The Dawn of the Post-Clinic Abortion
Almost 40 percent of the world’s population lives in countries with limits on abortion. Activists like Rebecca Gompert imagine a future where those limits are meaningless because most abortions happen at home.
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Almost 40 percent of the world’s population lives in countries with limits on abortion. Activists like Rebecca Gompert imagine a future where those limits are meaningless because most abortions happen at home.
Emily Bazelon New York Times Magazine Aug 2014 30min Permalink
How a Canadian used a Mohawk reservation’s lakes to smuggle tons of marijuana to stash houses in Brooklyn and Staten Island, resulting in nearly a billion in profits, which he laundered through the Sinaloa Cartel.
Alan Feuer New York Times Sep 2014 10min Permalink
Since the Syrian rebel leader Hassan Aboud joined ISIS, taking with him fighters and weapons, he has been behind a sprawling mix of battlefield action and crime.
C.J. Chivers New York Times Dec 2015 Permalink
A young black gentrifier gets lumped in with both groups, often depending on what she’s wearing and where she’s drinking. She is always aware of that fact.
Shani O. Hilton Washington City Paper Mar 2011 30min Permalink
Inside Florence, Colorado’s ADX prison, possibly one of the most isolated places on Earth, where Tommy Silverstein has spent the last 27 years without human contact.
James Ridgeway, Jean Casella Solitary Watch Feb 2011 30min Permalink
You know this one: German guy heads into tribal jungle deep upriver, sends the company crazy reports full of radical ideas—and then goes totally rogue. Only this time it's not ivory he's after. It's a secret lost for centuries: the finest cacao on earth.
Rowan Jacobsen Outside Sep 2010 25min Permalink
With a brutal cancer prognosis, a woman learns to live on borrowed time.
Marjorie Williams Vanity Fair Oct 2005 45min Permalink
Merriam-Webster is revising its most authoritative tome for the digital age. But in an era of twerking and trolling, what should a dictionary look like?
Stefan Fatsis Slate Jan 2015 45min Permalink
The tragic final days (and very weird afterlife) of a radio legend.
Amy Wallace GQ Jan 2015 20min Permalink
After DNA test cleared Clarence Harrison of a crime he didn’t commit, he was released from prison and awarded $1 million. But the redemption story he tells publicly hides a more complicated reality.
Albert Samaha Buzzfeed Mar 2015 25min Permalink
A gay freshman at Rutgers, a spying roommate, and the trial that followed.
Update 3/16/12: The roommate, Dharun Ravi, has been found guilty of hate crimes.
Ian Parker New Yorker Jan 2012 50min Permalink
The story of a Ponzi schemer who became the mark.
Guy Lawson New York Jul 2012 20min Permalink
The story of the “Barefoot Bandit,” a teenage fugitive on the run.
The history of a Japanese archipelago and its inhabitants, through rebellions and famine, a 20th century exodus for prostitution work across Asia, and finally depopulation and isolation.
Richard Hendy Spike Japan Nov 2010 25min Permalink
An investigation into the use of no-knock raids — conducted by SWAT officers with machine guns, flash-bang grenades, and body armor — that have time and time again led to avoidable deaths, gruesome injuries, and costly legal settlements.
Kevin Sack The New York Times Mar 2017 25min Permalink
For 60 years, American drivers unknowingly poisoned themselves by pumping leaded gasoline into their tanks. Clair Patterson—a scientist who helped build the atomic bomb and discovered the true age of the Earth—took on a billion-dollar industry to save humanity from itself.
Lucas Reilly Mental Floss May 2017 45min Permalink
Three targets, two 17-year-old partners, and $15,000 in getaway cash: the story of the author’s first assassination for Ramón Arellano Félix’s Tijuana cartel.
Martin Corona Men's Journal Jun 2017 20min Permalink
The members of Girls Travel Baseball come from all over the country, compete against boys, and aim to prove they can play in the major leagues.
Jessica Luther Bleacher Report Jul 2017 15min Permalink
‘Your Black Muslim Bakery’ commanded vast influence in Oakland, offering jobs and self-empowerment to ex-cons , until this story revealed a history of incest-rapes and kidnappings. Another journalist investigating the story was later murdered.
Chris Thompson East Bay Express Nov 2002 35min Permalink
In 1956, an ocean liner named the Andrea Doria sank off the coast of Cape Cod. Half a century later, deep-sea divers—the author included—were still risking their lives to explore it.
Bucky McMahon Esquire Jul 2000 35min Permalink
Almond growing in California is a $7.6 billion industry that wouldn’t be possible without the 30 billion bees (and hundreds of human beekeepers) who keep the trees pollinated — and whose very existence is in peril.
Jaime Lowe New York Times Magazine Aug 2018 15min Permalink
At a South Korean laboratory, a once-disgraced doctor is replicating hundreds of deceased pets for the rich and famous.
David Ewing Duncan Vanity Fair Aug 2018 20min Permalink
Stéphane Breitwieser robbed nearly 200 museums, amassed a collection of treasures worth more than $1.4 billion, and became perhaps the most prolific art thief in history.
Michael Finkel GQ Feb 2019 35min Permalink
The city of New York is suing a Long Island woman for making NYPD T-shirts. But is it really about money or controlling the brand?
Kaitlyn Tiffany The Goods May 2019 10min Permalink
How history forgot Felipe and Vivián Espinosa, two of the American West’s most brutal killers—and the complicated story behind their murderous rampage.
Robert Sanchez 5280 Dec 2019 20min Permalink