A River Runs Through It

One of Canada’s biggest cities has a flood control problem. Global warming worsens its prospects.

Source: Maisonneuve
Published: Feb 17, 2017
Length: 15 minutes (3,928 words)

A Tribe Called Quest’s Generation Is Now and Forever: A Conversation with Q-Tip

Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest talks with Noisey editor Kyle Kramer about Tribe’s sixth and final album, the importance of art, the evolution of hip-hop, and missing Phife Dawg.

Source: Vice Magazine
Published: Mar 30, 2017
Length: 13 minutes (3,419 words)

Can Amazon’s Alexa Be Your Friend?

A look at the rise of digital assistants, and how Alexa is not only getting smarter, but becoming an emotional companion for people who face loneliness and social anxiety.

Source: digg.com
Published: Mar 30, 2017
Length: 11 minutes (2,884 words)

The High Price of Leaving the Ultra-Orthodox Life

Footsteps is an organization the formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews, or those thinking about leaving their strict religious communities. Each week the members struggle with issues of sex, modesty, whether they should stay with their religious spouses, kiss on a first date, or even eat the non-kosher pizza provided at meetings.

Published: Mar 30, 2017
Length: 20 minutes (5,000 words)

How Nan Talese Blazed Her Pioneering Path through the Publishing Boys’ Club

A fascinating profile of Nan Talese, a trail-blazer in publishing, and one-half of one of the most interesting, highly public marriages in history. The piece comes just as her husband, famously non-monogamous Thy Neighbor’s Wife author Gay Talese, prepares to write a book about their long, complicated, and very flexible union.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Mar 29, 2017
Length: 28 minutes (7,034 words)

The Trauma of Facing Deportation

Faced with a terrifying past and an uncertain future, young refugees in Sweden are taking to their beds with uppgivenhetssyndrom, or resignation syndrome, “an illness that is said to exist only in Sweden, and only among refugees.”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Mar 28, 2017
Length: 26 minutes (6,700 words)

Chasing the Phantom

The hunt to take down “Slavik,” a notorious Russian hacker who stole millions from U.S. banks and has ties to Russian intelligence.

Source: Wired
Published: Mar 21, 2017
Length: 27 minutes (6,961 words)

The Oil Cross: On Being Raised to Wage Spiritual Warfare

“They were fallen angels, Satan’s henchmen, and they were everywhere.”

Source: Catapult
Published: Mar 29, 2017
Length: 8 minutes (2,034 words)

Disgraced

As told to writer Katherine Laidlaw, ER doctor Darryl Gebein describes how he became addicted to fentanyl—and lost everything.

Source: Toronto Life
Published: Mar 28, 2017
Length: 19 minutes (4,880 words)

A Fast Life

A personal essay by The Price of Illusion author and former French Vogue editor Joan Juliet Buck, about choosing to be “fast” after learning her grandmother regretted her lifetime with just one man.

Published: Mar 9, 2017
Length: 7 minutes (1,923 words)