From Globe Magazine: The heiress at Harvard who helped revolutionize murder investigations — and the case she couldn’t forget by Patricia Wen Frances Glessner Lee didn’t want to be known as a “rich woman who didn’t have enough to do” #Longreads #Longform bostonglobe.com/2024/08/14/spe…

From The Atlantic: New York City’s Chaos Mayor by Noah Shachtman Eric Adams ran as a law-and-order candidate. But too often he creates his own drama. #Longreads #Longform theatlantic.com/politics/archi… 🎧 traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL6765341875.…

From NYT Magazine: The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down by Rachel Corbett The dream of Próspera was to escape government control. The Honduran government wants it gone. #Longreads #Longform nytimes.com/2024/08/28/mag… 🎧static.nytimes.com/podcasts/2024/…

From TIME: The Strongman: How El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Became the World's Most Popular Authoritarian by Vera Bergengruen His 'Iron Fist' has transformed El Salvador into a vastly safer country, but controlled by a single man. #Longreads #Longform time.com/7015598/nayib-…

From Hakai Magazine: Here a Bee, There a Bee, Everywhere a Wild Bee by Anne Casselman Biologists are finding new bee species all over the Pacific NW—highlighting how little we know about native pollinators #Longreads #Longform hakaimagazine.com/features/here-… 🎧 s369.podbean.com/pb/5a50cb81fa1…

From NYT Magazine: America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny by Caity Weaver Few things symbolize our national dysfunction more than the inability to stop minting this worthless currency. #Longreads #Longform nytimes.com/2024/09/01/mag… 🎧 static.nytimes.com/podcasts/2024/…

From The Post and Courier: EJECT! The inside story about the F-35 Marine jet that went missing in SC, leaving mysteries behind by Tony Bartelme A deeper look also revealed some of the stealth fighter’s capabilities and flaws. #Longreads #Longform postandcourier.com/news/special_r…

From The Nation: How a Probation Violation Turns Into Indefinite Jail Time by Katie Rose Quandt Probation detainers are forcing tens of thousands of people to remain in jail indefinitely. #Longreads #Longform thenation.com/article/societ…

From The Guardian: This man saved his town from deadly floodwaters. So why did the US government try to stop him? Despite federal resistance, Windell Curole built a vast levee to protect his district from disappearing into the ocean. #Longreads #Longform theguardian.com/environment/ar…

From The New York Times: A Father’s Search for a Son Who Didn’t Want to Be Found by Shawn Hubler Bob Garrison was determined to rescue his son from the streets. The path was more difficult than he had imagined. #Longreads #Longform nytimes.com/2024/08/29/us/… 🎧 static.nytimes.com/podcasts/2024/…

From Type Investigations High Country News: The fatal flaw in the Border Patrol’s rescue program by tanvi The Missing Migrant Program is meant to prevent deaths. Instead, it may be causing them. #Longreads #Longform hcn.org/issues/56-9/th…

From The Washington Post: A school cop was accused of sexual misconduct with kids. He kept his job for years. by Jenn Abelson Jessica Contrera FOIA Nate📄 More than 200 SROs were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 - 2022 #Longreads #Longform washingtonpost.com/investigations…

From The New Yorker: How to Give Away a Fortune by Joshua Yaffa An Austrian heiress recruited fifty people from all walks of life to redistribute twenty-five million euros—if they could agree on how to spend it. #Longreads #Longform newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

From Smithsonian Magazine: How Black Americans in the South Boldly Defied Jim Crow to Build Business Empires of Their Own by Victor Luckerson Millions of African Americans never left the South, making their success stories all the more remarkable. #Longreads #Longform smithsonianmag.com/history/how-bl…

From Curbed New York Magazine: How to Make Six Figures By Reporting Idling Trucks by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi New York created a program that let citizens earn money by reporting polluters. Then it went to war with them. #Longreads #Longform curbed.com/article/nyc-id…

From Washington Post Opinions: The Canary: Chris Mark of the Department of Labor The former coal miner, led the development of standards to prevent roof falls, resulting in 2016 being the first year with zero roof fall fatalities in U.S. mines. #Longreads #Longform washingtonpost.com/opinions/inter…

From The Washington Post: How China extended its repression into an American city by Shibani Mahtani meg kelly Cate Brown Cate Cadell Ellen Nakashima trapezoid of discovery ⏢ Chris Dehghanpoor Pro-China activists harassed anti-Xi Jinping protesters in San Francisco #Longreads #Longform washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

From The Atlantic: Inside the Dangerous, Secretive World of Extreme Fishing by Tyler Austin Harper Why I swim out into rough seas 80 nights a year to hunt for striped bass. #Longreads #Longform theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… 🎧 traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL1698671647.…

From WIRED: Antony Blinken Dragged US Diplomacy Into the 21st Century. Even He’s Surprised by the Results by Garrett M. Graff 2 major wars. A rising China. Hackers everywhere. Secretary Antony Blinken says he’s here to help #Longreads #Longform wired.com/story/big-inte… 🎧audio-resources.cnevids.com/audio/narrated…

From The New Yorker: How Machines Learned to Discover Drugs by Dhruv Khullar A.I. is transforming drug development, making it possible for scientists to identify and create potentially lifesaving new medicines at an accelerated rate. #Longreads #Longform newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…