Hunting Child Predators With Canada’s Freelance Vigilantes

In Canada, where the sex offender registry and convicted criminals’ names are private, a movement of “creep-hunters” has taken justice into their own hands and built a popular network of homemade videos around public shaming. Now they’re streamlining their approach to go mainstream, but at what cost?

Author: Suzy Khimm
Source: Esquire
Published: Apr 9, 2017
Length: 27 minutes (6,750 words)

The String Theory

What happens when all of a man’s intelligence and athleticism is focused on placing a fuzzy yellow ball where his opponent is not? An obsessive inquiry (with footnotes), into the physics and metaphysics of tennis.

Source: Esquire
Published: Jul 1, 1996
Length: 58 minutes (14,729 words)

Why She’s Suing Fox News

Conservative commentator Andrea Tantaros, a former co-host of “The Five” and “Outnumbered” on Fox News, speaks out about the experiences that prompted her sexual harassment suit against the organization and its former CEO, Roger Ailes.

Source: Esquire
Published: Sep 21, 2016
Length: 16 minutes (4,228 words)

The Falling Man

Richard Drew’s photo of the man falling from the Twin Towers: in the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.

Author: Tom Junod
Source: Esquire
Published: Sep 11, 2016
Length: 29 minutes (7,385 words)

The FBI Accused Him of Terrorism. He Couldn’t Tie His Shoes.

A disabled 18-year-old named Peyton Pruitt, who functions at the level of an 8-year-old child, is accused of becoming an ISIS recruit.

Source: Esquire
Published: Sep 8, 2016
Length: 14 minutes (3,722 words)

The Ministry of Fun

Celebrities, skinny jeans, reality TV ─ Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr. has it all, including DJs working the baptism. This is the new breed of Capitalist America’s pastors.

Source: Esquire
Published: Aug 30, 2016
Length: 21 minutes (5,286 words)

The Prophet Motive

Dan Price made headlines last year and was lauded as a hero when he announced that he was cutting his executive salary at his Seattle company to raise the minimum salary at his company to $70K a year for all employees. But a lawsuit from his brother, allegations of abuse from his ex-wife, and negative stories from ex-employees have painted a much different picture of the CEO.

Source: Esquire
Published: Aug 3, 2016
Length: 20 minutes (5,065 words)

A Moment Like This Used to Get a Black Man Killed

Obama’s Democratic National Convention speech: meditations on a president’s grace under pressure, his uniquely American brand of cool, and the pace of progress.

Source: Esquire
Published: Jul 28, 2016
Length: 7 minutes (1,951 words)

They Loved the Church. They Loved Each Other More.

In November 2015, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made a change to the Mormon Handbook that would force LBGTQ members to choose between their religion and their sexuality: Those in “same-gender marriages or similar relationships” were now considered apostates. O’Neil tells the story of Garett Smith and Kyle Cranney, a couple who ultimately chose their devotion to each other over their commitment to the church—and who plan to marry in October.

Source: Esquire
Published: Jun 24, 2016
Length: 15 minutes (3,939 words)

The Great Pennsylvania Government Porn Caper

Gambacorta traces Pennsylvania’s Porngate scandal, and the epic rise and fall of Kathleen Kane, the state’s attorney general.

Source: Esquire
Published: Feb 24, 2016
Length: 16 minutes (4,162 words)