Longreads Best of 2016: Investigative Reporting

We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories.

我们请几位作家和编辑在不同类别中选择一些他们今年最喜欢的故事。

Here, the best in investigative reporting.

这里有最好的调查报道。

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Francesca Mari

弗朗西斯卡·马里

Senior Editor at The California Sunday Magazine.

《加州星期日杂志》高级编辑。

## My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard (Shane Bauer, Mother Jones)

## 我作为私人监狱看守的四个月（肖恩·鲍尔、琼斯妈妈）

Hands down the best reporting I read all year is Shane Bauer’s “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard.” Bauer applied for a job at the Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana; though, let’s be real, as you’ll learn from the piece, applications are hardly necessary.

毫无疑问，我一年中读过的最好的报道是肖恩·鲍尔（Shane Bauer）的《我作为私人监狱看守的四个月》。鲍尔申请了路易斯安那州温恩惩教中心的工作；不过，说实话，正如您将从本文中了解到的那样，应用程序几乎没有必要。

Winn, which is run by the Corrections Corporation of America, the company that basically invented private prisons in the eighties, pretty much begged him to come onboard.

温恩由美国惩教公司运营，这家公司基本上是在八十年代发明了私人监狱，几乎恳求他加入。

After all, the pay is $9 an hour, the shifts are twelve hours long, and only some one-third of hires stick around.

毕竟，工资是每小时 9 美元，轮班时间长达 12 个小时，而且只有大约三分之一的员工能留下来。

Bauer’s piece gets readers up to speed on the history of private prisons and their ubiquity today and takes readers deep into the particulars of the understaffed hellhole that is Winn–a place in which the guards, having so little support, are left to negotiate their own rules with prisoners.

鲍尔的文章让读者快速了解私人监狱的历史及其如今的普遍性，并带读者深入了解人手不足的温恩地狱的细节——在这个地方，看守几乎没有支持，只能与囚犯谈判自己的规则。

Bauer’s portrait of the prison community–and it is a community–is rich, illuminating without being condescending, in part because Bauer is, to some extent, a participant.

鲍尔对监狱社区——而且它是一个社区——的描绘是丰富的、富有启发性的，而不是居高临下的，部分原因是鲍尔在某种程度上是一个参与者。

Here’s a taste of an exchange between Bauer’s 19-year-old coworker, a kid all too keen to demonstrate his power named Collinsworth, and a prisoner he won’t deign to talk to:

以下是鲍尔 19 岁的同事（一个名叫柯林斯沃斯的孩子，非常热衷于展示自己的力量）和一个他不愿与之交谈的囚犯之间的对话：

“The best thing you could do is get to know people in the place.”

“你能做的最好的事情就是认识这个地方的人。”

“I understand it’s your home,” Collinsworth says.

“我知道这是你的家，”柯林斯沃思说。

“But I’m at work right now.”“It’s your home for 12 hours a day!

“但我现在在工作。”“每天12个小时都是你的家！

You trippin’.

你绊倒了。

You ’bout to do half my time with me.

你将花费我一半的时间来陪伴我。

You straight with that?”“It’s probably true.”“It ain’t no ‘probably true.’ If you go’ be at this bitch, you go’ do 12 hours a day.” He tells Collinsworth not to bother writing up inmates for infractions: “They ain’t payin’ you enough for that.” Seeming torn between whether to impress me or the inmate, Collinsworth says he will only write up serious offenses, like hiding drugs.

你说得对吗？”“这可能是真的。”“这不是‘可能是真的’。如果你‘跟这个混蛋一样’，你就‘每天工作 12 个小时。’”他告诉柯林斯沃斯不要费心去记录犯人的违规行为：“他们付给你的钱还不够。”科林斯沃斯似乎在是否给我留下深刻印象或给囚犯留下深刻印象之间犹豫不决，他说他只会写下严重的罪行，比如藏匿毒品。

“The best thing you could do is get to know people in the place.”

“你能做的最好的事情就是认识这个地方的人。”

“I understand it’s your home,” Collinsworth says.

“我知道这是你的家，”柯林斯沃思说。

“But I’m at work right now.”

“但我现在在工作。”

“It’s your home for 12 hours a day!

“每天12小时这里都是你的家！

You trippin’.

你绊倒了。

You ’bout to do half my time with me.

你将花费我一半的时间来陪伴我。

You straight with that?”

你说得对吗？

“It’s probably true.”

“这可能是真的。”

“It ain’t no ‘probably true.’ If you go’ be at this bitch, you go’ do 12 hours a day.” He tells Collinsworth not to bother writing up inmates for infractions: “They ain’t payin’ you enough for that.” Seeming torn between whether to impress me or the inmate, Collinsworth says he will only write up serious offenses, like hiding drugs.

