9 Big Stories You Can't Miss This Week: Farming, Fist Pumps, And Forgiveness

On his tiny family farm, Neal Carter invented an apple he thinks can help improve global health, minimize food waste, and change the agricultural landscape forever. But will anyone actually eat it? Read it at BuzzFeed News.

Zak Stone examines the circumstances that led to his father's tragic death at an Airbnb and the company's current standards of safety. "As Airbnb rises into a global hospitality behemoth — reinventing not just how we travel but how we value private space — what responsibility does the company have to those who have given it their dollars and trust?" Read it at Matter.

David von Drehle, Jay Newton-Small, and Maya Rhodan discover how survivors and families of this summer's church shooting in Charleston are wrestling with the question of forgiveness. "Who benefits from forgiveness—the sinner or the survivor? And why do we forgive at all? Is it a way of remembering, or of forgetting?" Read it at Time.

A year after allegations against the former Canadian radio host were made public, Scaachi Koul wonders whether the scandal has really made a difference in addressing violence against women. "Was this tipping point really a tipping point? Or is it another example of women being abused, the world paying attention momentarily, and turning its back again because some things are too hard to look directly in the eye." Read it at BuzzFeed News.

Derided this spring as “guerrilla warfare” by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the death penalty abolition movement is coming out into the open. The 8th Amendment Project’s leaders tell Chris Geidner why — and how — they plan to win. Read it at BuzzFeed News.

Reggie Ugwu discovers how $500,000-a-night DJ Ryan Raddon — AKA Kaskade — became electronic dance music’s most unassailable superstar. "In an era when EDM stars can achieve levels of debauchery not seen since the ’80s, Raddon is a devout Mormon and teetotaler who says he’s never had a drink or touched a drug in his life." Read it at BuzzFeed News.

Nilita Vachani unravels the events that led a hedge fund billionaire's maid to become the center of an elaborate money laundering and tax evasion scheme. "From roughly 2003 till 2009, hundreds of thousands of dollars were deposited each year in her name. Quite possibly, Manju Das was once the richest housemaid in the world." Read it at The Nation.

Republicans who went to black colleges are an invaluable resource to the party. But, as Darren Sands reports, College Republican National Committee rules make it extremely difficult for students at HBCUs to maintain official membership just when the GOP needs them most. Read it at BuzzFeed News.

Anne Helen Petersen visits Eli Horowitz — once a central force behind the indie literary darling McSweeney’s — at his retreat by the Russian River. Armed with an app-based novel that aspires to be the most bonkers book ever written, can he change literary world again? Read it at BuzzFeed News.