The Myth of the Ethical Shopper

Why boycotting and shopping smarter won’t eliminate sweatshops.

Source: HuffPost
Published: Jul 17, 2015
Length: 20 minutes (5,079 words)

Psychic Capital

Meet the astrologers and mystics ministering to Silicon Valley’s elite.

Source: SF Weekly
Published: Jul 16, 2015
Length: 18 minutes (4,715 words)

The Doctors Whose Patients Are Already Dead

Rachel Wilkinson goes inside an autopsy lab to understand the process—and the emotional rewards of medicine’s most-maligned specialty.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jul 14, 2015
Length: 19 minutes (4,772 words)

The Pixar Theory of Labor

An examination of Pixar animated films, which have a tendency to fixate on the virtues of work.

Source: The Awl
Published: Jul 15, 2015
Length: 8 minutes (2,244 words)

Long-Time Listener, First-Time Caller

Welcome to sports call-in radio, the world’s cheapest therapy.

Source: Sportsnet
Published: Jul 12, 2015
Length: 10 minutes (2,729 words)

The Stink of Swine Country

After a decades-long battle, a group of North Carolina residents are suing the pork production arm of a meat conglomerate over the odorous excrement-filled cesspools in their neighborhoods. Is the world eating cheap bacon at the expense of North Carolina’s rural poor?

Author: Lily Kuo
Source: Quartz
Published: Jul 14, 2015
Length: 20 minutes (5,100 words)

A Back-Aching, Coffee-Guzzling, Minivan-Driving Classic Rocker

A profile of Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl.

Source: Washington Post
Published: Jun 26, 2015
Length: 9 minutes (2,456 words)

Judd Apatow: The Rolling Stone Interview

“I started in Woodbury and then my parents divorced and we moved to Syosset, next door. They separated when I was in sixth grade, got back together, then separated again between eight and ninth grade, I think. Everyone in my neighborhood, they’d start out living in a big house and then their parents would divorce and they would move to a condo a mile away. The condos were filled with all the divorced families. I found a poem recently that I wrote when I was 15, called ‘Divorce.’ I wrote it when I was a dishwasher at a comedy club on the weekends. It’s so funny but it’s so sad. It predicts my entire life.”

Source: Rolling Stone
Published: Jul 14, 2015
Length: 31 minutes (7,931 words)

The Missing History of Ravensbrück, The Nazi Concentration Camp for Women

The story of the Nazis’ only concentration camp for women has long been obscured—partly by chance, but also by historians’ apathy towards women’s history. Sarah Helm writes about the camp, where the “cream of Europe’s women” were interned alongside its prostitutes, and members of the French resistance perished alongside Red Army prisoners of war.

Author: Sarah Helm
Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 14, 2015
Length: 52 minutes (13,071 words)

This Is How Uber Takes Over a City

A chronicle of Uber’s intense battle to conquer Portland, as well as Uber’s political fight across the nation.

Published: Jun 23, 2015
Length: 15 minutes (3,800 words)