Tens of thousands of people from across Asia have been coerced into defrauding people in America and around the world out of millions of dollars. …
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Sunday Reads for September 25, 2022
The idea of combining two crimes — scamming and human trafficking — is a very new, scary phenomenon. That's the first story, from ProPublica. Then, don’t miss Noema’s treatise on the noble but undervalued craft of maintenance, something that gets lost in the mantra of “reduce, reuse, recycle.” Remember Crazy Town’s “Butterfly”? Stereogum’s deep dive into "the dumbest love song that’s ever made it to No. 1" is a fun blast from the past. Speaking of: long live Trapper Keepers!
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Listen to this story: Kandahar, Afghanistan - In a small shop off a bustling street in the centre of Kandahar city, Haji Muhammad Sultan is busy at work. It is an early morning in March and the first customers of the day are flooding into the bazaar outside. Inside the shop, the delicate chip of …
The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and …
R ACHEAL BOWMAN, A single mother from Aberdeen, Maryland, was finishing up her shift as a postal worker the afternoon of June 11, 2021, when she got …
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and …
Ian Mackay was paralyzed 14 years ago in a bike accident, but he’s come to see there’s happiness in finding new ways to experience old loves. In his …
Meet an amazing man who has dedicated his entire adult life to stone skipping, sacrificing everything to produce world-record throws that defy the laws of physics. To hear him tell it, he has no choice. On a clear-skied morning in March, Kurt “Mountain Man” Steiner stood at a lonely bend of …
There I was, in the middle of the wilderness, aiming a pink-and-purple gun at a living, breathing, beautiful elk. This night is different from other nights. Last week I was huddled in a foggy parklet listening to triple-vaxxed friends crow about cryptocurrency over wisps of hamachi crudo. Tonight …
An escape, a sanctuary, a place of pleasure, a memoir. Take these steps to ensure your library is just what you want it to be - by Freya Howarth Read …
