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Friday, July 18, 2008 6:54 AM

Treatment or Abuse?

In Boston Magazine's "The Shocking Truth," Paul Kix does a masterful job of investigating the use of electro-shock therapy at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), a Massachusetts home for mentally handicapped and behaviorally impaired youth. The
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:25 AM

The Front Lines

Reading most American magazines, you would never know we're a nation at war. The July issue of Texas Monthly doesn't let us forget, however. Matt Cook's brilliant "Soldier" gives a first-hand narrative of what it was like to start basic training
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Monday, July 14, 2008 6:43 AM

Gorilla Murder Mystery

"Who Murdered the Virunga Gorillas?" by writer Mark Jenkins and photographer Brent Stirton in the July edition of National Geographic is a fascinating tale of intrigue set in the majestic mountains of central Africa. While tracking down the killers of
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 6:41 AM

America's Toughest Mayor

The July edition of Esquire features an excellent story about the man who may have the toughest political job in America -- improving life in Newark, New Jersey. Scott Raab's "The Battle of Newark, Starring Cory Booker" profiles the city's young
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Monday, June 30, 2008 6:20 AM

Covert Action

Seymour Hersh has a long history of helping break important stories: the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, the C.I.A.'s illegal spying against Americans, the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, and many more. In the July 7 New Yorker, Hersh returns with another
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 6:09 AM

Iraq Today

For a terrific overview of the current state of Iraq, check out this week's issue of The Economist. In "Iraq: Is it Finally Turning the Corner?" the magazine puts the country's political, military, economic and social situations in clear
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:49 AM

Underground Workers

Jennifer Gonnerman's "Blood on the Tracks" in New York magazine does a great job of describing the dangerous world of the workers who maintain the city’s 660 miles of subway tracks. Gonnerman introduces us to the workers and shows us how they
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Friday, May 30, 2008 6:06 AM

Sights and Sounds

I love the way Andrew Lee Butters starts his "Welcome to Hizballahstan" in the May 26 issue of Time with a sharp mix of sight and sound accented with a strong quotation: Surrounded by a ring of mountains like a concert band shell, Beirut
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Friday, May 23, 2008 5:51 AM

Food and Water

Two recent magazine stories have done an impressive job of exploring what's happening to our food and water supplies. In the May Vanity Fair, the incomparable investigative team of Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele explain in "Monsanto's
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:25 AM

Trash Talk

The cologne-scented pages of the May GQ feature a wonderful story about, of all things, garbage. In "This is Paradise," Jeanne Marie Laskas describes with pungent detail the Puente Hills Landfill near Los Angeles and the philosophical men and massive
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:31 AM

Medical Bills

When Tom McGrath's daughter Sarah had her appendix removed, the doctors and nurses did everything right. But when McGrath got the bill for her hospital stay, none of it made sense to him. "My Daughter's $29,000 Appendectomy" in Philadelphia Magazine
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Sunday, May 11, 2008 10:55 PM

A Soldier Comes Home

The magnificent and moving "The Things That Carried Him" by Chris Jones in the May issue of Esquire narrates the nine-day journey that Sgt. Joe Montgomery's body took between his death in Iraq and his burial in an Indiana cemetery. Moving backward through
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Friday, April 25, 2008 8:00 AM

Behind Bars

Talk about a tough job -- how about working as the IT guy in San Quentin? In "California Prison Reform: Inmates, I.T. and Health Care," Kim S. Nash of CIO Magazine explores the challenges faced by information technology workers as they try to improve
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:00 AM

The Hunger

The war in Iraq, the presidential campaign and the slumping economy have been the big stories so far this year, but they may soon be eclipsed by one with a more devastating impact: a worldwide hunger crisis. Marc Lacey of The New York Times
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:30 AM

Attacking the Teachers

Gabriel Sherman has a fascinating story in New York magazine about what happens at an elite prep school when its students begIn writing vicious attacks on a teacher using their Facebook pages. Sherman's "Testing Horace Mann" explores how social
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