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How Cops became the most polarizing reality TV show in America.
Tim Stelloh The Marshall Project Jan 2018 25min Permalink
A 7-part investigation into the true nature of Long Island politics, through the story of street tough-turned-power broker Gary Melius.
Gus Garcia-Roberts, Sandra Peddie Newsday Feb 2018 25min Permalink
A new historical inquiry into the murder of Elwood Higginbotham offers a chance to confront the past.
Vanessa Gregory New York Times Magazine Apr 2018 25min Permalink
How a scandal started with a poor housemaid and ended up taking down the most powerful woman in Africa
Shaun Raviv Latterly May 2018 40min Permalink
Scot Peterson was a beloved school resource officer in Parkland, Fla. Then a gunman opened fire and he stayed outside.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Jun 2018 20min Permalink
A group of Latina women across the country have been working in secret, turning their homes into shelters for abused immigrant women.
Lizzie Presser California Sunday Oct 2018 15min Permalink
The author spent a day with three men in a high-end security detail to find out how it feels to be safe.
Jamie Lauren Keiles Topic Oct 2018 15min Permalink
The family separation crisis that no one knows about.
Eli Hager, Anna Flagg The Marshall Project Dec 2018 10min Permalink
What happened next for the Barden family.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Jun 2013 25min Permalink
For decades, Jeffrey Lendrum went to extreme lengths to snatch falcon eggs from their nests and sell them to the highest bidder. Then he got caught.
Joshua Hammer Outside Jan 2019 30min Permalink
The story of a bank robber who risked his life to put a killer on death row.
Alan Prendergast Westword Jan 2019 50min Permalink
Why one physician took the risk of becoming an F.B.I. informant to expose alleged Medicare fraud.
Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Jan 2019 35min Permalink
Tom Justice was once a cyclist chasing Olympic gold. Then he began using his bike for a much different purpose: robbing banks.
Steven Leckart Chicago Magazine Jan 2019 40min Permalink
The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs.
Caitlin Flanagan The Atantic Apr 2019 25min Permalink
An investigator set out to discover the source of one scammy robocall. Turns out, his target made them by the millions.
Alex W. Palmer Wired Mar 2019 20min Permalink
A very Florida investigation.
Rebecca Woolington, Justin Trombly Tampa Bay Times May 2019 20min Permalink
Three decades ago, Olof Palme was assassinated on Stockholm’s busiest street. The case remains unsolved.
Imogen West-Knights The Guardian May 2019 20min Permalink
A young British man was drawn to a white-supremacist group, until they started plotting to kill.
Ed Caesar New Yorker May 2019 Permalink
Greed, drugs, dirty cops, and the bitter sibling rivalry burning up an $800 million Louisiana family dynasty.
Ian Frisch New York Jun 2019 20min Permalink
The story of a lifelong addict and an unlikely friendship.
Matthew Van Meter The New Republic Jun 2019 30min Permalink
Jeremy Wilson spent years crisscrossing the country and inventing new identities as a war hero, an MIT grad, a Hollywood journalist, and more.
Guy Lawson GQ Jun 2019 30min Permalink
A tale of missing money, heated lunchroom arguments, and flaxseed pizza crusts.
Sarah Schweitzer The Atlantic Aug 2019 20min Permalink
What the opioid crisis has done to one indigenous family in Alaska–the writer’s.
Joshua Hunt The New Republic Sep 2019 15min Permalink
Whenever the black dress came out, Jessica Weisman’s mother knew she was “going after the Jewish people again.”
Dan Slater Gen Nov 2019 25min Permalink
A group of volunteers is helping incarcerated people negotiate a system that is all but broken.
Jennifer Gonnerman New Yorker Nov 2019 25min Permalink