Exposed. Afraid. Determined.

In their own words, workers across the country who have no choice but to confront the pandemic describe life in a changed world.

Published: Apr 2, 2020
Length: 59 minutes (14,750 words)

The Life and Death of Juan Sanabria, One of New York City’s First Coronavirus Victims

“If you didn’t see him, you wanted to know where he was. When he wasn’t around, you felt it.”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Apr 1, 2020
Length: 13 minutes (3,428 words)

Land-Grab Universities

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

Published: Mar 30, 2020
Length: 24 minutes (6,043 words)

I’ve Fled New York with My Wife, Kids and Dog – Just as my Ancestors Fled the 1918 Pandemic

After covering the plights of refugees around the world as a journalist, Bryan Mealer finds himself a refugee, fleeing New York City for his childhood home of west Texas — where his great-grandmother and her oldest daughter died in the influenza epidemic of 1918.

Source: The Guardian
Published: Apr 2, 2020
Length: 9 minutes (2,272 words)

All That Is Lost and All That Is Remembered

On the 30th anniversary of her Navy captain father’s political execution, Naz Riahi recalls her love for him, and reveals a persistent grief that is always with her.

Author: Naz Riahi
Source: Catapult
Published: Apr 1, 2020
Length: 9 minutes (2,409 words)

The Danger of Desire

Faylita Hicks considers what it means to be a Black nonbinary activist in the age of Trump — and questions how the social justice movement has changed the way they have sex.

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 2, 2020
Length: 28 minutes (7,041 words)

The Unravelling of a Dancer

Sharon Stern devoted herself to Butoh. Did her mentor lead her down a dangerous path?

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Mar 30, 2020
Length: 33 minutes (8,317 words)

Notes in the Margin (Part IV)

The stray thoughts of a scattered reader.

Source: The Believer
Published: Apr 1, 2020
Length: 24 minutes (6,024 words)

The Source

On the eve of America’s Bicentennial, a mysterious illness terrifies the country and sends disease detectives racing the clock to find answers.

Published: Mar 30, 2020
Length: 54 minutes (13,660 words)

YouTube Sensation. Progressive in a Purple District. Single Mom.

What the Democratic Party could learn from first-term Congresswoman Katie Porter.

Published: Mar 25, 2020
Length: 17 minutes (4,284 words)