Trafficking in Teachers
Filipino teachers, hired to fill historic shortages in the South and elsewhere, fight their exploitation by opportunistic recruiters.
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Filipino teachers, hired to fill historic shortages in the South and elsewhere, fight their exploitation by opportunistic recruiters.
Rachel Mabe Oxford American Aug 2020 30min Permalink
At a laboratory in Manhattan, researchers have discovered how SARS-CoV-2 uses our defenses against us.
James Somers The New Yorker Nov 2020 30min Permalink
As a diagnosis, it’s too vague to be helpful—but its rise tells us a lot about the way we work.
Jill Lepore New Yorker May 2021 15min Permalink
Using his good looks and charm to lure over young women into his VW, Bundy terrorized the Pacific Northwest and then Utah, leaving over 30 corpses in desolate forest gravesite clusters. After being caught in Colorado, he escaped twice, the second time fleeing to Florida by train and going on a murderous rampage.
On January 27th in Lahore, an American named Raymond A. Davis stopped his Honda Civic and shot two Pakistani men, then made a failed attempt to flee. Beyond those basic facts, little is agreed upon, and the murders have ignited a diplomatic crisis, which only intensified with the revelation that Davis was a CIA subcontractor.
Scott Horton Foreign Policy Mar 2011 15min Permalink
TM The only other time I saw you was in Bleecker Bob’s in the ‘70s. You walked in eating pizza and wearing aviator glasses and Bleecker Bob showed you an Ian Dury picture sleeve and you said, “I don’t listen to music by people I don’t wanna fuck.” PS (laughter) Yeah, that was me.
Patti Smith, Thurston Moore BOMB Magazine Nov 1996 20min Permalink
She went to jail 35 years ago after driving the getaway car in an infamous robbery and defiantly refusing to admit the act was wrong. Her sentence was 75 years. But something changed in prison — Judy Clark went from radical to model inmate. This week her sentence was commuted.
Tom Robbins New York Times Magazine Jan 2012 25min Permalink
The fight over an alleged Israeli war crime.
Batya Ungar-Sargon Tablet May 2014 30min Permalink
How coach Jurgen Klinsmann, “soccer’s Alexis de Tocqueville,” is trying to give the US an identity.
Matthew Futterman Wall Street Journal Jun 2014 10min Permalink
The Harvard Law professsor on billionaires, politics and Uber.
Nitasha Tiku Valleywag Jun 2014 15min Permalink
Sam Simon made a fortune from The Simpsons. Now, diagnosed with terminal cancer, he is racing to spend it.
Merrill Markoe Vanity Fair Sep 2014 25min Permalink
A journey on the Sunset Limited, which ferries people from Louisiana to California.
Nathaniel Rich New York Times Magazine Feb 2013 20min Permalink
Longform’s guide to murder, corruption, extortion, and incompetence - committed by police officers around the country.
A murder case in Los Angeles, cold since the late ’80s, heats up thanks to breakthroughs in forensic science and leads detectives to one of their own.
Matthew McGough Atlantic Jun 2011 35min
The rise and fall of the Seven-Seven—stationed in the war zone of 1980’s Crown Heights, Brooklyn—and how an idealistic young recruit became part of cash-snatching, drug-reselling, renegade clique of cops.
Michael Daly New York Dec 1986 30min
Rogue cops in the LAPD Rampart division’s anti-gang CRASH unit (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) were involved in everything from drug smuggling and bank robberies to, allegedly, the murder of Notorious BIG.
A cop kills a fellow officer during a drug bust and claims it was an accident. Others suspect that it wasn’t.
Sean Flynn GQ Aug 2008 35min
How the New Orleans Police Department failed during Hurricane Katrina.
Dan Baum New Yorker Jan 2006 45min
In 2008, a Brooklyn cop grew gravely concerned about how the public was being served. So he began carrying a digital sound recorder, secretly recording his colleagues and superiors.
Graham Rayman Village Voice May 2010 25min
It can’t be all bad! Here’s the story of a group that posed as cops and built “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history” before the law enforcement took them down.
William McGowan Slate Jul 2012 30min
Dec 1986 – Jul 2012 Permalink
Two sisters help detectives solve a decades-old cold case by identifying their father as their mother’s killer.
Michael E. Miller The Miami New Times May 2013 20min Permalink
A family’s struggle with mental illness and the criminal justice system.
Brantley Hargrove Dallas Observer Sep 2012 25min Permalink
A conversation with Offerman, who plays Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation.
Elina Shatkin, Nick Offerman The Believer Oct 2012 20min Permalink
A field report from Electric Daisy Carnival, a three-night bacchanal in the Las Vegas desert attended by “100,000 wasted hedonists scantily dressed in furry underwear.”
Gideon Lewis-Kraus GQ Nov 2012 20min Permalink
How an overzealous forensic pathologist and his odontologist sidekick put innocent Mississippi residents behind bars – and let killers run free.
Radley Balko The Huffington Post Jan 2013 30min Permalink
Colossal corruption. Political chaos. The worst recession in its history. How a once-booming nation fell.
Franklin Foer Slate Aug 2016 25min Permalink
The writer recalls collaborating on an abandoned musical with David Bowie featuring aliens, (fake) lost Bob Dylan songs, and a mariachi band.
Michael Cunningham GQ Jan 2017 15min Permalink
Fast cars and bad decisions in a race through Southern Europe known as the “Gumball 3000.”
George Gurley Vanity Fair Jun 2005 35min Permalink
“In 1981, with a computer built into my shoe, I walked into a Las Vegas casino and beat the house.”
Thomas Bass Wired Apr 1998 30min Permalink
How a disgraced principal-turned real estate mogul helped cause the global financial crisis.
Gary Silverman Financial Times Feb 2014 15min Permalink
In his first Major League at bat, Adam Greenberg was hit in the head with a fastball. He never made it back.
Barry Bearak New York Times Magazine Mar 2007 20min Permalink
The controversy over a widely-used prostate cancer screening test.