"Then I Saw Them Everywhere. Children’s Belongings Were Everywhere.”
How the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 rippled around the world, from the battlefield of Ukraine to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam to the White House.
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How the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 rippled around the world, from the battlefield of Ukraine to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam to the White House.
From a new Supreme Court ruling to a census question about citizenship, the campaign against illegal registration is thriving. But when the top proponent was challenged in a Kansas courtroom to prove that such fraud is rampant, the claims went up in smoke.
Jessica Huseman ProPublica Jun 2018 25min Permalink
The author survives a bite by a venomous snake in a remote area of Yosemite National Park.
My leg, from toe to hip, turned black and yellow and eventually swelled to 24 inches, more than twice its normal circumference.
Kyle Dickman Outside Jun 2018 25min Permalink
Barack Obama and a tradition of letter-reading.
Jeanne Marie Laskas The Guardian Aug 2018 15min Permalink
An oral history.
Chris McDonnell Vulture Sep 2018 25min Permalink
Known abroad primarily for its stunning Pacific Coast setting and athletic lifestyle, the city [Vancouver] has since become one of the world’s largest sluices for questionable funds moving from Asia into Western economies.
Matthew Campbell, Natalie Obiko Pearson Bloomberg Businessweek Oct 2018 20min Permalink
An oral history of the most important deal in sports TV history, when Rupert Murdoch and Fox stole the NFL and John Madden out from under the Big Three networks and launched a television empire.
Bryan Curtis The Ringer Dec 2018 1h10min Permalink
The story of a young man from rural Ghana who bought a pair of secret camera glasses and got himself smuggled across the Sahara, to film crime and exploitation along the way.
Joel Gunter BBC May 2019 25min Permalink
It took only a handful of people to wrongly convict Ed Ates of murder. It took an army to free him from prison. Now comes the hard part.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Aug 2019 40min 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
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
Young climate activists like Jamie Margolin are building a movement while growing up — planning mass protests from childhood bedrooms and during school.
Brooke Jarvis New York Times Magazine Jul 2020 20min 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
For 45 years, , Harmony Audio Video, has been my dad’s life: the reason he left home early every day, the reason he was chronically late to pick me up from school, the reason he didn’t take a single vacation for 25 years.
Francesca Mari The Atlantic Dec 2020 Permalink
Years from now, we will look back in horror at the counterproductive ways we addressed the obesity epidemic and the barbaric ways we treated fat people—long after we knew there was a better path.
Michael Hobbes Huffington Post Highline Sep 2018 30min Permalink
Inside Give Kids the World Village, where the ice cream is unlimited, nightly tuck-ins from six-foot bunny rabbits are complimentary, and Santa Claus visits every Thursday.
Katherine LaGrave Afar Feb 2021 25min Permalink
The BBL is the fastest growing cosmetic surgery in the world, despite the mounting number of deaths resulting from the procedure. What is driving its astonishing rise?
Sophie Elmhirst Guardian Feb 2021 25min Permalink
A reporter watches as a Hindu nationalist government uses tech from the companies he covers to destroy a secular democracy.
Pranav Dixit Buzzfeed News Apr 2021 20min Permalink
The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped?
Ed Caesar New Yorker Apr 2021 40min Permalink
“I know I learned to use my intelligence as a weapon to keep myself safe from racists, starting as a child, and suddenly it doesn’t feel like enough. The violence is like a puzzle with many moving parts, but the stakes are life and death.”
Alexander Chee GQ May 2021 20min Permalink
Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark.
Katherine Eban Vanity Fair Jun 2021 50min Permalink
Hamid Abd-Al-Jabbar and David Thompson bonded in juvenile detention in the 1980s, then spent most of the next 40 years in prison. When they emerged from one of the country’s most unforgiving state penal systems, their friendship proved crucial.
Champe Barton The Trace Jul 2021 30min Permalink
Rebecca Raffle came to Indianapolis from Los Angeles with dreams of building a cannabis empire. She introduced herself as a West Coast #girlboss, SEO ninja, LGBTQ Family, and avid baker. But she was altogether something different.
Derek Robertson, Michael Rubino, Julia Spalding Indianapolis Monthly Aug 2021 30min Permalink
The Atlanta Braves-New York Mets game from Sept. 21, 2001, remains a historic moment of grief, mourning, and hope after 9/11.
Ryan Hockensmith ESPN Sep 2021 20min Permalink
Daniel Kish is entirely sightless. So how can he ride a bike on busy streets? Go hiking for days alone? By using a technique borrowed from bats.
Michael Finkel Men's Journal May 2012 25min Permalink