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5(ish) Questions: Dana Priest and the "terrorism industrial complex" post 9/11

5(ish) Questions: Dana Priest and the “terrorism industrial complex” post 9/11

As a college sophomore in 2005, I read Dana Priest’s report about “black sites” –far-flung secret prisons overseas that the CIA used to house terrorist suspects captured from the battlefields.…
June 1, 2017
5(ish) Questions: Nathan Thornburgh talks mind-blowing drugs and Anthony Bourdain

5(ish) Questions: Nathan Thornburgh talks mind-blowing drugs and Anthony Bourdain

The co-founder of the unapologetically longform travel-food-politics site Roads & Kingdoms talks about teaming up with the chef-raconteur and reporting while under the influence of the hallucinogen ayahuasca
April 27, 2017
America and race: a disturbing undercurrent that runs through our past and present

America and race: a disturbing undercurrent that runs through our past and present

The theme of America and race — and, unfortunately, hatred and even murder — runs through this week’s posts. The Osage Indians who were systematically killed for their oil in David…
April 21, 2017
Let's hear it for women writers like Dorothy Parker and Zadie Smith the *other* 364 days

Let’s hear it for women writers like Dorothy Parker and Zadie Smith the *other* 364 days

This week, International Women’s Day really grabbed the spotlight with the Day Without a Woman protests and homages to role models on social media (shout-out to Nieman Lab’s great Instagram…
March 10, 2017
Notable Narrative: Bernt Jakob Oksnes and "The Baby in the Plastic Bag"

Notable Narrative: Bernt Jakob Oksnes and “The Baby in the Plastic Bag”

The words appear on a blank white screen, accompanied by an atonal, ominous peal of music.“One frosty October morning, a newborn baby boy is found inside a plastic bag inside…
March 7, 2017
Annotation Tuesday! Adrian Chen and “Unfollow”

Annotation Tuesday! Adrian Chen and “Unfollow”

The New Yorker writer talks about his story on the awakening of a daughter of the reviled Westboro Baptist Church, calling it "a culmination of things I was writing about…
January 31, 2017
Annotation Tuesday! Chris Hamby and "The Court That Rules the World"

Annotation Tuesday! Chris Hamby and “The Court That Rules the World”

Chris Hamby's recent investigative series for BuzzFeed reads like dystopian fiction. He tells us of a powerful “global super court” that companies use to sue sovereign nations for cutting into…
January 24, 2017
The Washington Post crosses a storytelling frontier with "A New Age of Walls"

The Washington Post crosses a storytelling frontier with “A New Age of Walls”

In our Brave New Distributed World, journalists suffer from a disorienting lack of control.Lack of control over audiences, over time spent on page, over clicks… the list goes on. The…
December 20, 2016
Why's This So Good? Randy Potts and "The Bible Went Down With The Birdie Jean"

Why’s This So Good? Randy Potts and “The Bible Went Down With The Birdie Jean”

I follow the journalist Randy Potts on social media, so I had known for weeks that he was planning to launch “The Bible Went Down With The Birdie Jean,” a…
November 17, 2016
The election of Donald Trump and the death of Leonard Cohen: an intersection

The election of Donald Trump and the death of Leonard Cohen: an intersection

This week I thought I’d depart a little from the regular format, because this wasn’t a normal week. We went to the polls, we elected a billionaire reality-TV star to…
November 11, 2016