On September 1, 2019, Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm. Reuters correspondent Zachary Fagenson reports from Great Abaco, which was nearly obliterated: “For the next three days, it would be our discomfiting task to point our recording equipment at piles of rubble that days earlier had been houses, and to extract stories […]
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Steve Stecklow, Lynn Johnson, Steven Hyden, Morgan Jerkins, and Chris McGreal.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Evan Ratliff, Gene Weingarten, Zachary Fagenson, Michael H. Keller and Gabriel J.X. Dance, and Clio Chang.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Reading List
The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners
The winners of the Pulitzer Prize have been announced.
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Following the North Star
Shaheen Pasha explores how the trauma of a loved one’s incarceration unravels her carefully planned-out existence, and sets her on a new, unexpected path to find meaning in the meaningless.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Hatebook
A Reuters investigation finds that Facebook is having a difficult time combating hate speech in Myanmar, a market where the platform dominates and where there have been regular outbreaks of ethnic violence. Reuters found more than 1,000 posts, comments, and images targeting the Rohingya Muslim minority group, some urging for them to be shot or […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story
The Myth of Making It
If the most financially and critically successful artists don’t feel successful, maybe there’s something wrong with how we think about success.
Posted ininvestigations, Nonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature
The Aftermarket for (Human) Spare Parts
“What they are doing is profiting from the sale of humans.”
Posted inNonfiction
What the World’s Most Controversial Herbicide Is Doing to Rural Argentina
After enormous lobbying efforts, Monsanto’s GMO soybeans, treated with Roundup, became the country’s largest export, as cancer rates and other health issues skyrocketed.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Subtleties of Electrocution
Taser claims its products are safe, and police claim to use them appropriately…but 1000 people are dead.