“这不是‘可能是真的’。如果你去‘去’这个混蛋，你就‘去’每天工作12个小时。”他告诉柯林斯沃斯不要费心去记录犯人的违规行为：“他们付给你的钱还不够。”科林斯沃斯似乎在是否给我留下深刻印象或给囚犯留下深刻印象之间犹豫不决，他说他只会写下严重的罪行，比如藏匿毒品。

## The Architect Who Became a Diamond (Alice Gregory, The New Yorker)

## 成为钻石的建筑师（爱丽丝·格雷戈里，《纽约客》）

First of all–mini spoiler alert–you can make a diamond out of someone’s ashes!

首先——迷你剧透警告——你可以用某人的骨灰制作钻石！

That’s just one of the odd little twists in Alice Gregory’s nail-biter about the most unlikely of nail-biter subjects–an architect’s archive.

这只是爱丽丝·格雷戈里（Alice Gregory）关于最不可能的令人紧张的主题——建筑师的档案——的紧张故事中奇怪的小转折之一。

The architect in question is the very on-trend (and truly talented) Luis Barragán, who designed geometric buildings with vivid colors throughout Mexico.

这位建筑师是非常流行（并且真正有才华）的路易斯·巴拉甘（Luis Barragán），他在墨西哥各地设计了色彩鲜艳的几何建筑。

And the problem is that a Swiss manufacturing family owns his archive.

问题是一个瑞士制造家族拥有他的档案。

The woman in that family for whom the archive was bought is determined to carefully catalog his work herself and protect his legacy and so she has refused to grant anyone access to his archive for the last two decades.

为该家庭购买档案的那位女士决心亲自仔细编目他的作品并保护他的遗产，因此她在过去二十年中拒绝允许任何人访问他的档案。

This story is about a contemporary artist’s clever plot to persuade her otherwise.

这个故事讲述了一位当代艺术家巧妙地说服她改变主意的故事。

Gregory’s excellent structuring lends suspense and urgency to questions about how to best maintain a virtuoso’s legacy.

格雷戈里出色的结构给如何最好地维护艺术大师的遗产的问题带来了悬念和紧迫感。

Who should be allowed access to his archives and who should determine who should be allowed access?

谁应该被允许访问他的档案以及谁应该决定谁应该被允许访问？

Erika Hayasaki

早崎惠里香

An associate professor in the Literary Journalism Program at UC Irvine.

加州大学欧文分校文学新闻项目副教授。

She writes features for The Atlantic, Wired, Newsweek and others, and is the author of The Death Class: A True Story About Life.

她为《大西洋月刊》、《连线》、《新闻周刊》等杂志撰写专题文章，也是《死亡阶级：关于生命的真实故事》一书的作者。

## Machine Bias: There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals.

## 机器偏差：全国各地都在使用软件来预测未来的犯罪分子。

And it’s biased against blacks.(Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica)

而且它对黑人有偏见。（Julia Angwin、Jeff Larson、Surya Mattu 和 Lauren Kirchner，ProPublica）

Propublica had one of the best stories of the year with its investigation into machine bias and how it can impact minorities.

Propublica 报道了今年最好的报道之一，它调查了机器偏见及其对少数群体的影响。

Brilliantly reported and eye-opening, this piece shows how important it is to have experienced data journalists on staff doing investigative, longform reporting and writing.

这篇文章的报道精彩，令人大开眼界，展示了拥有经验丰富的数据记者进行调查、长篇报道和写作的重要性。

Propublica’s reporting exposed how algorithms work behind the scenes of our lives, with most of us not understanding the intricate programming or methodology that goes into it.

Propublica 的报道揭示了算法如何在我们生活的幕后工作，而我们大多数人并不理解其中复杂的编程或方法。

In our blindness, these algorithms make decisions for us—and these decisions can have serious consequences.

在我们的盲目性中，这些算法为我们做出决策，而这些决策可能会产生严重的后果。

Biases and prejudices are built into machines and if more attention is not paid to this future, we will find ourselves in a scarier and perhaps more prejudiced and unequal society than ever before.

偏见和偏见是内置于机器中的，如果不更多地关注这个未来，我们将发现自己处于一个比以往任何时候都更可怕、或许更偏见和不平等的社会。

Propublica’s ongoing reporting on this topic exposes this reality, warning us of what may happen if we don’t pay attention and keep the pressure on designers and creators of this technology to remain aware.

Propublica 对这一主题的持续报道揭露了这一现实，警告我们如果我们不注意并向这项技术的设计者和创造者施加压力以保持警惕，可能会发生什么。

## Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City (Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine

## 在隔离城市为我的女儿选择一所学校（Nikole Hannah-Jones，纽约时报杂志

Sometimes an investigation that begins within your own life can lead to illuminating reporting about the world beyond.

有时，从你自己的生活中开始的调查可能会带来关于外部世界的启发性报道。

This is what Nikole Hannah-Jones’ reporting on choosing a school for her own daughter in a segregated city does so poignantly.

这就是尼科尔·汉娜·琼斯（Nikole Hannah-Jones）关于在一个种族隔离的城市为自己的女儿选择学校的报道中令人心酸的地方。

It begins with a choice that many parents must face.

