What’s Right with Utah

Salt Lake City queer community’s coalition-building strategies could provide a model for gay activists across the country

Source: The Nation
Published: Jun 24, 2009
Length: 12 minutes (3,139 words)

Jani’s at the mercy of her mind

Michael and Susan Schofield’s 6-year-old daughter is locked in a nightmare realm of schizophrenia — and no one can help her.

Author: Shari Roan
Published: Jul 28, 2009
Length: 10 minutes (2,724 words)

Debate over government-funded police protection heats up

Conservatives decry “socialized” law enforcement; Democrats are divided over “single-payer” police protection

Source: Salon
Published: Jun 30, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,039 words)

It Came from Wasilla

Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican politics. John McCain’s top campaign officials talk more candidly than ever before about the meltdown of his vice-presidential pick.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Aug 28, 2009
Length: 39 minutes (9,862 words)

Three Minutes to Fort Totten

A chaplain from Walter Reed. A doctor from Walter Reed. The owner of a new hair salon. An architect. On a Metro train, in one terrifying instant and its aftermath, their lives became forever intertwined. This is their story.

Author: Eli Saslow
Source: Washington Post
Published: Jun 28, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,991 words)

Horses to the slaughter

U.S. horses are meeting gruesome ends abroad, while the debate rages on: Are horses 1,500 pounds of food or friend?

Source: Salon
Published: Jun 30, 2009
Length: 10 minutes (2,657 words)

Mezrich Spins Facebook Potboiler

But the buzzy Boston author’s lusty take plays loose with the facts while missing the real story.

Source: Boston Magazine
Published: Jul 28, 2009
Length: 9 minutes (2,414 words)

The Contrarian

Sheila Bair and the White House financial debate.

Author: Ryan Lizza
Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jul 6, 2009
Length: 18 minutes (4,631 words)

Reports of My Death

“When the editors at Wired.co.uk commissioned this article, we all knew there was a chance I wouldn’t live to see it published. I was diagnosed last September with a disease that was chomping through my body with the impunity of a pepped-up Pacman in a ghost-free maze. I would be writing about my experiences of a new treatment, in the vanguard of medical technology, but doctors told me to prepare for the worst. I was dying, they said, and may not even make Christmas, let alone the April launch date of a new website.”

Source: Wired (U.K.)
Published: Jun 17, 2009
Length: 14 minutes (3,542 words)

The Write Stuff

Holden Caulfield had it right. The test of a great book, he said in “The Catcher in the Rye,” was whether, once you finished it, you wished the author were a great friend you could call up at home. I remembered Caulfield’s insight when we convened a roundtable of writers to come to Newsweek. The conversation was honest, and a persistent theme emerged: that for all the frustrations of writing, the uncertain future of publishing, and the terror of rejection by readers and critics, our authors couldn’t imagine doing anything else. Ever.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Jun 27, 2009
Length: 13 minutes (3,445 words)