Essays, Multimedia Features and Podcasts | Track Two

ESSAYS, COLUMNS, FEATURES AND STORIES

Lindsay Adler, “Teen Girl Posed for 8 Years as Married Man to Write About Baseball and Harass Women” (Deadspin, 2017, 3266 Words)
Erin Allday, “Last Men Standing” (SF Chronicle, 13977 words)
Holly Anderson, “Life’s Rich Pageant: Meet a Florida Man” (Grantland, 4545 words)
Aaron Bady, “Libertarian Fairy Tales: The Bundy Militia’s Revisionist History” (PSMag, 2549 words)
Aaron Bady and Mike Konczal, "From Master Plan to No Plan" (Dissent, 4465 words)
Andy Baio, “Never Trust a Corporation to do a Library’s Job” (Medium, 1366 words)
Katie Baker, “Love Letters” (Grantland, 3945 words)
Katie Baker, “The Letter the Stanford Victim Read Aloud to Her Attacker” (Buzzfeed, 7566 words)
Jesse Barron, “The Babysitters Club” (Real Life, 3037 words)
Amos Barshad, “Yankees Suck! Yankees Suck!” (Grantland, 7335 words)
Peter Beinart, “Torture is Who We Are” (The Atlantic, 3820 words)
Burkhard Bilger, “Where Germans Make Peace with Their Dead” (The New Yorker, 8647 words)
Nick Bilton, “How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down” (Vanity Fair, 5119 words)
Heidi Blake and John Templon, "The Tennis Racket" (Buzzfeed, 9000 words)
Tom Borden, “Chapecoense: Eternal Champions” (ESPN, 2017, 9062 words)
danah boyd, “Hacking the Attention Economy” (Data Society, 1997 words)
Taylor Branch, “The Shame of College Sports” (The Atlantic, 14615 words)
Steven Brill, “Is America Any Safer?” (The Atlantic, 2016, 18294 Words)
Rembert Browne, “Going Down the Rabbit Hole With Nicki Minaj” (Grantland, 1795 words)
Rembert Browne, “The Front Lines of Ferguson” (Grantland, 3491 words)
Rembert Browne, “Colin Kaepernick Has a Job” (Bleacher Report, 2017, 9900 words)
Susan Burton “Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up” (New York Times, 4911 words)
Oobah Butler, “I Made My Shed the Top-Rated Restaurant on TripAdvisor” (Vice UK, 2017, 2690 Words)
Many Len Catron, "To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This" (New York Times, 1653 words)
Michael Chabon, "My Son, the Prince of Fashion" (GQ, 5344 words)
Danny Chau, “The Burning Desire for dHot Chicken” (The Ringer, 5250 words)
Adrian Chen, “Unfollow” (The New Yorker, 10654 words)
Adrian Chen, “The Agency” (8151 words)
Adrien Chen, “Unmasking Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web” (Gawker, 4570 words)
Michelle Chihara, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Finance” (LA Review of Books, 3610 words)
Mary H K Choi, “My Foreign Mom” (Aeon, 2400 words)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Letter to my Son” (The Atlantic, 8442 words)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations” (The Atlantic, 15836 words)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Paranoid Style of American Policing” (The Atlantic, 1092 words)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, "Fear of a Black President" (The Atlantic, 9709 words)
Pamela Colloff, “The Reckoning” (Texas Monthly, 12980 words)
Pamela Colloff, "The Innocent Man" (Texas Monthly, 12673 words)
Jason Concepcion, “What Whiplash Gets Wrong About Music School, and Right About Greatness” (Grantland, 982 words)
Peter Coviello, “My Thoughts are Murder” (Avidly, 2016, 3274 words)
Sloane Crosley, “How to Start your Candy Cane Collection in 23 Easy Steps” (1795 words)
Vinson Cunningham, “What Makes an Essay American?” (1902 words)
Andy Cush, “Everything I Ever Thought I Knew About Street Sharks Was a Goddamn Lie” (Gawker, 362 words)
Meghan Daum, “My Mis-spent Youth” (Longform, 5860 words)
