The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus’s Wife

A supposedly ancient scrap of papyrus, which suggests that Jesus was married, has shaken the world of biblical scholarship.

Published: Jun 16, 2016
Length: 44 minutes (11,229 words)

Water Hazard

Revkin’s 1988 story about how human-alligator conflicts in Florida began to rise as the population in the state steadily increased and homes were built “on terrain that is transmogrified swamp.”

Source: Discover
Published: Sep 1, 1988
Length: 14 minutes (3,657 words)

Fully Loaded: Inside the shadowy world of America’s 10 biggest gunmakers

Who built, and who still funds, the biggest gunmakers in America.

Source: Mother Jones
Published: Jun 15, 2016
Length: 19 minutes (4,989 words)

PNL’s World Or Nothing

A profile of a media-shy French rapping duo who are quickly becoming internationally recognized.

Source: Fader
Published: Jun 14, 2016
Length: 15 minutes (3,932 words)

Interview With a Woman Who Recently Had an Abortion at 32 Weeks

When an expectant mom learned, at 31 weeks, that her fetus was “incompatible with life,” she flew to Colorado to get a shot that would start the process of a third-trimester abortion, then returned to New York to finish the delivery.

Source: Jezebel
Published: Jun 15, 2016
Length: 32 minutes (8,159 words)

Could Eat a Horse

The phrase ‘horse meat’ elicits strong responses, from gags to cries for justice. But what really goes on in the edible equine trade? Why do people buy horse meat, and how does it taste? One journalist in Canada finds out.

Published: May 24, 2016
Length: 6 minutes (1,607 words)

Borges and $: The Parable of the Literary Master and the Coin

Thirty years ago, the world lost a great literary mind—the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. Elizabeth Hyde Stevens revisits the financial conditions that produced this life of pure literature, finding unexpected hope in the darkest period of Borges’ forgotten past.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 14, 2016
Length: 31 minutes (7,830 words)

Off Course

“There it was, set out with cold data in the official report and with occasional colorful description in the newspaper reportage, the story of my father’s death. The story, in a way, of the beginning of my life.” A man uncovers the past of the father he never knew: a World War II pilot, James Erwin McLaughlin, who died in a crash in 1948.

Source: Texas Monthly
Published: Jun 6, 2016
Length: 43 minutes (10,975 words)

In the Depths of the Digital Age

“Virginia Woolf’s serious joke that “on or about December 1910 human character changed” was a hundred years premature. Human character changed on or about December 2010, when everyone, it seemed, started carrying a smartphone.”

Published: Jun 23, 2016
Length: 16 minutes (4,098 words)

Room for Improvement: The Shockingly Simple, Cost-Effective Way to End Homelessness

Utah found a budget-friendly, effective way to reduce homelessness: build housing and give it to homeless people, no strings attached.

Source: Mother Jones
Published: Mar 31, 2016
Length: 24 minutes (6,226 words)