighter #102 is here! Today’s issue is robust and
#101 Jul 13, 2017 #101: Our Uninhabitable Earth – Welcome everyone to The Highlighter #101! We are well into the middle of summer, and I’m back from a
#100 Jul 6, 2017 #100: White America Is Happy With Segregated Schools – Hello and welcome to The Highlighter #100! This is a major milestone. For most of my life, I’ve been
#99 Jun 29, 2017 #99: A Presumption of Guilt – Hello there! I hope you’ve had a strong week. Mine was solid, thank you for asking. A highlight was t
#98 Jun 22, 2017 #98: Hoarding the American Dream – Happy Thursday, Loyal Subscribers, and welcome to The Highlighter #98! This week centers on two big q
#97 Jun 15, 2017 #97: Faces of Healing –    Hello and welcome to The Highlighter #97. Monday was the anniversary of the massacre at Pulse in
#96 Jun 8, 2017 #96: Losing Your Mom to Deportation –    Hello and welcome to The Highlighter #96! This issue is coming out in the middle of the James Co
#95 Jun 1, 2017 #95: The Battle Over Charter Schools – And just like that, it’s June! Welcome to The Highlighter #95. For this week’s edition, I decided to
#94 May 25, 2017 #94: We Cannot Be Afraid of Our Truth – It’s The Highlighter #94, everybody! Welcome. Today’s issue centers on the difficulty of sharing spac
#93 May 18, 2017 #93: My Family’s Slave – Welcome to the 93rd edition of The Highlighter! This week, I found myself amid a flurry of excellent
#92 May 11, 2017 #92: Juice Is Bad For You – Happy Thursday, and welcome to The Highlighter #92! Let me begin by saying something simple and plain
#91 May 4, 2017 #91: What Bullets Do To Bodies – Today’s issue of The Highlighter isn’t as gloomy as last week’s, but I’m still trending serious. The
#90 Apr 27, 2017 #90: “Did Your Father Die?” – Welcome to #90! Rest assured: Today’s issue includes no articles about Rachel Dolezal. Instead, you’l
#89 Apr 20, 2017 #89: Going It Alone – Welcome, Loyal Subscribers, to Issue #89! There’s never a dull moment at The Highlighter. This week,
#88 Apr 13, 2017 #88: Poor, Gifted, and Black – Hi there, loyal subscribers! I’m feeling pretty good about this issue. It includes 7 articles from va
#87 Apr 6, 2017 #87: Get Rid of Homework? – Last week’s issue was really heavy, so today, I decided to lighten things up a bit. You’ll note that
#86 Mar 30, 2017 #86: Very Expensive Melons – Welcome to The Highlighter #86, where good thing we have muskmelons to start off, because the rest of
#85 Mar 23, 2017 #85: Fighting to Get into Bathrooms – Hi there and good morning! How are you? This 85th issue of The Highlighter is filled with six article
#84 Mar 16, 2017 #84: Let’s Bring Back Mammoths – Welcome to The Highlighter #84 — and if you’re not on the East coast, welcome to Spring! (My apologie
#83 Mar 9, 2017 #83: Together Alone – Welcome to The Highlighter #83! The first two articles this week aim to build empathy and understandi
#82 Mar 2, 2017 #82: Conversations Aren’t Enough – Hello, loyal subscribers, and welcome to The Highlighter! It’s a big issue this week with tons of gre
#81 Feb 23, 2017 #81: The Graffiti Kids – Happy Thursday! Thank you for your overwhelmingly enthusiastic response to The Highlighter’s rebrandi
#80 Feb 16, 2017 #80: When Things Go Missing – Iserotope Extras is now The Highlighter! I’m very excited about the digest’s new name, and I thank yo
#79 Feb 9, 2017 #79: Welcoming the Stranger – Welcome to Extras #79! The theme this week is, “We know so much; we know so little.” The first articl
#78 Feb 2, 2017 #78: School is for healing – Welcome to Extras #78! Thank you for voting last week to rename Extras. Here are the finalists: Bookm
#77 Jan 27, 2017 #77: We Choose School Segregation – Thank you for opening Extras #77! It has been quite a week: the inauguration, the marches, the lies,
#76 Jan 19, 2017 #76: The Dreams of Readers –     Well hello there, and welcome to Issue #76! Please welcome new subscribers Karolina, Sarah, Er
#75 Jan 12, 2017 #75: The Obama Speeches – Hi there, and welcome to Iserotope Extras #75! Please welcome new subscribers Melissa, Jonathan, Chri
#74 Jan 5, 2017 #74: Nameplate Necklaces – Happy 2017, everyone! Start the new year off right by reading an excellent article about nameplate ne
#73 Dec 29, 2016 #73: My Favorite Extras of the Year – The end of the year is a good time for gratitude and reflection. Thank you, loyal subscribers, for be
#72 Dec 22, 2016 Iserotope Extras #72: The Making of an American Terrorist – Happy Thursday, everyone! Please welcome new subscribers Howe and Kay. Lately, I’m doing a better job
#71 Dec 16, 2016 Iserotope Extras #71: My President Was Black – Sorry that Extras #71 is a day late. But it is here, and it is good! Let’s please welcome new subscri
#70 Dec 8, 2016 Iserotope Extras #70: Geek Love – Hi everyone, and welcome to Extras #70! Please welcome new subscribers Bonnie and B. Shark! The first
#69 Dec 1, 2016 Iserotope Extras #69: With Child – Hi everyone! My latest thought is that AP English Language teachers should use Extras as their curric
#68 Nov 24, 2016 Iserotope Extras #68: Teaching Trump – Happy Thanksgiving! I was a teacher for 15 years. Teaching is the hardest thing I’ve done. There is a
#67 Nov 17, 2016 Iserotope Extras #67: White Won – My friend Jenn reminded me this week about the power of reading, and about our shared interest in cur
#66 Nov 10, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #66 – Welcome to this week’s edition of Iserotope Extras. I’m waiting a bit to include articles about the e