这始于许多父母必须面对的选择。

When you are a parent of color, the idea of diversity in education is not as simple as “a boutique offering for the children of the privileged,” as Jones writes, one that “does little to ensure quality education for poor black and Latino children.” Intentional school integration, as she points out “almost never occurs unless it’s in the interests of white students.” Through her expert storytelling, she is able to weave the personal narrative choice with the historical and social backstory of segregation in American schools, making for a thoroughly researched and captivating read.

当你是有色人种的父母时，教育多元化的想法并不像琼斯所写的那样简单，只是“为特权阶层的孩子提供精品教育”，“对确保贫困黑人和拉丁裔儿童的优质教育几乎没有什么帮助”。正如她指出的那样，有意的学校融合“除非符合白人学生的利益，否则几乎永远不会发生”。通过她专业的故事讲述，她能够将个人的叙事选择与美国学校种族隔离的历史和社会背景交织在一起，使之成为一本经过彻底研究和引人入胜的读物。

Azmat Khan

阿兹马特汗

Investigative Reporter, New America Future of War Fellow.

调查记者、新美国战争未来研究员。

## My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard (Shane Bauer, Mother Jones)

## 我作为私人监狱看守的四个月（肖恩·鲍尔、琼斯妈妈）

In 1887, acting on rumors of abuse at the secretive “Women’s Lunatic Asylum” on New York’s Blackwell’s Island, a tenacious reporter named Nellie Bly decided to investigate the only way that she could: she feigned “insanity” in order to get inside.

1887 年，根据纽约布莱克威尔岛秘密“妇女疯人院”发生虐待的传言，一位名叫内莉·布莱 (Nellie Bly) 的顽强记者决定采用她能采取的唯一方法进行调查：她假装“精神错乱”，以便进入其中。

Her bombshell reports—published in Joseph Pulitzer’s paper The New York World, and her later book, “Ten Days In A Mad-House”—resulted in a grand jury investigation with enduring impacts, and changed the face of investigative journalism.

她的爆炸性报道发表在约瑟夫·普利策的报纸《纽约世界》和她后来的著作《疯人院的十天》中，引发了大陪审团的调查，产生了持久的影响，并改变了调查性新闻业的面貌。

Over the next century, undercover reporting became an important plank of investigative journalism, a method used when all other options at cracking an important story failed.

在接下来的一个世纪里，卧底报道成为调查性新闻的一个重要支柱，当所有其他破解重要故事的选择都失败时，就会使用这种方法。

But since the 90’s, when the grocer Food Lion famously sued ABC News for an undercover report, this once-essential part of the investigative journalist’s toolkit, with few exceptions, has mostly been retired from serious newsrooms — instead relegated to the world of tabloids, TMZ, and the seedy underbelly of media.

但自 20 世纪 90 年代杂货商 Food Lion 起诉 ABC News 要求其进行卧底报道而广为人知以来，这个曾经是调查记者工具箱中必不可少的部分，除了极少数例外，大部分已经从严肃的新闻编辑室退休了，而是沦落到小报、TMZ 和媒体肮脏下流的世界。

But in this sprawling undercover investigation for Mother Jones, Shane Bauer shows in devastating detail what we have lost as a result, and what we can gain if newsrooms make serious investments to do it right.

但在《琼斯母亲》的这项庞大的卧底调查中，肖恩·鲍尔以毁灭性的细节展示了我们因此而失去的东西，以及如果新闻编辑室进行认真投资以正确行事我们可以获得什么。

Faced with the daunting secrecy of the country’s growing private prison industry, Bauer got a job as a guard at a private prison in Louisiana.

面对该国日益增长的私人监狱行业令人畏惧的保密性，鲍尔在路易斯安那州的一家私人监狱找到了一份警卫的工作。

The systematic mistreatment he witnessed—in one case, to the extent that an inmate’s legs had to be amputated as a result—was damning enough.

他所目睹的系统性虐待——在一个案例中，一名囚犯的双腿因此不得不被截肢——已经够令人发指的了。

But what he felt as he found himself sucked deeper into the psyche of guard life —his shame over his “lack of self-control” and his “growing thirst for punishment and vengeance”—could only be exposed by going undercover.

但当他发现自己更深地陷入了警卫生活的心理时，他的感受——他对自己“缺乏自制力”的羞耻和“对惩罚和复仇的日益渴望”——只有通过卧底才能暴露出来。

It is a must-read, and a worthy reminder of investigative journalism’s fundamental tenets: to shed light on injustice that would otherwise go un-exposed, to probe in a systematic, comprehensive manner, and to employ the highest of standards in the quest for the truth.

这是一本必读之作，值得一读，它提醒人们调查性新闻的基本原则：揭露本来不会曝光的不公正现象，以系统、全面的方式进行调查，并在追求真相的过程中采用最高的标准。

## Pentagon: Special Ops Killing Of Pregnant Afghan Women Was “Appropriate” Use Of Force (Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept)

## 五角大楼：特种部队杀害阿富汗孕妇是“适当”使用武力（杰里米·斯卡希尔，The Intercept）

Since its inception, The Intercept has published a number of truly remarkable investigations that few other outlets would invest in.