Meghan Daum, “Haterade” (The Believer, 2012, 5300 words)
Madeleine Davies, “Becoming Ugly” (Jezebel, 2201 words)
Claire Dederer, “What Do We Do With the Art of Monstrous Men?” (Paris Review, 2017, 5200 words)
Benoit Denizet-Lewis, “Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety?” (NYT, 2018, 7800 Words)
Hossein Derakhshan, “The Web We Have to Save” (Medium, 3633 words)
Hossein Derakhshan, "Social Media is Killing Discourse Because It's Too Much Like TV" (Technology Review, 885 words)
Caitlin Dewey, “Even in Real Life, There Were Screens Between Us” (New York Times, 1526 words)
Helen DeWitt, “Diary of Being Stalked” (London Review of Books, 4153 words)
Bronwen Dickey, "Climb Aboard, Ye Who Seek the Truth!" (Popular Mechanics, 5010 words)
Jenny Diski, “Why didn’t you just do what you were told?” (London Review of Books, 6229 words)
Chris Dixon, “What’s Next in Computing” (Medium, 2484 words)
Dog, “Is it Time?” (Gawker, 440 words)
Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher, “How the US Lost Out on iPhone Work” (New York Times, 5125 words)
Shonni Enelow, “The Great Recession” (Film Comment, 3371 words)
Barbara Ehrenreich, "Divisions of Labor" (New York Times, 2078 words)
Jason Fagone, “The Lottery Hackers” (Huffpo Highline, 2018, 11000 words)
Jason Fagone, “What Bullets do to Bodies” (Huffpo Highline, 2017, 7800 words)
Susan Faludi, "Facebook Feminism, Like It or Not" (The Baffler, 14164 words)
Henry Farrell, “A Brief Theory of Very Serious People” (1275 words)
Ashley Feinberg, "Is Donald Trump's Hair a $60,000 Weave? A Gawker Investigation" (3700 words)
Abbey Fenbert, “The Pitch Meeting for Wishbone” (The Toast, 1022 words)
Helen Fitzgerald, "Late Nights Online" (Hazlitt, 4448 words)
Carlin Flora, “Bad Friends” (Aeon, 2400 words)
Paul Ford, “10 Timeframes” (Contents, 2608 words)
FreeDarko, “The Day Never Ended” (13305 words)
James Ross Gardner, "The Secret Life of Crows" (Seattle Met, May 2017, 3292 words)
Helen Garner, “The Insults of Age” (2132 words)
Jonothan Gatehouse, "America Dumbs Down" (2370 words)
Lindsey Gates-Markel, “In Celebration of Old-School Livejournal” (The Toast, 1824 words)
Roxane Gay, “Why America Needs Internet Outrage” (Salon ,930 words)
Roxane Gay, “The Careless Language of Sexual Violence” (The Rumpus, 2581 words)
Roxane Gay, “Tiny House Hunters and the Shrinking American Dream” (Curbed, 2017, 1704 words)
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, "If He Hollers Let Him Go" (9330 words)
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, “A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof” (2018, GQ, 12315 words)
Amelie Gilette, “The Zach Braff Challenge” (multi-part series)
Amelie Gilette, “Becoming a Lady” (550 words)
Christopher Goffard, “Framed” (16262 words)
Jonathan Gold, “Teaching in the Post-Truth Era” (2081 words)
Jeremy Gordon, “Is Everything Wrestling?” (1825 words)
Michael Grabell and Howard Berkes, "Opting Out: Inside Corporate America’s Campaign to Ditch Workers’ Comp" (7069 words)
David Graeber, "The Bully's Pulpit" (The Baffler, 2015, 4500 words)
David Graeber, "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs" (Strike, 2013, 2000 words)
David Grann, "A Murder, Foretold" (New Yorker, 2011, 14000 words)
Rahawa Haile, “Going it Alone” (Outside, 2017, 3700 words)
Kathleen Hale, “Prey” (6126 words)
Spencer Hall, “Broke” (3408 words)
Spencer Hall, “When the Levee Breaks” (SB Nation, 2017, 2622 Words)
Nikole Hannah-Jones “Choosing a School for my Daughter in a Segregated City” (10148 words)
Malcolm Harris, “Lego Marx” (4255 words)
