Huffpost’s 20 most moving, shocking and incredible stories have been published in the past 20 years
Huffpost is 20 years old this year. To celebrate, we review some of the most iconic works – works that shock us, surprise us and truly make us see the world differently. Take a look below. And if you’ve ever had a favorite story we’ve posted over the years, share it in the comments!
I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about others
Like many Americans, I have political fatigue. Or, more specifically, the argument is political fatigue.
My political views haven’t run out of obvious views or evidence, but when trying to cross the well-known aisle, I’ve been hitting a special stumbling block and having those “difficult conversations”, so Think Think After Think Time think Time think Time:
I don’t know how to explain to someone why they should care about others.
FML: Why millennials face the most terrifying financial prospects of any generation since the Great Depression
We all heard the statistics. There are more millennials living with their parents than with roommates. We delayed the marriage and home purchases and children of our partners for longer than any previous generation. And, according to the elderly, our problems are all our faults: our degree is wrong. We spend money on things we don’t need. We still haven’t learned to code. We killed cereals and department store and golf and napkin and Lunch. Referring to “millennials” to anyone over 40, the word “right” will return to your own Marco Polo’s intergenerational game in seconds.
This is what it feels like to be young now. Not only are we screwed up, but we have to listen to lectures about our laziness and participation in the trophy From the guy who screwed us.
Craving for Free: There is a practically effective treatment for heroin addiction. Why don’t we use it?
Our last image of Patrick Cagey is his first moment as a freelance man. He had just walked out of the 30-day drug treatment center in Georgetown, Kentucky, wearing fitness clothes and holding a Nike duffel bag. That moment reminded his father, Patrick, who graduated from college, to take pictures of his son with his cell phone. Patrick is 25 years old. His face was bright and he stuck out his tongue awkwardly. Four days later, he will die of a heroin overdose.
“ According to records, I am not pregnant. I’m done
Michael Buckner via Getty Images
First, let me say that solving gossip is something I have never done before. I don’t want to put my energy into the business of lies, but I want to participate in a bigger conversation that has already begun and needs to continue. Since I’m not on social media, I decided to write my thoughts here.
There are records, I am not pregnant. I’m done. I’m tired of censorship and physical humiliation of similar movements that take place every day under the guise of “news”, “first amendment” and “celebrity news.”
One person together: The popularity of homosexual loneliness
“I used to be very excited when the methamphetamine all disappeared.”
This is my friend Jeremy.
He said: “When you have it, you have to keep using it. When it goes away, it’s like, ‘Oh, OK, I can go back to my life now.’ I’ll go to these sex parties all weekend and then feel shit until Wednesday.
Mom stays in the picture
Last weekend, my family went to the sweet sixteen-year-old party of my oldest niece. My brother and sister sub-planned this party for many months and planned to make it a big surprise, including a photo booth for guests.
I was a little late to the party and, as usual, tried to wear such a special night for myself and all my little ones, slightly skewed. I still carry a lot of baby weight, wear a care bra, and I don’t fit my cute clothes. I felt embarrassed, tired and wrinkled.
Beyond the battlefield: HuffPost’s Pulitzer Prize Winner Series, Iraq and Afghanistan are seriously injured
Starting today, the Huffington Post begins a ten-part series Beyond the battlefield – Explore the catastrophic challenges, victory and setbacks encountered by catastrophic soldiers after returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan battlefields.
Outside the Battlefield is the result of months of reports and dozens of interviews by David Wood, a veteran military correspondent of the Hoftons. It is a deep, arduous and extensive exploration of the meaning of soldiers suffering from extraordinary wounds – and how friends, family and hometown, as well as military and medical communities, adapt to and react to the physical and emotional struggles of these injured fighters.
Everything you know about obesity is wrong
This puts us in one of the biggest gaps between science and practice. Years from now on, we will look back in horror on the backfire of our counterproductive ways of addressing the obesity epidemic and the savage ways of treating fat people – and long after, we know there is a better way.
The 21st Century Gold Rush: How the Refugee Crisis Changes the World Economy
Written by Malia Politzer and Emily Kassie
The largest refugee crisis in recorded history swept the mainland, wasting elections and exacerbating the rise of nativism. It also makes many people very, very rich. These are the stories of CEOs, crime masterminds, pencil eliminators and low-flying vultures who figure out how to profit from global instability, also known as human suffering.