自成立以来，The Intercept 发表了许多真正引人注目的调查，很少有其他媒体愿意投资。

At first glance, it would be easy to overlook the years of reporting that went into this one.

乍一看，很容易忽视多年来的报道。

It began in February 2010, when the U.S. military announced a raid on a Taliban compound in Gardez, Afghanistan, where Special Forces discovered the bodies of three Afghan women.

事情始于2010年2月，当时美国军方宣布对阿富汗加德兹的塔利班营地进行突袭，特种部队在那里发现了三名阿富汗妇女的尸体。

CNN described their apparent Taliban execution as possessing “the earmarks of a traditional honor killing.” But when British Sunday Times reporter Jerome Starkey journeyed to the site—the only reporter to do so—the official story quickly unraveled.

美国有线电视新闻网 (CNN) 称，塔利班对他们的处决具有“传统名誉杀人的特征”。但当英国《星期日泰晤士报》记者杰罗姆·斯塔基（唯一一位这样做的记者）前往现场时，官方的故事很快就被揭穿了。

The so-called Taliban militants were in fact government allies.

所谓的塔利班武装分子实际上是政府的盟友。

One was even a police commander who had gone through dozens of U.S. police training programs— his walls lined with his portraits with American soldiers.

其中一位甚至是一名接受过数十次美国警察培训项目的警察指挥官——他的墙上挂满了他与美国士兵的肖像。

Multiple witnesses and Afghan investigators told Starkey that American soldiers had dug bullets from the bodies of at least one of the dead pregnant women.

多名目击者和阿富汗调查人员告诉斯塔基，美国士兵从至少一名死亡孕妇的尸体中挖出了子弹。

All signs indicated that in one night 16 children lost their mothers because of a botched U.S. raid that was subsequently covered up.

所有迹象都表明，由于美国一次拙劣的突袭，一夜之间就有 16 名儿童失去了母亲，但这次突袭后来被掩盖了。

Starkey’s damning investigation forced the military to abandon its earlier claims and open a formal investigation.

斯塔基的严厉调查迫使军方放弃先前的主张并展开正式调查。

The story could have ended then, but more than six years later, The Intercept followed up with the long-awaited results of a Freedom of Information Act request for the military’s own inquiry.

故事本来可以就此结束，但六年多后，《拦截》根据《信息自由法》要求军方进行调查，得出了期待已久的结果。

The answers Jeremy Scahill received — laid bare in this investigation — are devastating and important.

杰里米·斯卡希尔收到的答案——在这次调查中暴露出来——是毁灭性的，也是重要的。

They are also a testament to the dire need for investigative ground reporting from war zones, and the years of persistence required to hold the powerful to account.

它们也证明了对战区地面调查报告的迫切需要，以及追究强权责任所需的多年坚持。

## Unearthing The Secrets Of New York’s Mass Graves (Nina Bernstein, The New York Times)

## 发掘纽约万人坑的秘密（尼娜·伯恩斯坦，《纽约时报》）

If Nina Bernstein had not investigated, this story—of how some of New York’s most vulnerable wound up in this mass “graveyard of last resort” and the systems that failed them—would likely never be told.

如果尼娜·伯恩斯坦没有进行调查，这个关于纽约一些最弱势群体如何最终进入这个大规模“最后手段的墓地”以及让他们失望的系统的故事可能永远不会被讲述。

Bernstein’s unearthing of hundreds of those buried at Hart Island for The New York Times is a haunting, systematic indictment of some of the ugliest chapters of America’s past and present, from the Southern slave owners who “donated” or sold the bodies of dead slaves to medical schools, and the 16 people with AIDS who were buried on the Island “under 14 feet of soil instead of the usual three” during the height of ignorance and fear surrounding the epidemic, to the inmates who are today paid 50 cents an hour to act as pallbearers there.

伯恩斯坦为《纽约时报》挖掘了数百名被埋在哈特岛的人，这是对美国过去和现在一些最丑陋篇章的令人难忘的系统性控诉，从向医学院“捐赠”或出售死去奴隶尸体的南方奴隶主，到在对这一流行病最无知和恐惧的时期，埋在岛上“14英尺深而不是通常的三英尺深”的 16 名艾滋病患者，到如今，囚犯们在那里充当抬棺人，每小时工资为 50 美分。

Through rigorous data collection and analysis, extensive interviews, and rich historical context, this piece manifests many of the best practices of investigative journalism, but it also showcases the kind of beautifully crafted storytelling that is too often lacking from this hard-hitting genre, making Bernstein’s opus a triumph.

