Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind
In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.
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In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.
Rachel Kushner New York Times Magazine Apr 2019 30min Permalink
In a small Minnesota town, an IT technician found his way to the darkest corner of the web. Then he made a deadly plan.
Mara Hvistendahl Wired Apr 2019 25min Permalink
Ankle bracelets are promoted as a humane alternative to jail. But private companies charge defendants hundreds of dollars a month to wear the surveillance devices. If people can’t pay, they may end up behind bars.
Ava Kofman ProPublica Jul 2019 25min Permalink
In 1910, East Texas saw one of America’s deadliest post-Reconstruction racial purges. One survivor’s descendants have waged an uphill battle for generations to unearth that violent past.
Michael Barajas Texas Observer Jul 2019 20min Permalink
The warmer it gets, the more we use air conditioning. The more we use air conditioning, the warmer it gets. Is there any way out of this trap?
Stephen Buranyi Guardian Aug 2019 20min Permalink
It’s the epicenter of the tech industry and the wealthiest, most progressive state in the union, but homelessness is surging — and no one can agree on how to fix it.
Tessa Stuart Rolling Stone Sep 2019 20min Permalink
An oil tanker was ordered to save more than 100 migrants floating in the middle of the Mediterranean. Europe didn’t want them. They couldn’t go back to Libya. How would they survive?
Zach Campbell The Atavist Magazine Oct 2019 30min Permalink
Maria Ressa, editor of a popular news site in the Philippines, has incurred President Duterte and his supporters’ wrath by investigating his extrajudicial killing campaign.
Joshua Hammer New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 20min Permalink
A white friend admitted that she had never seen a single photo of a lynching. I was shocked, but not surprised. A lynching was a warning. She didn’t need to be warned.
Maurice Carlos Ruffin Oxford American Sep 2019 15min Permalink
Brenda thought she and Ricky would be together forever, until he left her. Kendra thought she and Ricky would be together forever. Then Brenda took matters into her own hands. Inside the case of jealousy, spying, and murder that shook Uptown Dallas.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Dec 2019 30min Permalink
How a burglary, social media and politics led to a Nooksack Tribal Councilwoman being bullied out of office.
Jane C. Hu High Country News Feb 2020 20min Permalink
Emily Rostkowski is an oncology nurse and cancer survivor herself. But now, like so many other healthcare workers, she spends her days in the center of the coronavirus storm.
Erika Hayasaki Marie Claire Apr 2020 15min Permalink
The weakest link in America’s national security may not be foreign technology but its own people. The story of the single mother who sold out to China.
Mara Hvistendahl 1843 Apr 2020 20min Permalink
Wuhan-based virologist Shi Zhengli has identified dozens of deadly SARS-like viruses in bat caves, and she warns there are more out there
Jane Qiu Scientific American Apr 2020 30min Permalink
“After receiving a trove of documents from the whistleblower, I found myself under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government.”
Barton Gellman The Atlantic May 2020 25min Permalink
Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich has an increasingly prominent role. He still has ties to his family’s investment firm, which is a major beneficiary of the Treasury’s bailout actions.
Justin Elliott, Lydia DePillis, Robert Faturechi ProPublica Jun 2020 20min Permalink
The writer’s family saw an unmarked NYPD cruiser hit a Black teenager. He tried to find out how it happened, and instead found all of the ways the NYPD is shielded from accountability.
Eric Umansky ProPublica Jun 2020 15min Permalink
Converging in a tense section of Huntsville: A white police officer fresh from de-escalation training, a troubled black woman with a gun, and a crowd with cellphones ready to record.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Jul 2020 20min Permalink
At Lucky Peach and the Los Angeles Times, Peter Meehan reshaped food media. Now his former employees are coming forward to describe the cost of his leadership.
Meghan McCarron Eater Aug 2020 30min Permalink
Ten years ago, the tax agency formed a special team to unravel the complex tax-lowering strategies of the nation’s wealthiest people. It never had a chance.
Jesse Eisinger, Paul Kiel ProPublica Apr 2019 20min Permalink
The famous subreddit started as a forum for one man to ask about his workplace behavior. Seven years later, it’s become a platform where millions of people discuss good, bad, and everything in between.
Tove K. Danovich The Ringer Oct 2020 20min Permalink
Life, loss, fear, and hope in one Denver homeless encampment as the novel coronavirus upended services for some of the city’s most vulnerable citizens.
Robert Sanchez 5280 Oct 2020 25min Permalink
In Georgia, what happened when a ‘nice guy’ named Kevin Van Ausdal ran for Congress against a candidate known for her support of extremist conspiracy theories.
Stephanie McCrummen Washington Post Oct 2020 20min Permalink
COBOL is a coding language older than Weird Al Yankovic. The people who know how to use it are often just as old. It underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. How a computer language controls the financial life of the world.
Clive Thompson Wealthsimple Magazine Nov 2020 25min Permalink
Anand Patwardhan spent decades tracking the rise of Hindu nationalism. And now, under an increasingly repressive government, he holds his screenings in secret.
Abhrajyoti Chakraborty New York Times Nov 2020 25min Permalink