A Letter from Black America
“My friends and I locked eyes in stunned silence. Between the four adults, we hold six degrees. Three of us are journalists. And not one of us had thought to call the police. We had not even considered it.
We also are all black. And without realizing it, in that moment, each of us had made a set of calculations, an instantaneous weighing of the pros and cons.”
The Drug Lord With a Social Mission
Matt Bowden (a New Zealander at the forefront of the chemically engineered legal highs arms race) helped create one of the most viral outbreaks of new drugs in history. He might also have the antidote.
Wigs, Costumes, and ID Theft
The story of a major ID theft ring and the cops who brought them down.
The Buckeye Medicaid Boom
Ohio’s expansion of Medicaid has paid huge dividends for Cleveland’s major hospitals, but it’s also improved patient care.
The Demolition of Workers’ Comp
A co-investigation by NPR and ProPublica: Workers’ compensation benefits have been decimated over the last few decades, leaving severely injured workers vulnerable at a time when they need the most help.
‘The residents of Ferguson do not have a police problem. They have a gang problem’
Ta-Nehisi Coates on what the Justice Department’s investigation revealed about Ferguson police. “The ‘focus on revenue’ was almost wholly a focus on black people as revenue. Black people in Ferguson were twice as likely to be searched during a stop, twice as likely to receive a citation when stopped, and twice as likely to be arrested during the stop, and yet were 26 percent less likely to be found with contraband.”
Grassroots Isn’t Always Best
Policy-makers and public health advocates have long prized communitarianism over top-down intervention, but new research argues that bottom-up community development projects can just as easily reinforce deprivation and the status quo.
Target Has a New CEO: Will He Re-energize The Retailer?
Can Target’s new CEO help the struggling retailer?
Confessions of a Comma Queen
The New Yorker‘s longtime copy editor reflects on a life in grammar.
Outside Man
How the producer of the Hangover movies became one of the most effective advocates for prison reform in California.
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