通过严格的数据收集和分析、广泛的采访和丰富的历史背景，这篇文章体现了调查性新闻的许多最佳实践，但它也展示了这种强硬类型往往缺乏的精心制作的故事讲述，使伯恩斯坦的作品取得了胜利。

## Welcome to America — Now Spy on Your Friends (Talal Ansari and Siraj Datoo, BuzzFeed News)

## 欢迎来到美国 — 现在监视您的朋友（Talal Ansari 和 Siraj Datoo，BuzzFeed 新闻）

Donald Trump’s campaign trail rhetoric may have cast a worthy spotlight on Islamophobia and Muslim registration programs, but this fresh attention masks a grim fact: similar programs have already been in existence for years.

唐纳德·特朗普的竞选言论可能让人们对伊斯兰恐惧症和穆斯林登记计划产生了关注，但这种新的关注掩盖了一个严峻的事实：类似的计划已经存在多年。

In this BuzzFeed News investigation, Talal Ansari and Siraj Datoo shed light on one of the least known among them, the Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program, or CARRP.

在本次 BuzzFeed News 调查中，Talal Ansari 和 Siraj Datoo 揭示了其中最不为人知的一项：受控应用程序审查和解决计划 (CARRP)。

Formerly secret, this federal program delays or denies citizenship and immigration benefits based on what rights groups have only been able to identify as religion, national origin, or similar factors.

该联邦计划以前是秘密的，根据权利组织只能确定的宗教、国籍或类似因素，推迟或拒绝公民和移民福利。

The overwhelming majority of those affected by CARRP are Muslim.

受 CARRP 影响的绝大多数是穆斯林。

Their investigation, “based on government and court documents, official complaints, and interviews with immigrants, immigration and civil rights lawyers, and former special agents,” exposes how many Muslims caught in CARRP’s crosshairs have reported being pressured by the FBI to become informants in exchange for immigration help — a violation of the FBI’s own rules.

他们的调查“基于政府和法院文件、官方投诉以及对移民、移民和民权律师以及前特工的采访”，揭露了有多少陷入 CARRP 瞄准目标的穆斯林报告称受到 FBI 的压力，要求成为线人以换取移民帮助——这违反了 FBI 自己的规定。

It’s remarkable, not just for its depth and unprecedented findings, but because it offers a blueprint for other investigative reporters as they venture into the burgeoning Islamophobia beat in the Trump era.

这是引人注目的，不仅因为它的深度和前所未有的发现，还因为它为其他调查记者冒险进入特朗普时代蓬勃发展的伊斯兰恐惧症提供了蓝图。

Brooke Jarvis

布鲁克·贾维斯

Freelance magazine journalist.

自由杂志记者。

## My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard (Shane Bauer, Mother Jones)

## 我作为私人监狱看守的四个月（肖恩·鲍尔、琼斯妈妈）

It would be irresponsible not to include this stand-out investigation in a list of notables.

如果不将这项杰出的调查列入名人名单，那将是不负责任的行为。

Not only did it involve impressive undercover reporting, it made a real impact on government policy — and then Donald Trump was elected, and shares of private prison companies took off.

它不仅涉及令人印象深刻的卧底报道，还对政府政策产生了真正的影响——然后唐纳德·特朗普当选，私人监狱公司的股价飙升。

This is an issue that will require a lot more scrutiny.

这是一个需要更多审查的问题。

But Shane Bauer’s pathbreaking work is an excellent foundation.

但肖恩·鲍尔 (Shane Bauer) 的开创性工作奠定了良好的基础。

## Trump boasts about his philanthropy.

## 特朗普吹嘘他的慈善事业。

But his giving falls short of his words.

但他的付出与他的言语相去甚远。

(The Reporting of David Fahrenthold & The Washington Post)

（大卫·法伦霍尔德和《华盛顿邮报》的报道）

For months, David Farenthold doggedly investigated one area of Donald Trump’s dishonesty—the difference between his “charitable” persona and foundation and the reality.

几个月来，大卫·法伦特霍尔德顽强地调查了唐纳德·特朗普不诚实的一个方面——他的“慈善”形象和基金会与现实之间的差异。

Not only did Farenthold find a number of important scoops (like the one in the lede, wherein Trump takes credit for donations he did not give, endangering real donations in the process), but he also helped make the difficult process, and enormous value, of investigative reporting visible for his readers by sharing his work along the way.

法伦特霍尔德不仅发现了一些重要的独家新闻（比如《lede》中的一则报道，其中特朗普将他没有捐赠的捐款归功于自己，从而危及了这一过程中的真实捐款），而且他还通过分享他的工作，帮助读者了解了调查报道的艰难过程和巨大价值。

Subscriptions to newspapers have increased since the election, presumably as part of a growing public awareness that this kind of work is an invaluable check on an administration with little respect for the truth.

自选举以来，报纸的订阅量有所增加，大概是公众越来越意识到这种工作对不尊重真相的政府来说是一种无价的制衡。

## The white flight of Derek Black (Eli Saslow, The Washington Post)

## 德里克·布莱克 (Derek Black) 的白色飞行（伊莱·萨斯洛 (Eli Saslow)，《华盛顿邮报》)

You may argue that this article doesn’t rightly belong in the investigative reporting category.

