Race Against Time
Andrea Duke is 36. She began running marathons competitively two years ago. She’s already qualified for the Olympic Trials.
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Andrea Duke is 36. She began running marathons competitively two years ago. She’s already qualified for the Olympic Trials.
John Gorman The Cauldron Dec 2015 10min Permalink
A reporter encounters the echoes of family and the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi.
Nikole Hannah-Jones ProPublica Jul 2014 30min Permalink
How the former Fear Factor host’s podcast became an essential platform for “freethinkers” who hate the left.
Justin Peters Slate Mar 2019 20min Permalink
When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins.
Nathan Heller New Yorker Jun 2019 20min Permalink
The Asian-American literary pioneer, whose writing has paved the way for many immigrants’ stories, has one last big idea.
Hua Hsu New Yorker Jun 2020 25min Permalink
In the pandemic, “caremongering” has become a new term for an old—and joyous—practice
Vicky Mochama The Walrus Sep 2020 15min Permalink
The boutique fitness phenomenon sold exclusivity with a smile, until a toxic atmosphere and a push for growth brought the whole thing down.
Alex Abad-Santos Vox Dec 2020 30min Permalink
On a child diagnosed with autism:
The worst part was that I knew he sensed it, too. In the same way that I know when he wants vegetable puffs or puréed fruit by the subtle pitch of his cries, I could tell that he also perceived the change—and feared it. At night he was terrified to go to bed, needing to hold my fingers with one hand and touch my face with the other in order to get the few hours of sleep he managed. Every morning he was different. Another word was gone, another moment of eye contact was lost. He began to cry in a way that was untranslatable. The wails were not meant as messages to be decoded; they were terrified expressions of being beyond expression itself.
Amy Leal The Chronicle of Higher Education Oct 2011 15min Permalink
On an Indonesian town that serves both as stopping point for those seeking to reach Australia by boat and a hotspot for short term ‘contract marriage,’ which allows Saudi tourists a loophole to engage in Islamic-sanctioned prostitution.
Aubrey Belford The Global Mail Apr 2013 15min Permalink
“They think of us as pests, so they are trying to drive us out of our homes, for what is the Republican drive for our self-deportation if not a plan of fumigation?”
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Jezebel Jun 2018 10min Permalink
For many, the answer from the state is “yes.” An investigation into what legally determines a person’s ability to parent.
Seth Freed Wessler ProPublica May 2014 20min Permalink
On a remote island, a former airline executive and his wife are preparing for the world to end. Others are starting to join them.
Trent Dalton The Australian Jul 2014 Permalink
He outsold Elvis, signed one of the first pay-for-play contracts and befriended Martin Luther King Jr. A profile of Harry Belafonte.
Jeff Sharlet The Virginia Quarterly Review Oct 2013 30min Permalink
Searching for the real reason why a bunch of kids partying at the empty home of an NFL player became a national story.
Jay Caspian Kang Grantland Nov 2013 20min Permalink
Sixty years later, a dishonorably discharged World War I veteran makes one final appeal. The 1980 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
Madeleine Blais Tropic Jan 1979 20min Permalink
The story of Trina Garnett, “one of approximately 470 prisoners in Pennsylvania serving life without parole for crimes they committed as teenagers.”
Liliana Segura The Nation May 2012 15min Permalink
“Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic Jul 2015 35min Permalink
Isaiah Wall wants to get his life on track. But first, he’s gotta buy drugs for the police.
Mitch Ryals The Inlander Nov 2016 20min Permalink
“The true impact of activism may not be felt for a generation. That alone is reason to fight.”
Rebecca Solnit The Guardian Mar 2017 15min Permalink
An Afghanistan love story.
James Verini The Atavist Magazine Feb 2014 1h Permalink
Most of the fish we eat die by asphyxiation. But there’s a better way, both for the fish and those who eat them.
Cat Ferguson Topic May 2018 20min Permalink
Priests are fielding more requests than ever for help with demonic possession, and a centuries-old practice is finding new footing in the modern world.
Mike Mariani The Atlantic Dec 2018 25min Permalink
Glory isn’t part of the deal when you go to work for the federal government.
Michael Lewis Bloomberg Opinion Oct 2019 20min Permalink
The refugee and author survived, stateless, for seven years. What’s next?
Megan K. Stack New York Times Magazine Aug 2020 30min Permalink
The agriculture industry has known for 40 years that using antibiotics can create superbugs. Only one company has taken the science seriously.
Tom Philpott Mother Jones May 2016 20min Permalink