Texas’s Best Young Accordionists Carry on a Conjunto Legacy

“At the Big Squeeze, the state’s most talented teen accordion players are keeping a historic Texas tradition alive.”

Source: Texas Monthly
Published: May 21, 2021
Length: 8 minutes (2,010 words)

The Snitch

“In Scott Kimball, the FBI thought it had found a high-value informant who could help solve big cases. What it got instead was lies, betrayal, and murder.”

Source: The Atavist
Published: May 31, 2021
Length: 46 minutes (11,500 words)

‘I Took Part in the Psilocybin Trial and It Changed My Life’

“I had seen an alternative reality, another way of being, and knew beyond anything I’d known before that day that life is extraordinary. And in that moment I felt happier, more alive, and more Me than I imagined was possible.”

Source: The Independent
Published: May 31, 2021
Length: 22 minutes (5,663 words)

Why So Many Children Died at Indian Residential Schools

“This week saw the discovery of something outside Kamloops, B.C., rarely seen in North America, much less in any corner of the developed world: Unmarked and previously forgotten graves, all belonging to children who died at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.”

Published: May 29, 2021
Length: 6 minutes (1,700 words)

100 Years After the Tulsa Massacre, What Does Justice Look Like?

“In 1921, a white mob attacked the Greenwood district of Tulsa, killing hundreds of Black people and destroying the neighborhood. Justice has never been served. Can it still be today?”

Published: May 25, 2021
Length: 31 minutes (7,800 words)

The Plot to Kill the Olympics

“Just as the pandemic inspired political and social change the world over, so, during the course of 2020, did many of the bigger Olympic sports experience a quiet remaking.”

Author: Alex Perry
Source: Outside
Published: Apr 19, 2021
Length: 41 minutes (10,357 words)

Inside the Unlicensed Counseling That Led Boston Students to Allege Emotional Abuse

“RC’s critics say it has no place in public schools and could harm students who feel pressured to participate or burdened by peers’ psychological suffering. Steven Hassan, a Newton-based licensed mental health counselor and cult expert, considers RC a splinter group of Dianetics and a cult.”

Source: Boston Globe
Published: May 26, 2021
Length: 13 minutes (3,313 words)

The Women Who Preserved the Story of the Tulsa Race Massacre

“Today, the work done by Parrish in the nineteen-twenties and Gates in the nineteen-nineties forms the bedrock for books, documentaries, and a renewed reparations push that, a century after the massacre, is experiencing a groundswell of support.”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: May 28, 2021
Length: 11 minutes (2,882 words)

Did Paying a Ransom for a Stolen Magritte Painting Inadvertently Fund Terrorism?

“Modern art crime, like the arms trade, still thrives in the shadow of global conflict, which gives rise to criminal networks that make from the detritus of war immensely profitable commodities.”

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: May 27, 2021
Length: 21 minutes (5,477 words)

Heat Listed

“He could be the shooter, he might get shot. They didn’t know. But the data said he was at risk either way.”

Source: The Verge
Published: May 24, 2021