Heather Havrilesky, “What Romance Really Means After 10 Years of Marriage” (2143 words)
Emma Healey, “Disrupters, Disconnectionists, and Dicks” (2994 words)
Jeet Heer, “What Were Blogs?” (1200 words)
Zoë Heller, "'Hot' Sex and Young Girls" (2813 words)
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, “One More Time” (2700 words)
Amanda Hess, "Why Women Aren't Welcome on the Internet" (7382 words)
David Hill, "The Union, Forever" (7310 words)
David Hill, “Sweat in the Game: A Gambler’s Grind in the NBA” (3061 words)
David Hill, "Fading the Vig"
David Hill, “The Hunting Party: Two Days in Vegas at the ‘Big Buck Hunter’ Championships” (Thrillist, 2017, 7550 words)
Jacob Hodes, “Whitewood Under Siege” (4237 words)
Marc Hogan, “The Contentious Tale of the McDonald’s ‘I’m Lovin It’ Jingle” (1450 words)
Alex Horton, “In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me.” (1804 words)
Anne Hull, “The Lonely Road of Staying Clean” (3778 words)
Wil S. Hylton, "The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Chuck Close" (7500 words)
Sarah Jeong, “Did Inadequate Women’s Healthcare Destroy Star Wars’ Old Republic?” (2118 words)
Cord Jefferson, “The Zimmerman Jury Told Young Black Men What They Know Already” (1120 words)
Maggie Jones, “What Teenagers Are Learning from Porn” (NYT, 2018, 7700 words)
Tom Junod, "The State of the American Dog" (6324 words)
Tom Junod, “The Falling Man” (7385 words)
Tom Junod, “Theater of Pain” (5947 words)
Tom Junod, “Surviving the Fall” (1889 words)
Jay Caspian Kang, "The Headline, The Tweet, and the Unfair Significance of Jeremy Lin" (2234 words)
Jay Caspian Kang, “Our Demand is Simple: Stop Killing Us” (6966 words)
Jay Caspian Kang, “The High is Always the Pain and the Pain is Always the High” (5173 words)
Jay Caspian Kang “What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for Asian-American Identity”(New York Times, 2017, 7162 words)
Alex Kantrowitz, "How the 2016 Election Blew Up in Facebook's Face" (3443 words)
Walter Kirn, “Confessions of an Ex-Mormon” (6000 words)
Jonathan Kirshner, "America, America" (4218 words)
Phil Klay, “The Citizen-Soldier” (9382 words)
Chuck Klosterman, "Myspace.com/Doppelganger" (1169 words)
Chuck Klosterman, "Three Man Weave" (2048 words)
Chuck Klosterman, "Taylor Swift Runs the World" (4624 words)
Chuck Klosterman, "The Pretenders" (3400 words)
Jackie Kruszewski, “In Which We Don’t Do Coke in the Bathroom of the Restaurant” (2055 words)
Leslie Jamison, “The Empathy Exams” (9470 words)
Leslie Jamison, “Fog Count” (6444 words)
Chris Jones, “The Art of the Body Shot” (1158 words)
Chris Jones, "TV's Crowning Moment of Awesome" (5085 words)
Molly Lambert, “Porntopia” (Grantland, 10555 words)
Molly Lambert, "In Which We Teach You How to Be a Woman in any Boys' Club" (This Recording, 2011, 2829 words)
Molly Lambert, “Lexapro, Kanye & Me” (MTV, 1052 words)
Jeanne Marie Laskas, “To Obama With Love, With Hate, and With Desparation” (8823 words)
Kiese Laymon, “What I Pledge Allegiance To” (The Fader, 3418 words)
Kiese Laymon, “Da Art of Storytellin” (Oxford American, 1233 words)
Kiese Laymon, “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America” (Gawker, 4711 words)
Jill Lepore, “The Disruption Machine” (The New Yorker, 6025 words)
Jill Lepore, “Franklin, Reconsidered” (4968 words)
Jill Lepore, “The Last Amazon: Wonder Woman” (7938 words)
Jill Lepore, “Battleground America” (9205 words)
Ariel Levy, “Thanksgiving in Mongolia” (3906 words)
Ariel Levy, “Lift and Separate” (6139 words)
Ariel Levy, "A Ring of One's Own" (7775 words)
