The Death of a Relic Hunter
Bill Erquitt was an unforgettable character among Georgia’s many Civil War enthusiasts. After he died, his secrets came to light.
Addded Nov 28, 2023
Jimmy Carter’s Rock-and-Roll Legacy
The former President has a surprisingly long list of musician friends, some of whom, in the past days and weeks, have been reflecting on the time they’ve had with him.
Addded Mar 27, 2023
The Mystery of the Headless Goats in the Chattahoochee
Hundreds of decapitated goat carcasses have turned up in the river that runs through metro Atlanta. Are they evidence of animal sacrifice? Drug smuggling? Both?
Addded Oct 2, 2022
The Controversial Legal Strategy Behind the Indictment of Young Thug
The RICO Act, which was designed to go after the Mafia, is now used to target supposed members of predominantly Black street gangs. Critics say the law is being stretched very thin.
Addded Jun 24, 2022
Giving Phife Dawg the Sound of "Forever"
Dion Liverpool, who co-produced a new posthumous album by the beloved Tribe Called Quest rapper, calls it the most challenging project he's ever worked on.
Addded Mar 21, 2022
Why Did Mark Meadows Register to Vote at an Address Where He Did Not Reside?
In September, 2020, Donald Trump’s then chief of staff claimed to live in a mobile home in North Carolina.
Addded Mar 7, 2022
How the 'QAnon Candidate' Marjorie Taylor Greene Reached the Doorstep of Congress
“There’s nothing she can do to lose my vote, unless she murdered a baby or something,” a local Republican official said. “Nothing.”
Addded Oct 11, 2020
What Happens When the News Is Gone?
In Jones County, North Carolina, and many other places around the country, local journalism has just about dried up.
Addded Jan 27, 2020
The Layoffs at BuzzFeed and the Case of the Teen-Aged Quiz-Maker
A BuzzFeed staffer who was laid off this week compared the work of Rachel McMahon, a college sophomore, to that of the four-chord punk band the Ramones.
Addded Feb 1, 2019
What the Shutdown Means for a T.S.A. Agent at America's Busiest Airport
Earlier this week, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, in Atlanta, announced security-line waiting times of nearly an hour and a half-more than twice that of any other airport in the country.
Addded Jan 18, 2019
Stacey Abrams Ends Her Race for Governor of Georgia, but Doesn’t Quite Concede
“Stoicism is a luxury, and silence is a weapon for those who would quiet the voices of the people,” Abrams said Friday as she acknowledged that her bid to become governor of Georgia had fallen short.
Addded Nov 17, 2018
How 'Religious Freedom' Laws Became a Flash Point in the Georgia Governor’s Race
Film companies have threatened to pull operations if the state passes legislation protecting businesses that deny services to gay people on the basis of religious belief.
Addded Nov 1, 2018
Can Gun Control Win in Georgia?
The proposition that the “middle-of-the-road voter” wants gun reform will be put to the test in the Georgia governor’s race.
Addded Aug 21, 2018
News Outlets Are Prewriting Stories About Officials Getting Fired to Keep Up with the Trump Era
The drama and frequency of turnover in the Trump White House has prompted news publications to begin work on dismissal stories before they happen.
Addded Aug 1, 2018
A 'Capital Gazette' Reporter Prepares to Cover the Trial of the Suspected Killer of His Colleagues
Chase Cook volunteered for the assignment despite his editor’s concerns that he’d be further traumatized. “If the Baltimore Sun covered it for us,” he told me, “that would mean the shooter wins.”
Addded Jul 15, 2018
Putting Out the 'Capital Gazette,' a Week After the Shootings
The photojournalist Joshua McKerrow describes the experience of publishing the "Gazette" in the week after a gunman killed five of his colleagues in the paper’s newsroom.
Addded Jul 6, 2018
Fighting Over Trump at the Georgia-Alabama Game
With the President in attendance at college football’s national-championship game, sports fans and protesters debated his accomplishments.
Addded Jan 9, 2018
Getting Out the Black Vote in Alabama
Volunteers for Doug Jones’s campaign hit the pavement in a state where the top election official has said that voting shouldn’t be easy to do.
Addded Dec 13, 2017
Locals Were Troubled by Roy Moore's Interactions with Teen Girls at the Gadsden Mall
Rumors have swirled for years that, in the early eighties, Roy Moore was banned from a mall for bothering teen-age girls.
