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The largest crowdfunding site in the world puts up a mirror to who we are and what matters most to us. Try not to look away.
Rachel Monroe The Atlantic Oct 2019 30min Permalink
Andy Burcham is navigating his first season as the on-air replacement for his best friend, a beloved college football announcer named Rod Bramblett who was killed with his wife in a car crash. But a bigger change is at home, where the Burchams are raising the Brambletts’ son.
Sam Borden ESPN Nov 2019 25min Permalink
When her former student was found wandering the streets a decade after she’d last seen him, Michelle Girard immediately agreed to take him in. Then she decided to do far more, including give him the Christmas he’d never had.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Dec 2019 15min Permalink
Iranian operative Qassem Suleimani has been reshaping the Middle East. Now he’s directing Bashar al-Assad’s war in Syria.
Dexter Filkins New Yorker Sep 2013 40min Permalink
There’s a hidden cost to the way Florida’s farmers bring in the sugar crop. Just visit the hospitals and measure the climate impact.
Paul Tullis Bloomberg Businessweek Mar 2020 15min Permalink
An oral history of the day oil prices went below zero for the first time in trading history.
Jessica Camille Aguirre Vanity Fair May 2020 Permalink
Myth, storytelling, and lore in the most disappointing clubhouses of America’s pastime.
Rolf Potts Medium Oct 2016 15min Permalink
Four years ago, Dominique Jones got out of prison and learned to rap. Today he is, by many metrics, the most popular rapper in the world.
Charles Holmes Rolling Stone Jul 2020 20min Permalink
My mother is an urban peasant and I am my mother’s daughter. The city is our natural element. We each have daily adventures with bus drivers, bag ladies, ticket takers, and street crazies. Walking brings out the best in us.
Vivian Gornick Village Voice Mar 1987 30min Permalink
Against all odds, it really was a refuge of competence, normalcy and transcendent play. But the outside world has a way of sneaking in.
Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 20min Permalink
In staying, I was not only denying myself the chance at true happiness, but I was keeping him from having it, too. It was that realization—that I was preventing my husband from having the life he deserved—that ultimately outweighed the fears I had about leaving.
Britni de la Cretaz Catapult Nov 2020 15min Permalink
Teens are dying by suicide at an alarming rate. Public health officials call it a crisis. Researchers have identified several clusters nationwide. The survivors in this Arizona community are fighting back.
Matthew Shaer Esquire Oct 2020 25min Permalink
Twenty-five years ago this month, “superpredator” was coined in The Weekly Standard. Media spread the term like wildfire, creating repercussions on policy and culture we are still reckoning with today.
Carroll Bogert, Lynell Hancock The Marshall Project Nov 2020 15min Permalink
When his parents marriage imploded, the author’s mother said his father was worthless, a con man. A bad investment in their lives. But years later, a mysterious book about Wall Street showed up—a gift from his father—that began to change the story.
Joshua Ferris Wealthsimple Magazine Dec 2020 20min Permalink
Brian Kelly, The Points Guy, has created an empire dedicated to maximizing credit-card rewards and airline miles. What are they worth in a global pandemic — and why are they worth anything at all?
Jamie Lauren Keiles New York Times Magazine Jan 2021 35min Permalink
Twenty-five years ago, the tragedy at the World of Primates building broke the city’s heart and raised a loaded question: What, exactly, do we owe the animals in our care?
Sandy Hingston Philadephia Magazine Dec 2020 20min Permalink
The Air Force, beholden to corporate forces, is trapped in a contract with Northrop Grumman to rebuild the nuke program.
Elisabeth Eaves Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Feb 2021 35min Permalink
In the small coastal country, an exploding industry has led to big economic promises, and a steep environmental price.
Ian Urbina New Yorker Mar 2021 Permalink
“For so long, we’ve thought keeping our heads down and being invisible in America might help us gain acceptance — but the recent wave of racist violence has shattered that myth.”
Venessa Wong Buzzfeed Mar 2021 20min Permalink
George Otto was a respected family physician with a bustling clinic in the northwest corner of the city. But he had a secret: after hours, he was running a booming fentanyl business.
Brett Popplewell Toronto Life Mar 2021 20min Permalink
In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I’m forever getting married.
Lauren Goode Wired Apr 2021 25min Permalink
Prison Doctor David Ross was powerless in the role of bedside bystander as he tended to ten hunger strikers who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike. Five years later, he killed himself.
Simon Carswell The Irish Times Jun 2021 Permalink
In 1970 South Central, pigeon fancying was serious business. But there’s a deeper story behind why these Black Angelenos are entering their fifth and sixth decade raising Birmingham Roller pigeons.
Shanna B. Tiayon Pipe Wrench Jun 2021 30min Permalink
Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die.
Ed Caeser New Yorker Oct 2021 35min Permalink
Nearly a decade ago, Marie Calloway’s debut book, what purpose did i serve in your life, thrilled and repulsed readers. Then she vanished from public life. I tried to find her.
Scaachi Koul Buzzfeed Oct 2021 20min Permalink