‘They Are Manufacturing Foreigners’
How India disenfranchises Muslims.
How India disenfranchises Muslims.
Siddhartha Deb New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 30min Permalink
Amid the complex web of international trade, proving the authenticity of a product can be near-impossible. But one company is taking the search to the atomic level.
Samanth Subramanian The Guardian Sep 2021 25min Permalink
James Allen is serving three life sentences for murder. No one ever said he killed anyone.
Maya Dukmasova Chicago Reader Aug 2021 1h35min Permalink
When she was a 15-year-old runaway, the writer was nearly killed by a truck driver. Twenty-seven years later, she investigates whether her attacker was truck stop serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who often kept his victims chained in the back of his truck for weeks before killing and dumping them.
Vanessa Veselka GQ Oct 2012 30min Permalink
The singer-songwriter tries to hold down an uncertain moment.
Jia Tolentino New Yorker Sep 2021 20min Permalink
A shoot-out at a Big Bend ranch captured the nation’s attention: first as an alleged ambush by undocumented migrants, then as a fear-mongering hoax. The real story is much more mysterious.
Wes Ferguson Texas Monthly Sep 2021 30min Permalink
Shared parenting is usually better for children—but the model fails for many women forced to co-parent with their abusers.
Megan O’Matz ProPublica Sep 2021 25min Permalink
Can a cowboy become the greatest polo player of all time?
Alvin Townley Truly*Adventurous Sep 2021 10min Permalink
During the brief moment when the pandemic was receding and we could be together again, all we wanted to do was move our bodies.
Carina del Valle Schorske New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 30min Permalink
Peter Thiel gamed Silicon Valley, the IRS, and Donald Trump.
Max Chafkin Bloomberg Businessweek Sep 2021 30min Permalink
The once-utopian accommodations site, now headed by an alum of surveillance-analytics firm Palantir, has gone back on its always-free ethos.
Andrew Fedorov Input Magazine Sep 2021 30min Permalink
Sarah A. Topol is a writer-at-large for The New York Times Magazine. Her latest feature is ”Is Taiwan Next?”
”I think you never actually ask people head-on about what they've been through. You always ask people to just tell you what they want to tell you about anything that has happened to them…. This event that happened to you, it doesn't define you. It’s not why I'm here necessarily. Like, tell me about your childhood. Tell me about your life. Tell me about the things you think are important in your community. And by the time we get to the traumatic part, I hope they've seen enough of who I am and how I interview to feel comfortable telling me that they don't want to talk about certain things.”
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Three years ago, college football was rocked by a domestic violence scandal that ended with Ohio State firing assistant coach Zach Smith and suspending head coach Urban Meyer. Both men have since reinvented their images and careers. But what about Courtney Smith, the woman who said she had been abused for years by Smith while he coached at Ohio State? This is her story.
Diana Moskovitz Defector Sep 2021 Permalink
He became a guru in the self-optimization scene, hobnobbing with the likes of Elon Musk. But will anyone listen to his warnings about the movement that brought him renown?
Rachel Monroe Texas Monthly Sep 2021 Permalink
A profile of the comedian, who died Tuesday.
Dan Brooks New York Times Magazine Aug 2018 15min Permalink
A profile of Christopher Soghoian whose “productions follow a similar pattern, a series of orchestrated events that lead to the public shaming of a large entity—Google, Facebook, the federal government—over transgressions that the 30-year-old technologist sees as unacceptable violations of privacy.”
Mike Kessler Wired Nov 2011 10min Permalink
Last year, three cryptocurrency enthusiasts bought a cruise ship. They named it the Satoshi, and dreamed of starting a floating libertarian utopia. It didn’t work out
Sophie Elmhirst The Guardian Sep 2021 30min Permalink
Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by cops. 65,000 strong, with only themselves to count on.
Josh Dzieza The Verge Sep 2021 25min Permalink
The Atlanta Braves-New York Mets game from Sept. 21, 2001, remains a historic moment of grief, mourning, and hope after 9/11.
Ryan Hockensmith ESPN Sep 2021 20min Permalink
In the bloody civil war, Khaled al-Halabi switched sides. But what country does he really serve?
Ben Taub New Yorker Sep 2021 50min Permalink
Could that finally be changing?
Hannah Giorgis The Atlantic Sep 2021 30min Permalink
Meditations on the myth of the voiceless.
Amitav Ghosh Orion Sep 2021 20min Permalink
Terrorists boarded two planes in Boston and flew them into the World Trade Center. Massachusetts zeroed in on its top airport official, who has never quite recovered.
Ellen Barry New York Times Sep 2021 10min Permalink
Outdated textbooks, not enough teachers, no ventilation — for millions of kids like Harvey Ellington, the public-education system has failed them their whole lives.
Casey Parks New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 40min Permalink
The West Virginia senator reaps big financial rewards from a network of coal companies with grim records of pollution, safety violations, and death.
Daniel Boguslaw Intercept Sep 2021 15min Permalink