Inside the Mind of a Murderer: The Power and Limits of Forensic Psychiatry

“At the core of most motives for violence are assumptions about the intentions of others. Seb believed that a sinister collective was intent on keeping his mother hidden against her will.”

 

Author: Taj Nathan
Source: The Guardian
Published: Jun 17, 2021
Length: 17 minutes (4,484 words)

The Anxiety of Influencers

Educating the TikTok generation.

Published: Jun 9, 2021
Length: 33 minutes (8,366 words)

The Water in May

“Through the glass looking onto the tarmac, we watched the coffin being raised towards the cargo hold of the parked plane. It was inside a shipping container, wrapped thoroughly. It might not have been obvious that it was a coffin.”

Author: Ken Leung
Source: GQ
Published: Jun 17, 2021
Length: 41 minutes (10,277 words)

Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Away

“When things go horribly wrong during a stay, the company’s secretive safety team jumps in to soothe guests and hosts, help families—and prevent PR disasters.”

Published: Jun 15, 2021
Length: 20 minutes (5,004 words)

Familiar strangers: A talk with co-author of “Mango and Peppercorns” about growing up Vietnamese-American, mothers, and food

“Last year during the pandemic, my mom and I exchanged stories about life in quarantine. I expressed how it was difficult living alone and not being able to speak to a human face-to-face. My mom had a different outlook. When Saigon fell, her family didn’t leave the house for a couple weeks while they waited for the chaos to settle. Quarantine reminded my mom of those times. In her eyes, the pandemic was easy. She no longer had to commute to work, had a roof over her head, and meals to eat at home.”

Source: The Counter
Published: Jun 14, 2021
Length: 13 minutes (3,346 words)

Kip Kinkel Is Ready to Talk

“At 15, he shot and killed his parents, two classmates at his school, and wounded 25 others. He’s been used as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since.”

Source: HuffPost
Published: Jun 13, 2021
Length: 60 minutes (15,200 words)

The Amazon That Customers Don’t See

“Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires. Amid the pandemic, the already strained system lurched.”

Published: Jun 15, 2021
Length: 40 minutes (10,000 words)

Critical Race Theory Battle Invades School Boards—With Help From Conservative Groups

“In towns nationwide, well-connected conservative activists, and Fox News, have ramped up the tension in fights over race and equity in schools.”

Source: NBC News
Published: Jun 15, 2021
Length: 13 minutes (3,400 words)

Lost Children

“The threat of death was part of life at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. So why is it so hard to determine how many children died there?”

Source: CBC News
Published: Jun 13, 2021
Length: 13 minutes (3,317 words)

Alan Turing’s Biggest Fan Remains the Real Enigma

What was behind one Colorado woman’s obsession with the code breaker? Derangement? A kind of fetish? Or something else?

Source: Westword
Published: Jun 15, 2021
Length: 21 minutes (5,400 words)