您可能会说这篇文章不适合属于调查报告类别。

Perhaps.

也许吧。

But it was a difficult dig into one of the most important questions we currently face: How can the rising tide of hatred and xenophobia be combatted?

但这是对我们当前面临的最重要问题之一的深入探讨：如何应对日益高涨的仇恨和仇外心理？

Saslow’s story focuses on the extraordinary transformation of a single individual, Derek Black: a former prince of the white nationalist movement who, through the compassion and patience of the people he used to denigrate, changed his mind.

萨斯洛的故事聚焦于一个人德里克·布莱克的非凡转变：他是白人民族主义运动的前王子，通过他曾经诋毁的人们的同情和耐心，他改变了主意。

Leah Sottile

利亚·索蒂尔

An Oregon-based freelance journalist whose work frequently appears in The Washington Post and Outside Magazine, among others.

一位俄勒冈州的自由记者，其作品经常出现在《华盛顿邮报》和《Outside》杂志等杂志上。

## David’s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World’s Most Perfect Statue (Sam Anderson, The New York Times Magazine)

## 大卫的脚踝：缺陷如何导致世界上最完美的雕像倒塌（山姆·安德森，纽约时报杂志）

Some of my favorite stories from this year involved deep, deep dives into history.

今年我最喜欢的一些故事涉及对历史的深入探究。

Sam Anderson’s immaculate deconstruction of how Michelangelo created The David deftly covers 552 years of history, weaving together a tale I couldn’t put down.

萨姆·安德森 (Sam Anderson) 对米开朗基罗创作《大卫》的完美解构，巧妙地涵盖了 552 年的历史，编织了一个令我爱不释手的故事。

It’s about everything the sculpture represents and how a cultural icon that is so important to the world is literally teetering on the brink of destruction.

这是关于雕塑所代表的一切，以及对世界如此重要的文化标志如何在毁灭的边缘摇摇欲坠。

This story pushed boundaries, too, because it seamlessly weaves together a brilliant investigation with personal essay, making it a fascinating, completely modern piece of journalism.

这个故事也突破了界限，因为它将精彩的调查与个人文章无缝地结合在一起，使其成为一部引人入胜、完全现代的新闻报道。

## The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus’s Wife (Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic)

## 耶稣妻子的难以置信的故事（Ariel Sabar，大西洋月刊）

My favorite investigations often are ones where you the reader gets a glimpse of the obsessions of the reporter, much like what Anderson did in the David story.

我最喜欢的调查通常是读者可以一睹记者的痴迷的调查，就像安德森在大卫的故事中所做的那样。

The Atlantic ran this amazing piece last summer about an obsession over a small scrap of papyrus that suggests that Jesus was married — and the around-the-globe hunt filled with crazy real-life characters that it took Ariel Sabar on.

去年夏天，《大西洋月刊》刊登了这篇精彩的文章，讲述了人们对一小片纸莎草纸的痴迷，这表明耶稣已经结婚了——以及阿里尔·萨巴尔在全球各地寻找疯狂的现实生活人物。

Aaron Gilbreath

亚伦·吉尔布雷斯

Contributing editor to Longreads; essayist and journalist; author of the essay collection Everything We Don’t Know.

Longreads 的特约编辑；散文家和记者；散文集《我们不知道的一切》的作者。

## Ghost Stories (Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker)

## 鬼故事（Burkhard Bilger，《纽约客》）

Many Germans see ghosts and have premonitions.

许多德国人看到鬼魂并有预感。

“It’s an old German habit of mind,” writes Burkhard Bilger, “this mixing of the mystical and the scientific.” Over half a century after WWII, guilt and spirits still haunt a generation of Germans, and many struggle to come to terms with their ancestors’ atrocities.

“这是一种古老的德国思维习惯，”布克哈德·比尔格写道，“神秘与科学的混合。”二战结束半个多世纪后，罪恶感和精神仍然困扰着一代德国人，许多人难以接受祖先的暴行。

They are called kriegskinder, the children of war.

他们被称为“kriegskinder”，即“战争之子”。

When Bilger goes to Germany to research his elusive grandfather’s Nazi involvement, he sees others like him, searching historical archives to piece together their family story.

当比尔格前往德国研究他难以捉摸的祖父与纳粹的关系时，他看到其他像他一样的人正在寻找历史档案，拼凑出他们的家庭故事。

To cleanse their conscious, some attend a type of group counseling that mixes science and séance.

为了净化他们的意识，一些人参加了一种混合了科学和降神会的团体咨询。

Considering the Fascist parallels between Nazi Germany and President Trump’s current administration, Burkhard’s story seems particularly prescient.

考虑到纳粹德国和特朗普总统现任政府之间的法西斯主义相似之处，伯克哈德的故事似乎特别有先见之明。

The Third Reich and the Holocaust indelibly shaped the psyche of German citizens.

