Castles in the Sky

“While renovating a house in San Francisco, a couple discovered a diary, hidden away for more than a century. It held a love story—and a mystery.”

Source: The Atavist
Published: Nov 30, 2020
Length: 34 minutes (8,600 words)

Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and Impermanence

“Verdigris is emblematic of that movement. It’s a blue-green, yes. But more importantly, it’s a quality. It is hard to give it a hex code because it’s not flat. It’s a color made from change.”

Published: Nov 24, 2020
Length: 8 minutes (2,213 words)

Bought the Farm

“Small family farms are disappearing, but not for the reasons people tend to think. As investors rush in, farmers can’t hold on to their land.”

Source: Maisonneuve
Published: Nov 26, 2020
Length: 23 minutes (5,824 words)

Apocalypse Then and Now

“Indigenous experiences and perspectives challenge the notion that a press corps equipped with notepads and recorders can capture the whole truth.”

Published: Nov 25, 2020
Length: 7 minutes (1,906 words)

‘It’s a national tragedy’: What a devastating Covid-19 outbreak at a California slaughterhouse reveals about the federal government’s failed pandemic response

“In the face of an unprecedented public health crisis, the federal agency responsible for workplace safety has essentially allowed meatpackers to regulate themselves—leading to chaos, confusion, and fear in facilities across the country.”

Source: The Counter
Published: Nov 24, 2020
Length: 22 minutes (5,691 words)

Torturing Geniuses

“It is telling that ‘genius’ is virtually synonymous with ‘tortured genius.’ It is hard to imagine a story like Beth’s without the alcoholism, drug addiction, intense loneliness and self-destructiveness. The real torture is the one we enact by classifying people as geniuses, to serve our own fantasies of independence. Geniuses are the monsters we make.”

Source: The Point
Published: Nov 24, 2020
Length: 6 minutes (1,621 words)

Death and the All-American Boy

“Joe Biden was a lot more careful around the press after this 1974 profile.”

Source: Washingtonian
Published: Jun 1, 1974
Length: 18 minutes (4,728 words)

Eat Your Vegetables

“On Deborah Madison and the taint of vegetarianism.”

Source: The Baffler
Published: Nov 24, 2020
Length: 6 minutes (1,530 words)

Why I’m Mourning the Arecibo Telescope

“In its 57 years, the massive radio telescope made some groundbreaking discoveries, but it also connected our hearts and minds to the cosmos.”

Source: Slate
Published: Nov 23, 2020
Length: 7 minutes (1,871 words)

‘Superpredator’

“The media myth that demonized a generation of Black youth.”

Published: Nov 20, 2020
Length: 10 minutes (2,500 words)