Bill Donahue is a writer for Outside, Harper’s, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and more…
Yiech Pur Biel was born amid a civil war in South Sudan. Soldiers burned down his village, his parents left him, he grew up in a refugee camp. Now he’s readying to compete in the Olympics.
ESPN
Edited by Vic Seper. Photographs by Georgina Goodwin.
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Of the hundred slaves to toil for President George Washington, Ona Judge was the only one to escape and tell her story.
Amazon Kindle Singles
Edited by Ali Castleman.
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Two Norwegian brothers are cashing in on the refugee crisis.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Edited by Brad Wieners. Photos by Espen Rasmussen.
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The economics behind militiaman Ammon Bundy’s occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Edited by Brad Wieners. Photo by O.B. Kerr.
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Lon Myers was the greatest American runner of the nineteenth century and also a Sephardic Jew. In 1882, he ran a series of three one-on-one footraces against England’s best runner, Walter George, at the Polo Grounds, in New York City.
Runner’s World
Edited by Christine Fennessy. Illustrations by Bruce Emmet.
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In the spring of 2015, oystermen in Washington state were poised to start a nerotoxin on the beleaguered oyster beds of Willapa Bay. But then this story broke. Public pressure ensued, and the oystermen caved—and scratched all plans to spray.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Edited by Emily Biuso. Photographs by Cameron Karsten.
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Arkansas poet Frank Stanford killed himself in 1978, at the age of 29. Today, novelist Michael Ondaatje calls his work “the most overlooked writing I know.” A look at a great Southern genius.
Men’s Journal
Edited by Larry Kanter. Photograph by Ginny Stanford.
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At age 5, Christian Thomas Geiger hiked the Appalachian Trail, all 2,180 miles of it, with his mother and stepdad. Was this an act of child abuse?
Backpacker
Edited by Dennis Lewon. Photographs by Brown W. Cannon III.
Gold Medal winner, Adventure Travel, 2016 Lowell Thomas Awards.
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Communing with the endangered forest and seabirds amid the emerald rainforests and precipitous coastal cliffs on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
Sunset
Edited by Bruce Anderson. Photograph by Kamil Bialous.
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