Edition #41: Longform Profiles
This edition features a story of teens and fentanyl, the return of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Mexican restaurant, the Amazon's biggest champion, the smuggler's daughter and more.
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💊 Maylia and Jack: A Story of Teens and Fentanyl
Lizzie Presser | ProPublica
In early January, a month after the arrest, a police officer arrived looking for Maylia. She was in the shower, getting ready for a hearing where she expected to be let out. Instead of taking her to court, the officer drove her to jail. There, he told her that she was under arrest for first-degree reckless homicide. Jack McDonough had died of an overdose.
Holly Haworth | The Bitter Southerner
Between February and May of last year, six women, all under 40, were found murdered in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon, “most in wooded or secluded rural areas,” the news reported. The year before, 19-year-old Sarai Llanos Gomez was found stabbed to death in the woods in Flowery Branch, Georgia, an hour from where I live.
🎤 Tony Robbins was reeling from backlash. Then came an unlikely ally: Stanford
Susie Neilson | The San Francisco Chronicle
Tony Robbins was having a rough year. It was 2019, and the venerated motivational speaker and life coach was already reeling from backlash for saying women were using the #MeToo movement to gain “significance.” Now Buzzfeed News was publishing a multi-part investigation into allegations that he had, during his in-person events, groped women and belittled abuse survivors.
