By: Thao Thai   |   Cup of Jo   |   June 2023
'But when you can make someone laugh in that language — well, that gets at the heart of communicating. A joke manages to transcend borders, even the impossible ones between family members.'

By: Michael Berens   |   Reuters   |   May 2023
Medical practitioners and providers paid $26.8 billion over the past decade to settle federal allegations including fraud, bribery and patient harm, a Reuters investigation found. Paying up means staying in business and, for some, avoiding prison. U.S. prosecutors helped them do it.

By: Andrea Elliott   |   New York Times   |   Dec 2013
'She wakes to the sound of breathing. The smaller children lie tangled beside her, their chests rising and falling under winter coats and wool blankets. A few feet away, their mother and father sleep near the mop bucket they use as a toilet.'

By: Alex Tizon   |   The Atlantic   |   June 2017
She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.

By: Brian Phillips   |   ESPN   |   May 2013
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race pushes participants to the brink on an unforgiving trek to the end of the world. And, as one writer who tracked the race by air discovers, that is exactly the point.