The Istanbul Derby
A trip to Turkey for a soccer game between bitter rivals and its accompanying madness.
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The Shocking Truth
The story of a device that delivers electric shocks to students at a school for special needs.
What Went Wrong?
How an up-and-coming Boston surgeon became best known for leaving a patient on the operating table while he skipped out to cash a check.
The Learjet Repo Man
The Great Recession meant great things for Nick Popovich, who gets paid by banks to take planes back from hard-up millionaires.
The ISIS Killers
The elite Iraqi “Golden Division” was trained by the US to hunt terrorists. But now they’re locked in a brutal street battle for control of Mosul.
Playboy Interview: Martin Luther King Jr.
Shortly after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, King sat for what would be the longest interview he ever gave to the press.
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Part I
“A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist. If I am to merit the trust invested in me by some of my race, I must be both of these things.”
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Part II
“One cannot be in my position, looked to by some for guidance, without being constantly reminded of the awesomeness of its responsibility. I live with one deep concern: Am I making the right decisions?”
War Without End
The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.
YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant
How proposals to change recommendations and curb conspiracies were sacrificed for engagement.
The Schoolteacher and the Genocide
He dreamed of educating the children in his village. But soon he learned that it was dangerous for the Rohingya to dream.
This Controversial Former Death Row Doctor Built an Empire From Treating Georgia Inmates
When jail healthcare is outsourced to for-profit medical providers, inmates pay the price.
Her Sorority Sisters Suspected She Was Pregnant. What Did Emile Weaver Know?
For months, Emile Weaver denied her pregnancy. A gruesome discovery forced her to confront the truth.
A Murder Trial in Reverse
Two men were sent to prison for killing a French tourist in Manhattan in 1987. Can they overturn their convictions?
Get Fat, Don't Die
A cooking column for people with AIDS claimed the right to pleasure, but in each recipe was embedded an urgent appeal.
Here Be Monsters
Three teenage boys decide to set sail after a night of drinking. They go missing for 51 days.
Milk
For a few days in 1995, many Indians believed a religious idol had developed a lifelike ability to drink milk.
The Kids Are Alright
Why now is the time to rethink COVID safety protocols for children—and everyone else.
Alexis C. Madrigal is an editor-at-large for Fusion, where he’s producing the upcoming podcast, Containers.
“Sometimes you think like, 'Man the media business is the worst. This is so hard.' When you spend time with all these other business people, you probably are going to say, ‘Capitalism is the worst. This is hard.’ Competition that’s linked to global things is so hard because global companies are locked in this incredible efficiency battle that just drives all of the slack out of the system. Like media, there’s no slack left, and I don’t know where things go after that.”
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Mona Chalabi is a writer and illustrator whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Guardian, where she is the data editor. Her New York Times Magazine piece “9 Ways to Imagine Jeff Bezos’ Wealth” won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting.
“I kind of think of protest as just saying what you believe. And sometimes, it’s considered protest because it’s outside of the institutions of power. So you’re saying, Hey, Palestinians deserve human rights, and that’s considered a form of protest, right? I want the work to change things and I think I’m quite unapologetic about that, and most journalists are like No no no no no, we’re just reporting the world, we’re just reporting things as we see it. There’s no desire for change. I think that is so messed up. This idea that your work has no impact in the world is incorrect. You can’t wash yourself of the consequences of the work, you have to be considering the consequences while you’re doing it.”
Letters From an Arsonist
Thomas Sweatt torched D.C. for decades and was finally jailed for killing one person. During a year-long correspondence from prison with a reporter, he confessed there were more.
What Makes Barack Obama Run?
In 1995, the Chicago Reader profiled a little-known professor (and lawyer and philanthropist and author) who had decided to run for office to get back to his true passion: community organizing.
Seized
For many immigrants coming through Arizona, it’s not enough to pay a coyote to shepherd you across the border. You also need to pay the ransom demanded by your kidnapper after you arrive.
Inside Trump's Cruel Campaign Against the U.S.D.A.'s Scientists
With key U.S.D.A. programs—from food stamps to meat inspection, to grants and loans for rural development, to school lunches—under siege, the agency’s greatest problem is that even the people it helps most don’t know what it does.
R. Kelly Is Holding Women Against Their Will In An Abusive “Cult,” Parents Told Police
“You have to ask for food. You have to ask to go use the bathroom. … [Kelly] is a master at mind control. … He is a puppet master.”
Inside Pablo Escobar's Private Prison
In exchange for his surrender, the top Colombian drug lord was allowed to build his own jail, complete with a disco, jacuzzi, and waterfall. Now 23 years later, it’s a home for the elderly.
Addiction Treatment With a Dark Side
A recent history of ‘bupe’ Suboxone film, which is described as a miracle cure for opiate addiction but flows freely from for-profit clinics to dealers and inmates, sometimes melted into the pages of smuggled Bibles.