What does bullets do to the body
The first thing Dr. Amy Goldberg told me is that this post will make no sense. She said on a call last summer that it was said on a call before the election, and that in a tangible sense of the facts was futile and became a wider American phenomenon. I was interested in Goldberg because she had been through 30 years of trauma surgeons, almost all of which were in the same hospital, Temple University Hospital in North Philadelphia, which treated more shooting victims than anyone else in the state and was in one person. analyzeIt was the deadliest of the country’s 10 largest cities, until last year, when the homicide rate was 17.8 murders per 100,000 residents in 2015.
Through years of coverage here, I heard stories about Temple’s trauma team. A city prosecutor who handles shooting investigations once told me that surgeons were able to piece people together after the most horrible acts of violence. People were damaged when entering the hospital, but walked out.
Blackness exists: How does it feel when you take every step you regulate?
Jo Etta M. Gil Perkins talks on the phone outside his home. Kelly Shepard’s boy is shopping for video games. In each case, someone sees them as suspicious or threatening and calls police.
This is not a new thing. It happens every day. The experiences of Harris, Perkins, Shepard, and many others remind that there is no privilege for a simple existence of peaceful existence.
Persuader
Zoe Van Dijk
Every week, U.S. employers hire labor consultants to prevent their workers from organizing. These consultants are legally called “persuasants” and play a crucial role in bringing American union membership to a historic low—their efforts have been fully rewarded. Many people are now making over $2,000 a day.
HuffPost produces a series of stories that reveal who these consultants are, where they come from and what they work. The report is based primarily on files obtained through dozens of public record requests. We hope these stories will shed light on trade that is primarily in the shadows, but affects workplaces across the country.
This is why poor decisions of poor people are perfect and meaningful
Linda Tirado
There is no way to construct this problem coherently. They are random observations that may help explain psychological processes. But usually, I think we look at the academic issues of poverty and know nothing about the causes. We know how and how to view system problems, but few poor people actually explain on their own behalf. So that’s what I did.
What is Hamas thinking now?
Akbar Shahid Ahmed / Huffpost
Doha, Qatar – Six months after the war began – more than 33,000 Palestinians died and succumbed to famine every day, Israel is determined to continue to run an active campaign against the group with strong U.S. military support, a radical group said it is confident that it will have a significant impact on the future and could have a significant impact in California.
Sandra Bland died a year ago: At least 810 people have died in prison since then
Dana Liebelson and Ryan J. Reilly
What makes Bland’s death so shocking is that millions of people looked at the dashboard footage of her arrest or closely inspected her photos – a mystery at the heart. What the hell happened in Waller County Jail? If Brand took her life, how could she suddenly reach an irreversible state of despair?
Kip Kinkel prepares to speak
Mike McQuade
Jinkel’s image was frozen in time: Dangerous children pointed out the reasons why some children need lifelong lockdown. For decades, Jinkel never tried to correct it. He rejected every interview request and even avoided taking photos at group events inside the prison. He fears that public reappearance will only further victims. But last year, he agreed to talk to Huffpost.
Super Predator: The person who abuses you is also a policeman
Melissa Jeltsen and Dana Liebelson
All Sarah Loiselle wants is a carefree summer. She has no particular reason to be upset, but she has been single for about a year and her work with heart disease patients in upstate New York may be stressful. So when she learned that a Delaware hospital needed a temporary nurse, she jumped out to spend a summer on the beach. In June 2011, the tall 32-year-old took the jeep to the sleepy coastal town of Lewes. She and her poodle Aries moved into a country apartment above a curious shop that used to be the town’s prison. The place is close to the bay and she can sunbathe on her holidays. She did not leave friends and family for the time being and did not bother Loiselle: she felt that she had put her real life on hold, and she happily got rid of all her responsibilities.
Lorena Bobbitt completes your focus
On a recent goal trip, Lorena Bobbitt worked hard to use a computer at the Digital Photo Center. She is trying to put a picture of her 11-year-old daughter on a Christmas card. A young male employee comes to help. He heard it when they were finished, she was typing in her name to pay.
“I think the machine will be broken,” she recalled. “But he said, ‘I know who you are!'”
Jerry and Margot
Gerald Selbee broke the code for the American breakfast cereal industry because he was bored at work one day because it was a fun psychological challenge because most things at his job weren’t fun because he Can– Because he happens to be the kind of person who sees the puzzles around him, the puzzles that others don’t realize are puzzles: floating around the world and sticking to the small codes and patterns on the surface of everyday things.
