Dying Inside

4,998 inmates died in U.S. jails without getting their day in court. Reuters investigates the fatalities in America’s biggest jails.

Source: Reuters
Published: Oct 16, 2020
Length: 19 minutes (4,936 words)

The Kindness of Strangers

“Many women arrived here with only the clothes on their backs and the recipes inside their heads. Cooking again, having a kitchen in which to cook, was a sign of rebuilding; cooking the dishes they knew from home was a comfort and a pleasure, and a way to retain some European identity. You anchored your new family in the tastes of your old home.”

Source: Griffith Review
Published: Jul 26, 2020
Length: 9 minutes (2,278 words)

Her Name Was Nina

“I never got to nurse my baby girl. I never got to hear her voice or see her smile. I will never cover her feet in bed so she doesn’t get cold…And yet she is literally, physically, forever a part of me.”

Source: Pangyrus
Published: Oct 3, 2020
Length: 10 minutes (2,584 words)

The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation

“It’s an article of faith in the United States that more speech is better and that the government should regulate it as little as possible. But increasingly, scholars of constitutional law, as well as social scientists, are beginning to question the way we have come to think about the First Amendment.”

Published: Oct 13, 2020
Length: 33 minutes (8,400 words)

She Went Out For A Walk. Then Drogo The Police Dog Charged.

“Growing up, few Black families in Ayanna Brooks’s neighborhood had dogs. A vicious attack reminded her why.”

Published: Oct 15, 2020
Length: 13 minutes (3,368 words)

USC’s Dying Linebackers

In 1989, USC had a depth chart of a dozen linebackers. Five have died, each before age 50. Football was inextricably tied to their mortality. These are their stories.

Published: Oct 7, 2020
Length: 24 minutes (6,000 words)

‘Machines Set Loose to Slaughter’: the Dangerous Rise of Military AI

“…  it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the idea of ethical robotic killing machines is unrealistic, and all too likely to support dangerous fantasies of pushbutton wars and guiltless slaughters.”

Source: The Guardian
Published: Oct 15, 2020
Length: 14 minutes (3,600 words)

Outta That Holler

“The rural poverty that created Dolly Parton.”

Source: Slate
Published: Oct 13, 2020
Length: 11 minutes (2,948 words)

How Iceman Wim Hof Uncovered the Secrets to Our Health

“In a world addicted to comfort, it isn’t easy to convince a vast audience that what they really need is to take teeth-chattering swims and ice baths—but Hof has managed to do this.”

Source: Outside
Published: Oct 12, 2020
Length: 19 minutes (4,900 words)

All the President’s Men

“Looking back at four years of MAGA terror.”

Source: HuffPost
Published: Oct 11, 2020
Length: 10 minutes (2,739 words)