My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard
Bauer goes undercover as a private prison guard to investigate the inner workings of a for-profit prison in Winnfield, Louisiana run by the Corrections Corporation of America. He witnesses multiple stabbings, prisoners denied adequate care, and becomes unsettled by the way the job changes his behavior.
The State of the Domestic Goddess
Adventures in preparing recipes from the cookbooks of “domestic goddesses” Gwyneth Paltrow and Chrissy Teigen.
The Dark Side of Longform Journalism
“In the field, we are actively, aggressively seeking to see with our own eyes the reality of war, famine, disaster—and who isn’t at least somewhat gratified when he discovers what he’s sought, at least somewhat disappointed when he doesn’t?”
Day Care (and Its Discontents): A Reading List
Child care is a minefield of a topic, and navigating it inevitably detonates questions of class and gender, labor and social justice. It’s where politics and geography become not just personal, but also emotional (and, sometimes, heartbreaking). Here are eight stories about day care: a place working parents know all too well, but never quite well enough.
Will Trump Swallow the G.O.P. Whole?
The Republican party is struggling to maintain party unity with Donald Trump as their presumptive presidential nominee.
Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816
“In Frankenstein’s Creature, Mary Shelley offers us the most powerful possible incarnation of the loathed and de-humanized refugee.” Two hundred years ago, a period of unusual weather triggered a humanitarian crisis. This “Year Without a Summer” offers a lens through which to read Shelley’s classic novel.
The Ghosts of Fukushima
Five years after a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, only a small percentage of evacuees have returned to the Japanese town of Naraha, which the government has deemed safe following an expensive cleanup effort.
Home Is Where the Fraud Is
At the height of the housing crisis, one woman’s bureaucratic odyssey to discover who really owns her home leads her to startling revelations about the housing market.
A Crime Is Nothing If You Can’t Get Away
How Disgust Made Us Human
Our ancestors reacted to parasites with overwhelming revulsion, wiring the brain for morals, manners, politics and laws.
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