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Adventures in something called “Radical Honesty.”
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Adventures in something called “Radical Honesty.”
A.J. Jacobs Esquire Jul 2007 20min Permalink
Practicing photography in Switzerland.
Teju Cole New York Times Magazine Sep 2015 20min Permalink
The Castro, 1990, and a first night in drag.
Alexander Chee Guernica Mar 2015 20min Permalink
Nobody noticed Connie Converse when she was trying to get a record deal in New York in the 1950s. Nobody stopped her when she left her life in Michigan in 1974, never to be seen again. Today, her music is heard by tens of thousands.
Rosie Cima Priceonomics Jan 2015 15min Permalink
On the ground in Wilmington.
Paul Blest The Outline Feb 2018 10min Permalink
On bareback horse relay racing, a Native American tradition:
“It’s going to be America’s next extreme sport,” he predicts. “Compare it to Professional Bull Riders, PBR. Look how big that got—a million in prize money in every city they go to. That’s how Indian Relay is going to be in 10 years. I look for it to be at every track in the country by 2025.
Steve Marsh Victory Journal May 2018 25min Permalink
How Washington left students to drown in debt.
Ryann Liebenthal Mother Jones Aug 2018 25min Permalink
A quest for tigers in India.
Brian Phillips The Ringer Sep 2018 35min Permalink
In the wings of this great drama were the unseen. Hidden in the rainforest where the violence was staged, in the eerie aftermath of the tragedy, were three people whose stories cue political contexts in both the US and Guyana crucial to understanding how and why Jonestown may have happened.
Gaiutra Bahadur New York Review of Books Dec 2018 20min Permalink
How order collapsed in an American city.
Alec MacGillis ProPublica Mar 2019 30min Permalink
On the suicide crisis in rural East Texas.
Christopher Collins Texas Observer May 2019 25min Permalink
Anytime the racial temperature goes up and hell pays a visit to earth, the disappointment takes a holiday. And you fight. You fight because you’re tired. Yet you’re tired because you’ve been fighting. For so long. In waves, in loops, in vacuums, in vain.
On Feb. 5, 2019, Maya Moore made an announcement on The Players' Tribune that would upend the WNBA: She would be sitting out the 2019 season to focus on "the people in my family, as well as on investing my time in some ministry dreams that have been stirring in my heart for many years." It was a stunning declaration. This was Maya Moore, in her prime.
Katie Barnes ESPN Jun 2020 25min Permalink
The fight for female superheroes in Hollywood.
Soraya Roberts Hazlitt Dec 2020 25min Permalink
A small town in Upstate New York, and one family in particular, endures a five-year string of car accidents, suicides, and murders.
E. Jean Carroll Spin Jun 2001 30min Permalink
A man living in the Boston suburbs learns he could be one of the only survivors of a 1982 massacre in Guatemala.
Sebastian Rotella ProPublica May 2012 40min Permalink
How an apartheid-era psychiatrist went from torturing gay soldiers in South Africa to sexually abusing patients in Canada.
Richard Poplak The Walrus Aug 2015 25min Permalink
When 16 women live in a house, compete on a UFC reality show, and punch each other in the face.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Matter Dec 2014 30min Permalink
Overcrowding in prisons leads to doubling up inmates in solitary confinement, regardless of their homicidal intentions or mental health.
Christie Thompson, Joe Shapiro The Marshall Project Mar 2016 20min Permalink
Tracing the path of one of the world’s most in-demand minerals from deadly mines in Congo to your phone.
Todd C. Frankel The Washington Post Sep 2016 30min Permalink
On the promise of 23-year-old Nicholas Cleves, who died in the bike path attack in New York.
John Homans Vanity Fair Nov 2017 Permalink
In 1986, two lovebirds busted out of a coed prison in a hijacked helicopter. They’ve been trying to escape ever since.
David Gauvey Herbert Esquire Dec 2020 30min Permalink
Finding personal stories buried deep in the YouTube comments.
Mark Slutsky Buzzfeed Jan 2014 15min Permalink
Life in Mosul.
James Verini National Geographic Oct 2016 45min Permalink
On what’s in a name.
Harrison Scott Key Oxford American Jul 2015 10min Permalink