Not Without My Brothers
When Michael Deng joined an Asian-American frat, he was searching for belonging and identity. Two months later he was dead.
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When Michael Deng joined an Asian-American frat, he was searching for belonging and identity. Two months later he was dead.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine Aug 2017 30min Permalink
How dangerous is the media company that Steve Bannon called “the platform for the alt-right”?
Wil S. Hylton New York Times Magazine Aug 2017 35min Permalink
A 2016 investigation into why Houston wasn’t ready for the next big hurricane.
Neena Satija, Kiah Collier, Al Shaw, Jeff Larson ProPublica, Texas Tribune Mar 2016 40min Permalink
“GOD Almighty, you can get killed in Baltimore—for no reason at all.”
Barry Michael Cooper Spin May 1986 Permalink
Thousands of internal documents help explain how, through brutality and bureaucracy, the Islamic State stayed in power for so long.
Rukmini Callimachi The New York Times Apr 2018 30min Permalink
On the star who is re-writing the rules for the next generation.
Jacqueline Woodson Vanity Fair Mar 2018 15min Permalink
How a tiny protest at the University of Nebraska turned into a proxy war for the future of campus politics.
Steve Kolowich Chronicle of Higher Education Apr 2018 35min Permalink
The platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected.
Alexis C. Madrigal The Atlantic Oct 2018 20min Permalink
The predatory trainer may have just taken down USA Gymnastics. How did he deceive so many for so long?
Kerry Howley New York Nov 2018 20min Permalink
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
A friendship born out of the ruins of a nation, a dangerous journey home, and a 40-year search for the truth.
Brent Crane The Atavist Aug 2019 40min Permalink
Elizabeth Pierce impressed investors with hefty contracts for fiber—until they learned she was the only one who’d signed them.
Austin Carr Bloomberg Businessweek Oct 2019 15min Permalink
How the media and law enforcement fingered the wrong man for the 1996 Olympic Park bombing.
Marie Brenner Vanity Fair Feb 1997 1h15min Permalink
The long struggle for workers’ rights at poultry plants is now more urgent than ever
Mya Frazier The Guardian Apr 2020 20min Permalink
The passengers of the Diamond Princess came for indulgence, relaxation and bottomless buffets. Then they found themselves trapped on a ship infected with a deadly virus.
Joshua Hunt 1843 Apr 2020 20min Permalink
The global scramble for this vital item has exposed the harsh realities of international politics and the limits of the free market.
Samanth Subramanian Guardian Apr 2020 25min Permalink
Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later.
Lindsay Jones The Walrus Jun 2020 20min Permalink
After leaving Bon Appétit, the chef now has her own show—where she’s paid fairly for her fantastic creations.
E. Alex Jung Vulture Oct 2020 10min Permalink
Sewage epidemiology has been embraced in other countries for decades, but not in America. Will Covid change that?
Miranda Weiss Undark Apr 2021 25min Permalink
Blake Bailey was my favorite teacher. Years later, he forced himself on me. Why did I seek his approval for so long?
Eve Crawford Peyton Slate Apr 2021 15min Permalink
An interview with Chase Strangio, who has won a series of landmark court cases in his role as ACLU deputy director for transgender justice.
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Grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11.
Jennifer Senior The Atlantic Aug 2021 30min Permalink
For nearly 200 years, San Francisco has been the last stop of petty thieves, con artists and killers. Iva Kroeger was all three.
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Hanna Rosin is a senior editor at The Atlantic and a founder and editor at DoubleX.
“I often think of reporting as dating, or even speed dating. You’re looking for someone where there’s a spark there between you and them. Sometimes that happens right away and sometimes it takes forever. ... You have to determine if they're reflective, friendly, open. It could be love at first sight and they're still all wrong, which is really heartbreaking.”
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Nathaniel Rich is a novelist and a writer-at-large for The New York Times Magazine. His most recent article is "Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change."
“There’s a huge opportunity with climate change because we talk a lot about the political issue with it, the industry story and the scientific story, but we don’t talk about the human story. And I would say that not only is it a big human story, but it is the human story. ... With every step of the ladder that we’ve advanced, we’re borrowing from our future. I don’t think we’ve reckoned with that in a serious way.”
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