#65 Nov 3, 2016 #65: Zingers – Hi there, and welcome to Iserotope Extras #65! The backlash against tidying-up extraordinaire Marie K
#64 Oct 27, 2016 Iserotope Extras #64: Dangerous Patriotism – Last week’s edition of Extras was very popular, so let’s keep up the reading momentum! This week focu
#63 Oct 20, 2016 Iserotope Extras #63: Voter Suppression – Hi and welcome to Iserotope Extras #63! Let’s welcome new subscribers Allison (via Olivia) and Dawn!
#62 Oct 13, 2016 Iserotope Extras #62: Please Don’t Flip Your Bat – Hi everyone! The theme of today’s issue is selfishness: (1) People enjoying Blue Apron aren’t thinkin
#61 Oct 6, 2016 Iserotope Extras #61: Someone Who Thinks Like Me – Welcome, everybody, and all you need to know this week is that the Giants are in the playoffs! (Good
#60 Sep 29, 2016 Iserotope Extras #60: Man vs. Rat – In this week’s Iserotope Extras, enjoy articles about the eradication of rodents, the revolution in t
#59 Sep 22, 2016 Iserotope Extras #59: Looking for the Truth – 2016 has not been a kind year, nor has this year made sense. This week’s edition highlights articles
#58 Sep 15, 2016 Iserotope Extras #58: Restorative Justice – Hi there! This week, the rest of the country has decided that school is back in session, so there are
#57 Sep 8, 2016 Iserotope Extras #57: Bike Batman – Glorious Thursday to you! Thank you for opening up Iserotope Extras! This edition begins with Bike Ba
#56 Sep 1, 2016 Iserotope Extras #56: The Beta Rebellion – Blockbuster of an issue this week! The first article excoriates “All Lives Matter,” the second explai
#55 Aug 25, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #55 – We’re nearing the end of August, which means the completion of my birthday month. Big thanks to my mo
#54 Aug 18, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #54 – There was a small brouhaha last week when Extras didn’t materialize (due to a massive Kindle deployme
#53 Aug 4, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #53 – Welcome to August: the tail end of summer, the start of a new school year, and most important, my bir
#52 Jul 28, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #52 – Happy Thursday, Extras subscribers! I hope you’re doing well. This week, check out articles about the
#51 Jul 21, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #51 – This week, you won’t find anything about Melania Trump, though I do like following plagiarists. Inste
#50 Jul 14, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #50 – This week’s edition is dedicated to Anton Sterling, Philando Castile, and the five police officers ki
#49 Jul 7, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #49 – This week in Extras, begin with Jia Toletino’s smart and sassy reflection on affirmative action, whit
#48 Jun 30, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #48 – Blockbuster of an issue this week for Extras #48: Thank you, loyal subscribers, for taking on the cha
#47 Jun 23, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #47 – Welcome to Iserotope Extras! This week, I'm featuring articles and podcasts that help deepen topics t
#46 Jun 16, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #46 – Sunday morning’s attack on gay people in Orlando has left me stuck. Most people don’t seem to want to
#45 Jun 9, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #45 – Hi again! This week, I’m juxtaposing what’s happening in Chicago (horrific) with what’s happening in
#44 Jun 2, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #44 – Thank you, loyal subscribers, for your kind words about last week’s issue (my favorite so far). Isero
#43 May 26, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #43 – Welcome, new subscribers Michael, Clem, and Eileen! (And thank you for your word-of-mouth, Laura, Ang
#42 May 19, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #42 – Another great issue this week for YOU, Loyal Iserotope Extras Subscribers! The first article is for a
#41 May 12, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #41 – Hi! It's Mark from Iserotope Extras. Have you enjoyed your week? I hope so. The topics are serious th
#40 May 5, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #40 – Too much good stuff in this 40th edition of Extras! In this issue: Andrew Sullivan explains how our c
#39 Apr 28, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #39 – Hi there, and welcome to Issue #39 of Iserotope Extras. If you want inspiration, check out the first
#38 Apr 21, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #38 – I can't help myself: There are 6 articles this week. (I promise they're all good.) Read about having
#37 Apr 15, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #37 – Hi there! Extras is back — hope that makes you happy! This issue, check out two articles about health
#36 Mar 31, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #36 – Hi there! What's the best way to mentor young people, reduce violence, and build a community? The fir
#35 Mar 24, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #35 – Hello, and welcome to Issue #35 of Iserotope Extras! Articles this week are about race, gentrificatio
#34 Mar 17, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #34 – Hi there, subscribers! This week’s edition begins with pieces about two hopeful programs in San Franc
#33 Mar 10, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #33 – Welcome to Issue #33! Race, crosswords, plagiarism, AIDS, and ugly fruit—it's all here in this week's
