Longform http://longform.org The best non-fiction, past and present. Thu, 17 May 2012 18:30:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Money Unlimited http://longform.org/2012/05/17/money-unlimited/ http://longform.org/2012/05/17/money-unlimited/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 18:30:57 +0000 Editors http://longform.org/?p=4882 Jeffrey Toobin | | May 2012

How Chief Justice John Roberts pulled off Citizens United.

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On the perils and poisons of mining for gold in southeastern Peru.

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“I didn’t realize who my father was. So it didn’t make a whole lot of difference. I wasn’t there believing that I was receiving genius from on high. My father was my father.”

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For a half-century fires have burned under Centralia, PA.

[full story] ]]> http://longform.org/2012/05/17/fire-in-the-hole/feed/ 0 Wilt vs. Elgin: When Their World Was the Playground http://longform.org/2012/05/16/wilt-vs-elgin-when-their-world-was-the-playground/ http://longform.org/2012/05/16/wilt-vs-elgin-when-their-world-was-the-playground/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 20:49:57 +0000 Editors http://longform.org/?p=4873 Dave McKenna | | May 2012

On the lost pickup basketball games in D.C. between Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor, then both still in college, during the summer of 1957.

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Commencement Addresses 1979-2012

Contributing editor Jody Avirgan collects his favorite graduation speeches, including ones by Sheryl Sandberg, Jon Stewart and David Foster Wallace. See the picks.

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On the final two holdouts in Treece, Kansas, a former mining town that is soon to be wiped off the maps.

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“Being Justin Bieber means having an endless number of T-shirts to destroy.” A profile of the pop star just after his 18th birthday.

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The complicated life of a man with four wives and thirty-one kids.

[full story] ]]> http://longform.org/2012/05/16/the-lonely-polygamist/feed/ 0 “I didn’t do it. But I know who did.” http://longform.org/2012/05/15/i-didnt-do-it-but-i-know-who-did/ http://longform.org/2012/05/15/i-didnt-do-it-but-i-know-who-did/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 19:48:12 +0000 Editors http://longform.org/?p=4861 Maurice Possley, | | Jun 2006

Carlos De Luna, convicted of murdering gas station clerk Wanda Lopez, was executed in 1989. But was another man named Carlos actually guilty of the crime?

[full story] ]]> http://longform.org/2012/05/15/i-didnt-do-it-but-i-know-who-did/feed/ 0 How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet http://longform.org/2012/05/15/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-the-internet/ http://longform.org/2012/05/15/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-the-internet/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 17:00:56 +0000 Editors http://longform.org/?p=4862 Mat Honan | | May 2012

The autopsy of a once-dominant site.

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A Kenyan runner loses himself in Alaska.

[full story] ]]> http://longform.org/2012/05/15/into-the-wild/feed/ 0 Can a Better Vibrator Inspire an Age of Great American Sex? http://longform.org/2012/05/15/can-a-better-vibrator-inspire-an-age-of-great-american-sex/ http://longform.org/2012/05/15/can-a-better-vibrator-inspire-an-age-of-great-american-sex/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 14:00:10 +0000 Editors http://longform.org/?p=4853 Andy Isaacson | | May 2012

How one company is rethinking the business of sex toys.

[full story] ]]> http://longform.org/2012/05/15/can-a-better-vibrator-inspire-an-age-of-great-american-sex/feed/ 0 The Toughest Guy On Wall Street http://longform.org/2012/05/15/the-toughest-guy-on-wall-street/ http://longform.org/2012/05/15/the-toughest-guy-on-wall-street/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 12:00:52 +0000 Editors http://longform.org/?p=4855 Shawn Tully | | MAR 2006

A profile of Jamie Dimon as he became CEO of JP Morgan Chase.

[full story] ]]> http://longform.org/2012/05/15/the-toughest-guy-on-wall-street/feed/ 0 The Comedian Comedians Were Afraid Of http://longform.org/2012/05/14/the-comedian-comedians-were-afraid-of/ http://longform.org/2012/05/14/the-comedian-comedians-were-afraid-of/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 19:31:29 +0000 Editors http://longform.org/?p=4851 Adrian Nicole LeBlanc | | May 2012

Remembering Patrice O’Neal.

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How a convicted sexual predator emptied the bank accounts and ruined the lives of several women from behind bars.

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