In Brazilian City, Homeless Face ‘Extermination’
In Goiânia, a city of 1.3 million in Brazil’s agricultural heartland, one in twenty homeless residents have been murdered in the last two years.
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In Goiânia, a city of 1.3 million in Brazil’s agricultural heartland, one in twenty homeless residents have been murdered in the last two years.
Matt Sandy Al Jazeera Oct 2014 15min Permalink
Last summer, in a small Wisconsin city, the country’s fiercest differences collided in the streets—and a teenager named Kyle Rittenhouse opened fire, shooting three people. In the aftermath, a disquieting question loomed: Were these among the first shots in a new kind of civil war?
Doug Bock Clark GQ Mar 2021 35min Permalink
How companies and large temp agencies benefit from—and tacitly collaborate with—an underworld of labor brokers, known as “raiteros,” who charge workers fees, pushing their pay below minimum wage.
Michael Grabell ProPubica Apr 2013 20min Permalink
A first-person account of Louisiana’s prison rodeo in which:
...thousands of visitors drive down this road toward an inmate-constructed, 10,000-seat arena to watch Louisiana’s most feared criminals compete in harrowing events like “convict poker” (four prisoners sit around a card table and are ambushed by a bull; last one seated wins); “guts and glory” (a poker chip is tied to the forehead of a bull and inmates try to grab it off); and the perennial crowd pleaser, “bull riding.” Prisoners can win prize money, but have no chance to practice before entering the ring.
Liliana Segura Color Lines Aug 2011 15min Permalink
The Mexican novelist and activist talks about the role that the US plays in the hemisphere, and a joint future for North and South America.
We need your memory and your imagination or ours shall never be complete. You need our memory to redeem your past, and our imagination to complete your future. We may be here on this hemisphere for a long time. Let us remember one another. Let us respect one another. Let us walk together outside the night of repression and hunger and intervention, even if for you the sun is at high noon and for us at a quarter to twelve.
Carlos Fuentes Harvard University May 1983 35min Permalink
It’s a sham known as “sewer service.” When process servers regularly fail to deliver summonses, it leads to to automatic evictions for unwitting tenants.
Josh Kaplan DCist Oct 2020 35min Permalink
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The story of Southern Flight 242.
Eddie Burkhalter The Anniston Star May 2012 20min Permalink
Sewage epidemiology has been embraced in other countries for decades, but not in America. Will Covid change that?
Miranda Weiss Undark Apr 2021 25min Permalink
From Detroit to Greece, pro sports to Hollywood—a collection of articles about going broke.</p>
Students come from around the world to struggling Redding, California, where the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry promises to teach them to perform miracles.
Molly Hensley-Clancy Buzzfeed Oct 2017 35min Permalink
Central Park wasn’t always so bucolic.
Gangs of toughs—teenagers and the macho middle-aged, usually drunk, occasionally including a couple of off-duty cops—roam the Ramble at night, engaging in an old American pastime: fag bashing. You don't have to be gay. You don't have to be exposing yourself. You don't have to be doing anything except walking through the tangled darkness to be abused, shoved, threatened at knifepoint, kicked, and beaten.
Doug Ireland New York Jul 1978 20min Permalink
"Jaye and I decided we didn’t want to have children. But we still got that urge to blend, to merge and become one. I think the heart of a lot of the romance in couples, whatever kind of couple they are, is that they want to both just be each other, to consume each other with passion. So we wanted to represent that. First we did it by dressing alike. Then we started to do minor alterations to our bodies. Then we decided that we would try as hard as we could to actually look like each other in order to strengthen and solidify that urge."
Douglas Rushkoff, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge The Believer Jul 2011 15min Permalink
In the latest revelation from Edward Snowden, the U.S. government is shown to collect and retain massive amounts of data on nearly 900,000 people with the most minimal of connections to official NSA targets. The collected information tells our “stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes.”
Barton Gellman, Julie Tate, Ashkan Soltani Washington Post Jul 2014 15min Permalink
A financier and his wife build a mansion in the jungles of Costa Rica, set up a wildlife preserve, and appear to slowly, steadily lose their minds. A spiral of handguns, angry locals, armed guards, uncut diamonds, abduction plots, and a bedroom blazing with 550 Tiffany lamps ends with a body and a mystery: Did John Felix Bender die by his own hand? Or did Ann Bender kill him to escape their crumbling dream?
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'He collapsed on Granville Road, within 100 meters of the house he was renting for $20,000 a month. Police and medics were called to the scene, but within 30 minutes, Perepilichny was pronounced dead. Police told the press the death was “unexplained.” A 44-year-old man of average build and above-average wealth had simply fallen down and died in the leafy suburb he’d recently begun calling home.'
Jeffrey E. Stern The Atlantic Dec 2016 30min Permalink
A son chronicles his father’s death:
My father's mortician was a careless barber. Stepping up to the open casket, I realized too much had been taken off the beard. The sides were trimmed tidy, the bottom cut flat across. It was a disconcerting sight, because in his last years, especially, my father had worn his beard wild, equal parts loony chemist and liquor store Santa. The mortician ought to have known this, I thought, because he knew the man in life. My father — himself the grandson of a funeral home director — would drop by Davey-Linklater in Kincardine, Ontario, now and then for a friendly chat. How's business? Steady as she goes? Death was his favourite joke.
Dave Cameron The Walrus Dec 2010 25min Permalink
A former Facebook executive critiques Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” movement.
Kate Losse Dissent Mar 2013 15min Permalink
Solving the mystery of the corpse in the Eleganté Hotel.
Mark Bowden Vanity Fair May 2013 30min Permalink
New York’s Russian community in Brooklyn.
Peter Pomerantsev London Review of Books Sep 2012 15min Permalink
A life with bipolar disorder.
Jaime Lowe New York Times Magazine Jun 2015 Permalink
The life of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, shot dead by the police in Washington state.
Brooke Jarvis Seattle Met May 2015 20min Permalink
Death, ISIS, and tourism in the Atlas Mountains.
Rachel Monroe Outside Jul 2019 15min Permalink
Coming out in a country where that can get you killed.
Farhad Dolatizadeh The Stranger May 2014 10min Permalink