Weinstein’s Complicity Machine

Harvey Weinstein built and relied on relationships with prominent politicians, talent agencies, and media companies to protect himself from abuse allegations. He forced some of his employees to keep him supplied with erectile dysfunction drugs, which were delivered to him before his meetings with women, and threatened their careers if they spoke out.

Published: Dec 6, 2017
Length: 32 minutes (8,000 words)

The Wounds They Carry

How six teens dealt with their trauma days after the Las Vegas shooting massacre. Cox spoke with family members, friends, witnesses, doctors, and school officials to show the effect of gun violence on these young survivors.

Source: Washington Post
Published: Dec 7, 2017
Length: 36 minutes (9,000 words)

TIME Person of the Year 2017: The Silence-Breakers

In a round-up cover story, Time Magazine recognizes various women and a few men in media and other fields who had the courage this year to speak out about the sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination they endured from men in power. Unfortunately, the magazine undermined the impact of naming the “silence-breakers” of the #MeToo moment as its Person of the Year by selecting sexual-predator-in-chief Donald Trump as runner-up.

Source: Time
Published: Dec 6, 2017
Length: 31 minutes (7,885 words)

Mangilaluk’s Highway

On June 24, 1972, three boys decided to leave their residential school in Canada’s Northwest Territories and walk from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk (“Tuk”) in a bid to avoid punishment for stealing a pack of cigarettes from their dorm supervisor. Without a highway connecting Inuvik to Tuk, the boys had no idea they were undertaking an impossible journey of 90 miles over boggy tundra. At Granta, Nadim Roberts tells the story of Dennis, Jack, and Bernard, and of the horrific toll residential schools have exacted on Inuits, the Inuit community, and their traditional ways of life.

Source: Granta
Published: Nov 9, 2017
Length: 34 minutes (8,693 words)

My Experience at Charlie Rose Went Beyond Sexism

A personal essay in which writer and producer Rebecca Carroll catalogs her experiences with not only sexism, by racism as well, as the only black woman on Charlie Rose’s staff in the late 90s.

Source: Esquire
Published: Dec 4, 2017
Length: 5 minutes (1,425 words)

Derivative Sport: The Journalistic Legacy of David Foster Wallace

Editors and writers discuss the ways David Foster Wallace’s work influenced them and what it was like to work with him.

Source: Longreads
Published: Dec 7, 2017
Length: 32 minutes (8,200 words)

The Problem with Muzak

By reducing songs to “skip rates” and curated playlists, Spotify turns music to wallpaper and poses a threat to music itself.

Author: Liz Pelly
Source: The Baffler
Published: Dec 1, 2017
Length: 16 minutes (4,007 words)

How to Get So Famous They Give Your House a Medal

What decides whose legacies get memorialized? Mostly richness and whiteness.

Source: White Noise
Published: Nov 3, 2017
Length: 6 minutes (1,620 words)

The Consent of the (Un)Governed

“The search for a more human understanding of power and consent is not simply stage-dressing for a bigger fight. It is the big fight. It’s all about the grabby old men, and it always has been.”

Source: Longreads
Published: Dec 5, 2017
Length: 15 minutes (3,881 words)

When a Magician’s Curse Swung Boxing’s Biggest Bout

In the late-1930s, boxer Tiger Jack Fox was a force to be reckoned with, but did supernatural hocus pocus lose him an important fight?

Source: Narratively
Published: Nov 27, 2017
Length: 13 minutes (3,400 words)