- An Unbelievable Story of Rape by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, December 16
- Eddie Davison’s Life Sentence by Cat Ferguson, Buzzfeed, December 11
- Vultures are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them. by Elizabeth Royte, National Geographic, December 10
- A Most Violent Year by Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New York Magazine, November 30
- The Two Lives of Michael Jackson by Carvell Wallace, The New Yorker, November 25
- ISIS Women and Enforcers in Syria Recount Collaboration, Anguish and Escape by Azadeh Moaveni, The New York Times, November 21
- Learning to Live with Leopards by Richard Conniff, National Geographic, November 10
- U.S. Journalists Who Instantly Exonerated Their Government of the Kunduz Hospital Attack, Declaring it an “Accident” by Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, November 6
- No, Spooning Isn’t Sexist. The Internet Is Just Broken by Ben Collins, The Daily Beast, November 4
- The Concealed-Carry Fantasy by The Editorial Board, The New York Times, October 26
- An Open Letter to Bob McNair, Owner of the Houston Texans by Chris Kluwe, The Cauldron, October 21
- The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield by Daniel Engber, The New York Times Magazine, October 20
- Human Square revealed: how Chicago police ‘disappeared’ 7,000 people by Spencer Ackerman, The Guardian, October 19
- The Drone Papers by Jeremy Scahill, Josh Begley, Cora Currier, Ryan Devereaux, Peter Maass, Ryan Gallagher and Nick Turse, The Intercept, October 15
- The real costs of Donald Trump’s anti-Mexican slur controversy, explained by Dara Lind, Vox, July 8
- Revenge Killing by Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, July 6
- How Orcas Work Together to Whip Up a Meal by Virginia Morell, National Geographic, July
- The Grand Old Party’s Future Shock by Glenn Thrush, Politico, June 26
- “Have You Ever Thought About Killing Someone?” by Rachel Monroe, Medium, April 22
- Here’s Earl by Rembert Browne, Grantland, April 21
- Binge Reading Disorder by Nikkitha Bakshani, The Morning News, April 16
- I Sat In on My Son’s Sex-Ed Class, and I Was Shocked by What I Heard by Alice Dreger, The Stranger, April 15
- The Crazy Tax Scam You’ve Never Heard Of by Brea Tremblay, The Daily Beast, April 12
- Even Kids Can’t Poop on a Tour Bus by Brian Rosenworcel, Guster Road Journal, April 9
- Is Ted Cruz Writing the Script to His Own Obamacare Horror Story? by Brian Beutler, The New Republic, April 1
- I Followed My Stolen iPhone Across the World, Became A Celebrity In China, And Found A Friend For Lifeby Matt Stopera, Buzzfeed, March 31
- I Went To Five Different Starbucks To See Who Would Talk To Me About Race by Beejoli Shah, The Frisky, March 17
- ‘A Taste of Power’: The Woman Who Led the Black Panther Party by Elaine Brown, Longreads, March 3
- My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach, Pacific Standard, Jan. 12
More great reading:
What I Read 2016
What I Read 2017
Timothy Pate 
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