Weekly Recommended Reading

Miracle At Tham Luang, Costs of the Confederacy, and more great reads

Miracle At Tham Luang The story of the Thai cave rescue—in which a team of young soccer players and their coach survived for 18 days before being extracted by divers—got even more unbelievable the closer we looked, from GQ

The Costs of the Confederacy In the last decade alone, American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology, from Smithsonian Magazine

Guns Kill More U.S. Kids Than Cancer. This emergency physician aims to prevent those firearm deaths, from Science Magazine

How Incarcerated Parents are Losing Their Children Forever from The Marshall Project

Black 14 An all-archival short documentary about 14 black football players at a Wyoming university who were removed from the team after discussing civil rights protests, from Topic