How to Save the News
Yeah, you’ve seen that headline before. The difference? This time it’s not journalists trying to do the saving. It’s Google.
Yeah, you’ve seen that headline before. The difference? This time it’s not journalists trying to do the saving. It’s Google.
James Fallows The Atlantic May 2010 Permalink
Inside the twisted, half-conscious world of Jure Robic, the Slovene soldier who might be the world’s best ultra-endurance athlete.
Daniel Coyle New York Times Feb 2006 Permalink
How HBO went from sitcoms starring Delta Burke and O.J. Simpson to The Wire. The view from a former HBO employee who witnessed the channel’s rise to prominence firsthand.
Jack Lechner Good Feb 2007 15min Permalink
The eighteen-year-old Moscow dropout behind chatroulette.com.
Julia Ioffe New Yorker May 2010 15min Permalink
An excerpt from Zak Smith’s We Did Porn detailing an appearance by porn star Sasha Grey on The Tyra Banks Show.
Zak Smith The Rumpus Jan 2009 15min Permalink
Tadashi Yanai (“he is like Warren Buffett in Japan”) takes his Uniqlo brand stateside.
Byrant Urstadt New York May 2010 20min Permalink
How an alcoholic doctor simultaneously saved his own life and made what could be the medical breakthrough of the century.
James Medd The Guardian May 2010 15min Permalink
The truck driver who reverse engineered the atomic bomb.
David Samuels New Yorker Dec 2008 40min Permalink
On the day of the earthquake, two men went into Haiti’s Soccer Federation headquarters. Only one came out.
Wright Thompson ESPN May 2010 20min Permalink
How do you handle an infestation when you live on the Upper East Side and bedbugs could hurt the value of your apartment? With discretion.
Marshall Sella New York May 2010 15min Permalink
From Hong Kong to Bangkok to the Golden Triangle, the author searches for something everyone says no longer exists: an opium den.
Nick Tosches Vanity Fair Sep 2000 50min Permalink
In 2008, a Brooklyn cop grew gravely concerned about how the public was being served. So he began carrying a digital sound recorder, secretly recording his colleagues and superiors.
Graham Rayman Village Voice May 2010 25min Permalink
The struggle behind the making of Terence Malick’s first movie in twenty years and the two producers who, depending on your source, either made it possible or nearly ruined it.
Peter Biskind Vanity Fair Aug 1999 20min Permalink
The audacity of Bill Cosby’s black conservatism.
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic May 2008 25min Permalink
Karaoke renditions of ‘My Way’ have led to murders in the Phillipines.
Norimitsu Onishi New York Times Feb 2006 Permalink
The Columbia shuttle was to be a revolution for NASA. But a year before its first launch, the shuttle was several years behind schedule, had cost $1 billion, and wasn’t guaranteed to ever get off the ground.
Gregg Easterbrook Washington Monthly Apr 1980 35min Permalink
A weekend at a Christian gay-to-straight sexual reorientation retreat.
An uneasy friendship forms in colonial Ceylon between the future husband of Virgina Woolf and a socially repulsive police magistrate.
Lev Grossman The Believer May 2010 25min Permalink
How did a pair of young rappers from Scotland, laughed off the stage for their accents, land a deal with Sony and start partying with Madonna? They pretended to be American.
Decca Aitkenhead The Guardian May 2008 20min Permalink
An acquaintance dies in Iraq and a writer investigates. “How did Michael come to inspire such loyalty? And how did he come to die on the floodplain of the Euphrates? I looked closer and saw they were the same.”
Thomas Lake Atlanta Magazine May 2009 35min Permalink
The second installment of the Gaile Owens story. A former churchgoing mother of two from suburban Memphis, Owens is the first woman to be given the death penalty in Tennessee in nearly 200 years.
Brantley Hargrove Nashville Scene Apr 2010 40min Permalink
Playing beer pong with David Axelrod—and other scenes from the lives of young, high-profile aides in the Obama White House.
Al-Jazeera English dominated the international coverage of the 2008-2009 Gaza war. And now it’s poised to invade North America.
Deborah Campbell The Walrus Apr 2009 20min Permalink
Craig Cunningham has a simple solution for getting bill collectors off his back. He sues them.
Kimberly Thorpe Dallas Observer Jan 2010 20min Permalink
“As a middle-aged queer, I could not break cover. And, as a middle-aged black man, I was embarrassed that these white boys from this melodrama mattered to me anyway.”
Darryl Pinckney Harper's Feb 2010 Permalink