INHERITANCE Magazine
A magazine about race, culture, money, power, and what gets passed down. It published from 2025 to 2026, and its archive stays open.
- “The American Experiment”: second place, national political commentary, 2026 LA Press Club Awards
- “The American Experiment”: 2026 Communicator Award of Distinction
- “Wendell Pierce Is Not Done Yet”: finalist, 2026 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards (LA Press Club)
- Format
- Magazine
- Published
- 2025 to 2026
- Created by
- Ethan Ward
- Status
- Archive
What it published
Personal and reported essays on race, culture, money, and power. It also ran photo essays, a weekly roundup called What I’ve Taken, and LONGITUDE, a series about places.
A few to start with:
The American Experiment
Why does America call itself an experiment, and who agreed to be tested?
- Second place, national political commentary, 2026 LA Press Club Awards
- 2026 Communicator Award of Distinction
OpenAI Built a Safety Board. Then It Disappeared.
On a New Yorker investigation, and the institutions that keep turning AI’s dangers into theater.
Wendell Pierce Is Not Done Yet
The actor has spent 40 years carrying the stories of the dead.
- Finalist, 2026 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards (LA Press Club)
AI Is the New ‘Who Did You Vote For?’
How AI became an American wedge issue, from data centers to family arguments.
Everything else is in the full archive.
What’s next
Selected essays from INHERITANCE Magazine are moving to our two new magazines. Its AI and technology stories now appear, revised, in Interested Party, an independent magazine about what AI is doing to our work, money, health, and culture, from a Black point of view, which sends its first edition in December. Its travel stories now appear in Maroon Astro, a travel magazine from someone who went.