Car Trouble

Subprime car loans are rife with predatory lending and insane interests, but today’s market exceeds $100 billion a year.

Source: Mother Jones
Published: Apr 4, 2016
Length: 19 minutes (4,795 words)

The Reckoning

When she was 18 and eight months pregnant, Claire Wilson was critically wounded during the 1966 University of Texas Tower shooting. This is Wilson’s story, which goes into how her life was affected in the tragedy’s aftermath.

Source: Texas Monthly
Published: Mar 31, 2016
Length: 51 minutes (12,878 words)

Money for Nothing

Battan explores the ludicrous, lucrative economics of celebrity club appearances.

Source: GQ
Published: Apr 4, 2016
Length: 12 minutes (3,109 words)

The Vanishing: What Happened to the Thousands Still Missing in Mexico?

More than 23,000 people have gone missing during Mexico’s drug wars. Every year, their families make a trek to Monterrey seeking answers.

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 5, 2016
Length: 18 minutes (4,634 words)

Dirty Little Secrets

More than a year ago, 11.5 million documents taken from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca was provided by an unnamed source to Süddeutsche Zeitung, a German newspaper. News organizations around the world have begun investigations using the document dump, including Fusion which looked into how the firm operates.

Source: Fusion
Published: Apr 3, 2016
Length: 22 minutes (5,704 words)

Mother for Hire

A searing look at the lives of the immigrant women who tend to the needs of others.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Apr 11, 2016
Length: 34 minutes (8,580 words)

Grieving In America, Rebuilding In Nigeria

After his brother died and his father was partially paralyzed, Ugwu’s family traveled 7,000 miles in search of an old home, a new house, and the things we’d lost on the road in between.

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Apr 2, 2016
Length: 40 minutes (10,230 words)

The Good, the Bad, and the Highly Personal: A Reading List About Haircuts

Six stories about our relationships with our hair.

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 3, 2016

Low Stakes Forever

A profile of Gordon Korman, the wunderkind of 1980s Canadian kid-lit.

Source: Hazlitt
Published: Mar 31, 2016
Length: 16 minutes (4,000 words)

The Culinary Education of Mr. Mozzarella Sticks

A GQ writer whose diet typically consists of chicken fingers and waffle fries receives lessons on food and cooking from the highly regarded chef, Daniel Boulud.

Source: GQ
Published: Mar 29, 2016
Length: 21 minutes (5,295 words)