We Are All Confident Idiots
David Dunning, the psychologist who gave the Dunning-Kruger effect (half) its name, reflects on our human propensity to wildly overestimate how much we know.
The Murdered Mayor of Bell Gardens
Daniel Crespo, the mayor of a small industrial city in southeast L.A. County, battered his wife for 28 years. She shot him the day he turned on their son.
Everybody Sucks
Vanessa Grigoriadis’s 2007 feature on Gawker Media, and “the rage of the creative underclass.”
No Room at the Inn for Innocence
There are more than half a million homeless children in California and budget motels have become the last resort for many families with nowhere else to go. Joe Mozingo profiles a group of kids growing up in the shadows of drugs and despair at a San Bernardino motel.
Cheer Empire
A single company (Varsity Brands, a for-profit business headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, with offices in Florida, California and Dallas) controls almost every aspect of elite cheerleading. They’re also fighting harder than anyone to keep cheerleading from becoming an official sport.
Pope Francis, Urbanist
Every 25 years, Catholic pilgrims from around the world descend on Rome for a “holy year” known as the Jubilee. As the city prepares for the 2015 Jubilee, Simone d’Antonio looks at Pope Francis’s impressive, far-ranging record on urban issues.
The Americans with Disabilities Act at 25
How one law fundamentally shifted the way Americans think about accessibility.
‘The Truth of Life’: Paula Fox on the Re- (Re-) Release of Her 1970 Novel
Sari Botton talks to Paula Fox about Fox’s 1970 novel “Desperate Characters.”
Desperate Characters
An excerpt from Paula Fox’s 1970 novel: Status-conscious Sophie and Otto Bentwood attend a dinner party in Brooklyn Heights in the late sixties, shortly after Sophie sustains a bite on her hand from a stray cat.
‘I’m No Longer Afraid’: 35 Bill Cosby Accusers Tell Their Stories
A photo shoot, and testimonials, from 35 of the women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault.
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