The Myth of Chinese Super Schools
What the Chinese education system can teach America about relying on test scores as the main metric of success.
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What the Chinese education system can teach America about relying on test scores as the main metric of success.
Diane Ravitch New York Review of Books Nov 2014 15min Permalink
The misidentification of a Boston Marathon bomber and the future of breaking news.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine Jul 2013 25min Permalink
Michael Quinn took on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – and lost.
David Haglund Slate Nov 2012 35min Permalink
The frustrated – and well-hidden – story of Isabel Myers Briggs, inventor of the famous personality test.
Merve Emre Digg Oct 2015 35min Permalink
The difficulty of catching a “cocaine trafficker with his hands on the country’s levers of power.”
Kyle Swenson New Times Broward-Palm Beach May 2015 20min Permalink
“If you think the mission your country keeps sending you on is pointless or impossible and that you’re only deploying to protect your brothers and sisters in arms from danger, then it’s not the Taliban or al-Qaeda or isis that’s trying to kill you, it’s America.”
Phil Klay The Atlantic Apr 2018 30min Permalink
The photographer who showed us the world always kept coming back to a little town by the sea.
Elon Green Inside Hook Apr 2020 15min Permalink
From medical health privacy laws to a maze of siloed information systems, the true impact of COVID-19 on American Indian and Alaska Natives is impossible to calculate.
Once viewed as a forensic “silver bullet,” DNA evidence is coming under fire.
Matthew Shaer The Atlantic May 2016 25min Permalink
Sallie Belling was an inspirational figure in her community for having overcome a childhood of abuse, drugs, and prostitution — a childhood her sister Rachel says is pure fiction.
Stephanie Wood The Sydney Morning Herald Feb 2016 15min Permalink
By the time Noura Jackson’s conviction was overturned, she had spent nine years in prison. This type of prosecutorial error is almost never punished.
Emily Bazelon New York Times Magazine Aug 2017 30min Permalink
A profile of the internet’s poet, Patricia Lockwood.
A digressive consideration of the popular new show.
John Leonard New York May 1990 20min Permalink
Tracking the circuitous fall of a Chinese political star.
Lauren Hilgers Harper's Mar 2013 30min Permalink
On the murder of Jam Master Jay.
Frank Owen Playboy Dec 2003 Permalink
A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, savvy CEO.
Henry Blodget New York May 2012 20min Permalink
Visiting a semi-secret LGBTQ commune in the middle of Tennessee.
Alex Halberstadt New York Times Magazine Aug 2015 20min Permalink
Fake news stories. Doctored photographs. Staged TV clips. Armies of paid trolls.
Peter Pomerantsev The Guardian Apr 2015 20min Permalink
On motherhood, writing, and the death of a friend.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Jul 2019 Permalink
On the past, present, and future of gossip.
Kate Storey Esquire Feb 2020 20min Permalink
A profile of the rapper and activist.
Donovan X. Ramsey GQ Jul 2020 25min Permalink
The privately funded effort in danger of falling down.
Jeremy Schwartz, Perla Trevizo Texas Tribune Jul 2020 30min Permalink
The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Oct 2017 55min Permalink
Dov Charney’s struggle to keep control of American Apparel.
Susan Berfield Businessweek Jul 2014 15min Permalink
On the staff of a Trader Joe’s in New York City.
Arianne Cohen New York Oct 2007 10min Permalink