A local news story that became an unexpected viral hit is used as a way to examine the algorithm that influences what people see on Facebook, a place where many people (43% of American adults per the Pew Research Center) continue to get their news.
The premise of this piece is extraordinary – the discovery of “a precise geological transcript of the most important sixty minutes of Earth’s history” – that is to say the wave of destruction caused by the asteroid that hit sixty-six million years ago, an event that wiped out 99.9999% of all living organisms on the planet.
A piece focusing on the negotiation process of leaving the EU, and how UK’s team has been comprehensively outmanoeuvred by their Brussels counterparts.
A look at Donald Trump’s prospects of surviving the Mueller enquiry, and his long track record of living life right on the edge of the precipice.
The extraordinary, grisly story of a corrupt funeral home and crematorium business run by a family team.
Behind the scenes in the business of fine art shipping.
A none too flattering profile of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a man right at the heart of the American political system.
A story about the recovery of an aircraft carrier that had been sunk in the Coral Sea during the Second World War, replete with original documents and photographs of the sinking ship and the recovery mission.
A look at the story, and writing, behind historic white nationalist movements in the USA. The piece concludes with the following reflection – “When Americans abandon their commitment to pluralism, the world notices, and catastrophe follows.”