The Orlando Killer: “Always Agitated. Always Mad.”
Who was Omar Mateen?
Louisa Thomas, a former writer and editor at Grantland, is a New Yorker contributor and the author of Louisa. Her father Evan Thomas, a longtime writer for Newsweek and Time, is the author of several award-winning books, including last year's Being Nixon.
“That's one thing I've learned from my dad: the capacity to be open to becoming more open.”
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Assam 2012: The Story of a Riot
How the truth still eludes the investigation of the killing of four boys in Joypur, which sparked a bloody riot and massive displacement.
Wedding Crasher
The drunken wedding speeches of Georgia.
The Longform Guide to Gambling
A collection of picks about the best and worst bettors in the world.
All Due Respect
An American reporter takes on the Yakuza.
Kim Kardashian West Has a Few Things to Get Off Her Chest
“Think about that: Kim has so thoroughly monetized the very act of living that the money she earns from being filmed going about her life constitutes a relatively small sum compared with the one she generates from allowing people to see pictures and cartoon drawings of the life she has already filmed. She has figured out how to spin the mundanity of being herself—something billions of people do every day for free—into a more lucrative business than being the most famous rapper in the world.”
Dogsbody Does Dublin
Four dispatches from the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday.
In most places in the world, June 16 is just another day on the calendar, but here in Dublin, the day that James Joyce earmarked for Ulysses is celebrated with a fervor not seen here since the days of the druids when, if you really wanted to party, you needed a couple skeins of wine and a grove full of virgins.
The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus’s Wife
An ancient document suggests that Jesus had a wife. But an investigation into its origins leads to … Florida.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "How To Fall In Love"
Lessons for dating and dying.
Can Netflix Survive in the New World It Created?
What started as a DVD-mailing service has changed the way we watch TV. Now Netflix has to do it again. (And again. And again.)
Nikole Hannah-Jones covers civil rights for The New York Times Magazine.
“I don’t think there’s any beat you can cover in America that race is not intertwined with—environment, politics, business, housing, you name it. So, whatever beat you put me on, this is what I was going to cover because I think it’s just intrinsic. If you’re not being blind to what’s on your beat, then it’s part of the beat.”
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The NRA's Murder Mystery
Today, Robert Dowlut is the National Rifle Association’s top lawyer. Fifty years ago, he was convicted of murdering a woman with a handgun.
Fully Loaded
How America’s 10 biggest gunmakers do business.
Sad!
A Republican primary postmortem with the brains behind Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio’s respective campaigns.
Education of a Jailhouse Lawyer
How Derrick Hamilton went from wrongfully convicted to legal scholar to free.
See Me
On adolescence, pen pals, and the Manson girls.
All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go
The trouble with the all-but-obligatory networking site, “an Escher staircase masquerading as a career ladder.”
Inside the Underground Economy Propping Up New York City's Food Carts
The hot dog black market and the immigrants it exploits.
The Audition
She claimed to be a porn recruiter who just needed to see the women have sex with her photographer once before she could book them for jobs. But she and her photographer were the same person — a freelance tech journalist named Matt Hickey.
Body on the Moor
Why did a man travel 200 miles to die in a national park?
How Intel Makes a Chip the Size of a Postage Stamp
Microprocessors cost billions to develop. They take three times longer to build than an airplane, in an environment 1,000 times more sterile than a hospital. Throughout the entire process, nobody ever touches them.
At Profiles Theatre the Drama—and Abuse—Is Real
For decades, the lead actor at an acclaimed storefront Chicago theater beat, groped, and choked his female co-stars in front of audiences, while manipulating them into coercive relationships offstage.
I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes
A profile of Roseanne Barr and her multiple personalities.
United States of Paranoia: They See Gangs of Stalkers
They believe that strangers on the street watch them, follow them in vans, whisper as they pass. Their family urge them to seek help. Then they find people online who have experienced the same thing they have.
