A reporter working in China works to free her detained assistant while navigating China’s Kafkaesque legal system.
2015
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The Rise of the Death Café
On the Swiss septuagenarian who started a series of “cafés mortels,” or informal gatherings “where the sole topic of conversation was every living thing’s inevitable demise.” The concept has since caught on, and gone global.
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The Inequality of Maternity Leave in the United States
In Bloomberg Businessweek, Claire Suddath reports that there are only two countries in the world that don’t have some type of legally protected, partially paid leave for working women who just had a baby: Papua New Guinea and the U.S. The result is another big gap between the haves and have-nots: The policies vary widely […]
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An Ex-Industrial Fisherman Rethinks His Job
“It’s not just about: How can we save the oceans? But we also need to flip our way of thinking and ask: How can the oceans save us?”
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Link Rot, or Why the Web May Be Killing Footnotes
The Web dwells in a never-ending present. It is—elementally—ethereal, ephemeral, unstable, and unreliable. Sometimes when you try to visit a Web page what you see is an error message: “Page Not Found.” This is known as “link rot,” and it’s a drag, but it’s better than the alternative. More often, you see an updated Web […]
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The Failure of the U.S.’s Maternity Leave Policy
How did the United States fall so far behind in basic workplace protections for new parents?
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Why It Pays to Work the Fringes
A profile of New York Times photojournalist Lynsey Addario, a Pulitzer Prize-winning female war correspondent.
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In Vino Veritas. In Napa, Deceit.
After opening a fancy winery a California vintner finds himself deeply in debt. What happened next—falsely bottles, stolen grapes, and criminal charges—have shaken an industry “built on romance, expensive land, hard labor and a whole lot of faith.”
Posted inBooks, Member Pick, Nonfiction
An Ex-Industrial Fisherman Rethinks His Job
“It’s not just about: How can we save the oceans? But we also need to flip our way of thinking and ask: How can the oceans save us?”
Posted inBooks, Member Pick, Nonfiction, Story
An Ex-Industrial Fisherman Rethinks His Job
“It’s not just about: How can we save the oceans? But we also need to flip our way of thinking and ask: How can the oceans save us?”