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The true story of M Company: from Fort Dix to Vietnam in 50 days.
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The true story of M Company: from Fort Dix to Vietnam in 50 days.
An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald.
T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose, Robert Faturechi ProPublica Feb 2019 1h10min Permalink
Veterans are taking their own lives on VA hospital campuses, a desperate form of protest against a system that they feel hasn’t helped them.
Emily Wax-Thibodeaux Washington Post Feb 2019 10min Permalink
The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.
Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker Mar 2019 25min Permalink
The particular sheen of America by Amtrak.
Caity Weaver New York Times Magazine Mar 2019 1h30min Permalink
How the border patrol chases have spun out of control, with deadly consequence.
Kavitha Surana, Brittny Mejia, James Queally ProPublica, The Los Angeles Times Apr 2019 20min Permalink
Ideas on labor and capital have remained fixed while the means of production grow ever more alienating.
Marilynne Robinson Harper's May 2019 25min Permalink
Last summer, Arthur Medici went surfing off the coast of Cape Cod. He never made it back.
Casey Sherman Boston Magazine May 2019 15min Permalink
Donald Trump assaulted me in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years ago. But he’s not alone on the list of awful men in my life.
E. Jean Carroll New York Jun 2019 15min Permalink
Pete Philo had a successful NBA career as a scout for the Pacers, Timberwolves, and Mavericks. He got all those jobs after being convicted of raping a teenager.
Dave McKenna Deadspin Jun 2019 30min Permalink
An attempt to understand why, after 50 years of decline, more and more young women are suddenly embracing religious life.
Eve Fairbanks Huffington Post Highline Jul 2019 35min Permalink
For 30 years, Paul Shuen was one of the city’s most respected obstetricians. Then his nurses noticed something unusual about the way he delivered babies.
Michael Lista Toronto Life Jul 2019 Permalink
The author recalls his time as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
David Berman The Baffler Dec 1994 15min Permalink
After years of whispers in her Polish community, Anna finally learned the truth about her father. Then she went to Sri Lanka to find him.
Aparita Bhandari Hazlitt Aug 2019 35min Permalink
How the first Williams sister changed the course of women’s tennis.
Elizabeth Weil New York Times Magazine Aug 2019 30min Permalink
Indigenous people and illegal miners are engaged in a fight that may help decide the future of the planet.
Jon Lee Anderson New Yorker Nov 2019 35min Permalink
Home-funeral guides believe that families can benefit from tending to—and spending time with—the bodies of their deceased.
Maggie Jones New York Times Magazine Dec 2019 35min Permalink
A profile of Mo Isom, a former goalie on the LSU women’s soccer team now trying to kick for the football team.
Jordan Conn Grantland Aug 2012 30min Permalink
After Brexit, the obsessions of Jake Fiennes could change how Britain uses its land.
Sam Knight New Yorker Feb 2020 25min Permalink
Investigating one of the deadliest maritime disasters in U.S. history.
Kathryn Miles Outside Feb 2020 20min Permalink
Stories of African Americans playing in a city that has struggled with racism
Marc J. Spears The Undefeated Feb 2020 25min Permalink
Inside the surreal and lucrative two-sided marketplace of mediocre famous people.
Patrick J. Sauer Marker Mar 2020 Permalink
Behind the scenes of the survivalist reality-TV show.
Blair Braverman Outside Mar 2020 Permalink
A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend.
Ed Yong The Atlantic Apr 2020 25min Permalink
The resilience of Marga Griesbach, 92, who made it through the Holocaust, and set off for a cruise around the world in February.
Rebecca Traister New York May 2020 35min Permalink