The Battle for the BBC
The broadcasting behemoth is up for a charter renewal in the United Kingdom, and it’s exposing every crack in the organization.
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Death Is Real
A day in the life of Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum, in the wake of the sudden death of his wife when their daughter was four months old.
All-American Nazis
How a senseless double murder in Florida exposed the rise of an organized fascist youth movement in the United States.
How Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons Into Big Profits
Food. Phone calls. Medical care. Transport. Even in public prisons, “piecemeal privatization” is transforming incarceration in America.
The Last Shakers?
The last living Shakers—just two by some counts—keep their centuries-old faith in a village in Maine.
Sarah Ellison is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and the author of War at the Wall Street Journal.
“There’s no lack of stories. ... There’s always an element where you’re going to be parachuting into something that someone has likely written about, to some degree. You can’t shy away from going into something that’s a crowded field.”
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Escape from Cuba
Yasiel Puig’s journey to the Dodgers.
Old Terror, New Hearts
A trip to a Louisiana leper colony.
The Body Electric
What it’s like to be struck by lightning.
Future Shocks
On the endless quest to predict earthquakes.
Fog Count
What prison does to a person.
Cash/Consent
I was asked about labor protections for adult-film performers. I said: You have to recognize how complicated this is. The things that sex workers do to stay safe are almost always the things civilians want to pass laws to stop. Everything looks different depending on the distance from which you’re looking.
Body Language
How to tell a genderqueer story.
Miles Johnson is an investigative reporter for the Financial Times. He is the author of Chasing Shadows: A True Story of Drugs, War and the Secret World of International Crime and the host of Hot Money: The New Narcos.
“I’m really fascinated always by the ways in which people just have to do really boring parts of running a crime organization … I love the banalities of this stuff. We have a fictionalized version of crime groups and it’s obviously glamorous, and they’re really smart, but there’s a lot of stuff that’s bumbling incompetence as well or just quite unglamorous.”
Animal Magnetism
Why humans love to watch other creatures.
Rock, Paper, Scissors
How America used to vote.
Inside the National Suicide Hotline
Trying to prevent the next tragedy.
The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try.
A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no future. And nobody but him will use the outdoor toilet he built to shrink his carbon footprint.
Inside DC’s Secret Covid Morgue
Last April, the District built a secret disaster morgue, assembled an army of volunteers to staff it, and trained people who had never previously seen a dead body to care for the dead. This is the story of the morgue—and the quiet force of civil servants tending to everyone we’ve lost to Covid.
The Crow Whisperer
What happens when we talk to animals?
The Grandmaster Diet
How to lose weight while barely moving.
The Plus Side
A revolution in full-figured fashion.
Collapse
Witnessing one of deadliest landslides in American history.
Public Enemies
How social media is fueling gang activity in Chicago.
The Love That Dares
Confronting homophobia in Uganda.
