How did hot chicken, a dish that 10 years ago, was barely known even just a few miles outside of Nashville, become a craze that has spawned many imitators?
Krista Stevens
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Michelle Dean Uncovers Some Truths About Snopes
The history of Snopes, the legendary internet fact-finding site.
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Voices From The Storm
The story of Hurricane Harvey, as told by 28 Texans who helped their state through its darkest hour.
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The Rainbow Railroad to Canada for Gay Chechen Men
Canada is taking in gay Chechen men subject to persecution, the risk to Canada-Russia relations be damned.
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Twenty Years Later, The Dude Still Abides
Despite being nominated for Academy Awards seven times throughout his career, Jeff Bridges doesn’t mind forever being Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski.
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Snopes and the Search for Facts in a Post-Fact World
How the legendary internet fact-finding site snopes.com came to be, and how a messy divorce and ownership and control squabbles have threatened the site’s existence.
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Why Industrial Laundry Is Dirtier Than You Can Imagine
When industrial laundry workers weren’t touching human feces, they had to deal with third-world working conditions and sexual harassment.
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How Canada has been secretly giving asylum to gay people in Chechnya fleeing persecution
There’s a new underground railroad to Canada. Through a safe house network, the Canadian government has been spiriting away gay Chechen men who face honor killings at their hands of their family. In this conservative Russian republic, the government not only looks away from these heinous crimes, it encourages them.
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Jeff Bridges Will Be “The Dude,” Now and Forever
Caity Weaver chills with Jeff Bridges for this profile at GQ. At 67, Bridges is totally cool with being known as the Dude, twenty years after The Big Lebowski.
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Dirty Laundry: An Investigation
After a six-month investigation, Annie Hylton uncovers third-world working conditions and rampant sexual harassment at industrial laundry facilities serving Manhattan hospitals, hotels, and restaurants. Workers — who went without health and safety training — routinely handled linens contaminated by human blood, urine, vomit, and feces. When workers weren’t dealing directly in others’ sh*t, they were […]