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Friday, November 07, 2008 5:04 AM

Behind the Scenes with Barack

Less than six hours after Barack Obama's victory speech Tuesday night, Newsweek published its epic "How He Did It," written by Evan Thomas and reported by Daren Briscoe, Eleanor Clift, Katie Connolly, Peter Goldman, Daniel Stone and Nick Summers.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 5:06 AM

12 Top Election Stories and Web Sites

It's been quite a year for politics and campaign coverage. As we head to the finish line, I'd like to nominate the journalists, publications and Web sites that I think have done the best job of covering the elections. 1. For depth of political coverage,
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Monday, October 27, 2008 5:46 AM

Polling Place Blues

While most political reporters follow the fortunes of McCain and Obama during the last days of the presidential campaign, Michael Scherer of Time magazine looks ahead to what might actually happen in voting booths around the country. His "7
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 5:20 AM

All You Can Eat

Wright Thompson of ESPN The Magazine has written a funny first-person account of trying to eat like a football player. His "Eat, Drink and be Scary" describes Thompson's experiences attempting to match University of South Florida defensive end
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 5:47 AM

20 Top Crime Stories

We’ve seen some amazing crime stories on News Gems lately. These Top Twenty from the past six months range from the jungles of Africa to a small town in Tennessee. Some are groundbreaking exposés while others tell stories from the perspectives of frightened
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Friday, October 10, 2008 3:47 AM

Speed Racers

Like the lyrics of a Bruce Springsteen song, "The Need for Speed" by John Larrabee in the October issue of Rhode Island Monthly describes the quest for thrills by teens and young adults on Saturday nights. Larrabee uses concrete details to show
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 4:27 AM

The Needle and the Damage Done

The spread of heroin and other drugs in suburban and small-town America is brought to life—and death—by Mario Quadracci’s “Contagious” in Milwaukee Magazine. Quadracci introduces us to Ben Stibbe, a user and dealer who was charged with first-degree reckless
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 5:47 AM

Military Risks

Counterfeit computer parts threaten the safety of U.S. military equipment, according to an important investigation by Brian Grow, Chi-Chu Tschang, Cliff Edwards and Brian Burnsed of Business Week. Their "Dangerous Fakes" traces how phony microchips make
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 4:45 AM

The Battle for Ramadi

Neil Shea's "Ramadi Nights" in The Virginia Quarterly Review is a haunting narrative about young American marines as they hunt for information about insurgents in Iraq. Shea's story follows members of the Third Battalion, Eighth Marine Regiment, as
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:56 AM

Ohio Election Showdown

Usually stories about problems with state voting systems make my eyes glaze over with technicalities. But in the September issue of Cleveland Magazine, Erick Trickey's "Are We Ready?" succeeds in making the topic informative and fun at the same
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Monday, September 08, 2008 5:01 AM

Where the Terrorists Roam

Dexter Filkins' "Right at the Edge" in Sunday's New York Times Magazine is a courageous and important investigation of Pakistan's chaotic Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), where Taliban and Al Qaeda forces freely operate. Filkins
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:33 AM

Back to Burma

Remember how Cyclone Nargis devastated much of Burma (Myanmar) in early May, killing perhaps more than one hundred thousand people? The story has disappeared from the headlines because few American journalists have ventured into the totalitarian country
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Friday, August 01, 2008 6:32 AM

Goodbye Mr. Newton

"The Petabyte Age: Because More Isn't Just More -- More is Different" in the July 16 edition of Wired takes a fascinating look at how our ability to process enormous amounts of data has forever changed science as well as business, medicine and technology.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:25 AM

The Bishop and the Rabbi

No, this post about a bishop and a rabbi isn't an attempt to repeat one of the old jokes my grandpa used to tell. Instead, it highlights two very different profiles that I've enjoyed recently. Andrew Corsello's "Let God Love Gene Robinson" in
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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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