This Is Meant to Hurt You

A beautiful essay by Leah Sottile on love and illness.

Source: Moss
Published: Aug 25, 2016
Length: 15 minutes (3,774 words)

Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move From Above

Since January, police have been testing an aerial surveillance system adapted from the surge in Iraq. And they neglected to tell the public.

Author: Monte Reel
Published: Aug 23, 2016
Length: 21 minutes (5,342 words)

A Family Matter

The story of a Californian family torn apart by a child protective services agency, and the law firm helping them fight back.

Source: The Atavist
Published: Aug 18, 2016
Length: 40 minutes (10,110 words)

Sex on Campus Isn’t What You Think: What 101 Student Journals Taught Me

Not every college student might be having casual sex, but the cultural forces that encourage casual encounters over other types, called hookup culture, is alive and well. Students at two schools kept journals about their sex lives to help one researcher understand how hookup culture, finances, looks, gender normativity, privilege and “sexually hot, emotionally cold” encounters affect them.

Author: Lisa Wade
Source: The Guardian
Published: Aug 23, 2016
Length: 7 minutes (1,802 words)

Pin Kings

Wrestling teammates Alex DeCubas and Kevin Pedersen grow up to oppose each other in the drug wars: one as a smuggler, the other as a DEA agent.

Source: ESPN
Published: Aug 18, 2016
Length: 24 minutes (6,235 words)

The Secret Nazi Attempt to Breed the Perfect Horse

The bestselling author of The Eighty Dollar Champion describes the Nazis’ secret stud farm, where dubious visionaries imagined a breed of perfect (and perfectly white) horse.

Published: Aug 23, 2016
Length: 18 minutes (4,567 words)

The Farmers of Tanner Creek

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Chinese farmers in Southwest Portland sold their fruits and vegetables to white Portland residents, until real estate conditions shifted and drove them out. These are the same forces currently at work on Northeast Portland’s black community.

Published: Aug 1, 2016
Length: 7 minutes (1,994 words)

My 14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday’s Endless Appetizers

Gawker had a contentious existence. Let’s celebrate the variety of its material by rereading this hilarious story of one reporter’s self-destructive marathon of cheap mozzarella-stick-eating spent without reading material, wi-fi or sleep, just the satisfaction of winning a bet. It gets ugly fast.

Source: Gawker
Published: Jul 18, 2014
Length: 25 minutes (6,281 words)

Best Sisters

“The way we describe ability and care has changed over the centuries, but my relationship with Kiddo doesn’t need to be defined.”

Source: Hazlitt
Published: Aug 23, 2016
Length: 14 minutes (3,592 words)

The Sissies, Hustlers, and Hair Fairies Whose Defiant Lives Paved the Way For Stonewall

Before Stonewall, there was Compton’s Cafeteria: “In August 1966—fifty years ago this month—transgender and gender-nonconforming customers at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria stood up to years of abusive, discriminatory treatment by the San Francisco police.”

Published: Aug 23, 2016
Length: 18 minutes (4,726 words)