James Livingston, “Fuck Work” (3000 words)
Patricia Lockwood, “Rape Joke” (1295 words)
Lili Loofbourow, “The Male Glance” (VQR, 2018, 6000 words)
German Lopez, “America’s Gun Problem, Explained” (3466 words)
Lukinson, "The Friendships That Hold Us in Their Keep" (The New York Times, 2017, 1000 words)
Jeb Lund, “Everything Stupid is Alive, and Everything Stupid Can Kill You” (1906 words)
Mike Mariani, “Promethea Unbound” (The Atavist, 2017, 12630 words)
Molly McHugh, "How We Built Our Bubble" (The Ringer, 3165 words)
Tressie McMillan Cottom, “When Your Curriculum Has been Tumblrized” (665 words)
Sarah Maslin Nir, “The Price of Nice Nails” (6594 words)
Alana Massey, "Against Chill" (Matter, 2015, 1400 words)
Dylan Matthews “The TSA is a waste of money that doesn’t save lives” (Vox, 1064 words)
Mac McClelland, "Can the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Be Found in Cuba?" (Audobon, 7150 words)
Dvora Meyers, “The U.S. Gymnastics System Wanted More Medals, And Created A Culture Of Abuse To Get Them“ (Deadspin, 2017, 6500 Words)
Steve Molaro, “The Great Pizza Orientation Test” (The Sneeze, 2007, 462 words)
Alexandra Molotkow, “Sing to Me” (Real Life, 2016, 2756 words)
Mooalern, "Who Invented the High Five?" (ESPN, 2013, 3101 words)
Michael J. Mooney, "The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever" (D Magazine, 2012, 4570 words)
Kevin Morris, “The Greatest Story Reddit Ever Told” (Kernel, 5562 words)
Wesley Morris, “2015: :The Year We Obsessed Over Identity” (New York Times, 3811 words)
Wesley Morris, “Last Taboo” (The New York Times, 2016, 6236 words)
Michael Nelson, “No Control: Thoughts on the End of the Headphone Jack” (3578 words)
Hamilton Nolan, “Fuck Boston” (Gawker, 557 words)
Hamilton Nolan, “Everything’s Not Good” (Gawker, 1650 words)
Emily Nussbaum, “How Jokes Won the Election” (The New Yorker, 4100 words)
Dan O’Sullivan, “Money in the Bank” (Jacobin, 2014, 5800 words)
Rebecca Onion, “Against Generations” (Aeon, 2015, 3100 words)
Rebecca Onion, “Snapshots of History” (Slate, 2373 words)
Mallory Ortberg, “Inappropriate Internal Responses I Have Had to Innocuous Statements” (The Toast, 233 words)
Mallory Ortberg, “Femslash Friday: Mean Girls’ Layers Upon Lesbian Layers” (The Toast, 980 words)
Mallory Ortberg, “The Queen of Summer: Martin Prince’s Finest Moments” (The Toast, 1184 words)
Mallory Ortberg, “Everyone Has Imposter Syndrome Except for You” (The Toast, 334 words)
Mallory Ortberg, “If Stanley Tucci Were Your Boyfriend” (The Toast, 639 words)
Patton Oswalt, “A Closed Letter to Myself About Thievery, heckling and Rape Jokes” (6333 words)
Ian Parker, "The Story of a Suicide" (The New Yorker, 12875 words)
Guy Patrick Cunningham, “Don’t Settle: The Journalist in the Shadow of the Commercial Web” (4581 words)
Ben Paynter, “Genius: The Nickelback Story” (Bloomberg, 3316 words)
Jeff Pearlman, “The Paragraph: The Fallout from Sportswriting’s Filthiest Fuck-Up” (Deadspin, 2017, 5275 words)
Bradford Pearson, "The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever" (D Magazine, 2012, 4600 words)
Laurie Penny, “Meltdown of the Phantom Snowflakes” (2815 words)
Laurie Penny, “On Nerd Entitlement” (2815 words)
Jennifer Percy, "I Have No Choice but to Keep Looking" (6184 words)
Anne Helen Petersen, “There Are Things of Which I May Not Speak” (2903 words)
Anne Helen Petersen, “Here’s What It’s Like at Standing Rock” (1545 words)
Anne Helen Petersen, "Jennifer Lawrence and the History of Cool Girls" (Buzzfeed, 2014, 5927 words)
Amanda Petrusich, “MTV, Chance the Rapper and a Defense of Negative Criticism” (1403 words)
