Too Many Men

Medical innovations, India’s preference for male heirs, and China’s one-child policy have created an irreparable gender disparity in the world’s two biggest countries, where men outnumber women by 70 million. Many Chinese men have started buying brides from countries such as Russia, Vietnam and Cambodia. The imbalance has also led to an increase in prostitution, human trafficking and violence against women, but in some Indian villages, women have started fighting for equal rights.

Source: Washington Post
Published: Apr 18, 2018
Length: 22 minutes (5,531 words)

Hamzah AD 2018

Poet and essayist Kima Jones on her father’s death from diabetes.

Author: Kima Jones
Source: Medium
Published: Apr 23, 2018
Length: 11 minutes (2,979 words)

What Fullness Is

Roxane Gay on getting weight reduction surgery.

Author: Roxane Gay
Source: Medium
Published: Apr 24, 2018
Length: 18 minutes (4,588 words)

The Apology Tour

A personal essay in which writer Jonny Auping tracks down people he’s wronged in the past to say he’s sorry.

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 23, 2018
Length: 12 minutes (3,043 words)

Volcano Dreams

After being rejected by a flirtatious acquaintance, Gabrielle Bellot examines her pain and trepidations, realizing that years after transitioning, she needs to stop allowing others to define her and dictate what’s considered worthy of love.

Source: Medium
Published: Apr 24, 2018
Length: 7 minutes (1,785 words)

Bolivia’s Quest to Spread the Gospel of Coca

Long before cocaine became nose candy for white executives and Brazilian party boys, it was a sacred leaf. Andean people chew it. They drink it as tea. Now Bolivia is trying to market this indigenous stimulant in everything from cosmetics to sodas, and their president wants the world to know that coca leaf is not the same as cocaine. Will the world listen?

Published: Apr 16, 2018
Length: 20 minutes (5,165 words)

Expecting

“At family gatherings people handed me glasses of wine, and I drank them. I ate soft cheese and deli meats. I lived the life of non-pregnant Lucy, knowing all the time that I was pregnant Lucy and everything around me was wrong.”

Published: Apr 17, 2018
Length: 16 minutes (4,036 words)

The Ridiculous Saga Of Lance Armstrong, The Cheater Who Became An Enemy Of The State

We know about the cheating and lying. But the story of how the greatest and most reviled American cyclist of all time ended up here isn’t that simple.

Source: Deadspin
Published: Apr 20, 2018
Length: 30 minutes (7,589 words)

Earning Our Place on the Planet: An Interview with adrienne maree brown

Her planet/self-help guide for activists, “Emergent Strategy,” is going mainstream — maybe even in time to save the world.

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 24, 2018
Length: 20 minutes (5,237 words)

What can we learn when a clinical trial is stopped?

A play-by-play of the Broaden study, a clinical trial of a promising new treatment for depression, highlights how unexpected variables can sink clinical trials prematurely — especially when sponsors pull the plug early on treatments that gain effectiveness over time.

Source: Mosaic Science
Published: Apr 16, 2018
Length: 23 minutes (5,992 words)