The beautifully moving story of a young judo star gone too soon. (NBC Sports, ~35 min.)
How a rare bank robbery turned a small, happy-go-lucky Arctic town upside-down. (Outside, ~17 min.)
When a celebrated CDC scientist was kicked out of the climate change program, he claimed his work was being censored. Then seven women went on record that he’d harassed them. (BuzzFeed News, ~17 min.)
Does membership in a fraternity with a racist history make you a white supremacist? How one 40-something came to terms with his past. (Medium, ~11 min.)
This brilliant side-by-side comparison of the British press’s treatment of Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle is perfection. (Run, don’t walk, Meghan.) (BuzzFeed News, ~7 min.)
The devastating (and all-too-common) case of an Alabama woman charged with murder for killing her rapist. (New Yorker, ~30 min.)
Why is Philadelphia cream cheese the only real cream cheese? (Bon Appetit, ~4 min.)
Meet Randy Constant, a celebrated organic farmer in Missouri who secretly — and incredibly — conned the feds, fellow farmers, and consumers for more than a decade. (Kansas City Star, ~22 min.)
In the end, everything is a monopoly, even the sport of cheerleading. (BIG by Matt Stoller, ~9 min.)
Trump’s biggest advantage is one no one’s talking about: voters who don’t tune into politics until just before Election Day. (Vanity Fair, ~16 min.)
A small town in Maine was on its last legs after the paper mill closed. Then a Chinese company swooped in and changed everything. (New York Times, ~12 min.)
Meet the incredible retired couple who crisscross North America helping desperate families find the bodies of loved ones who’ve drowned. (The Guardian, ~24 min.)
Emile Weaver was 19, a sophomore in college, and in deep denial about her pregnancy. The story of what came next is horrifying and heartbreaking. (Elle, ~41 min.)
Goodnight Moon didn’t end up on the New York Public Library’s top 10 list of the most-checked-out books in its history. Here’s why. (Slate, ~5 min.)
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