Shannon Pettypiece, "Walmart's Crime Problem" (3176 words)
Brian Phillips, “We Are Living in a Robot Moment” (MTV, 2586 words)
Brian Phillips, “Shirtless Trump Saves Drowning Kitten” (MTV, 1738 words)
Brian Phillips, “A Fighter Abroad” (Grantland, 4950 words)
Brian Phillips, “The Sea of Crises” (Grantland, 10196 words)
Brian Phillips, “Corruption, Murder, and the Beautiful Game” (Grantland, 4209 words)
Charlie Pierce, “The Cynic and Senator Obama” (Esquire, 6590 words)
Lisa Rab, “Life Below the Poverty Line in Banktown, USA” (Charlotte Magazine, 3769 words)
David Rakoff, ”Fu Fighters” (Outside, 3200 words)
David Rakoff, “Whatsizface?” (Salon, 3741 words)
Claudia Rankine, “The Meaning of Serena Williams” (NYTimes, 3189 words)
Venkatesh Rao, “The American Cloud” (Aeon, 3800 words)
Elspeth Reeve, “The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens” (New Republic, 9864 words)
Jordan Ritter Conn, “The End of the Hoop Dream” (Grantland, 7500 words)
Soraya Roberts, “Winona, Forever” (Hazlitt, 2016, 9618 words)
Zandria F. Robinson, "Listening for the Country" (Oxford American, 7358 words)
Zandria F. Robinson, “Border Wars” (Oxford American, 2017, 8200 words)
Jon Ronson, "How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life" (New York Times, 2015, 4500 words)
Jon Ronson, "Marwencol" (The Guardian, 2015, 2500 words)
Jon Ronson, "How to Spot a Psychopath," (The Guardian, 2011, 4421 words)
Jon Ronson, "Robots Say the Damndest Things" (GQ, 2015, 4700 words)
Hanna Rosin, "The Overprotected Kid" (The Atlantic, 8849 words)
Elizabeth Royte, "Vultures are Revolting: Here's Why We Need to Save Them" (4900 Words)
Franceska Rouzard, “Advanced Search” (4587 words)
Harriet Ryan, Lisa Girion and Scott Glover, “Oxycontin’s 12-Hour Problem” (6778 words)
Larry Sanger, "Is there a new Geek Anti-Intellectualism?" (2373 words)
Eli Saslow, "Into the Lonely Quiet" (6433 words)
Eli Saslow, “The White Flight of Derek Black” (6536 words)
Eli Saslow, “’How’s Amanda?’: A Story of Truth, Lies, and American Addiction” (5799 words)
George Saunders, “My Writing Education: A Time Line” (4187 words)
George Saunders, “Who Are All These Trump Supporters?” (10474 words)
George Saunders, “The Great Divider” (11158 words)
Tom Scocca, "On Smarm" (9200 words)
Kathryn Schulz, “The Really Big One” (6184 words)
Kathryn Schulz, “Citizen Khan: The Muslim Tamale King of Wyoming” (7700 words)
Sarah Schweitzer, “The Life and Times of Strider Wolf” (6649 words)
A.O. Scott, “Film Snob? Is That So Wrong?” (1774 words)
David Sedaris, “What I Learned” (2070 words)
Jennifer Senior, "Why You Never Truly Leave High School" (5530 words)
Matthew Shaer, “Whatsoever Things are True” (16226 words)
Gabriel Sherman, "The Revenge of Roger's Angels" (7380 words)
Earl Shorris, “American Vespers: The Ebbing of the Body Politic” (4237 words)
Jes Skolnik, “The Fight for All-Ages Shows” (1254 words)
Ben Smith, “My Life in the Blogosphere” (2074 words)
Zadie Smith, "Generation Why?" (5685 words)
Zadie Smith, "Fences: A Brexit Diary" (4557 words)
Zadie Smith, "What Beyonce Taught Me" (3610 words)
Nick Solares, “New York Pizza Styles: A Complete Guide” (3724 words)
Leah Sottile, “This is Meant to Hurt You” (3793 words)
Rebecca Solnit, “Living in Dark Times.” (3610 words)
Doreen St. Felix, "The Images We Can't Unsee" (1065 words)
Dean Starkman, "Confidence Game" (7710 words)
James B. Stewart, "The Real Heroes are Dead: A Love Story" (10450 words)
Sarah Stillman, "Taken" (11462 words)
Sarah Stillman, "The List" (11547 words)
Matt Taibbi, “Why Sports are for Losers” (1641 words)
