This week for BuzzFeed News, Ken Bensinger, Jessica Garrison, and Jeremy Singer-Vine tell the story of the pied piper of North Carolina. Read that and these other great stories from BuzzFeed and around the web.
How a Former Pot Grower Made a Fortune Importing Mexican Workers — BuzzFeed News
Stan Eury turned an obscure bit of immigration law into a mammoth federal program — and a lucrative business empire, importing hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers for legal American jobs. Except that some of the jobs weren’t real jobs, and an untold number of those workers may never have returned to Mexico at all. Read it at BuzzFeed News.
Illustration by Pat Kinsella for BuzzFeed News
The Hustlers at Scores — The Cut
A thought-provoking story by Jessica Pressler about a group of ex-New York strippers who drugged and stole from their clients — and have seemingly few regrets about it. “They weren’t exactly upstanding citizens....'They all walked in ready to party. And yeah, we slipped an extra one that they didn’t know about. But all of it goes hand in hand — sex, drugs, and rock and roll. You know?'" Read it at The Cut.
Illustration by Clay Roder for The Cut
The Savior of the World Watched as These Trans Women Disappeared — BuzzFeed News
The story of how a group of trans women vanished in the midst of El Salvador’s civil war has been passed down from generation to generation, creating a legend that gave them a place in the history of a country that often seems to wish they would disappear. J. Lester Feder set out to document the mysterious incident for the first time. Read it at BuzzFeed News.
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Ready for Prime Time — The New Yorker
Andrew Marantz chronicles Leslie Jones' long road to comedic stardom. "Every black comedian in the country knew what I could do...But that doesn’t mean everyone else is paying attention.” Read it at The New Yorker.
Photograph by Jonno Rattman for The New Yorker
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