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Publications

California Sunday

Crime

The Vegas Plot

Two ordinary Americans, inspired by right-wing extremism, plan to kidnap a cop.

Ashley Powers California Sunday Jul 2015 25min Permalink

Best Article

The Last Patrol

In 2019, President Trump pardoned Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance, who was serving a 20-year sentence for ordering the murder of two Afghan civilians.

To Lorance’s defenders, the act was long overdue. To members of his platoon, it was a gross miscarriage of justice.

Nathaniel Penn California Sunday Sep 2020 1h20min Permalink

Business Politics

The Democracy Factory

For decades, the vote-by-mail business was a sleepy industry that stayed out of the spotlight. Then came 2020.

Jesse Barron California Sunday Sep 2020 20min Permalink

Health

What Happened in Room 10?

Inside the Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington, the first Covid-19 hot spot in the U.S., where 46 people associated with the nursing home died.

Katie Engelhart California Sunday Aug 2020 50min Permalink

Business

Out of Work

The coronavirus shutdown through the eyes of the recently unemployed.

California Sunday Jul 2020 Permalink

World

“When can we really rest?”

More migrants than ever are crossing the Colombia-Panama border to reach the U.S. Five days inside the Darién Gap, one of the most dangerous journeys in the world.

Nadja Drost California Sunday Apr 2020 30min Permalink

Politics

YouTube Sensation. Progressive in a Purple District. Single 
Mom.

What the Democratic Party could learn from first-term Congresswoman Katie Porter.

Rebecca Nelson California Sunday Mar 2020 20min Permalink

Business Science

The Lucrative, Largely Unregulated, and Widely Misunderstood World of 
Vaping

As medical researchers scramble to find the source of a fatal lung disease and officials seek to ban the sale of vape pens, our correspondent set out to separate reality from hysteria.

Amanda Chicago Lewis California Sunday Jan 2020 40min Permalink

Best Article Crime

The Mysterious Lawyer X

Nicola Gobbo defended Melbourne’s most notorious criminals at the height of a 
gangland war. They didn’t know she had a secret.

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Evan Ratliff is the co-host of the Longform Podcast.

Evan Ratliff California Sunday Jan 2020 50min Permalink

3 Kids. 2 Paychecks. No Home.

South of San Francisco, in a fertile corner of California that feeds much of the country, working families are sleeping in shelters and parking lots.

Brian Goldstone California Sunday Nov 2019 20min Permalink

“She’s missing. I’m not going to quit her.”

The long, loving search for Betsy, bovine escape artist.

Clio Chang California Sunday Oct 2019 10min Permalink

The Death and Life of Frankie Madrid

The U.S. had been his home since he was 6 months old. When he was deported 
to Mexico 26 years later, it was more than he could bear.

Valeria Fernández California Sunday Aug 2019 20min Permalink

Best Article

Gone

Decades of greed, neglect, corruption, and bad politics led to last year’s Paradise fire, the worst in California history.

Mark Arax California Sunday Jul 2019 50min Permalink

Crime

The Billboard

After Stephanie Montgomery says she was raped at the strip club where she worked, she went to the manager and the police. Nothing happened. That’s when she decided to tell her story as big as she could.

Kathy Dobie California Sunday May 2019 35min Permalink

‘‘You Got Your High School Diploma?’’

What happens when you put a classroom on wheels and park it in the poorest neighborhoods of San Francisco?

Elizabeth Weil California Sunday Mar 2019 25min Permalink

Health

Her Time

Debra Koosed was diagnosed with dementia at 65. That’s when she decided she no longer wanted to live.

Katie Engelhart California Sunday Mar 2019 30min Permalink

Media

Thrashed

If Thrasher is Vogue for skaters, 53-year-old Jake Phelps is the sport’s Anna Wintour.

Willy Staley California Sunday Mar 2016 20min Permalink

Politics

The Deported Americans

More than 600,000 U.S.-born children of undocumented parents live in Mexico. What happens when you return to a country you’ve never known?

Brooke Jarvis California Sunday Jan 2019 15min Permalink

Crime Health

Safe House

A group of Latina women across the country have been working in secret, turning their homes into shelters for abused immigrant women.

Lizzie Presser California Sunday Oct 2018 15min Permalink

Arts

Meow Wolf’s Magic Kingdom

How a ragtag group of artists launched an art-entertainment empire.

Taylor Clark California Sunday Sep 2018 20min Permalink

Best Article Business

Death, Redesigned

A few Silicon Valley executives are experimenting with mortality. “I don’t want death to be such a downer,” says one.

Jon Mooallem California Sunday Mar 2015 25min Permalink

Arts

Almost Famous

After two decades spent making movies, including last year’s record-
breaking Girls Trip, Malcolm D. Lee wishes he could stop paying his dues.

Allison P. Davis California Sunday Aug 2018 15min Permalink

World

Life on the Other Side

The women who flee North Korea and what they find.

Ann Babe California Sunday Aug 2018 10min Permalink

Best Article Health

“Whatever’s Your Darkest Question, You Can Ask Me.”

A secret network of women is working outside the law and the medical establishment to provide safe, cheap home abortions.

Lizzie Presser California Sunday Mar 2018 30min Permalink

World

City of Exiles

Every month, thousands of deportees from the United States and hundreds of asylum-seekers from around the world arrive in Tijuana. Many never leave.

Daniel Duane California Sunday May 2018 25min Permalink

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