Later

What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Oct 11, 2010
Length: 14 minutes (3,574 words)

The Murderers of Mexico

How to write about Mexico’s drug war? There are only a limited number of ways that readers can be reminded of the desperate acts of human sacrifice that go on every day in this country, or of the by now calamitous statistics: the nearly 28,000 people who have been killed in drug-related battles or assassinations since President Felipe Calderón took power almost four years ago, the thousands of kidnappings, the wanton acts of rape and torture, the growing number of orphaned children.

Published: Oct 28, 2010
Length: 18 minutes (4,689 words)

Traumatic brain injury leaves an often-invisible, life-altering wound

The doctor begins with an apology because the questions are rudimentary, almost insultingly so. But Robert Warren, fresh off the battlefield in Afghanistan and a surgeon’s table, doesn’t seem to mind. Yes, he knows how old he is: 20. He knows his Army rank: specialist. He knows that it’s Thursday, that it’s June, that the year is 1020. Quickly, he corrects the small stumble: “It’s 2010.”

Source: Washington Post
Published: Oct 3, 2010
Length: 12 minutes (3,134 words)

The Master Architect

Interviewing Albert Speer, master planner of Berlin and Hitler’s chief architect. “‘I wish I’d been an architect!’ he often used to say.”

Published: Oct 4, 2010
Length: 11 minutes (2,982 words)

As the World Burns

How the Senate and the White House missed their best chance to deal with climate change.

Author: Ryan Lizza
Source: The New Yorker
Published: Oct 11, 2010
Length: 37 minutes (9,470 words)

Chasing Fox

The loud, cartoonish blood sport that’s engorged MSNBC, exhausted CNN — and is making our body politic delirious.

Published: Oct 3, 2010
Length: 25 minutes (6,385 words)

Want to Prevent Gay Teen Suicide? Legalize Marriage Equality

Growing up as a gay kid, life is a difficult puzzle. You keep getting crushes on the wrong people. If you’re a girl, you’re supposed to be going all gooey inside for Matt and Jason, the hotties on the lacrosse team. And if you’re Matt, you’re supposed to be pining for Ashley or Jessica — not yearning to run away to a jam-band festival with Jason.

Source: PLoS
Published: Sep 30, 2010
Length: 7 minutes (1,980 words)

Joseph Cao, the unlikely congressman from New Orleans

On a sultry July morning, Cao, the first-term Republican congressman from New Orleans, walks out of his house in the Venetian Isles neighborhood in the easternmost part of the city, a low tentacle of land rising, just barely, above the waters of Bayou Sauvage. A dawn fog sits heavily over the adjacent swamp; a dead palm leans in memoriam to Hurricane Katrina (or maybe Gustav; both of them devastated his house).

Source: Washington Post
Published: Oct 3, 2010
Length: 18 minutes (4,518 words)

The Heart of Los Angeles

When Vincent Edward Scully first came to Los Angeles to broadcast Dodgers baseball games in 1958, he worried because he could not find the essence of the city. The center. The heart. He was 30 years old, and he had some clear ideas about what it took to call a baseball game.

Published: Sep 30, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,081 words)

Tea and Crackers

How corporate interests and Republican insiders built the Tea Party monster

Source: Rolling Stone
Published: Sep 28, 2010
Length: 26 minutes (6,672 words)