“Marcos . . . . is one of thousands of migrant children living far from their parents and working dangerous jobs.”
investigative journalism
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Game, Set, Fix
“As gambling on tennis exploded into a $50 billion industry, he had infiltrated the sport, paying pros more to lose … than they could make by winning tournaments.”
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Inside the Secretive World of Penile Enlargement
“How a doctor’s two-decade quest to grow the penis is leaving some men desperate and disfigured.”
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Working on the Edge: A Reading List About Extreme Jobs
A livelihood is not a life—yet many risk the latter in order to create the former.
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A Scammer Who Tricks Instagram Into Banning Influencers Has Never Been Identified. We May Have Found Him.
“They say Meta failed to help them and to take OBN and other account manipulators seriously.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
An unjust police killing. Nature reclamation in the fossil fuel era. Surviving a bear attack. The underbelly of the antiquities trade. And for a well-earned dessert, the legacy of the world’s first breakout video game. 1. Police Killed His Son. Prosecutors Charged the Teen’s Friends With His Murder Meg O’Connor | The Appeal & Phoenix […]
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Police Killed His Son. Prosecutors Charged the Teen’s Friends With His Murder
“It’s been four years since a Phoenix police officer killed Jacob Harris. As Harris’s friends grow up behind bars, his father won’t stop until he gets justice for his son.”
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Code Snitching
In Nashville, it’s become all too common for homeowners to find themselves on the receiving end of spurious fines for alleged code violations — an unnerving pattern rooted in the city’s policies, and weaponized by disingenuous (and gentrifying) neighbors. Radley Balko investigates, in a long and damning feature that embodies exactly why local journalism is […]
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Untold
The legend of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was ultimately tarnished by the heinous crimes of Paterno assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. Before Sandusky, however, there was another monster connected to the school’s football program — one whose many unspeakable violations are only coming to light now, in Junod and Lavigne’s tireless, exhaustive investigation. This […]
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The Bullet and the Ballplayer
In 2019, beloved baseball player David Ortiz was shot at a bar in the Dominican Republic. The shooting swiftly unraveled the two very different lives the Boston Red Sox star had been living, in Boston and in his home country. Mike Damiano masterfully tells Ortiz’s story for Boston magazine. That frenzied quest for answers has […]