A group of Chicago cops spent years framing innocent men, but thanks to one determined woman, their convictions are finally getting overturned.
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High Expectations: LSD, T.C. Boyle’s Women, and Me
“Outside Looking In” dramatizes the discovery of LSD and the cult of personality surrounding Timothy Leary. Our reviewer drops acid and thinks about how, for women, it can be safer to be a downer.
Posted inReading List
Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Here’s a List of Longreads about Love for You
Jacqueline Alnes brings us eight stories on love in its many-splendored guises.
Posted inArts & Culture, Audio, Books, History, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘The Very Top Guy in the Stasi was Personally Involved in Figuring Out How to Destroy Punk.’
Author Tim Mohr talks about East Germany’s dissident punk rock scene, and its role in bringing down the Berlin Wall in 1989 — the story behind his remarkable new book, ‘Burning Down The Haus.’
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
A Certain Kind of Mammal
Meaghan O’Connell on the joy, the triumph, and the prison of breastfeeding.
Posted inCrime, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Sorry, But Drug-Induced Homicide Laws Aren’t Going to Solve Our Opioid Crisis
Another ineffective technique has been added to the ineffective war on drugs: Drug-induced homicide charges.
Posted inBooks, Commentary
This Month in Books: ‘What Used To Be Me Before the World Buried It’
Everyone is feeling very alone in this month’s books newsletter.
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Hidden Costs: When Prison Labor Gets Upsold as Artisanal Kitsch
An expose on the Maine Department of Correction Industries woodshop and other prison-based businesses like it, which frame their exploitive inmate manufacturing programs as rehabilitative when in reality they’re more like state-sanctioned slavery.
Posted inCrime, Highlight, Quotes
When the Answers Wash Out with the Tide
Police eventually figured out who killed Jaimee Mendez, but not how or why.
Posted inBundyville The Remnant, Crime, Culture, Current Events, investigations, Nonfiction, Standout, Story
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter One: A Quiet Man
When a bomb exploded in a tiny desert town, there was no doubt who did it. But no one could understand why.
