L.A. to Nepal
The work of California Task Force Two, the “Seal Team Six of disaster aid.”
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Training Young Doctors
On the failing institution of the teaching hospital.
Enabler in Chief
The attorney general exemplifies the growing influence of right-wing Catholicism under Trump.
Jodi Kantor is a New York Times investigative reporter and the author of The Obamas. On October 5th, she (with Megan Twohey) published an article detailing decades of sexual harassment payoffs by Harvey Weinstein, and she has covered the story extensively since.
“Being a reporter really robs you of self-consciousness and shyness. You realize that it’s this great gift of being able to ask crazy questions, either really personal or very probing or especially with a powerful — to walk up to Harvey Weinstein, essentially and say, ‘What have you been doing to women all these years, and for how long? All of these other people may be afraid to confront you about it, but we are not.’ That is our job.”
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Sarah Schweitzer is a former feature writer for the Boston Globe.
“I just am drawn, I think, to the notion that we start out as these creatures that just want love and were programmed that way—to try to find it and to make our lives whole. We are, as humans, so strong in that way. We get knocked down, and adults do some horrible things to us because adults have had horrible things done to [them]. There are some terrible cycles in this world. But there’s always this opportunity to stop that cycle. And there are people who come along who do try that in their own flawed ways.”
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How Snowden Escaped
The story of two weeks when the most wanted man in the world was hidden in the depths of a Hong Kong slum.
Porambo
How a journalist who wrote a seminal account of police brutality during the 1967 race riots in Newark wound up on the wrong side of the law.
Schadenfreude with Bite
The psychology of trolling.
It’s 2013, And They’re Burning ‘Witches’
In the highlands of Papua New Guinea, admist a mining boom, the public torture and killing of women accused of sorcery has returned.
November 24, 1963
On the death of a brother.
Greenspan Takes a Bath
The politics of the Federal Reserve.
On TikTok
The automatic culture of the world’s favorite new social network.
Mad Money
The rise and fall of Bernard von NotHaus, the creator of the most successful (and some say illegal) alternative currency in the U.S.
Smash
The comeback of Marty Reisman, the most flamboyant figure in the history of table tennis, and the self-proclaimed greatest hardbat player ever.
1989!
On the illusion of the inevitable and the revolutions that ended the Eastern Bloc.
You Can Never Tell About a River
The author unearths the story of Frank Yerby, one of the the most prolific African-American novelists in history.
Me, Myself, and I
On the history of masturbation.
Out Route
The bleak final season of Tony Gonzalez’s Hall of Fame career.
From a Bunker to Blockbusters
The backstory of the publication of WikiLeaks’s Afghanistan logs.
Literature and Exile
A 2000 speech on the impossibility of all forms of exile, particularly literary.
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
A takedown of the Last of the Mohicans author.
Tribes
Generations of the writer’s family experience the “romantic delusions and hazardous fortunes” of San Francisco.
Small-Town Injustice
The shooting of a civilian exposes the underbelly of a small town police department.
Ginger Thompson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior reporter at ProPublica. Her most recent article is "How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico."
“How many times have I written the phrase ‘a town that was controlled by drug traffickers?' I had no idea what that really meant. What does it mean to live in a town that’s controlled by drug traffickers? And how does it get that way? One of the things I was hoping that we could do by having the people who actually lived through that explain it to us was that—to bring you close to that and say, ‘No, here’s what that means.’”
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“Leadership Belongs to Those Who Take It”
The Facebook COO on her generation’s failures and the continuing gender gap in American business and politics.
Today, we turn to you. You are the promise for a more equal world. You are our hope. I truly believe that only when we get real equality in our governments, in our businesses, in our companies and our universities, will we start to solve this generation’s central moral problem, which is gender equality.
