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Jordan Kisner

Health

What the Chaos in Hospitals Is Doing to Doctors

The ethical burdens of the ICU during Covid.

Jordan Kisner The Atlantic Dec 2020 30min Permalink

Health

Piled Bodies, Overflowing Morgues: Inside America’s Autopsy Crisis

Medical examiners provide crucial insights into public health and safety. What happens when we don’t have enough of them?

Jordan Kisner New York Times Magazine Feb 2020 20min Permalink

Las Marthas

A visit to a colonial debutante ball in Texas, where girls wear hundred-pound dresses and pretend to be Martha Washington.

Jordan Kisner The Believer Oct 2019 40min Permalink

Tech Health

How a New Technology Is Changing the Lives of People Who Cannot Speak

The same “Stephen Hawking voice” is used by little girls, old men, and people of every racial and ethnic background. Inside the quest to give people a voice of their own.

Jordan Kisner The Guardian Jan 2018 Permalink

Best Article Science

Man vs. Rat

On a centuries-long war that may be coming to an end.

Jordan Kisner The Guardian Sep 2016 20min Permalink

Religion

Jesus Raves

New York’s Pastor Parker and his growing string of Liberty Churches, each of which will “adopt the culture of its neighborhood.”

Jordan Kisner n+1 Dec 2013 30min Permalink