第三帝国和大屠杀不可磨灭地塑造了德国公民的心理。

Wrestling with these issues, Bilger asks: what does inter-generational trauma look like?

在努力解决这些问题时，比尔格问道：代际创伤是什么样子的？

How do the offspring of the SS and WWII refugees deal with silence and guilt?

党卫军和二战难民的后代如何应对沉默和内疚？

One day, we Americans might be asking ourselves these same questions post-Trump.

有一天，特朗普当选后，我们美国人可能会问自己同样的问题。

As people say about the Holocaust, never forget; it could happen again.

正如人们所说的大屠杀，永远不要忘记；它可能会再次发生。

Mike Dang

迈克·邓

Longreads Editor-in-Chief and Editor at WordPress.com / Automattic.

Longreads 主编和 WordPress.com / Automattic 编辑。

## ‘You Want A Description Of Hell?’ Oxycontin’s 12-Hour Problem (Harriet Ryan, Lisa Girion, Scott Glover, Los Angeles Times)

## “你想描述地狱吗？”奥施康定的 12 小时问题（Harriet Ryan、Lisa Girion、Scott Glover、《洛杉矶时报》）

My father spent more than half his life working at an all-American car company until a workplace accident put him into early retirement.

我父亲大半生都在一家全美汽车公司工作，直到一场工作场所事故使他提前退休。

Multiple doctor visits and surgeries later, my father still refuses to take the pain medication prescribed to him because he’s seen what it’s done to other people in his position.

经过多次就诊和手术后，我父亲仍然拒绝服用给他开的止痛药，因为他看到了其他处于他地位的人所遭受的后果。

Here’s a report published just this last week: “One-third of Americans who have taken prescription opioids for at least two months say they became addicted to, or physically dependent on, the powerful painkillers, according to a new Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation survey.”

这是上周刚刚发布的一份报告：“根据《华盛顿邮报》凯撒家庭基金会的一项新调查，服用处方阿片类药物至少两个月的美国人表示，他们对这种强效止痛药上瘾或产生身体依赖。”

The painkiller drug addiction epidemic has not emerged due to illicit use, but can be largely attributed to profit-seeking pharmaceutical companies.

止痛药毒瘾流行并非因非法使用而出现，而很大程度上可归咎于逐利的制药公司。

The L.A.

洛杉矶

Times investigation into America’s bestselling painkiller, Oxycontin, revealed that drugmaker Purdue Pharma sold its painkiller as a 12-hour drug for years despite knowledge that the drug wasn’t providing 12 hours of relief for patients, and told doctors to prescribe stronger doses to patients who complained, rather than more frequent ones.

《泰晤士报》对美国最畅销止痛药奥施康定的调查显示，制药商普渡制药公司多年来一直将其止痛药作为 12 小时药物出售，尽管他们知道该药物无法为患者提供 12 小时的缓解，并告诉医生为有投诉的患者开出更强的剂量，而不是更频繁的患者。

It’s old-fashioned reporting: digging through three decades’ worth of documents from sealed court cases and government investigations to piece together a detailed picture of how the company pushed deceptive marketing practices for profit.

这是老式的报道：挖掘三十年来密封的法庭案件和政府调查中的文件，拼凑出该公司如何推行欺骗性营销行为以获取利润的详细情况。

The problem is industry-wide; earlier this month, The New York Times reported that another drug company, Insys Therapeutics, “offered bribes and kickbacks to pain doctors in various states” in exchange for getting them to prescribe a spray form of the highly addictive pain drug fentanyl.

这个问题是整个行业的问题；本月早些时候，《纽约时报》报道称，另一家制药公司 Insys Therapeutics “向各州的疼痛医生提供贿赂和回扣”，以换取他们开出高度成瘾的止痛药芬太尼的喷雾剂。

Cheers to the reporters who are following the money to expose corruption.

为追踪金钱揭露腐败的记者干杯。

Sari Botton

纱丽波顿

Writer, contributing editor to Longreads, editorial director of the non-profit TMI Project, and owner of Kingston Writers’ Studio.

作家、Longreads 的特约编辑、非营利组织 TMI 项目的编辑总监以及 Kingston Writers’ Studio 的所有者。

## Why Did It Take 9 Hours and 3 Emergency Rooms For This Woman to Get a Rape Kit?

## 为什么这名女子花了 9 个小时，跑了 3 个急诊室才拿到强奸工具包？

(Jillian Keenan, Cosmopolitan)

（吉莉安·基南，《大都会》）

A harrowing look into one woman’s experience being denied rape kits in more than one ER in Texas after being sexually assaulted.

一名妇女在遭受性侵犯后，在德克萨斯州多家急诊室都被拒绝提供强奸包，这令人痛心。

The piece also sheds infuriating light on the difficulty many other women have getting tested and treated properly, and also on the hundreds of thousands of untested kits sitting in police departments nation-wide.