Matt Taibbi, “The Great American Bubble Machine” (Rolling Stone, 9726 words)
Matt Taibbi, “Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?” (Rolling Stone, 6189 words)
Matt Taibbi, “Looting Main Street” (Rolling Stone, 4422 words)
Jason Tanz, “Playing for Time” (Wired, 6454 words)
Ben Taub, "The Assad Files" (The New Yorker, 10453 words)
Amanda Taub, “The Truth about ‘Political Correctness’: It doesn’t actually exist” (Vox, 1889 words)
Sam Thielman, “No Matter How Your Heart is Grieving: Disney for the Sad” (The Toast, 4253 words)
Andrew Thomas, "Heaps of Woe" (Run of Play, 1812 words)
Wright Thompson,“Michael Jordan Has Not Left the Building” (ESPN, 2016, 7750 words)
Jia Tolentino, “Interview With a Woman Who Recently Had an Abortion” (Jezebel, 2016, 8200 words)
Jia Tolentino, "All the Greedy Young Abigail Fishers and Me" (Jezebel, 2016, 3200 words)
Wells Tower, “The Elvis Impersonator, the Karate Instructor, a Fridge Full of Severed Heads, and the Plot 2 Kill the President” (GQ, 8386 words)
Reggie Ugwu, “Inside the Playlist Factory” (Buzzfeed, 5733 words)
Don van Natta, Jr. “Jerry Football” (ESPN, 10875 words)
Claire Vaye Watkins, “On Pandering” (Tinhouse, 5152 words)
Vanessa Veselka, “In the Wake of Protest: One Woman’s Attempt to Unionize Amazon” (The Atlantic, 4757 words)
James Vincent, “Breaking Down the Best Slapstick GIF We’ve Ever Seen” (681 words)
Sarah Vowell, “The Speech the President Should Give” (741 words)
Alissa Walker, “Stop Drinking Bottled Water” (1531 words)
Carvell Wallace, “Letter to my Mother after Charleston” (888 words)
David Foster Wallace, “E unibus pluram: Television and US Fiction” (21928 words)
David Foster Wallace, “Roger Federer as Religious Experience” (6619 words)
David Foster Wallace, “String Theory” (15000 words)
David Foster Wallace, “9/11 The View from the Midwest” (4439 words)
David Foster Wallace, “Host” (The Atlantic, 14934 words)
Charlie Warzel, “A Honeypot for Assholes” (Buzzfeed, 5970 words)
Caity Weaver, "My 14 Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday's Endless Appetizers" (Gawker, 6217 words)
Caity Weaver, “Gravy Boat: My Week on the High Seas with Paula Deen and Friends” (Gawker, 7290 words)
Caity Weaver, “The Most Deranged Sorority Girl Email You Will Ever Read” (Gawker, 1597 words)
Caity Weaver, “The Ken Doll Reboot: Beefy, Cornrowed, and Pan-Racial” (GQ, 2017, 4144 Words)
Jennifer Weiner, “The F Word” (Allure, 2250 words)
Jessica Weisberg, "A Family Matter" (The Atavist, 10175 words)
Lindy West, “Hello, I am Fat” (The Stranger, 1106 words)
Lindy West, “A Great Big Person” (The Guardian, 2903 words)
Bee Wilson, “Why We Fell for Clean Eating” (The Guardian, 2017, 5763 words)
Gabriel Winant, “Who Works for the Workers?” (n+1, 5628 words)
Adam Winkler, "Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie" (The Atlantic, 2018, 1265 words)
Lawrence Wright, “America’s Future is Texas” (The New Yorker, 2017, 19000 Words)
Laura Yan, "24 Hours at My Local Dunkin' Donuts" (The Outline, 2018, 3521 words)
Molly Young, "Sweatpants in Paradise" (The Believer, 2957 words)
Jess Zimmerman, “Hunger Makes Me” (Hazlitt, 3130 words)
Dave Zirin, “’Ne Vous Laissez Pas Manipuler,’ aka #StayWoke” (The Nation, 914 words)

MULTIMEDIA FEATURES

Rebecca Adams, "11 Images that People With Anxiety Will Understand"
Alphonso, McKenna and Van Paassen, "Student Aid" (2840 words)
Shane Bauer, “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard” (36619 words)
Berkeley Grad Media/Journalism, “Chasing Lithium”
Ryan Bradley, "The Cancer Almanac" (3305 words)
