The Charming Billie Eilish

“In the last year, Billie Eilish scored five Grammys, went multiplatinum eight times, released the new Bond theme, and had to cancel a world tour. Then, she turned 19.”

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Jan 25, 2021
Length: 23 minutes (5,967 words)

‘We Are Going to Keep You Safe, Even if It Kills Your Spirit’

“For the millions of Americans living with dementia, every day during this pandemic can bring a fresh horror.”

Published: Feb 19, 2021
Length: 15 minutes (3,794 words)

Trump Hotel Employees Reveal What It Was Really Like Catering to the Right Wing Elite

“Four years’ worth of stories about VIP visits and grooming protocols, palm-greasing, rotten vegetables, and that time they lost Steve Mnuchin’s coat.”

Source: Washingtonian
Published: Feb 19, 2021
Length: 13 minutes (3,290 words)

The Richest Black Girl in America

“Everyone wanted to know more about Sarah Rector, about her unbelievable luck and especially about her money — and many would stop at nothing to get it for themselves.”

Published: Feb 16, 2021
Length: 19 minutes (4,760 words)

The Reluctant Bomb Technicians of Sinjar

“The three of them had become part of a team that would clear the land they grew up on of the death ISIS had strewn there, beginning to reclaim it for Iraq’s displaced Yazidis to one day return home.”

Author: John Beck
Published: Feb 13, 2021
Length: 28 minutes (7,066 words)

The Student and the Algorithm: How the Exam Results Fiasco Threatened One Pupil’s Future

Bright students in historically low-achieving schools were tumbling, sometimes in great, cliff-edge drops of two or three grades, because of institutional records they had nothing to do with.”

Author: Tom Lamont
Source: The Guardian
Published: Feb 18, 2021
Length: 27 minutes (6,759 words)

Dying on the Waitlist

“In Los Angeles County and around the country, doctors have had to decide who gets a lifesaving COVID-19 treatment and who doesn’t.”

Source: ProPublica
Published: Feb 18, 2021
Length: 22 minutes (5,663 words)

‘Trapped’: Women Working as Fishery Observers Allege Sex Harassment, Assault at Sea

“For other sufferers of workplace harassment, at least they get to go home at the end of the day. “

Source: Vice Magazine
Published: Feb 9, 2021
Length: 19 minutes (4,804 words)

Bad Dog

“A helpful way to think of it is that to love another animal so different and useless is to remind ourselves of how strange, complex, and irresponsible our behavior as humans can be.”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Feb 17, 2021
Length: 25 minutes (6,378 words)

Voices on Addiction: A Thief in the Night

Heather Stokes recounts what addiction has taken from her and her mother. To feed crack addictions, her bother and uncle stole not just possessions from the family house, they robbed them of personal safety and any chance at stability.

Source: The Rumpus
Published: Feb 16, 2021
Length: 9 minutes (2,303 words)