这篇文章还令人愤怒地揭露了许多其他女性接受检测和适当治疗的困难，以及全国警察部门中数十万个未经检测的试剂盒。

## Healing Hasidic Masturbators and Adulterers — With Psychiatric Drugs (Batya Ungar-Sargon, Narratively)

## 治疗哈西德派自慰者和通奸者——用精神药物（Batya Ungar-Sargon，叙述性）

Batya Ungar-Sargon investigates the phenomenon of Hasidic Jews being treated with heavy psych meds to steer them away from sexual behavior considered by the religion to be taboo.

巴蒂亚·翁加尔-萨尔贡 (Batya Ungar-Sargon) 调查了哈西德派犹太人接受大量精神药物治疗的现象，以引导他们远离该宗教认为禁忌的性行为。

Men called askanim, refer members of their community who engage in anything considered sexually deviant to a handful of specialized psychiatrists, who treat their subjects’ theological transgressions as mental illness.

被称为“阿斯卡尼姆”的男子将社区中从事任何被认为性异常行为的成员转介给少数专业精神科医生，这些医生将受试者的神学违规行为视为精神疾病。

Transgressions include but are not limited to: masturbation, same-sex attraction, and responding to the kind of sexual ennui that might result from marrying at 20 by engaging in affairs.

越轨行为包括但不限于：手淫、同性吸引，以及通过婚外情来应对 20 岁结婚可能导致的性厌倦。

Ungar-Sargon interviews a number of men and women in the community to find many of them have had similar experiences.

昂加尔-萨尔贡采访了社区中的一些男性和女性，发现他们中的许多人都有类似的经历。

Mark Armstrong

马克·阿姆斯特朗

Founder, Longreads.

长读创始人。

## Trump boasts about his philanthropy.

## 特朗普吹嘘他的慈善事业。

But his giving falls short of his words.

但他的付出与他的言语相去甚远。

(The Reporting of David Fahrenthold & The Washington Post)

（大卫·法伦霍尔德和《华盛顿邮报》的报道）

One of the brilliant things about David Fahrenthold’s work this year is that he brought us along on the investigation.

David Fahrenthold 今年工作的最精彩的事情之一是他带领我们参与了调查。

His work started with a tweet and a sheet of paper:

他的工作始于一条推文和一张纸：

Or, the tl;dr version: I’ve called 450 charities, looking for proof @realDonaldTrump gives millions to charity.

或者，长话短说的版本：我给 450 个慈善机构打电话，寻找证据 @realDonaldTrump 向慈善机构捐赠了数百万美元。

Here’s what I found.

这是我发现的。

pic.twitter.com/kO4sQL7yyR— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) November 7, 2016

pic.twitter.com/kO4sQL7yyR — David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) 2016 年 11 月 7 日

Or, the tl;dr version: I’ve called 450 charities, looking for proof @realDonaldTrump gives millions to charity.

或者，长话短说的版本：我给 450 个慈善机构打电话，寻找证据 @realDonaldTrump 向慈善机构捐赠了数百万美元。

Here’s what I found.

这是我发现的。

pic.twitter.com/kO4sQL7yyR

pic.twitter.com/kO4sQL7yyR

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) November 7, 2016

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) 2016 年 11 月 7 日

Fahrenthold admits he did this “out of desperation”: “Trump would not say what groups he’d donated to, or in what individual amounts.

法伦霍尔德承认他这样做是“出于绝望”：“特朗普不会透露他向哪些团体捐款，也没有透露个人捐款数额。

I just had to trust Lewandowski.

我只得相信莱万多夫斯基。

I didn’t want to.” What he produced was a thorough accounting of the Trump Foundation’s activity, revealing a sketchy record of charitable giving and self-dealing–where promised donations never materialized, where Trump crashed a press event for a children’s AIDS charity without giving a dime, and where foundation money was used improperly to enrich his businesses or pay off legal disputes.

我不想。”他对特朗普基金会的活动进行了彻底的记录，揭露了慈善捐赠和自我交易的粗略记录——承诺的捐款从未兑现，特朗普在儿童艾滋病慈善机构的新闻发布会上不捐一毛钱，以及基金会的资金被不当使用来充实他的企业或支付法律纠纷。

Fahrenthold’s incredible reporting this year–along with aggressive coverage from the rest of the reinvigorated Washington Post–helped uncover many of the lies that Trump had peddled on the campaign trail.

法伦霍尔德今年令人难以置信的报道，以及重振旗鼓的《华盛顿邮报》其他部门的积极报道，帮助揭露了特朗普在竞选过程中兜售的许多谎言。

No wonder post-election subscriptions have gone way up for the Post, not to mention The New York Times, and magazines like Mother Jones: We’re going to need journalists like Fahrenthold more than ever.

难怪选举后《华盛顿邮报》的订阅量大幅上升，更不用说《纽约时报》和《琼斯妈妈》等杂志了：我们将比以往任何时候都更需要像法伦霍尔德这样的记者。

See more from our Best of 2016 series

查看我们的 2016 年最佳系列的更多内容