“I Never Thought I’d Be Standing in One of Those Lines”: Stories From People Seeking Food Aid
The economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus has led to enormous food insecurity across America—even in its richest cities.
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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
Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists.
Naomi Klein The Intercept Feb 2021 15min Permalink
Shared parenting is usually better for children—but the model fails for many women forced to co-parent with their abusers.
Megan O’Matz ProPublica Sep 2021 25min Permalink
James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever.
Daniel Engber The Atlantic Oct 2021 Permalink
In 1936, Karp Lykov whisked his family into the Siberian wilderness to escape Bolshevik persecution. They remained there, alone, until discovered by a helicopter crew in 1978.
Mike Dash Smithsonian Jan 2013 15min Permalink
Alfred Anaya was a genius at installing secret compartments in cars. If they were used to smuggle drugs without his knowledge, he figured, that wasn’t his problem. He was wrong.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Mar 2013 25min Permalink
Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we’re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.
Michael Pollan New York Times Magazine May 2013 20min Permalink
On May 16, 1913, after he’d spent years earning a chance at American stardom, Canary Islander shortstop Alfredo Cabrera played his one and only Major League Baseball game.
Erik Malinowski Buzzfeed May 2013 20min Permalink
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How Michael Jordan beat Magic Johnson and won his first NBA championship.
David Halberstam Playing for Keeps Nov 1999 15min Permalink
A child’s hobby transforms slowly into a grown man’s obsessive project.
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Aaron Burch The Nervous Breakdown Jul 2014 10min Permalink
A French soccer star’s rise and fall from sports to cons to the Nazi Party.
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Juliet Jacques Berfrois Sep 2014 25min Permalink
“I am having a moment, but I only want more. I need more. I cannot merely be good enough because I am chased by the pernicious whispers that I might only be ‘good enough for a black woman.’”
Roxane Gay VQR Oct 2014 10min Permalink
Margaret Keane’s husband stole credit for her iconic paintings, basking in fame and fortune that should have been hers for years. Then she told a reporter the truth.
Jon Ronson The Guardian Oct 2014 10min Permalink
A sumo wrestling tournament. A failed coup ending in seppuku. A search for a forgotten man. How one writer’s trip to Japan became a journey through oblivion.
Brian Phillips Grantland Nov 2014 10min Permalink
Vegetables are “blue” in Japanese and other observations on the uneasy relationship between color and language.
Aatish Bhatia Empirical Zeal Jun 2012 20min Permalink
Diary entries concerning innocent Americans abroad.
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Rachel Cantor Five Chapters Jan 2014 50min Permalink
A mother defends her family lineage against disruption from envious cousins.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie New Yorker Jun 2008 25min Permalink
Over the past 33 years, Dick Hoyt has pushed, pulled and carried his disabled son, Rick, through more than 1,000 road races and triathlons, including 28 Boston Marathons. But as time bears down on them, how much longer can they keep it up?
Gary Smith Sports Illustrated Apr 2011 30min Permalink
A brutal story from the Times’ cub Metro reporter:
''We're dying,'' he said. ''Why is this happening? Is it because we loved each other too much or not enough?"
Maureen Dowd New York Times Dec 1983 1h20min Permalink
An attempt to sort out whether Vick is truly a changed man or simply a very gifted football player who was bound to be forgiven.
Will Leitch GQ Sep 2011 15min Permalink
Eight years after Moneyball, nearly every MLB front office has integrated statistical analysis into its strategic process. So where does that leave a former wunderkind like Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein?
Tom Verducci Sports Illustrated Sep 2011 20min Permalink
“When I was a child, Dad told me that he chose to become a cop because a cop was the most respected man on the block. When I took a seat at the grown folks table, he told me that he wanted control.”
W. Chris Johnson Gawker Mar 2015 20min Permalink
A man felt wronged by his ex-girlfriend, a video game designer. So he published a 9,425-word online screed with “each component designed to be as damaging to [her] as possible.” It sparked the online fire known as “Gamergate.”
Zachary Jason Boston Magazine May 2015 20min Permalink
The story of Attila Ambrus, who was released from jail this morning in Hungary. Nicknamed the Whiskey Robber because witnesses always spotted him having a double across the street prior to his heists, Ambrus only stole from state-owned banks and post offices, becoming a Hungarian folk hero during his seven years on the lam. While on his spree he was also the goaltender for Budapest’s best-known hockey team and was arguably the worst pro goalie ever to play the sport, once giving up 23 goals in a single game.
Excerpted from Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts.
Forty years ago, a man was killed in Chicago because he was black. The daughter he never met is still searching for clues about his death.
Steve Bogira Chicago Reader Mar 2012 45min Permalink