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01 • 38 Minute Read
ProPublica Molly Hensley-Clancy
A Youth Sports Giant Promised Reforms to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse. Most Never Happened.
A Youth Sports Giant Promised Reforms to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse. Most Never Happened.
The Amateur Athletic Union promised historic child protection measures in 2012, after its president was accused of molesting two boys. Molly Hensley-Clancy found most of it never happened. The abuse hotline it pledged routed to the general office line, where callers could press 5 for medal orders. The training it called mandatory was never verified or built for abuse prevention. She and The Washington Post found eight coaches banned elsewhere still working with AAU kids. Arbitration clauses kept the AAU out of a lawsuit over a coach convicted of exploiting more than 400 boys.
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02 • 29 Minute Read
The New York Times Nicholas Casey
He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard Of. He May Never Go Free.
He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard Of. He May Never Go Free.
Roberto Mosquera stepped off a military cargo plane into a cold winter morning and had never heard of the country. Eswatini took $5.1 million to hold him. Nicholas Casey reached him by WhatsApp inside a maximum-security prison, where Mosquera had spent more than a year with no charges, no appeal, and glaucoma eating his sight. He arrived in Miami during the 1980 Mariel boatlift, served his sentence, became a plumber, and told his daughter to vote for the man whose administration deported him. He asked Casey one question. Whether he would ever get out.
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03 • 19 Minute Read
Slate Nick Keppler
America’s Loneliness Trap
America’s Loneliness Trap
BuzzFeed published 12 posts about male loneliness in 2026 alone. The data did not back the panic. Nick Keppler pored over Pew, KFF, and time-use surveys and found no meaningful gender gap in loneliness, but a chasm by income. Adults in households under $40,000 reported frequent loneliness at three times the rate of those above $90,000. He interviewed a home health aide making $21 an hour who stopped seeing friends, and a woman who skipped a coworker's birthday because tickets cost $65. The male loneliness epidemic put the blame inside the lonely man. The income data put it somewhere else.
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04 • 25 Minute Read
Aeon Rosa Campbell
A second sexual revolution
A second sexual revolution
Shere Hite rode a motorbike around Manhattan in 1972 handing out 58-question surveys about sex to any woman who would take one. The book that followed sold 50 million copies and reported that 70 percent of American women could not orgasm from penetration. Rosa Campbell traced what happened next. Hite's later books were methodologically weak, her interviews combative, and by the 1990s the press had turned her into the story instead of the data. She left the US and died in Tottenham in 2020. The 30th bestselling book of all time, and its author vanished with it.
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