Brooks Koepka, the world’s No. 1 golfer, has a few problems with golf. (GQ, ~26 min.)
If you read one thing about coronavirus this week, let it be this. (Scientific American, ~10 min.)
The crazy world of the people who devote their lives to making foods crispy. (Bon Appétit, ~16 min.)
In 2007, Emily Gould, the young editor of gossip website Gawker, barely survived a confrontation with Jimmy Kimmel on Larry King Live. It’s been 13 years, and her viral shame-fest just won’t die. (The Cut, ~19 min.)
A reporter digs into her grandmother’s tragic history, and uncovers a Holocaust story unlike any I’d heard before. (The Guardian, ~19 min.)
How Trump’s Supreme Court picks could remake America. This is as sharp and compelling as legal reporting gets, by the genius Emily Bazelon. (NYT Magazine, ~33 min.)
Norman Rockwell was beloved for his feel-good portrayals of (white) small-town America in Life Magazine. But in his later years, he traded in the babies, dogs, and Main Street for paintings that reflected quite a cultural awakening. (Vox, ~24 min.)
Sometimes you have to seek out the news. And sometimes — as in the case of the last lynching in South Carolina, in 1947 — the news finds you. (Bitter Southerner, ~10 min.)
This essay about the diet industrial complex, by a 50-year-old woman, is a gut punch. (New York Times, ~9 min.)
Inside the meteoric rise and spectacular fall of LuLaRoe, the buttery-soft leggings pyramid scheme that landed its millennial consultants in crushing debt, and whose founding family is now up to its eyeballs in lawsuits. (BuzzFeed News, ~41 min.)
Why did Conception, a tourist diving boat that met U.S. Coast Guard safety standards, go up in flames off the California coast on Labor Day weekend? The families of the 34 who died are still waiting for answers. (Outside, ~22 min.)
In 1984, Bernie Sanders fought to bring a minor league baseball team to Vermont. Then his grand plan went to hell. (New York Magazine, ~6 min.)
The only (mildly) optimistic piece on the climate crisis I’ve read recently, from Bill McKibben, whose reporting I swear by — he first sounded the global warming alarm in 1988. (New York Review of Books, ~17 min.)
On the cross-country flight with the Lakers as they learn, one by one, that Kobe died. (ESPN, ~8 min.)
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