A Virtual Counter-Revolution

It is still too early to say that the internet has fragmented into “internets”, but there is a danger that it may splinter along geographical and commercial boundaries.

Source: The Economist
Published: Sep 2, 2010
Length: 11 minutes (2,973 words)

Tabloid Hack Attack on Royals, and Beyond

Members of the royal household had their voice mail messages hacked into by News of the World employees.

Published: Sep 1, 2010
Length: 24 minutes (6,022 words)

Sweatpants In Paradise

Nice Girls Who Like Stuff, Abercrombie and Fitch, One-Armed Pushups, California Adolescence, Weed, The Redemptive Quality of Sensory Exploration

Source: The Believer
Published: Sep 1, 2010
Length: 11 minutes (2,970 words)

Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury

Even as Sarah Palin’s public voice grows louder, she has become increasingly secretive, walling herself off from old friends and associates, and attempting to enforce silence from those around her.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Oct 1, 2010
Length: 42 minutes (10,624 words)

The Education of Ms. Barsallo

An inside look at the life of a first-year Denver teacher

Source: 5280 Magazine
Published: Sep 1, 2010
Length: 29 minutes (7,419 words)

NYC’s Golden Gossip Era Fades

Gotham gossip loses grip, fights off rabble. Rattled tattletales tell all.

Source: Village Voice
Published: Sep 1, 2010
Length: 20 minutes (5,110 words)

As U.S. troops leave Iraq, an officer honors the memory of a young interpreter

Author: Blake Hall
Source: Washington Post
Published: Aug 29, 2010
Length: 12 minutes (3,014 words)

Personal Liberties

Author: Annys Shin
Source: Washington Post
Published: Aug 29, 2010
Length: 18 minutes (4,568 words)

The Uprooted

Chronicling the Great Migration.

Source: New Yorker
Published: Sep 6, 2010
Length: 14 minutes (3,565 words)

Can Preschoolers Be Depressed?

Is it really possible to diagnose such a grown-up affliction in such a young child? And is diagnosing clinical depression in a preschooler a good idea, or are children that young too immature, too changeable, too temperamental to be laden with such a momentous label?

Published: Aug 25, 2010
Length: 20 minutes (5,023 words)