Chasing strangers down to serve them for unpaid medical debt is a side hustle like no other. (Narratively, ~13 min.)
For residential architecture, gentrification means fewer homes with porches and more soulless boxes without yards. What does that say about us? (Texas Observer, ~6 min.)
A dogged year-long investigation into Garda, the ubiquitous armored truck company, reveals a blatant disregard for vehicle and driver safety that resulted in dozens of wrecks and fatalities across the country. Horrifying from start to finish. (Tampa Bay Times, ~26 min.)
He’d been homeless for two decades and was fed up with hustling for a spot to sleep. So he built a bunker for one beneath a public park in London that is visited by millions every year. (The Guardian, ~28 min.)
Meet Sarah Collins Rudolph, known as the “Fifth Girl,” the lone survivor of the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham that killed her sister and three others. Her story may surprise you. (Washington Post, ~17 min.)
A brilliant and striking essay about the rise of “deaths of despair” (deaths from suicide, alcohol, and drugs). Come for the data, stay for the story it tells about America. (New York Review of Books, ~18 min.)
When it comes to the millennial design aesthetic, we’re so over the pastels and the clean lines and the blandness of it all. Or are we? (The Cut, ~18 min.)
Inside Trump’s war on Andrew McCabe, Masha Yovanovitch, and our American institutions. This is a must-read — trust me. (The Atlantic, ~69 min.)
Every publication in the world is desperate for readers’ attention. But one click and we’re drowning in pop-ups and instant-play videos and creepy ads that follow us as we scroll. What’s a reader to do? (Columbia Journalism Review, ~8 min.)
Of course the oil giant Shell has a secret plan to profit off the climate crisis. This is what it looks like. (New York Magazine, ~23 min.)
The best postmortem of the Warren campaign — and Klobuchar’s, Harris’, and Gillibrand’s — that I’ve read. And I’ve read them all. (NY Times, ~6 min.)
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