Knocking on Two Million Doors
Control of the Senate could hinge on Black voters—and on an ambitious effort to get them to the polls in the largest numbers ever for the Jan. 5 runoff elections.
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Control of the Senate could hinge on Black voters—and on an ambitious effort to get them to the polls in the largest numbers ever for the Jan. 5 runoff elections.
Audra D. S. Burch The New York Times Magazine Dec 2020 30min Permalink
The new Delaware state senator is making history in her hometown.
Brock Colyar The Cut Jan 2021 20min Permalink
Observers have long warned of rising forced labor in Xinjiang. Satellite images show factories built just steps away from cell blocks.
Alison Killing, Megha Rajagopalan Buzzfeed Dec 2020 20min Permalink
As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.
Ed Yong The Atlantic Dec 2020 25min Permalink
An argument for working less.
Bertrand Russell Harper's Oct 1932 20min Permalink
In a district where parents are epidemiologists and health policy experts, the meltdown happened one Zoom meeting at a time
Noreen Malone Slate Dec 2020 30min Permalink
The newsletter service is a software company that, by mimicking some of the functions of newsrooms, has made itself difficult to categorize.
Anna Wiener New Yorker Dec 2020 20min Permalink
Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.
Steven Lance The Atavist Magazine Dec 2020 1h10min Permalink
A profile of MF Doom.
Ta-Nehisi Coates New Yorker Sep 2009 20min Permalink
A cloud enthusiast becomes an advocate for a new type of cloud.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine May 2016 20min Permalink
A teenage girl's mysterious disappearance(s).
Sophie Kearing The Lumiere Review Dec 2020 Permalink
Confined mostly to tiny cabins as the pandemic unfolded, crew members struggle to cope.
Austin Carr Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2020 20min Permalink
The author’s chance encounter with Tom Hanks leads to a dear and lasting friendship with his assistant.
Ann Patchett Harper's Dec 2020 1h20min Permalink
Carried away by love—for risk and for each other—two of the world’s best freedivers went to the limits of their sport. Only one came back.
Gary Smith Sports Illustrated Jun 2003 35min Permalink
Private executioners paid in cash. Middle-of-the-night killings. False or incomplete justifications.
Isaac Arnsdorf ProPublica Dec 2020 20min Permalink
A trip to Batumi, Georgia.
A German officer is facing trial on terrorism charges. At a volatile time for Western democracy, his story mirrors the story of Germany itself.
Katrin Bennhold New York Times Dec 2020 20min Permalink
The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020.
Rachel Handler Grub Street Dec 2020 20min Permalink
The mistakes and the struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy.
Lawrence Wright New Yorker Dec 2020 2h Permalink
The economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus has led to enormous food insecurity across America—even in its richest cities.
Samantha Michaels Mother Jones Dec 2020 15min Permalink
Evidence of the failure to love is everywhere around us. To contemplate what it is to love today brings us up against reefs of darkness and walls of despair.
Barry Lopez Orion Aug 2020 15min Permalink
Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Dec 2020 20min Permalink
The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity.
Adrienne LaFrance The Atlantic Dec 2020 20min Permalink
How John, a father of 14, lost Christmas.
George Saunders New Yorker Dec 2003 10min Permalink
The boutique fitness phenomenon sold exclusivity with a smile, until a toxic atmosphere and a push for growth brought the whole thing down.
Alex Abad-Santos Vox Dec 2020 30min Permalink