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Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

1. Routine Care, Unforgettable Bills When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get him to…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 20, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2162 words)

Worlds Apart

When John Kerry came to the stage at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, he saluted smartly and said he was reporting for duty. Kerry was a decorated Vietnam veteran and a senator with many…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 13, 2008
LENGTH: 3 minutes (969 words)

Weekend Reading: Invasion!

Photo: Daniel D. Snyder/Sombatt Mutcheen/Lancelot/Shutterstock I hope you remember your duck-and-cover training from grade school because our nation is currently under attack. From what? Deer.…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (628 words)
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At the Corner of Hope and Worry

Another day begins with a sound softer than a finger-snap, in an Ohio place called Elyria. In the central square of this small city, the gushing water fountain applauds the early-morning chorus of…
AUTHOR:Dan Barry
PUBLISHED: Oct. 13, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4058 words)

The Week’s Best Longreads

Let’s Be Friends Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker Barack Obama and Bill Clinton reconcile. The Tryhards Freddie DeBoer, The New Inquir
PUBLISHED: Sept. 8, 2012

The Woman in 606 by Christopher Frizzelle - Seattle Features

Six months ago, my boyfriend and I were watching a movie in our apartment when he looked up and said, "Something's wrong." A moment later, he was pressed up against the front door, listening and…
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6518 words)

Poetry Changed the World

JULY/AUGUST 2012 Injury and the Ethics of Reading Elaine ScarryDetail from Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung’s Le Roman de la Rose, Paris, 1348 / Bodleian Libraries, Oxford What is the…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4836 words)

Blackout: What's wrong with the American grid

It began with a few small mistakes. Around 12:15, on the afternoon of August 14, 2003, a software program that helps monitor how well the electric grid is working in the American Midwest shut itself…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2472 words)

Children and computers: State of play

Plugged in: many children can play computer games before they can read. Photograph: Donald Iain Smith/Getty Images/Flickr RF There are things in life that I don't understand. The rules of rugby. The…
PUBLISHED: July 15, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3058 words)
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