You Can’t Stop Suni Lee

“In March 2020, Lee was scrolling through Twitter after practice when she saw the news: The Olympics were postponed, for the first time in modern history, due to COVID. Lee wiped tears away with chalky hands as years of carefully laid plans were thrown into limbo.”

Source: Elle
Published: May 27, 2021
Length: 7 minutes (1,900 words)

How to Tell a Trauma Story

“For a decade I’ve been trying to write this story. This is always as far as I get.”

Published: May 27, 2021
Length: 6 minutes (1,700 words)

Locked Out

A three-part investigative series about how the pandemic exposed Florida’s eviction crisis.

Published: May 13, 2021
Length: 36 minutes (9,200 words)

Stop Hustling Black Death

“Samaria Rice is the mother of Tamir, not a ‘mother of the movement.'”

Published: May 24, 2021
Length: 17 minutes (4,300 words)

‘This Is How You Get Your Power Back’

“Brady’s team, though, had been haunted by a serial rapist they could not identify, much less arrest. His DNA had been found in a half-dozen old cases in which evidence remained at the hospital.” The final installment in a three-part “Cold Justice” series.

Source: ProPublica
Published: May 25, 2021
Length: 16 minutes (4,204 words)

Two Explorers, an Avalanche and the Front Line of the Climate Crisis

“Disappearing sea ice and the plight of polar bears frequently make global headlines, but the world’s worst warming is also upending the lives of the people, like Strøm, who call these islands home.”

Source: Wired
Published: Mar 17, 2021
Length: 21 minutes (5,339 words)

The Professor Who Became a Cop

“Is this a book that will give readers a new perspective on the violence of policing—or is this just the story of how cops, and by extension her readers, can make peace with it?

Published: May 25, 2021
Length: 19 minutes (4,800 words)

Life Without Parole Is Replacing the Death Penalty—But the Legal Defense System Hasn’t Kept Up

“Just ask a Dallas woman who spent a year in jail without talking to a lawyer.”

Published: May 22, 2021
Length: 11 minutes (2,800 words)

The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t

“Academia is an industry, like journalism, that defines itself in large part by its ethical standards; we’re supposed to educate people and produce knowledge. So what does it mean that we’re also a haven for fakes?”

Published: May 25, 2021
Length: 34 minutes (8,682 words)

The Leg at the Bottom of the Sea

“Sebastian realized he’d found an artificial leg and started laughing. How does someone lose that?”

Source: Outside
Published: May 24, 2021
Length: 13 minutes (3,391 words)