Trevor Noah Is Still Trying to Explain America to Itself. It’s Getting Harder.

For GQ, Wesley Lowery interviews Daily Show host Trevor Noah.

Source: GQ
Published: Nov 18, 2020
Length: 18 minutes (4,648 words)

The Oral History of CNN’s Election Week

“It took office naps, rousing renditions of Motownphilly, and a whole lot of coffee.”

Source: Esquire
Published: Nov 16, 2020
Length: 19 minutes (4,801 words)

The Muppets: Sex & Violence

“I understand drawing the line at (Muppet) cannibalism and murder, but I also have to admit that the current zeitgeist has me flocking to these sketches more often than ever.”

Published: Nov 9, 2020
Length: 15 minutes (3,953 words)

The Woman Who Fell to Earth

When COVID-19 came to Star City, the center of Russia’s secretive space program, just before a celebrated launch, people went looking for a scapegoat.

Source: Reuters
Published: Nov 13, 2020
Length: 13 minutes (3,400 words)

The Strange and Twisted Tale of Hydroxychloroquine

“What happened with hydroxychloroquine was a debacle, but retelling the story might help avert the same kind of chaos next time around.”

Source: Wired
Published: Nov 11, 2020
Length: 30 minutes (7,745 words)

Follow the Leader

The underground movement trying to topple the North Korean regime.

Author: Suki Kim
Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 16, 2020
Length: 33 minutes (8,481 words)

The Memory Weavers

“Transforming craft into an act of protest against indifference, against the lack of willpower to reverse or address a societal ill, is something that Mexican women, and women around the world, are familiar with.”

Source: Hazlitt
Published: Nov 16, 2020
Length: 17 minutes (4,493 words)

Huawei, 5G, and the Man Who Conquered Noise

“How an obscure Turkish scientist’s obscure theoretical breakthrough helped the Chinese tech giant gain control of the future. US telecoms never had a chance.”

Source: Wired
Published: Nov 16, 2020
Length: 25 minutes (6,449 words)

Left in the Dark

“Tens of thousands of moments were never captured on Chicago Police body cameras. Lax oversight allows it to happen.”

Source: CBS 2
Published: Nov 15, 2020
Length: 43 minutes (10,897 words)

Things Ain’t Always Gone Be This Way

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers recounts her mother’s efforts to overcome voter suppression in Georgia, and as a 9-year old, her own special role in helping elderly Black people to vote in the 1976 U.S. presidential election.

Source: Kenyon Review
Published: Nov 11, 2020
Length: 13 minutes (3,257 words)