Why Does the Chicago Police Department Tolerate Abusive Racists in Its Ranks?
It couldn’t happen this way in a million years—but it did.
By: Noam Scheiber   |   The New York Times   |   Dec 2023
Once accustomed to a status outside the usual management-labor hierarchy, many health professionals now feel as put upon as any clock-punching worker.
By: Patrick Radden Keefe   |   New Yorker   |   July 2023
The dealer has been so successful selling art to masters of the universe that he has become one of them.
Hoffa and his brotherhood in the city of sin
By: Bryan Curtis   |   The Ringer   |   June 2017
Remembering Sam Smith’s scandalous, detail-laced, seemingly impossible chronicle of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in the early 1990s, 25 years later
A group of researchers believed that subjecting tissues to trauma could give ordinary cells stem-cell-like properties.
By: Bryan Curtis   |   The Ringer   |   Dec 2023
Thirty years ago, ESPN’s college football pregame show broadcast from a college campus for the first time. How pregaming with students and leaning into its hosts’ personalities helped ESPN become the dominant voice of the sport.
By: Ian Urbina   |   New Yorker   |   Oct 2023
China has invested heavily in an armada of far-flung fishing vessels, in part to extend its global influence. This maritime expansion has come at grave human cost.
By: Jan Hoffman   |   New York Times   |   Nov 2023
Millions of U.S. drug users now are addicted to several substances, not just opioids like fentanyl and heroin. The shift is making treatment far more difficult.