John Branch, “Snow Fall” (17000 words)
Steven Brill, “America’s Most Admired Lawbreaker”
Matthew Carney, "Leave No Dark Corner: The Chinese 'Social Credit' System"
Scott Carney, “An Economic Analysis of the Somali Pirate Business Model”
Nicky Case, "The Wisdom and/or Madness of Crowds"
Simon Cox, "The Reykjavik Confessions"
Coral Davenport, Josh Haner, Larry Buchanon & Derek Watkins, “Greenland is Melting Away”
Joshua Davis, “Deep Sea Cowboys"
Melissa del Bosque, “Beyond the Border"
Eater, "The Eater Guide to Paris"
Andre Elliot & Ruth Fremson, "Invisible Child"
Fletcher, Tretick and Reed, ”An Oral History of the March on Washington”
Paul Ford, “What is Code” (38000 words)
Brett Gaylor, “Do Not Track”
David Graeber, "To Have is to Owe"
Jayson Greene, "Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History"
Vi Hart and Nicky Case, “The Parable of the Polygons"
Michael Hobbes, "Millennials are Screwed" (8100 words)
Patrick Hruby, “The Long, Strange Trip of Dock Ellis”
Hua Hsu, "Touchstones: Nirvana's Nevermind"
The Intercept, “The Drone Papers”
Josie Jammet, “The Fall of the House of Tsarnaev”
Mark Johnson and Rick Wood, “The Course of their Lives"
Daniel Jones, "The 36 Questions that lead to Love"
Kathryn Joyce, "Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream" (7000 words)
Jon Keegan, "Blue Feed, Red Feed"
Madison Malone Kircher, Briand Feldman, Max Read, "The Year in Memes"
Michael Keller and Josh Neufeld, “"Terms of Service"
Kate Kilpatrick and Ian Bates, "Treasured Island"
Adam Kissick, “Newport Folk Festival” (photoseries)
Bob Marshall, Brian Jacobs, Al Shaw, “Losing Ground"
Caitlin McNally, “Stickup Kid” (1000 Words, Atavist)
Siddhartha Mukherjee, “Doctor Without Borders”, (4932 Words)
NPR, Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt
NYT, Walking New York
NYT, "25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music is Going" (27119 words)
Brian Phillips, “Out in the Great Alone” (19296 words)
Malia Politzer and Emily Kassie, "The 21st Century Gold Rush: How the refugee crisis is changing the world economy"
QKatie, “Cooking to Remember Home” (Verse Video)
Evan Ratliff, Vanish (1200 Words)
Evan Ratliff, “The Mastermind”
Eric Reidy, “Ghost Boat”
Neena Satija, Kiah Collier, Al Shaw and Jeff Larson, "Hell and High Water"
Slate Staff, “2014: The year of outrage"
Doreen St. Felix, "Touchstones: Missy Elliott's 'Supa Dupa Fly'"
John Jeremiah Sullivan, "The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie"
Andrew Thompson and Matt Daniels, "The Musical Diversity of Pop Songs"
UNC Journalism, “The UnderCurrent”
Francisco Zizola, "Adrift: At Sea With a Search-and-Rescue Mission in the Mediterranean"

PODCASTS

VIDEOS

ESSENCE for “Black Girl Magic: Sage Adams,” directed by Laurie Thomas, “Black Girl Magic: Ammarah Haynes,” directed by Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, and “Black Girl Magic: Berneisha Hooker,” directed by Nailah Jefferson, at essence.com
New York With Narrative 4 for “Guns & Empathy,” December 26 at nymag.com
STAT for “Science Happens! With Carl Zimmer: Episode 1,” March 25, “Science Happens! With Carl Zimmer: Episode 5,” March 31, and “Science Happens! With Carl Zimmer: Episode 8,” August 25, at statnews.com
Teen Vogue for “Guys Read: Sexual Assault—Jason and Yahdon,” “Guys Read: Sexual Assault—Spencer and Anthony” and “Guys Read—Sexual Assault: Andrew and Alex,” April 29 at teenvogue.com
TIME for “100 Photographs: Untitled (Cowboy),” “100 Photographs: A Portrait of Domestic Violence” and “100 Photographs: The Falling Man,” November 17 at 100photos.time.com