We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in crime reporting.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Quotes
The Myth of the Singular Voice
Ahistorical narratives of racial uplift and singular heroes deny complexity and are devoid of real politics.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction
How Lobbyists Normalized the Use of Chemical Weapons on American Civilians
Or, how we learned to stop worrying and love the gas.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Why Our Kids Need to Learn About Residential Schools
On how Canadians and parents in particular, need to first educate themselves, and then their children on Residential Schools: Canada’s cultural genocide. As a nation, we need to learn the individual stories of people like Phyllis Webstad, Gladys Chapman, and Chanie Wenjack, and about how the government partnered with the Catholic church to remove Indigenous […]
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
Bundyville Chapter Two: By a Thread
The Bundy family’s belief that they are defenders of liberty have been shaped by their Mormon faith, but their convictions are connected to a prophecy that the modern Mormon church does not accept as church doctrine. A book of photocopied scripture and speeches by LDS prophets also gives clues to their motivations.
Posted inNonfiction
Walking Through the Past Into New Motherhood
A new mother struggles to make sense of intergenerational trauma, biological memory and the guilty privilege of passing as white even though she is Jewish.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
A Chance to Rewrite History: The Women Fighters of the Tamil Tigers
How during a brutal, 25-year civil war in Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers failed the women soldiers who sacrificed everything to fight for a sovereign state for the Tamil minority.
Posted inCrime, Current Events, education, Nonfiction, Story
The Battle Over Teaching Chicago’s Schools About Police Torture and Reparations
A little-known city law has educators figuring out how to talk to eighth and tenth grade students about the history of Chicago police abuse.
Posted inCurrent Events
What It Takes to Remove a President Who Can’t Do the Job
Is he confused, insane, or just paranoid? Evan Osnos traces the history of presidential incapacity for the New Yorker
Posted inArts & Culture
The Hippies Who Hated the Summer of Love
The merchants of Haight-Ashbury advertised a summer of free food, free lodging, and free love. What they got instead was a civic nightmare.
