Clash of the Islanders

“There are 262 homes on the picturesque Toronto Islands, and the battle to get one is epic. Inside the fight over a prime property that’s ripping the tight-knit community in two.”

Source: Toronto Life
Published: Jun 23, 2021
Length: 21 minutes (5,448 words)

The Missing Note

“Losing family is like losing your sense of social gravity…. Losing four of them almost at once was correspondingly more unsettling, more destabilizing, and subverted my notions as to who I was.”

Source: Tortoise Media
Published: Jun 2, 2021
Length: 18 minutes (4,500 words)

Boxer Patricio Manuel, a Transgender Pioneer, Is Still Looking for His Next Fight

“Manuel sees sports as the latest front in a culture war that fought — and lost — previous battles over same-sex marriage and trans bathroom bills.”

Source: ESPN
Published: Jun 22, 2021
Length: 25 minutes (6,489 words)

Qualified Immunity: How ‘Ordinary Police Work’ Tramples Civil Rights

“There is little to no accountability behind the closed doors of police work.”

Published: Jun 23, 2021
Length: 11 minutes (2,807 words)

Who Am I?

“Edwards isn’t sure how she came into this world, or when or where, but on Aug. 14, 1967, she was discovered inside a pillowcase hidden under a dresser in a vacant apartment of an otherwise occupied West Philadelphia rowhouse.”

Published: Jun 16, 2021
Length: 15 minutes (3,764 words)

Can Tripping on Ketamine Cure PTSD? I Decided to Try.

“While the precise mechanism at play remains unknown, when ketamine is effective, it can be like flipping a switch.”

Source: Popular Science
Published: Jun 21, 2021
Length: 13 minutes (3,410 words)

More Than Accomplices

“How do we determine the agency of female participants in genocidal regimes, where male supremacy often goes hand in hand with ethnic chauvinism?”

Published: Jun 10, 2021
Length: 15 minutes (3,864 words)

The Story of Honoring Negro League History and a Search for Buried Treasure

“But the numbers will never tell the true story of the Negro Leagues. They just won’t. For me, it is about context. I don’t want the legend of these athletes to ever die.”

Source: theScore
Published: Jun 19, 2021
Length: 18 minutes (4,654 words)

Seeking Home Aboard the Night Heron

“The pandemic prodded me to fulfill a lifelong dream of living on a boat. I’m learning the ropes surrounded by the birds of my North Carolina childhood.”

Source: Audubon
Published: Apr 23, 2021
Length: 8 minutes (2,071 words)

She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away

“At 17, biologist Juliane Diller was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon. Fifty years later she still runs Panguana, a research station founded by her parents in Peru.”

Author: Franz Lidz
Published: Jun 18, 2021
Length: 11 minutes (2,867 words)