How Police Failed to Stop Former NFL Star Darren Sharper’s Cross-Country Rape Spree

An investigation into how authorities’ failure to communicate with each other and properly assess victims and rape kits led Sharper to continue assaulting women.

Source: ProPublica
Published: Apr 8, 2015
Length: 38 minutes (9,586 words)

Burma’s Bizarre Capital

A look at the super-sized, master planned post-apocalypse suburbia that is Naypyidaw.

Published: Apr 7, 2015
Length: 9 minutes (2,350 words)

Is Hillary Clinton Any Good at Running for President?

What will a Hillary Clinton campaign look like? Can she succeed as a candidate?

Published: Apr 5, 2015
Length: 25 minutes (6,320 words)

The Assistant Economy

The low-paid labor that keeps our most accomplished artists and leaders running on time.

Source: Dissent
Published: Apr 7, 2015
Length: 17 minutes (4,432 words)

Smearch, Fidgital, Skinjecture: Creating New Terms for the Modern World

Lizzie Skurnick on her new book of neologisms and why she’s republishing beloved young adult books from her youth.

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 7, 2015
Length: 18 minutes (4,597 words)

How to Be Alone

Musicians confront solitude.

Author: Ann Powers
Source: NPR
Published: Apr 1, 2015
Length: 11 minutes (2,823 words)

The Craft of Poetry: A Semester with Allen Ginsberg

An intimate recollection of a Beat legend.

Published: Jun 1, 1995
Length: 62 minutes (15,685 words)

The Complicated Truth About Children and Drowning

Drowning, while preventable, has become the number one cause of death for children under 4. Why does it happen so often?

Published: Mar 30, 2015
Length: 14 minutes (3,704 words)

Rolling Stone and UVA: The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Report

Columbia University’s investigation into what went wrong with Rolling Stone’s story about rape at UVA.

Source: Rolling Stone
Published: Apr 5, 2015
Length: 52 minutes (13,246 words)

Death on the Edge

A profile of the late journalist Steven Sotloff, tracing his path from funny, rebellious middle-class kid in Florida to war reporter in the Middle East. Sotloff was executed by ISIS last year.

Source: Village Voice
Published: Mar 31, 2015
Length: 21 minutes (5,380 words)