Traumatized by the cure

“You gave us more life, but you didn’t attend to the issues that make life worth living.” Are survivors of life-threatening illness suffering from a form of PTSD?

Author: Liza Gross
Source: Aeon
Published: Mar 3, 2020
Length: 13 minutes (3,300 words)

The Traveling Salesman Bringing Abortion Bans to a Texas Town Near You

Mark Lee Dickson came up with a plan. If cities could ban plastic straws, he asked, why not abortion?

Source: HuffPost
Published: Mar 2, 2020
Length: 12 minutes (3,228 words)

The Great Wall Street Housing Grab

Hundreds of thousands of single-family homes are now in the hands of giant companies—squeezing renters for revenue and putting the American dream even further out of reach.

Published: Mar 4, 2020
Length: 36 minutes (9,000 words)

No End in Sight

What happens when immigrant-rights advocates reach a breaking point?

Source: VQR
Published: Mar 2, 2020
Length: 46 minutes (11,500 words)

The Mystery of Mountain Lions

Despite decades of research, myth and fear still surround the animals.

Published: Mar 1, 2020
Length: 11 minutes (2,924 words)

The Man Behind Trump’s Facebook Juggernaut

Brad Parscale used social media to sway the 2016 election. He’s poised to do it again.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Mar 2, 2020
Length: 37 minutes (9,300 words)

The Invisible City: How a Homeless Man Built a Life Underground

“After decades among the hidden homeless, Dominic Van Allen dug himself a bunker beneath a public park. But his life would get even more precarious.”

Author: Tom Lamont
Source: The Guardian
Published: Mar 5, 2020
Length: 24 minutes (6,244 words)

The iBackpack Has It All: Kevlar, Batteries, and a Federal Investigation

The man behind an alleged crowdfunding scam wants you to know he isn’t a scammer.

Source: The Verge
Published: Mar 4, 2020
Length: 21 minutes (5,443 words)

Shell Is Looking Forward

The fossil-fuel companies expect to profit from climate change. I went to a private planning meeting and took notes.

Published: Mar 3, 2020
Length: 21 minutes (5,271 words)

Miranda’s Rebellion

The reckonings of one of the South’s white suburban women, whose loyalty is key to whether Trump is reelected.

Published: Mar 29, 2020
Length: 19 minutes (4,976 words)