Our Picks
Night Moves
On the efforts to preserve darkness, a fast-disappearing element in America's heavily light-polluted skies.
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Source: VQR
Published: July 5, 2016
Length: 28 minutes (7010 words)
The Last Nazi Hunter
Before the Holocaust's last architects can die naturally of old age, one Jewish man continues to track them down in order to bring them to justice for their crimes. Now his 40-year crusade has led him to Lithuania, a country which murdered over 90 percent of its Jewish citizens. Needless to say, he isn't popular there.
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Source: Newsweek
Published: July 7, 2016
Length: 16 minutes (4074 words)
Busted
Law enforcement across the U.S. use $2 kits to test for drug possession while out on the field, despite evidence showing that the tests routinely produce false positives. The effect on the lives of the falsely accused and convicted can be devastating.
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Source: ProPublica
Published: July 7, 2016
Length: 29 minutes (7261 words)
Iceland's Historic Candidate
How a historian of Iceland's quirky politics became the country's new president.
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Source: New Yorker
Published: July 4, 2016
Length: 18 minutes (4666 words)
Selfishness Is Learned
By studying how moral behavior works in the real world, scientists are tackling an ancient subject that was previously the domain of religion and philosophy: whether human beings are inherently cooperative or competitive. In other words: how selfish are we? The news is good.
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Source: Nautilus
Published: June 9, 2016
Length: 11 minutes (2776 words)
The Most Terrifying Childhood Condition You’ve Never Heard Of
A look into childhood disintegrative disorder, a rare condition which causes a child to "suffer deep, sharp reversals along multiple lines of development."
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Source: Spectrum
Published: July 6, 2016
Length: 18 minutes (4648 words)
Women Were Included in the Civil Rights Act as a Joke
And a racist joke, at that. But working women and black civil rights lawyers had the last laugh when they brought women’s workplace rights to the courts and won.
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Source: St. Martin's Press
Published: July 7, 2016
Length: 21 minutes (5287 words)
My Mother Is Gone, But Her Edits Remain
Grief, loss, and marginalia: "I hoard evidence of her handwriting, on birthday cards or grocery lists or receipts. I cannot throw a single instance of it away."
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Source: LitHub
Published: July 6, 2016
Length: 9 minutes (2475 words)
Marie Kondo and the Ruthless War on Stuff
Brodesser-Akner profiles Marie Kondo, the best-selling Japanese author has started a formal training program for her organizing methods. Kondo has devoted followers, but also many detractors from the National Association of Professional Organizers, who find her methods too draconian.
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Source: The New York Times
Published: July 6, 2016
Length: 23 minutes (5753 words)
Who Are All These Trump Supporters?
George Saunders goes on the road to attend Trump rallies to get a sense of why so many people support the controversial candidate, and an understanding of how America has become so divided.
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Source: The New Yorker
Published: July 4, 2016
Length: 41 minutes (10419 words)