What Does It Mean to Teach for America?

Teach for America has faced criticism for years. Now it’s listening—and changing.

Source: Vox
Published: Sep 5, 2014
Length: 22 minutes (5,618 words)

The Heartwrenching Court Cases That Inspired My New Novel

Author Ian McEwan on the complicated family court cases that served as inspiration for his new novel.

Author: Ian McEwan
Published: Sep 5, 2014
Length: 13 minutes (3,309 words)

The Trans-Everything CEO

A profile of futurist, entrepreneur, and philosopher Martine Rothblatt, the highest-paid female executive in America who was born male.

Published: Sep 7, 2014
Length: 28 minutes (7,016 words)

The Rise and Fall of the Biggest Pot Dealer in New York City History

It began with a disgruntled ex-girlfriend walking unprompted into a Long Island DEA office. What followed was a seven-year-long investigation that “went beyond the wildest imaginings of the agents assigned to it,” culminating in the arrest of a French-Canadian playboy thought to be the biggest marijuana dealer in New York City history.

Author: ALAN FEUER
Published: Sep 5, 2014
Length: 10 minutes (2,642 words)

A Changed Woman

Amanda Barbour endured 10 years of conversion therapy. But she finally got her dream wedding.

Source: D Magazine
Published: Sep 6, 2014
Length: 17 minutes (4,363 words)

Black America’s Invisible Crisis

Residents of inner cities, most of whom are black, often develop symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after being exposed to violence.

Source: Essence
Published: Aug 30, 2014
Length: 10 minutes (2,566 words)

The Masked Avengers

How the radical hacking collective Anonymous incited online vigilantism from Tunisia to Ferguson.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Sep 8, 2014
Length: 36 minutes (9,058 words)

The Forsaken

A rising number of gay teens are being cast out of religious families and onto the streets, where they become homeless and get discriminated against in local shelters.

Source: Rolling Stone
Published: Sep 3, 2014
Length: 26 minutes (6,543 words)

All Roads Lead to Willie Nelson

The life story of the country music great, now 81. “Over the course of 30 interviews with his friends, family and band members, a lot of the same words come up – generous, charismatic, loyal and, as Keith Richards has said, ‘a bit of a mystery.'”

Source: Rolling Stone
Published: Sep 4, 2014
Length: 33 minutes (8,293 words)

A Diagnosis

“I’m a writer. I’ve got cancer. Am I going to write about it? How am I not?”

Published: Sep 1, 2014
Length: 16 minutes (4,113 words)