When a Mother and Daughter Reverse Roles By Marlene Adelstein Feature An obsession with an orphaned sea otter helps Marlene Adelstein process her grief over her Alzheimers-afflicted mom.
An Oregon Wolf, Profiled By Ben Huberman Highlight A fateful encounter between Oregon’s mightiest wolf and the scientist who would track him for the next six years.
The He’s-Got-to-Be-the-Help-Because-He’s-Brown Mistake By Sari Botton Highlight Patrick Rosal writes an open letter to a woman who mistook him for a waiter at the National Book Awards.
The Athletes Who Felt Seen by Kendrick Lamar’s “good kid, m.A.A.d city” By Danielle Jackson Commentary The modern hip-hop classic reflects growing up in Compton “one thousand percent.”
How Cinnabon Perfected Its Recipe By Mike Dang Highlight The story behind a “world famous” cinnamon roll.
Is This House Haunted, or Is That Just a Drunk Guy on the Lawn? By Michelle Weber Highlight The owners of the real-life Amityville Horror house had to have the street address changed to avoid the real terror: tourists.
Sade’s Eternal Cool By Danielle Jackson Highlight How the soul singer Sade Adu has maintained her pop cultural relevance for more than 30 years.
Bringing Up the Bodies: How NecroSearch Helps Police to Locate the Dead By Krista Stevens Highlight Why do they volunteer their time in such a grisly enterprise? To bring closure to the families of the dead.
The Opera Lover Who Composed “Bat Out of Hell” By Ben Huberman Highlight On the origins of the quintessential rock aria, and the powerhouse singer that served as its muse.
Language Acquisition By Diana Spechler Feature Diana Spechler recalls fleeing her life in New York City for a new one with a painter in his village in central Mexico.
The Teen Girls Who Defied Boko Haram By Krista Stevens Highlight The bravest members of the Nigerian resistance are the teenage girls who refuse to become tools of terrorism.
What We’re Not Talking About When We Talk About Tiny House Hunters By Michelle Weber Highlight Big economic anxieties, writ small.
The Female Fracker: A Rare Species in North Dakota By Krista Stevens Highlight Imagine being the only woman living with 200 roughnecks — risking your personal safety every day — just to make a buck.
Burned Where They Stood: The First Nine Hours of the California Wildfires By Michelle Weber Highlight “There just aren’t enough firefighters in the West to fight that much fire.”
The Wolf In a Puffy Marmot Jacket By Krista Stevens Highlight Even when his tall tales became erratic, women still didn’t want to believe Jeff Caldwell was ripping them off.
The Doctor Will See You Now By Sarah Miller Feature Sarah Miller eulogizes a close (but not close) relative.
The Dream of a Perfect Android By Michelle Legro Highlight Hiroshi Ishiguro has spent his career creating robots. But does he know enough about humans to make them lifelike?
Judging Books By Their Covers By Jason Diamond Feature Jason Diamond analyzes his obsession with Vintage Contemporaries paperbacks from the 80s.
On Identity, Miyazaki, and Japanese Bathhouses By Ben Huberman Highlight On belonging — and not belonging — in two worlds at once.
The Sacred Right of Universal Narcotic Entitlement By Michelle Weber Highlight Inventing maladies and marketing drugs to relieve them isn’t a new m.o. for pharmaceutical companies. OxyContin is its fullest and most terrible expression.
The Prophet Will See You Now By Michelle Weber Highlight At the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry, miracles (supposedly) happen every day.
TFW You’re Training the Worker That Will Take Your Job Away By Krista Stevens Highlight What do you do when you’ve only got a G.E.D and your high-paying union job goes to Mexico?
Another Year, Another Fraternity Hazing Death By Michelle Weber Highlight For 12 hours, Tim Piazza fought for his life as his frat brothers did nothing to help.
Uncovering Hidden History on the Road to Clanton By Lance Warren Feature Documentary filmmaker Lance Warren interrogates the silence around lynching in the American South.
Can Detroit’s Legendary Techno Scene Survive Gentrification? By Ben Huberman Highlight On the growing tension between techno’s gritty origins and its current velvet-rope tendencies.
The House Where Revolution Went to Die By Michelle Weber Highlight The House on the Embankment housed hundreds of Soviet leaders. Eventually, it was the former house of hundreds of purge victims.
The Secret Women’s Organization Providing for Black Communities By Sari Botton Highlight Founded 150 years ago by two former slaves, the United Order of Tents has come through for black communities when white-run organizations have failed to.
Immature Architects Built the Attention Economy By Catherine Cusick Highlight The creators of addictive smartphone technology admit they were too immature to consider the downsides of persuasive design.
How Can You Fear an Invisible Enemy? By Michelle Weber Highlight Radiation’s threat to humanity is potentially absolute, yet worryingly abstract.
He Seemed Like the Real Thing, Until He Wasn’t By Michelle Legro Highlight Christopher Goffard’s seven-part series on a dangerous Orange County con man is an astonishing tale of love and violence.
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