In our latest issue of The Detour: 🇧🇾 They threw her husband in jail, so she ran for president of Belarus 🐻‍❄️ Find My Friends for polar bears 🧠 The psychological recipe for happiness And more. Check it out: exploreframe.substack.com/p/the-woman-fi…

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya sat down with Zinya Salfiti زينيا سلفيتي for Frame to discuss her rise to political prominence, eventual exile, and her ongoing fight against a dictatorial regime: beta.frame.media/experimental/b…

In the latest edition of The Detour: 🇺🇳 Gaza needs aid, but the infrastructure to administer it is collapsing 🚀 NASA’s next generation of astronauts 🤶 What adolescent rebellion looks like in Amish communities Dive in: exploreframe.substack.com/p/why-deliveri…

In our latest issue of The Detour: 🚀 Dispatches from NASA HQ 🌳 The frontlines of deforestation law 👁️ Inside the world of people with no mind’s eye And more. Dive in: exploreframe.substack.com/p/what-its-lik…

Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants cross one of the world’s most treacherous regions, the Darien Gap. Journalist Michelle Shen tells the story of one family’s journey through the jungle: beta.frame.media/experimental/d…

In the latest issue of The Detour, we dive into: 💻 An anatomy of misinformation amid the Israel-Hamas war 🪙 Crypto’s kingpin gets sentenced — a special guest post by Andrew Chow 🧠 The origins of consciousness And more. Check it out: exploreframe.substack.com/p/digital-warf…

Frame has been nominated for an award at The Webby Awards for our website in the News & Politics category! Frame was selected as one of the five top sites on the internet for our coverage of news & politics. Thank you for your readership. You can vote for us to earn the People's

In The Detour this week, we dive into: 🌸 The not-so-rare occurrence of California superblooms — thanks to climate change ☠️ The real-life search for buried treasure 🧠 The commodification of the soul And more. Check it out: exploreframe.substack.com/p/a-search-for…

In The Detour this week, we dive into: 🇦🇷 Argentina’s economy at the brink 📷 A vintage Met Gala photo 🧠 The brain science of collective euphoria And more. Check it out: substack.com/home/post/p-14…

In The Detour this week, we dive into: 🚃 Why Filipinos are raging over new jeepney laws 🎤 Unpacking Toomaj Salehi’s politically charged rap songs 🛣️ The power of an unplanned adventure And more. Check it out: exploreframe.substack.com/p/the-iranian-…

In the latest edition of our weekly newsletter, The Detour, managing editor Kelly Kimball dives into: 🥠 An American Chinatown in the shadow of mega-developers 👑 Inside the Miss USA controversy 🗣 The art of "fofoca" And more. Check it out: exploreframe.substack.com/p/the-fight-to…

Our latest — Journalist Allison Lau reports from Philadelphia to uncover the David-versus-Goliath-esque fight between Chinatown residents and the developer trying to build a new NBA arena in their backyard: beta.frame.media/experimental/c…

In The Detour this week, we dive into: 🦁 An AI tool to understand animal language 🖼️ New art at The Broad in Los Angeles 🎨 What a french painter reveals about TikTok’s “microfeminism” And more. Check it out: exploreframe.substack.com/p/how-ai-could…

My latest reporting assignment for Frame took me to Philadelphia to meet with the #AAPI community and learn about their fight to preserve Chinatown against the construction of a new arena that would displace residents and small businesses. #aapihm beta.frame.media/experimental/c…

In The Detour this week, managing editor Kelly Kimball dives into: 🦁 Why Pride Month could be under threat this year 🦞 Did Red Lobster dig its own grave with “endless shrimp”? 🌞 We’re obsessed with “-henges” And more. Check it out: exploreframe.substack.com/p/the-us-issue…

In The Detour this week, managing editor Kelly Kimball dives into: ⚓ Why a mega-herd of sea lions has gathered in San Francisco 🏃Unpacking drama in the Brooklyn half-marathon community 👩‍🌾 Why working with our hands makes us happy And more. Check it out:

Was great speaking at Web Summit in Lisbon last week on new forms of digital news and how to redesign social media to sap our souls less, and instead facilitate depth, creativity, and reflection. Here are a few ideas we discussed on the panels: 🤳 Never before in human history

Introducing The Endangered Mind: a podcast investigating what’s happening to our inner lives in the age of screens, notifications, and endless feeds. On the show, I have conversations with professors, artists, philosophers, and activists who are thinking about how technology is

I’m thrilled to announce that Frame won a The Webby Awards Award for Website in News & Politics! In 2024, we launched a new interactive article format that incorporated six years of lessons learned from creating multimedia journalism at Frame. The new article format features

I'm really excited to share what we've been working on since last summer: Frame Labs, a learning tool that generates visual, interactive articles on any topic you want to learn about. framelabs.ai Here’s an example below of what the output looks like when you ask it