Is It Fair to Ask the Internet to Pay Your Hospital Bill?

Looking at the ethical issues that come with crowd funded healthcare.

Author: Cari Romm
Source: The Atlantic
Published: Mar 12, 2015
Length: 8 minutes (2,100 words)

‘The residents of Ferguson do not have a police problem. They have a gang problem’

Ta-Nehisi Coates on what the Justice Department’s investigation revealed about Ferguson police. “The ‘focus on revenue’ was almost wholly a focus on black people as revenue. Black people in Ferguson were twice as likely to be searched during a stop, twice as likely to receive a citation when stopped, and twice as likely to be arrested during the stop, and yet were 26 percent less likely to be found with contraband.”

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Mar 5, 2015
Length: 9 minutes (2,364 words)

I Stalked My Psychiatrist

A personal essay about how a search for human connection devolved into an unhealthy obsession.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Aug 5, 2014
Length: 11 minutes (2,870 words)

How Patient Suicide Affects Psychiatrists

For mental-health practitioners whose clients kill themselves, the death of a patient is not just an emotional trauma: they can also face stigma from their colleagues and potential lawsuits.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jan 20, 2015
Length: 12 minutes (3,130 words)

What Ruth Bader Ginsburg Taught Me About Being a Stay-at-Home Dad

Ryan Park decides, after his clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to spend a year at home with his daughter before pursuing a corporate job. What he learned about the state of stay-at-home dads in America.

Author: Ryan Park
Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jan 10, 2015
Length: 21 minutes (5,375 words)

The Politics of Drinking Water

A brief examination of drinking water’s place in American history, and the current politics of clean water.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Dec 30, 2014
Length: 8 minutes (2,211 words)

The Tragedy of the American Military

The story of “a country willing to do anything for its military except take it seriously.” How the public and politicians became disconnected from those who serve.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Dec 31, 2014
Length: 41 minutes (10,355 words)

The Pawn King

Are pawnshops exploiting the poor or saving those hit hardest by the recession?

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Dec 4, 2014
Length: 17 minutes (4,284 words)

The Curious Case of Jesus’s Wife

An ancient papyrus is found mentioning Jesus’s wife, and lab tests seem to confirm its authenticity. But the mystery isn’t so simple.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Nov 20, 2014
Length: 21 minutes (5,336 words)

The Technical Constraints That Made Abbey Road So Good

How technology has changed the recording process since the Beatles, and how “option paralysis” can create new problems for engineers and bands.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Nov 1, 2014
Length: 9 minutes (2,449 words)