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The Ladder Up
A restless history of Washington Heights.
Lost in Summerland
At the world’s largest gathering of psychics and mediums, two brothers confront a painful secret.
The Sting
The inside story of a brutally botched undercover operation.
The World's Best Golfer Has Some Issues With Golf
A profile of Brooks Koepka.
The Impossible Profession
The life and work of a Manhattan psychoanalyst.
Motherhood Through The Looking 'Gram
The cost of parents sharing their lives on Instagram.
"This Was Abuse"
The fall of CBS showrunner Peter Lenkov.
Un-Adopted
YouTubers Myka and James Stauffer shared every step of their parenting journey. Except the last.
The Sanctuary
In Minneapolis, a group of activists take over a Sheraton and open it to the homeless, banning police.
Going Postal
A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive.
Injured?
On the downfall of ubiquitous accident law firm, Cellino & Barnes.
What the Chaos in Hospitals Is Doing to Doctors
The ethical burdens of the ICU during Covid.
What the Hole Is Going On?
The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020.
Return the National Parks to the Tribes
The jewels of America’s landscape should belong to America’s original peoples.
Roberto Ferdman is a correspondent at VICE News. He and his colleagues at VICE News Tonight won the George Polk Award for Television Reporting for their coverage of the killing of Breonna Taylor and the investigations that followed.
This is part four in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu
On the retirement of Ted Williams.
Simone Biles Would Like to Thank Herself
A profile of the gymnast.
Gettysburg
American history begs the question: Can immigrants possibly inherit the mythology of the U.S.?
Give All
James Wood on Saul Bellow:
One realizes, with a shock, that Bellow has taught one how to see and how to hear, has opened the senses. Until this moment one had not really thought of the looseness of a lightbulb filament, one had not heard the saliva bubbling in the harmonica, one had not seen well enough the nose pitted with black pores, and the demolition ball’s slow, heavy selection of its victims. A dozen good writers–Updike, DeLillo, others–can render you the window of a fish shop, and do it very well; but it is Bellow’s genius to see the lobsters “crowded to the glass” and their “feelers bent” by that glass–to see the riot of life in the dead peace of things.
Lynsey Addario is a photojournalist for The New York Times and National Geographic. She won the George Polk award for her photograph of the bodies of a woman and her two children alongside a friend who lay dying moments after a mortar struck them as they sought to flee Ukraine.
“If I have time to compose a photo—even if it's of a horrific topic—I will always try to make the most beautiful photograph because I want people to look. I want people to ask questions, to be engaged, to pay attention. And often, that does mean the intersection of beauty and horror.”
This is the fourth in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.
Meth, Murder, and Pirates: The Coder Who Became A Crime Boss
How a brilliant self-made software programmer from South Africa single-handedly built an online startup that became one of the largest individual contributors to America’s burgeoning painkiller epidemic. In his world, everything was for sale. Pure methamphetamine manufactured in North Korea. Yachts built to outrun coast guards. Police protection and judges’ favor. Crates of military-grade weapons. Private jets full of gold. Missile-guidance systems. Unbreakable encryption. African militias. Explosives. Kidnapping. Torture. Murder. It's a world that lurks just outside of our everyday perception, in the dark corners of the internet we never visit, the quiet ports where ships slip in by night, the back room of the clinic down the street.
Terrence McCoy is The Washington Post's Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief. He won the George Polk award for his series "The Amazon, Undone" on the illegal and often violent exploitation of the rainforest.
“When I first got to Brazil, the Amazon was an arena of mystique. But after you spend a fair amount of time in the Amazon, it becomes quite clear what the struggle is—and how human that struggle is.”
This is the last of a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.
For Jared Remy, Leniency Was the Rule Until One Lethal Night
The son of a Red Sox legend, his trail of violent attacks runs back to his teen years. So does the line of judges who somehow saw fit, time and again, to give him one more chance. Now he’s on trial for murder.
Anwar al-Awlaki: The Next Bin Laden
With Osama dead, U.S. intelligence is zeroing in on the remaining most dangerous terrorists alive, and one man is at the top of the list. Of the eighteen terror attacks attempted in the United States over the past two years, Anwar al-Awlaki’s fingerprints are on eight of them. The moderate turned radical is eloquent, he is popular— and he’s American.