#32 Mar 3, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #32 – Hello, Iserotope Extras community! You're going to like all 4 extras this week. The first three are a
#31 Feb 25, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #31 – Welcome new subscribers Phoebe, Phillip, Jamie, and M! Iserotope Extras is really taking off. This we
#30 Feb 18, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #30 – Alex, Janet, and Julie are new subscribers — welcome! (Extras is blowing up!) This week, enjoy articl
#29 Feb 11, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #29 – Welcome, Abby and Abby, new subscribers! This week's Extras start and end with articles about race, w
#28 Feb 4, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #28 – Sorry for missing last week! Aren't you happy that Iserotope Extras is back? This week, two articles
#27 Jan 21, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #27 – This week, I concluded that Donald Trump may actually win the Republican presidential nomination, but
#26 Jan 14, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #26 – This week: one article about voting rights, two about education, and one about the minimum wage. I'm
#25 Jan 8, 2016 Iserotope Extras - Issue #25 – It's 2016, which means it's a new year, and I'm back with Extras after a one-week respite, albeit a d
#24 Dec 24, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #24 – I like this week's articles, which span several topics, like voting rights (my latest big interest),
#23 Dec 17, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #23 – Hey, it's the 23rd issue (already) of Iserotope Extras! This week's articles run the gamut: (1) how m
#22 Dec 10, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #22 – Hi everyone! Today's digest is in two parts. The first two articles deal with how we seem not to be m
#21 Dec 3, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #21 – No articles about education this week (for some reason), but be ready for some heavy hitters. First u
#20 Nov 25, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #20 – It's Thanksgiving week, so this edition of Extras comes out a day early! First up is an article that
#19 Nov 19, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #19 – Today you get 5 articles, not 4. It's like a bonus! First up is a wonderful interview between two goo
#18 Nov 12, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #18 – Hi everyone! This week, we start with Airbnb, a company that is extremely good at making people mad.
#17 Nov 5, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #17 – This week begins with Snoopy (as things should be). Then a podcast about surveillance will make you p
#16 Oct 29, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #16 – It's almost Halloween, which means things are spooky! But the good news is that teachers are almost t
#15 Oct 22, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #15 – Serious articles (and another podcast) this week about race, education, and what we do as a society w
#14 Oct 15, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #14 – Hi there! Up first this week is an excellent profile of Zappos, the quirky shoe company. Then comes a
#13 Oct 8, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #13 – This week I've included more articles about education and reading, which many of you will enjoy. If y
#12 Oct 1, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #12 – It's a first: No articles from The New York Times or The Atlantic! (But yes, The New Yorker made the
#11 Sep 24, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #11 – There were tons of great articles this week, but not so many involving reading or education. Maybe I'
#10 Sep 17, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #10 – This week, you get four great articles, a happy picture of happy students with their Kindles, and a r
#9 Sep 10, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #9 – Welcome, new subscribers and long-time devoted readers! We are past Labor Day, which means that schoo
#8 Sep 3, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #8 – This week's newsletter is dedicated to the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. This is for two rea
#7 Aug 28, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #7 – School is starting up, so this week's articles are mostly related to education. But they're not all f
#6 Aug 20, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #6 – This week's challenge: Think of someone who might like the newsletter, talk it up with them, and enco
#5 Aug 13, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #5 – Hi everyone, and welcome, new subscribers! (There are 9 of you!) Hope you like this week's newsletter
#4 Aug 6, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #4 – Just the big-ticket topics for you this week: death, race, reading...and Cecil the Lion! Hope you enj
#3 Jul 30, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #3 – New feature this week: section headers! Wow, look at all these improvements. (Also, the number of sub
#2 Jul 23, 2015 Iserotope Extras - Issue #2 – Hi! Not as many articles this week, but that's OK, right? Let me know if you want to talk about them.
#1 Jul 16, 2015 Revue issue #1 – Hi Everyone! (There aren't many of you - yet.) So here's my first edition. All I'm doing is clipping
