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Rachel Aviv

Crime Religion

The Shadow Penal System for Struggling Kids

The Christian organization Teen Challenge, made up of more than a thousand centers, claims to reform troubled teens. But is its discipline more like abuse?

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Oct 2021 Permalink

Science

How Elizabeth Loftus Changed the Meaning of Memory

The psychologist taught us that what we remember is not fixed, but her work testifying for defendants like Harvey Weinstein collides with our traumatized moment.

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Mar 2021 35min Permalink

Crime Health

Punishment by Pandemic

In an Arkansas jail with one of the America’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, prison terms become death sentences.

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Jun 2020 30min Permalink

Arts

The Unravelling of a Dancer

Sharon Stern devoted herself to Butoh, a Buddhist-influenced Japanese dance. Did her mentor lead her down a dangerous path?

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Apr 2020 35min Permalink

Best Article Crime

What if Your Abusive Husband Is a Cop?

Police departments have become more attentive to officers’ use of excessive force on the job, but that concern rarely extends to the home.

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Sep 2019 40min Permalink

Health

The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs

Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it’s time to stop?

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Apr 2019 25min Permalink

Politics

Georgia’s Separate and Unequal Special-Education System

A statewide network of schools for disabled students has trapped black children in neglect and isolation.

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Sep 2018 35min Permalink

Best Article

How a Young Woman Lost Her Identity

Hannah Upp keeps disappearing, forgetting her sense of self. Can she still be found?

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Mar 2018 35min Permalink

What Does It Mean to Die?

A 13-year-old girl was declared brain-dead, but her family disagreed. Her case challenges the very nature of existence.

Rachel Aviv The New Yorker Jan 2018 35min Permalink

Crime

How the Elderly Lose Their Rights

Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it.

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Oct 2017 35min Permalink

Crime

The Trials of a Muslim Cop

Bobby Hadid joined the NYPD after 9/11, to protect his new country. But when he questioned the force’s tactics, his life began to erode.

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Sep 2017 35min Permalink

Crime

Remembering the Murder You Didn’t Commit

DNA evidence exonerated six convicted killers. So why do some of them recall the crime so clearly?

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Jun 2017 35min Permalink

World

The Trauma of Facing Deportation

In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children have fallen unconscious after being informed that their families will be expelled from the country. The patients, doctors say, seem to have lost the will to live.

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Mar 2017 25min Permalink

Best Article

How Albert Woodfox Survived Solitary

As one of the Angola 3, he was in isolation longer than any other American. Then he came home to face his future.

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Aviv on the Longform Podcast

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Jan 2017 45min Permalink

The Philosopher of Feelings

A profile of Martha Nussbaum, whose ideas illuminate the often ignored elements of human life—aging, inequality, and emotion.

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Rachel Aviv on the Longform Podcast

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Jul 2016 35min Permalink

World

Mother for Hire

Immigrant nannies leave their own children behind to care for others’.

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Rachel Aviv on the Longform Podcast

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Apr 2016 30min Permalink

Politics World

The Refugee Dilemma

What America owes those it takes in.

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Rachel Aviv on the Longform Podcast

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Nov 2015 35min Permalink

Crime

Revenge Killing

The death of an infant lands his father on death row in Louisiana.

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Jun 2015 25min Permalink

The Death Treatment

The legalizing of euthanasia is usually seen as a advancement in human rights. But is it appropriate for cases of non-terminal illness?

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Jun 2015 35min Permalink

Crime

Your Son is Deceased

Albuquerque has one of the highest rates in the country of fatal shootings by police, and no officer has been indicted.

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Jan 2015 35min Permalink

The Shame of Borough Park

After a Hasidic man exposed child abuse, his tight-knit Brooklyn community turned on him.

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Nov 2014 35min Permalink

Wrong Answer

Why Parks Middle School decided to cheat.

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Previously: Rachel Aviv on the Longform Podcast.

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Jul 2014 35min Permalink

Crime Media

Local Story

How the Newtown Bee covered Sandy Hook.

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Previously: Rachel Aviv on the Longform Podcast.

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Dec 2013 20min Permalink

Science

Going After the Frog Man

After Berkeley biologist Tyrone Hayes said that a widely used herbicide was harmful, its maker launched an attack on him.

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Feb 2014 35min Permalink

Religion

Like I Was Jesus

The gospel according to nine-year-olds; a missionary group that won the right to evangelize in schools and how children process their message.

Rachel Aviv Harper's Aug 2009 30min Permalink

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