This week, we’re sharing stories from Connie Bruck, San Francisco Chronicle Staff, Justin Heckert, Kent Babb, and Rob Harvilla.
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How Four Americans Robbed the Bank of England
In Victorian London, a gang of U.S. hustlers attempts a ten-million-dollar heist on the safest bank in the world. Can the detective who inspired Sherlock Holmes catch them?
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
‘What if people found out?’ On the White Male Suicide Epidemic
“I got home and went back to the fetal position for a week.”
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On Vanishing
Dementia is a kind of erasure, a death before death, where the living discount the infirmed long before they’re gone.
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Marmalade: A Very British Obsession
Captain Scott took jars to the Antarctic with him, and Edmund Hillary took one up Everest. Marmalade is part of the British national myth. Livvy Potts wants to know why.
Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
‘Something’s Got to Give’: Redux
“Get me out of here — I’m losing it!”
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Zuckerberg’s Trash Is a Subculture’s Treasure
An entire subculture of Bay Area residents survives by reselling wealthy residents’ trash.
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Downsizing the American Black Middle Class
Government jobs helped thousands of Black families move into the middle class. Now, increasing calls for government privatization are pushing them back out.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
Remembering Daniel Johnston
This outsider musician made music sound new again to everyone who listened.
Posted inCurrent Events, Feature, investigations, Nonfiction, Story
Inside the Chaos of Immigration Court
Gabriel Thompson takes us into San Francisco Immigration Court and the labyrinthine system that asylum seekers—and attorneys and judges—are up against.
