This week we are featuring stories from Renata Brito and Felipe Dana, Jeff Weiss, Maddy Crowell, Stephen Rodrick, and David Jenkins.
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No School, No Fresh Air and Isolated
“Children incarcerated in Shelby County’s juvenile detention center are frequently held in solitary confinement, according to more than two dozen sources who spoke with MLK50.”
Lost Vegas
“Everyone inside America’s most flailing destination city has a theory for what’s wrong. Now I have my own.”
Bread and Honey
Sometimes, marriage is about learning how to braid the bitter with the sweet.
The Future Is Too Easy
“CES, which this year claimed 141,000 attendees and 4,500 exhibitors, could on the other hand have been anywhere, or everywhere.”
Escape From the Box
“New technology and old tactics have made buying a car a death march of deception. Jase Patrick, who spent 15 years in the business, reveals the dealer secrets.”
What Is a Body For?
One desire felt like it would make me more of who I already was, and the other would unmake me entirely.
Sitting in the Waiting Room
“We wait constantly, for a variety of outcomes and eventualities, some of which we can’t see coming.”
Eyes on the Prize: A Treasure Hunting Reading List
Every quest holds at its heart a puzzle to solve—and that puzzle can become an obsession.
Award Tour (and the Week’s Top 5)
Featuring stories about celebrity look-alikes, siblings, desert living, philanthrocapitalism, and life inside a legal brothel.


