The Sanctuary

In Minneapolis, a radical experiment in life without the police.

Published: Sep 15, 2020
Length: 29 minutes (7,362 words)

Injured?

“Bruised egos, gobs of money, and the bitter feud that took down Cellino & Barnes, New York’s absurdly ubiquitous accident law firm.”

Published: Sep 16, 2020
Length: 28 minutes (7,127 words)

How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda

“Immigrant struggles in America forged a bond that became even tighter after my mother’s A.L.S. diagnosis. Then, as COVID-19 threatened, Chinese nationalists began calling us traitors to our country.”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Sep 7, 2020
Length: 35 minutes (8,917 words)

The Crushing Reality of Zoom School

“Zoom school becomes a portal into worlds you never see as a parent making awkward smalltalk at pickup. You can hear a mom working a job doing collections for medical billing. Call after call. A dad who calls his sister on speakerphone. They fight most days. Grandparents asking how long it’s going to take. There are babies wailing.”

Author: Dan Sinker
Source: Esquire
Published: Sep 16, 2020
Length: 6 minutes (1,524 words)

The Man Who Refused to Spy

“The F.B.I. tried to recruit an Iranian scientist as an informant. When he balked, the payback was brutal.”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Sep 14, 2020
Length: 38 minutes (9,700 words)

Top Dog: An Oral History of “Wishbone”

“No one had ever done this before. No one had ever put a dog in the middle of the Civil War. How do you actually make that happen?”

Source: Texas Monthly
Published: Sep 16, 2020
Length: 32 minutes (8,100 words)

Going Postal

“A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive.”

Author: Max Read
Source: Bookforum
Published: Sep 3, 2020
Length: 10 minutes (2,612 words)

‘A Felony Just to Own’: The Sleazy Story Behind Penthouse’s Most Controversial Issue

“Peter Bloch, Penthouse‘s then-executive editor: “It was the best-selling issue of Penthouse of all time. Hands down. A complete sellout in, like, two days. You couldn’t get a copy. So there were guys paying—and this is something I saw with my own eyes—a dollar for a peek. A peek!””

Source: Esquire
Published: Sep 15, 2020
Length: 12 minutes (3,137 words)

Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration

“Wildfires rage in the West. Hurricanes batter the East. Droughts and floods wreak damage throughout the nation. Life has become increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, but if the people there move, where will everyone go?”

Source: ProPublica
Published: Sep 15, 2020
Length: 24 minutes (6,133 words)

Buying Myself Back

Emily Ratajkowski writes an essay on celebrity, objectification, and consent. “I’ve become more familiar with seeing myself through the paparazzi’s lenses than I am with looking at myself in the mirror. And I have learned that my image, my reflection, is not my own.”

Source: The Cut
Published: Sep 15, 2020
Length: 28 minutes (7,000 words)