A Hospital’s Deadly Choice
Katrina’s floodwaters had knocked out the power. Evacuation of the sickest patients seemed impossible. So the doctors at Memorial did what they thought was right, even if they knew it was a crime.
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Katrina’s floodwaters had knocked out the power. Evacuation of the sickest patients seemed impossible. So the doctors at Memorial did what they thought was right, even if they knew it was a crime.
Sheri Fink New York Times Magazine Aug 2009 55min Permalink
Sometimes the Study Area seemed like a tumor that had burst on the side of capitalism. Other times it seemed like something ancient and sensible: people building dwellings, then improving them.
George Saunders GQ Sep 2009 50min Permalink
Headlines have portrayed Australia’s bucket-list destination as dead, or dying. But that’s an oversimplification of a complex story—and the most dire threat from tourism may be what you least expect.
Juli Berwald Afar Apr 2020 15min Permalink
The supply chains of the cocaine industry did not falter even during a worldwide shutdown.
An oral history of the day oil prices went below zero for the first time in trading history.
Jessica Camille Aguirre Vanity Fair May 2020 Permalink
In the fall of 1966, billionaire Doris Duke killed a close confidant in Newport, Rhode Island. Local police ruled the incident “an unfortunate accident.” Half a century later, evidence suggests she got away with murder.
Peter Lance Vanity Fair Jul 2020 35min Permalink
Far too many county jail inmates are dying from suicide, a cause of death critics say can be prevented with reasonable health care services. The problem? Private correctional health care firms may have a goal other than providing adequate care.
Lindsey B. King 5280 Aug 2020 30min Permalink
On Wall Street, being Black often means being alone, held back, deprived of the best opportunities.
Max Abelson, Sonali Basak, Kelsey Butler, Matthew Leising, Jenny Surane, Gillian Tan Bloomberg Aug 2020 30min Permalink
Thomas Quick confessed to more than 30 murders. But the man also known as Sture Bergwall may not have committed any of them.
Elizabeth Day The Observer Oct 2012 20min Permalink
Shut out of the employment market in their 20s, hikkomori shut-ins continue to search for direction in middle age.
Yoshiaki Nohara Bloomberg Businessweek Sep 2020 20min Permalink
On revisionist architecture.
Looking at the statues here, or anywhere, makes one wonder: Is abstraction simply the cardinal feature of any war where the loss is so much greater than whatever can be described as victory?
Jack Hitt Virginia Quarterly Review Sep 2020 30min Permalink
A bizarre 1970 Arctic killing over a jug of raisin wine shows that we need to think about crime outside our atmosphere now.
Twenty-five years ago, the tragedy at the World of Primates building broke the city’s heart and raised a loaded question: What, exactly, do we owe the animals in our care?
Sandy Hingston Philadephia Magazine Dec 2020 20min Permalink
The Air Force, beholden to corporate forces, is trapped in a contract with Northrop Grumman to rebuild the nuke program.
Elisabeth Eaves Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Feb 2021 35min Permalink
As more homicide cases go unsolved, the backlog of unsolved murders grows and serial killers are free to kill again. Too few police departments are effectively deploying their resources to stop them.
Lise Olsen The Texas Observer Feb 2021 15min Permalink
Mike Schyck and hundreds of other Ohio State University athletes suffered sexual abuse by Dr. Richard Strauss. Schyck and many others believe then-OSU assistant wrestling coach Jim Jordan—now a congressman from Ohio—knew about it.
Scott Raab Esquire Feb 2021 30min 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
On the legacy of Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Johnson and her battle with the Deep South’s white power structure.
Elon Green The Appeal Mar 2021 40min Permalink
George Otto was a respected family physician with a bustling clinic in the northwest corner of the city. But he had a secret: after hours, he was running a booming fentanyl business.
Brett Popplewell Toronto Life Mar 2021 20min Permalink
A portrait of a toxic workplace.
Anne Victoria Clark, Jackson McHenry, Lila Shapiro, Gazelle Emami, Helen Shaw, Tara Abell, Nate Jones, E. Alex Jung, Megh Wright Vulture Apr 2021 45min Permalink
The inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border—and the U.S. drug operation that sparked it.
Ginger Thompson ProPublica, National Georgraphic Jun 2017 35min Permalink
Prison Doctor David Ross was powerless in the role of bedside bystander as he tended to ten hunger strikers who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike. Five years later, he killed himself.
Simon Carswell The Irish Times Jun 2021 Permalink
On Eve Babitz.
Babitz thought she’d die at thirty; she’s now 78 and witnessing her own resurrection. Youth was not wasted on her, and she crammed her life into her sentences.
Lucie Elven London Review of Books Jun 2021 15min Permalink
...Prince hoped to hire Ukraine’s combat veterans into a private military company. Prince also wanted a big piece of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex, including factories that make engines for fighter jets and helicopters."
Simon Shuster Time Jul 2021 Permalink
Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die.
Ed Caeser New Yorker Oct 2021 35min Permalink