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Newsletter · By Olivia Starling · English · Paid tier available · Official site

Indexed issues, last 90 days
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Latest publication
Sep 26, 2026
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Jul 28, 2026

Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 26, 2026

    She’s our man. (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Neutral tone

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="591" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eASO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ad93064-b3a2-4677-9abb-143415e89706_500x591.jpeg"

  2. Issue · Sep 23, 2026

    She was the first woman at MIT and the founder of “Home Economics.” MIT let her in free so they could deny she was a student, refused her a PhD, and never made her a professor before she died at 68. (opens the original)

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    Somewhere in your day, probably before your first coffee, you trusted a woman whose name you don’t know.You trusted her when you filled a glass from the tap without a second thought — America’s first water-quality standards grew out of her work. You trust her every time the cinnamon in your cupboard turns out to be actual cinnamon; decades before the country had a federal food law, she was catching grocers selling it cut with mahogany dust. If you ate school lunches as a kid, she helped set that

  3. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. 30 years later, her work got her killed. (opens the original)

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="337" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ee5q!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd3dc028d-b487-403b-9bbe-2c0dcfcfdff8_500x337.jpeg"

  4. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    She defends women sentenced to death, survives on less than $300 monthly, and her son was killed in retaliation. (opens the original)

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="971" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rlAc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19318bb9-c75a-4e29-915a-5a493c87794e_3515x2343.pn

  5. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    We did it!!! (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="433" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yBIK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4911662e-fe4c-4212-bb65-1b08a608e0dc_2316x688.png"

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