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Longfor m Menu Home Best Articles Podcast Sections Arts Business Crime History Politics Science Sex Sports Tech World All Sections Collections Reprints Sponsored by the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh Random Article Lists Best of 2019 Best of 2018 Best of 2017 Best of 2016 Best of 2015 Best of 2014 Best of 2013 Best of 2012 Archive Publications Writers Tags More Newsletter Suggest Article About Contact Advertise Facebook Twitter Newsletter RSS Feed Get our Newsletter Great new articles, every day. Subscribe Yesterday, September 2 Crime Michelle Remembers In the 1980s some of the world’s most powerful institutions were taken in by stories, begun in Victoria B.C., of a global Satanic underground abducting and abusing thousands of children. Jen Gerson The Capital Aug 2020 Permalink Sports Health What Tyler Skaggs Left Behind On the death of a major league pitcher and its aftermath. Marin Fader Bleacher Report Sep 2020 20 min Permalink Crime The Inside Story of the $8 Million Heist from the Carnegie Library How precious maps, books, and art vanished from the Pittsburgh archive over the course of 25 years. Travis McDade Smithsonian Aug 2020 15 min Permalink Best Article Health On Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic On losing your Beloved in 2020. Jesmyn Ward Vanity Fair Sep 2020 10 min Permalink Tuesday, September 1 History The Egging of Frank Sinatra In 1944, an eighteen year old boy became famous for throwing eggs at Frank Sinatra. Then he disappeared. J.P. Robinson Medium May 2019 15 min Permalink Back to School Kim Kardashian West’s makeup artist launches a new line. Rachel Syme New Yorker Aug 2020 20 min Permalink History The Free and The Brave A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left. Bill Donahue The Atavist Magazine Aug 2020 40 min Permalink Monday, August 31 Food A New Orleans Chef Navigates Disaster Nina Compton’s adopted city knows how to ride out a storm. The pandemic plays by different rules. Helen Rosner New Yorker Aug 2020 25 min Permalink Best Article The Eco–Yogi Slumlords of Brooklyn How did a couple who built an empire of yoga studios and homes with “living walls” end up as pandemic villains? Bridget Read The Cut Aug 2020 25 min Permalink Politics David Shor’s Unified Theory of American Politics An interview with “one of the most influential data gurus” in electoral politics. Eric Levitz New York Aug 2020 Permalink Sunday, August 30 Best Article Crime Breonna Taylor’s Life Was Changing. Then the Police Came to Her Door. Interviews, documents and jailhouse recordings reveal a clearer picture of the life and death of the 26-year-old emergency room technician. Rukmini Callimachi New York Times Aug 2020 25 min Permalink Crime The Stowaway His hotel heists had detectives convinced they were on the trail of one of the world’s most skilled con-men. Matthew Bremner Truly*Adventurous Aug 2020 Permalink Saturday, August 29 Arts How Chadwick Boseman Embodies Black Male Dignity A profile of the actor, who died yesterday at age 43. Reggie Ugwu New York Times Jan 2019 10 min Permalink Friday, August 28 World Trafficking in Teachers Filipino teachers, hired to fill historic shortages in the South and elsewhere, fight their exploitation by opportunistic recruiters. Rachel Mabe Oxford American Aug 2020 30 min Permalink The Short Life of Toyin Salau and a Legacy Still at Work On Toyin Salau’s disappearance and death. Samantha Schuyler Jezebel Aug 2020 25 min Permalink Ball Don’t Lie For a rebellious, Korean-American teen like myself who was awkwardly trying to situate himself, without much success, Jackson’s writing, with its rap and jazz references and its relentless, engaging voice, provided a vision of Black agency that felt almost illicit. Jay Caspian Kang New York Review of Books Aug 2020 20 min Permalink August 27 Fiction Fiction Pick of the Week: "Green Frog" An artist struggles with family loss and complexities. Gina Chung Split Lip Magazine Aug 2020 10 min Permalink Best Article Travel Mississippi: A Poem, In Days The author, on book tour when the pandemic set in, reflects on what could have been worse—and what could be better. Kiese Makeba Laymon Vanity Fair Aug 2020 20 min Permalink Shelter and the Storm The diaspora of Hurricane Katrina. Katherine Boo New Yorker Nov 2005 20 min Permalink How a New Wave of Black Activists Changed the Conversation George Floyd’s killing galvanized a nation. But small groups like the queer-led collective Black Visions are channeling that energy into a movement for political change. Jenna Wortham New York Times Magazine Aug 2020 30 min Permalink August 26 Podcast Podcast #407: Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg Your browser does not support the audio player. Click here to download the podcast. Play in New Window Download Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg are the co-authors of the new book I Got A Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad . “We really wanted to create some kind of leftist, anti-racist true crime story that we really haven’t seen. The conventions of the thriller often smuggle in all of this really right-wing, pro-police propaganda that all of our cops were raised on—the story of cops having to crash cars and break rules in order to get the bad guys. We wanted to take that and subvert it, using its methods to blow it up from the inside while also being rigorously reported.” Thanks to Mailchimp and The Jordan Harbinger Show for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes @baynardwoods @notrivia [5:30] "Even After the Remaining Charges Were Dropped in Freddie Gray's Death, Mosby Received a Hero's Welcome in Sandtown While the FOP Countered SAO's Arguments" (Baynard Woods • Baltimore City Paper • August 2016) [7:00] "Freddie Gray: Judge Declares Mistrial in Case Against Baltimore Police Officer" (Baynard Woods • The Guardian • December 2015) [8:00] "What Happened to Tyree Woodson?" (Baynard Woods • Baltimore City Paper • May 2017) [8:15] "The Detective and the Rapper" (Baynard Woods • Baltimore City Paper • October 2014) [8:15] Podcast #395: Wesley Lowery [18:00] The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. (Evan Ratliff • Random House • 2019) [28:30] "A Documentary About Baltimore's Notorious Urban Dirt Bike Riders" (Baynard Woods • Baltimore City Paper • March 2013) [28:30] Coffin Point: The Strange Cases Of Ed Mc Teer, Witch Doctor Sheriff (Baynard Woods • River City Publishing • 2010) Aug 2020 Permalink Crime The Wildest Insurance Fraud Scheme Texas Has Ever Seen Over a decade, Theodore Robert Wright III destroyed cars, yachts, and planes. That was only the half of it. Katy Vine Texas Monthly Aug 2020 20 min Permalink Food Media The Boundary Pusher At Lucky Peach and the Los Angeles Times , Peter Meehan reshaped food media. Now his former employees are coming forward to describe the cost of his leadership. Meghan McCarron Eater Aug 2020 30 min Permalink August 25 Travel In Ashgabat A work trip to Turkmenistan. James Lomax London Review of Books Jul 2020 15 min Permalink Arts Food A Cocktail Party In The Street An interview with Alan Stillman, who in 1965 founded T.G.I. Friday’s, the first singles bar in America. Krista Ninivaggi , Nicola Twilley Edible Geography Nov 2010 15 min Permalink 2 3 ··· 477 Older...