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Code of Silence
Two officers discovered rampant corruption and criminal activity at the heart of Chicago’s police department. Then they were punished by their peers. A four-part series.
Two officers discovered rampant corruption and criminal activity at the heart of Chicago’s police department. Then they were punished by their peers. A four-part series.
Jamie Kalven The Intercept Oct 2016 1h20min Permalink
A family disintegration, past and present.
Merethe Lindstrom Granta Sep 2016 10min Permalink
When the battered body of a Cambridge Ph.D. student was found outside Cairo, Egyptian police claimed he had been hit by a car. Then they said he was the victim of a robbery. Then they blamed a conspiracy against Egypt. But in a digital age, it’s harder than ever to get away with murder.
Alexander Stille The Guardian Oct 2016 20min Permalink
The last vestiges of a sporting powerhouse.
Brin-Jonathan Butler Roads and Kingdoms Oct 2016 20min Permalink
Luke Dittrich is a contributing editor at Esquire. His new book is Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets.
“As soon as I told [my mom] that I got my first book deal for this story about Patient H.M., her first words were, ‘Oh no.’ That was sort of her gut reaction to it because, I think, she knew at a certain level that I was going to be dredging up very painful stories. And I think at that point even she didn’t know the depth of the pain that some of the stories that I was going to find were going to lay out there.”
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Oct 2016 Permalink
When the most famous amnesiac in history died, the battle for custody of his brain began.
Luke Dittrich New York Times Magazine Aug 2016 25min Permalink
Inside a pageview scam.
Anna Merlan Jezebel Oct 2016 20min Permalink
A profile of “the internet’s boyfriend.”
Michael Schulman Vanity Fair Oct 2016 15min Permalink
A former Saint and Super Bowl champion, Will Smith, was shot and killed by another player named Cardell Hayes. Their fatal collision highlights the fine line between triumph and tragedy in football and life in New Orleans.
Sean Flynn GQ Oct 2016 20min Permalink
A conversation about beauty with an 86-year-old mathematician.
Siobhan Roberts Quanta Mar 2016 15min Permalink
On Logan County, West Virginia.
Larissa MacFarquhar New Yorker Sep 2016 30min Permalink
On Elena Ferrante:
Different names, every time, but the reaction is the same: a momentary light in the listener’s eyes that fades to bored disappointment. An Italian woman from Naples, whose name you wouldn’t know. Who did you expect?
Dayna Tortorici n+1 Mar 2015 40min Permalink
The story of a home invasion, a torture session, and one lawyer who nearly killed another.
Jason Fagone Washingtonian Oct 2016 25min Permalink
On Robin Williams’s final months.
Susan Schneider Williams Neurology Sep 2016 10min Permalink
The business of sound.
Jack Hitt California Sunday Sep 2016 10min Permalink
A couple, well-known New York artists, decamp to L.A., where she intends to direct a movie about a rock star trying to leave a cult. Beck, a friend, signs on, then (possibly under pressure) drops out. Their behavior grows strange, and they rant of constant harassment by Scientologists. They return to New York—to die.
Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Jan 2008 35min Permalink
What do you do after you’ve already been the world’s youngest dictator?
Monica Mark Buzzfeed Oct 2016 25min Permalink
A sociologist embeds with a gang in Chicago.
Forrest Stuart, Elly Fishman Chicago Magazine Sep 2016 20min Permalink
Tracing the path of one of the world’s most in-demand minerals from deadly mines in Congo to your phone.
Todd C. Frankel The Washington Post Sep 2016 30min Permalink
Shirley Jackson wrote 17 books while raising four children — and she couldn’t have had a successful career without them.
Ruth Franklin New York Sep 2016 15min Permalink
How Dress for Success helps women break through socioeconomic barriers.
Chavie Lieber Racked Sep 2016 20min Permalink
Why did the El Faro cargo ship sail directly into the path of Hurricane Joaquin, killing all 33 aboard?
Rachel Slade Yankee Magazine Sep 2016 30min Permalink
A two-part write-around of the world’s only billionaire.
He was a silent boy — a silent young man. With years the habit of silence became the habit of concealment. It was not long after the Standard Oil Company was founded, before it was said in Cleveland that its offices were the most difficult in the town to enter, Mr. Rockefeller the most difficult man to see. If a stranger got in to see any one he was anxious. "Who is that man?" he asked an associate nervously one day, calling him away when the latter was chatting with a stranger. "An old friend, Mr. Rockefeller." "What does he want here? Be careful. Don't let him find out anything." "But he is my friend, Mr. Rockefeller. He does not want to know anything. He has come to see me." "You never can tell. Be very careful, very careful." This caution gradually developed into a Chinese wall of seclusion. This suspicion extended, not only to all outsiders but most insiders. Nobody in the Standard Oil Company was allowed to know any more than was necessary for him to know to do his business. Men who have been officers in the Standard Oil Company say that they have been told, when asking for information about the condition of the business, "You'd better not know. If you know nothing you can tell nothing."
Ida Tarbell McClure's Aug 1906 45min Permalink
The demise of a once-great newspaper.
Robert Sanchez 5280 Sep 2016 25min Permalink
“‘I’m going to devote myself full time to securing and then winning a referendum on leaving the EU,’ Daniel Hannan replied. The aide laughed down the line. ‘Good luck with that.’”
Sam Knight The Guardian Sep 2016 30min Permalink