Lovers in Auschwitz, Reunited 72 Years Later. He Had One Question.
The heart-warming story of Holocaust survivors David Wisnia and Helen Spitzer, young lovers at Auschwitz, who got to meet one last time before she died at 100 last year. At the meeting, “Zippi,” as she was known then, revealed she’d used her position as a privileged inmate and a graphic designer at the camp five times to keep Wisnia from being shipped to a worse camp.
The Champion Who Picked a Date to Die
How Belgian gold-medal winning paralympic sprinter Marieke Vervoort gained the ultimate control over a debilitating and painful degenerative muscle condition that began when she was a teen with a tingling sensation in her feet.
The Class of 2000 ‘Could Have Been Anything’
How Racism Ripples Through Rural California’s Pipes
Race and economic class have everything to do with who gets fresh water and who does not.
A 17-Mile Hike to Unite San Francisco
A motley alliance decided that a single trail could bring together this divided city. A sixth-generation native sets out to walk it.
Flint’s Children Suffer in Class After Years of Drinking the Lead-Poisoned Water
The physical and congitive effects of lead poisoning on students require special education interventions that are difficult for struggling schools to provide.
The American Road Trip: Patriotism
From a naturalization ceremony to a Slipknot concert, Jacqui Shine travels the United States to understand what it means to be patriotic.
Adam Neumann and the Art of Failing Up
WeWork’s chief risk-taker found a kindred spirit with an open checkbook: SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son. Now he’s walking away from the wreckage with more than $1 billion.
Cult of the Literary Sad Woman
If sadness once struck me as terminally hip, then I’ve arrived on the far side of 35 with a deepening appreciation for the ways pleasure and satisfaction can become structuring forces of identity as well.
The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went Wrong?
“Last year, tech companies reported over 45 million online photos and videos of children being sexually abused — more than double what they found the previous year… Online predators create and share the illegal material, which is increasingly cloaked by technology. Tech companies, the government, and the authorities are no match.”
Content Note: “Articles in this series examine the explosion in online photos and videos of children being sexually abused. They include graphic descriptions of some instances of the abuse.”
