Couple of really good articles in the New Yorker in the next to last issue, still catching up on my reading. The article on bonobos by Ian Parker was a great read from start to finish, and shows the value of doing actual reporting and traveling. It also speaks to the value of true scientific inquiry and the way that memes spread, become common knowledge and then are discredited and fall away.
The other great story, not online, is by Tad Friend, and is a profile of the spokesperson for San Quentin. It's a fascinating piece that explores the fungible nature of truth, the capacity for remorse and the ideas of penalty and repentance. Friend is a great writer, who repeatedly finds ways to get his interviewees to open up, often to their own detriment.
As always, a turn through the pages of this publication renews my faith in the value of long form journalism.