
Everything Is Broken
“This disconnect between culturally mandated politics and the actual demonstrated preferences of most Americans has created an enormous reserve of unmet needs—and a generational opportunity.”
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“This disconnect between culturally mandated politics and the actual demonstrated preferences of most Americans has created an enormous reserve of unmet needs—and a generational opportunity.”
Alana Newhouse Tablet Jan 2021 40min Permalink
An internet-famous plastic surgeon faces hard questions, and a lawsuit, after building his brand on his patients’ bodies.
Katherine Laidlaw Wired Jan 2021 Permalink
On modern motherhood and the birth narrative.
Julia Cooke Virginia Quarterly Review Jan 2021 25min Permalink
The region’s hyper-local response has lessons for us as we confront the winter wave and begin to distribute vaccines.
Jay Caspian Kang The New Yorker Jan 2021 25min Permalink
As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.
Ed Yong The Atlantic Dec 2020 25min Permalink
In a district where parents are epidemiologists and health policy experts, the meltdown happened one Zoom meeting at a time
Noreen Malone Slate Dec 2020 30min Permalink
Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.
Steven Lance The Atavist Magazine Dec 2020 1h10min Permalink
Confined mostly to tiny cabins as the pandemic unfolded, crew members struggle to cope.
Austin Carr Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2020 20min Permalink
The author’s chance encounter with Tom Hanks leads to a dear and lasting friendship with his assistant.
Ann Patchett Harper's Dec 2020 1h20min Permalink
The mistakes and the struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy.
Lawrence Wright New Yorker Dec 2020 2h Permalink
Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Dec 2020 20min Permalink
The boutique fitness phenomenon sold exclusivity with a smile, until a toxic atmosphere and a push for growth brought the whole thing down.
Alex Abad-Santos Vox Dec 2020 30min Permalink
A nephew investigates his uncle’s suicide
Brad Rassler Outside Dec 2020 Permalink
They were pillars of their communities and families, and they are not replaceable. To understand why COVID-19 killed so many young Black men, you need to know the legend of John Henry.
Akilah Johnson, Nina Martin ProPublica Dec 2020 30min Permalink
While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?
Annalisa Quinn Boston Globe Magazine Nov 2020 20min Permalink
How toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes.
Kiera Feldman Los Angeles Times Dec 2020 25min Permalink
A husband’s stroke, the Australian bushfires, and a trip to the Great Barrier Reef.
Robert Moor Outside Dec 2020 25min Permalink
For years, JaMarcus Crews tried to get a new kidney, but corporate healthcare stood in the way. He needed dialysis to stay alive. He couldn’t miss a session, not even during a pandemic.
And what it lost in the process.
Ed Yong The Atlantic Dec 2020 20min Permalink
Over three weeks, COVID-19 delivered “cheap shots.” It took hostages. And it left the Malinowski family with with pain, loss and grief.
JENNIFER PIGNOLET Akron Beacon Journal Dec 2020 15min Permalink
The ethical burdens of the ICU during Covid.
Jordan Kisner The Atlantic Dec 2020 30min Permalink
When the business icon died in a fire last week, questions abounded. The answers seem rooted in a Covid-period spiral, where he turned to drugs and shunned old friends.
Angel Au-Yeung, David Jeans Forbes Dec 2020 Permalink
How could the coronavirus overwhelm a Florida nursing home so quickly?
Leonora LaPeter Anton, Kavitha Surana, Kathryn Varn Tampa Bay Times Dec 2020 25min Permalink
Years from now, we will look back in horror at the counterproductive ways we addressed the obesity epidemic and the barbaric ways we treated fat people—long after we knew there was a better path.
Michael Hobbes Huffington Post Highline Sep 2018 30min Permalink
Welcome to Toke-la-homa.
Paul Demko Politico Nov 2020 Permalink