Longform
Sunday Reading: What Vulture Capitalism is Doing to the Newspaper Industry
Alden Global Capital, a secretive hedge fund, is swallowing up and decimating the nation's newsrooms. Read more
Oct. 17, 2021
Sunday Reading: South Dakota—The World's New Tax Haven?
The Washington Post revealed the extent of American hypocrisy this week when the paper published findings from a year-long investigation into more than 11 million confidential documents dubbed “The Pandora Papers.” Read more
Oct. 10, 2021
Ben McKeown
Sunday Reading: Abortion Has Never Been Just About Abortion
Abortion taking center stage as a political fault line was far from a coincidence; in fact, it was a consequence of the country's racial politics, inherited from the 1960s. Read more
Sep. 19, 2021
Sunday Reading: Those Left Behind
For The Atlantic, Jennifer Senior chronicles the grief that transforms a family following a loss on 9/11. Read more
Sep. 11, 2021
On the Mexican Border, a Triangle Resident Receives an Education from Immigrants Hoping to Settle in the United States
While volunteering at a refugee center in El Paso, writer Tito Craige came to appreciate what life was like for his great grandfather, Ernst Kohlberg, who arrived on Ellis Island in 1875. Read more
Sep. 08, 2021
Sunday Reading: ESPN Details Durham Bulls' Pitcher Tyler Zombro's Recovery
In a sensitive but straightforward piece, ESPN writer Tonya Simpson and columnist Jeff Passan reveal the specifics of Zombro’s injury and talk about who he is as a player, husband, and pitching coach. Read more
Sep. 05, 2021
Photo by Rick Dove
Climate Change Poses Economic and Existential Threat to N.C. Towns
New York Times reporter David Leonhardt describes how climate change is slowly bankrupting coastal North Carolina towns. Read more
Sep. 03, 2021
Sunday Reading: A Cautionary Tale of Academic Dreams Sold For Profit With Little Return on Investment
I can't help but wonder if I, and many of my peers, were sold a shitty dream. Read more
Aug. 22, 2021
Film by Rachael DeCruz and Jeremy S. Levine
Sunday Reading: A Spoonful of Sugar
In a documentary short from "The New Yorker,“ two women in rural Alabama use kindness and persistence to get their neighbors vaccinated. Read more
Aug. 15, 2021
Sunday Reading: Environmental Racism in Black Communities
This noxious history came to mind while reading Scalawag's “A Lifetime of Damage on a Creosote Plume in Houston’s Fifth Ward." Read more
Aug. 08, 2021
