The Resegregation of Charlotte’s Public Schools By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Charlotte, North Carolina, once embraced public school integration, but schools have become highly segregated again.
Is Journalism a Form of Activism? By Danielle Tcholakian Feature It’s time to take another look at the definition of activism and where journalism fits in.
#DeleteFacebook? It’s Not So Easy By Nicole Dieker Commentary We use Facebook to access certain apps and stay in touch with distant friends and relatives. Deleting Facebook won’t stop other companies from misusing our data.
The Amateur Investigators of the American West By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight When 66-year-old Bill Ewasko got lost near Joshua Tree National Park, the case spawned a network of amateur investigators obsessed with finding him.
Uncomfortable Silences: A Walk in Myanmar By David Fettling Feature Now what I remember most about my guide is what he said about the Rohingya. But I walked 50 kilometers with him before he said it.
California Governor Jerry Brown Is Retiring By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight After 40 years of public service, California Governor Jerry Brown is retiring. This is the story of his last days.
6 Minutes and 20 Seconds By Tom Maxwell Commentary What Emma González taught us about the power of silence.
Are The Teens All Right? By Danielle Tcholakian Feature In the aftermath of the school shooting, teens from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have organized and demanded change from lawmakers. They’ve also been deeply traumatized.
It’s Time for Real Talk About Aliens By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight No time in human history has presented clearer, more compelling evidence that something unexplained is interacting with human beings, be they aliens or UFOs.
Climate Change Is Personal for These Alaskan Women By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Here are the voices of the Alaskans threatened by climate change.
Trump Properties As Symbols of American Mediocrity and Lies By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The only thing a tourist who stays at Trump properties gets for free is a disturbing vision of America’s future.
Walking the Line in the Bekaa Valley By Ben Huberman Highlight A traveling crew of slackliners is trying to bring a moment of balance to young Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
The Koch Brothers vs. God By Longreads Feature The fossil fuel lobby preached its gospel in Virginia. Now, black churches are fighting back.
Emotional Preparedness for a Dying Planet By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How do we deal emotionally with the many deaths of climate change?
Guantánamo, Forever By Longreads Feature After nearly a decade, Gitmo detainee Haroon Gul believed he had a chance at freedom. Then came President Trump.
Speaking Candidly about Opioid Dependence and Legal, Safe Alternatives By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One journalist shares what her experience with prescription painkillers taught her about decriminalization and recovery.
How Lead Poisoned People of Color in East Chicago and Beyond By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How lead contaminated the soil under East Chicago’s black and Latino communities.
To Live and Die in Utopian New Zealand By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How the super rich like Peter Thiel are buying land in New Zealand to survive the apocalypse.
Little Führers Everywhere By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Vegas Tenhold spent six years covering the disorganized chaos of hate groups, and watched as they began to gather around a few media savvy voices.
The Great Online School Scam By Longreads Feature Students are performing worse than ever, but private companies are making millions.
The Great Stink By Laurie Penny Feature It’s time for men to stop worrying about who they are, and start thinking about what they do.
Struggling to Balance Business and Conservation in the Amazon Basin By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Driving through the Amazon Basin on a single road to see whether Brazil can balance economic development with rainforest conservation.
The Couple Who Turned a California Desert Into a Multi-Billion Dollar Snack Empire By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Taxpayers have helped Stewart and Lynda Resnick turn an irrigated desert into a dangerous and lucrative agricultural gamble.
A Teen and a Toy Gun By Leah Sottile Feature This is the story of the last day of 17-year-old Quanice Hayes’s life. It involves a police department that says they have no good way of deciphering between real guns and fake ones, and a family still searching for answers.
The Mutilated and the Disappeared By Alice Driver Feature A visit to the only shelter in Mexico for migrants who have been mutilated along the migrant trail.
Los mutilados y los desaparecidos By Alice Driver Feature Una visita al único refugio en México para inmigrantes que han sido mutilados a lo largo de la ruta migratoria.
A Toxic Tour Through Underground Ohio By Justin Nobel Feature A booming injection well industry is pumping toxic waste deep into the earth in Ohio’s rural towns.
Hurricane Harvey Made Strange Bedfellows in Texas By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Did the white, far-right neo-Confederates who helped a small Texas Cambodian community rebuild after Hurricane Harvey have a political agenda?
Is 2018 the Year We Step Away From Social Media? By Nicole Dieker Commentary Spending long periods of time reading people argue with one another on the internet can be wearying. So why do we do it?
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