Our Picks
The Lonely Hurt of Beautiful Things
"Being black, and thinking about race all the time, means that there’s a moment where you start to worry that you’re just making things up, imagining racial problems where none exist."
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Source: MTV
Published: April 20, 2016
Length: 7 minutes (1933 words)
Chicago After Laquan McDonald
A shocking video of a police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times has led activists in Chicago to fight for change and the city's government and police department to scrutinize its own long history of racist policing and misconduct.
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Source: New York Times
Published: April 20, 2016
Length: 26 minutes (6549 words)
Prince: 1958-2016
Prince, the singer, songwriter, producer, and rock star, died this week at the age of 57. Here are six stories about the legendary musician.
Source: Longreads
Published: April 21, 2016
Can Ocean Spray CEO Randy Papadellis Save the Cranberry Business?
Ocean Spray CEO Randy Papadellis once rescued the cranberry industry by popularizing "Craisins." Can he rescue them again?
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Source: Boston Magazine
Published: April 17, 2016
Length: 19 minutes (4754 words)
Weed Reads: A Reading List About Marijuana
For your April 20th, here are eight reads on cannabis, from one writer’s journey into America’s first legal pot festival in Colorado to a profile on a scientist researching safe pesticide use in Washington State.
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Source: Longreads
Published: April 20, 2016
Why Is There a Patient Cap on Medication Used to Treat Heroin Addicts?
At Guernica, Lucas Mann (who lost his brother to heroin addiction) writes on why abstinence and methadone don’t work and how doctors are failing in their fight against arbitrary, DEA-enforced patient caps on buprenorphine -- a promising treatment for heroin addiction.
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Source: Guernica Magazine
Published: April 20, 2016
Length: 24 minutes (6098 words)
The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans
Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. Neal Gabler examines his own history of financial mistakes, as well as the inability of many Americans to save money no matter how much they earn, and the rising costs of health care, child care, and education.
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Source: The Atlantic
Published: April 19, 2016
Length: 24 minutes (6124 words)
A Dead Superhero Is a Marvelous Corpse
A theory of superhero suffering and death.
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Source: NYU Press
Published: Jan. 1, 2016
Length: 26 minutes (6662 words)
The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners
The 2016 Pulitzer Prizes winners have been announced. Here's a collection of some of the stories from this year's honorees, including, The Tampa Bay Times, The Washington Post, ProPublica, and more.
Source: Longreads
Published: April 18, 2016
Our Well-Regulated Militia
Is the conversation around guns in this country really about the right to bear arms? Author Alexander Chee interrogates the proliferation of firearms and growing gun culture in the U.S., the complicated, polarized politics around gun control—and the notion that with more guns, we are somehow safer.
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Source: Longreads
Published: April 18, 2016
Length: 14 minutes (3713 words)