The Price of a Life
Being exonerated for a crime you didn’t commit is a hard-won triumph. But how can the state make up for what you’ve lost while in prison?
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Being exonerated for a crime you didn’t commit is a hard-won triumph. But how can the state make up for what you’ve lost while in prison?
Ariel Levy New Yorker Apr 2015 35min Permalink
On the French urban exploration group UX—”sort of like an artist’s collective, but far from being avant-garde—confronting audiences by pushing the boundaries of the new—its only audience is itself.”
Jon Lackman Wired Jan 2012 15min Permalink
Jonathan Blow is both the video game industry’s most cynical critic and its most ambitious game developer. As he finishes his indescribable game-opus, a trip inside the head of a videogame auteur.
Taylor Clark The Atlantic May 2012 30min Permalink
In the remote wilderness along northern British Columbia’s Highway 16, at least 18 women have gone missing over the past four decades. Is it the work of a serial killer or multiple offenders?
The prosecutor in the case of hacker turned F.B.I. informant (but still hacker) Albert Gonzales and his organization Shadowcrew : “The sheer extent of the human victimization caused by Gonzalez and his organization is unparalleled.”
James Verini New York Times Magazine Nov 2010 Permalink
By the time Noura Jackson’s conviction was overturned, she had spent nine years in prison. This type of prosecutorial error is almost never punished.
Emily Bazelon New York Times Magazine Aug 2017 30min Permalink
Twenty-five years after 82 Branch Davidians and 4 federal officers were killed, the lead negotiator at the scene is still arguing about what happened.
Eric Benson Texas Monthly Mar 2018 30min Permalink
An investigation into a social media-fueled gang war in Detroit.
The Red Zone is part pharmacy, part killing field and part music studio where gang members peddled drugs, fought rivals and shot rap videos on street corners.
Robert Snell The Detroit News Apr 2018 Permalink
“This is the story of the past three years of my life. It’s romance in a way, but it’s also a breakup story.”
Meghan Daum Medium Aug 2018 30min Permalink
“The vegan wars are not really about veganism at all, but about how individual freedom is coming into conflict with a personal and environmental health crisis.”
George Reynolds The Guardian Oct 2019 20min Permalink
Tonya Crowder still dreams that she and her fiance, Roosevelt Myles—who’s been in prison for decades fighting what he says is a wrongful conviction—will one day build a life together somewhere “nice, quiet, and simple.”
Mari Cohen Chicago Reader Nov 2019 25min Permalink
Around the world, more than 40 teams are working on a vaccine for Covid-19. How one doctor is approaching the most urgent quest of his life.
Samanth Subramanian The Guardian Mar 2020 25min Permalink
All he wants is his own room and a kitchen where he can bake chocolate cake. He dreams of it while he sleeps in tents in parks and under the freeway.
Sarah Ravani San Francisco Chronicle Jul 2020 25min Permalink
I say, Where’s Breonna, why won’t anybody say where Breonna is? He says, Well, ma’am, she’s still in the apartment. And I know what that means.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Vanity Fair Aug 2020 25min Permalink
Covid-19 has revealed the depths of the nation’s rental housing crisis—but a group of Minneapolis tenants has shown that a different future is possible.
Matthew Desmond The New York Times Magazine Oct 2020 30min Permalink
Baby Olivia weighed 1 pound, 10 ounces. Her doctors faced a stressful paradox: giving her the healing power of a parent’s touch, while keeping the virus out.
Eva Holland Wired Feb 2021 15min Permalink
The behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden is waging a two-front campaign: on her left are those who assume that genes are irrelevant, on her right those who insist that they’re everything.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus New Yorker Sep 2021 40min Permalink
How to get Americans to “pay $45 to $75 to run for their lives from 1,500-pound, bad-tempered beasts.”
Barry Bearak New York Times Nov 2013 Permalink
An ex-SEAL turns to “ocean therapy” to cope with chronic pain and PTSD.
Matt Skenazy Outside Sep 2015 15min Permalink
“What am I going to do? Because this isn’t fair. I deserve to have a life, to be functional. Well, I guess I’m going to stick myself with bees.”
Katy Vine Texas Monthly Nov 2019 25min Permalink
This is what happens when you concoct game-fixing allegations against a Major League pitcher because of a perceived slight on Facebook.
Lance Williams, Brian Tuohy Center for Investigative Reporting Aug 2014 20min Permalink
A talk on personal data and the people who collect it:
"Let me ask a trick question. What was the most damaging data breach in the last 12 months? The trick answer is: it's likely something we don't even know about."
Maciej Ceglowski Idle Words Sep 2015 Permalink
“It looks as though someone has slapped three pounds of wet clay onto his face, where it clings, burying the boy inside. But Sam, the boy behind the mask, peers out from the right eye. It is clear, perfectly formed and a deep, penetrating brown.”
Tom Hallman Jr. The Oregonian Oct 2000 1h5min Permalink
Philanthropist and private equity mogul David Rubenstein is lauded for his patriotic donations, including half the cost of repairing the Washington Monument. He also helped save a controversial tax break billionaires love.
Alec MacGillis ProPublica Mar 2015 30min Permalink
PLAYBOY: Is it possible you set a lower value on privacy than most people do?
DENTON: I don't think people give a fuck, actually.
Jeff Bercovici Playboy Feb 2014 30min Permalink