Addded Nov 14, 2017
Why Roy Moore’s Law-School Professor Nicknamed Him Fruit Salad
“He’s the one thing that brought humor to us, because he was, well, kind of a doofus,” one of Moore’s classmates said recently.
Addded Oct 26, 2017
Stephen Paddock and the World of Video Poker
Many observers have floated the theory that Paddock, who killed nearly sixty people on Sunday (Oct 1), had incurred gambling debts that he couldn’t pay off.
Addded Oct 6, 2017
Putting OutKast on a Confederate Monument
Carvings of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson occupy nearly two acres of Stone Mountain. A petition proposed a new addition.
Addded Sep 5, 2017
What a White Supremacist Told Me After Donald Trump Was Elected
“I think we now have a President with some of the same ideals,” a member of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan said.
Addded Aug 17, 2017
What It Feels Like on Guam, Caught Between Trump and North Korea
“On a scale of one to ten, my fear level is 0.5. I’m not rushing down to the store for emergency supplies,” one resident says.
Addded Aug 10, 2017
Usain Bolt's Successor and the Last Great Sprinting Barrier
If you told sprinters fifty years ago that someone would run the four hundred metres in less than forty-three seconds, they’d have said, “Where will you bury him?”
Addded Aug 3, 2017
A Doctor's View of Obamacare and Trumpcare from Rural Georgia
“There just isn’t what you’d expect to have in America down here,” Dr. Karen Kinsell says.
Addded Jun 28, 2017
The Worrisome Reporting on Aaron Hernandez’s Sexuality
A media ethicist says that the initial reporting on the former football player's sexuality was careless and harmful.
Addded Apr 30, 2017
I Hiked Up and Biked Down the World's Tallest Volcano
A ragtag crew of friends, some mountain bikes, and Chile's monster volcano. What could go wrong?
Addded Mar 23, 2017
How Our Totally Average Runner Broke the Sub-Five-Minute Mile
Sometimes setting an unreasonable goal is the only way to jump-start your fitness.
Addded Mar 21, 2017
'The Onion' Struggles to Lampoon Trump
At a headline pitch meeting, the writers of the satirical newspaper try to stay away from low-hanging fruit.
Addded Mar 17, 2017
A Mathematician Confronts March Madness
A numbers-theory expert looks at the important figures in this year’s N.C.A.A. basketball tournament.
Addded Mar 15, 2017
A 'Never Trump' Conservative Adjusts to the New Administration
The conservative commentator Erick Erickson has taken to using Trojan Horse tactics to bring critiques of President Trump to his audience.
Addded Feb 23, 2017
Thomas Dimitroff: The Biggest Cycling Fanatic in the NFL
When he's not taking the Atlanta Falcons to the Super Bowl as the team's general manager, Thomas Dimitroff is all about bikes.
Addded Feb 3, 2017
I'm a Runner: Chuck Todd
The NBC News political director started running to get healthy and fight stress.
Addded Feb 1, 2017
Meet Monkey's Teen-Age Founders
Ben Pasternak and Isaiah Turner created a video-chat-based app that aims to be “like Chatroulette, without the pervs.”
Addded Jan 9, 2017
How a Ragtag Crew of Almost Journalists Created Running's Most Controversial Website
For the past two decades, the website LetsRun.com has straddled the lines between gossip, investigative reporting, and hardcore training advice, angering Nike, USA Track and Field, and traditional media in the process.
Addded Nov 18, 2016
Erick Erickson Is Sorry About Some of the Things He Has Said
Why the right-wing radio host and pundit who made a career of online provocation is now holding back.
Addded Oct 29, 2016
The Misunderstanding of J. R. Smith
Smith’s dynamic on-court talent has often been stymied by a reputation for impulsiveness.
Addded Oct 13, 2016
How a Conservative Paper Ended Up Endorsing Hillary Clinton
"The Arizona Republic" had never endorsed a Democrat for President. But crucial campaign moments convinced the editorial board they had to back Hillary Clinton.
Addded Sep 30, 2016
A Conversation with Appalachian Trail Record Holder Karl Meltzer
On Sunday morning, Karl Meltzer broke Scott Jurek's year-old Appalachian Trail speed record, completing the 2,200 mile trek in 45 days, 22 hours, and 38 minutes. Here, the winningest 100-mile racer in history tells us how he pulled it off.
Addded Sep 20, 2016