The Perks Are Great. Just Don’t Ask Us What We Do.
50onRed is a fixture in Philly’s startup world. But there’s something the leadership didn’t talk about, even with some of its own staff. They make malware.
A Short-Order Murder
The diner manager told the cook not to prepare the poached eggs a woman had ordered. The next day, the cook killed the manager. They had worked together amicably for 20 years.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "E Ticket"
An examination of teenage lust and hierarchies on a trip to Disneyland.
Be Like Steph?
Mini-Currys and the future of basketball.
Brooklyn Bound
The fight to extradite El Chapo.
Leah Finnegan, a former New York Times and Gawker editor, is the managing news editor at Genius.
“After the Condé Nast article, Nick Denton decided Gawker needed to be 20% nicer, and I took a buyout because I was not 20% nicer.”
Thanks to MailChimp, Audible, Squarespace, and Trunk Club for sponsoring this week's episode.
The History of Pho
“It’s more than soup.”
My Life as a Sex Object
The aftermath of a childhood filled with subway flashers, teachers who asked for hugs, and boys who joked about your breasts.
A Trial By Fire
In eight minutes, Miashah Moses took out the trash and a blaze consumed the apartment where her nieces were watching television. What happened, and who’s to blame?
Hillary Clinton vs. Herself
There’s nothing simple about this candidacy—or candidate.
The Voice Actors Behind Video Game Characters Are Famous, but Also Nearly Invisible
What it’s like to have thousands of fans who don’t recognize you.
The Old West’s Muslim Tamale King
Behind a Muslim community in northern Wyoming — and 20 percent of all Muslims in the state — lies one very enterprising man.
Why the Very Poor Have Become Poorer
More and more Americans are trying to survive on less than $2 a day.
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The Longform Guide to Nurses
It takes a special kind of person to become a nurse. You have to be willing to work long shifts. To care for people when nobody else will. To be there for families at their darkest hour. And to do it all while being taken for granted.
Nursing is hard, thankless work. And yet nearly four million people in America do it every day. Here are a few of their stories, a collection presented in partnership with Johnson & Johnson.
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Waiting for the Weekend
A short history of leisure.
Explorer Lost
Thirteen years ago, Chris Velten disappeared while retracing the travels of explorer Mungo Park in Africa. He hadn’t been heard from at all — until he sent a friend request.
How to Get Trump Elected When He’s Wrecking Everything You Built
Reince Priebus was about to go down as the most successful GOP chairman in party history. Then Trump happened.
The Surreal Saga of Bobby Shmurda
In Brooklyn’s Brownsville, being in a gang can mean as little as being born on a specific block. Ackquille Pollard spent his final free days as a viral rap sensation, before being jailed as the leader of a sect of Crips.
What It's Like to Be 13, Right Now
“She scrolls, she waits. For that little notification box to appear.”
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Fable"
Life problems imagined as fantasies.
The Keyhole Seven
What went wrong when a group of canyoneers was caught by a flash flood in Zion National Park.
No Death, No Taxes
Libertarian, futurist, billionaire: a profile of Peter Thiel.
Pablo Torre is a senior writer at ESPN the Magazine and frequently appears on Around the Horn, PTI, and other ESPN shows.
“Most of my friends are not sports fans. My parents aren't. Brother and sister — no. So I just want to make things that they want to read. That's the big litmus test for me in deciding if a story is worth investing my time into: Is somebody who doesn’t give a shit about sports gonna be interested in this?”
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The New Activism of Campus Life
On trigger warnings, allyship, intersectionality, and what’s really eating Oberlin.
The Longform Guide to Sea Creatures
Keiko, Nessie, and giant squids: a collection of picks on animals from the deep.
