Rise of the Sea Urchin
From Norwegian waters to European plates.
From Norwegian waters to European plates.
Franz Lidz Smithsonian Aug 2014 10min Permalink
A profile of Model View Culture founder Shanley Kane.
Elizabeth Spiers Matter Jul 2014 20min Permalink
John Heilemann is the managing editor of Bloomberg Politics and the co-author of Game Change and Double Down.
"If you're a writer, and you're not an asshole, you want the maximum number of people to read your stuff. There's nothing wrong with that. There's no great glory in cultivating some niche audience. I do this work because I believe in what I'm doing. I'm not trying to compromise my principles or my standards to get a larger audience. But once I've written the thing of which I feel confident and proud, which I feel is ethically and journalistically sound, I then want the maximum number of people to read it."
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The 50,000-word story of Microsoft’s antitrust case.
John Heilemann Wired Nov 2000 3h10min Permalink
The dispute over what may be the biggest sunken treasure ever found – and who gets to keep it.
John Colapinto The New Yorker Apr 2008 40min Permalink
A profile of the boxer Floyd Patterson, after a painful loss to Sonny Liston.
Gay Talese Esquire Mar 1964 35min Permalink
“Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There’s a lot of story, a lot of character. But plot? Eh, no.”
Matthew McConaughey Interview Jul 2014 Permalink
A profile of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who has spent her career uncovering a hidden global market in human flesh.
Ethan Watters Pacific Standard Jul 2014 30min Permalink
How Javaris Crittenton went from basketball phenom to standing trial on a murder charge.
Flinder Boyd Fox Sports Jun 2014 30min Permalink
How the Ebola virus works.
Leigh Cowart Hazlitt Jul 2014 15min Permalink
A profile of Nora Sandigo, guardian to hundreds of kids born in America to illegal immigrants.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Jul 2014 Permalink
A profile of Novak Djokovic.
Lauren Collins New Yorker Sep 2013 35min Permalink
In the latest revelation from Edward Snowden, the U.S. government is shown to collect and retain massive amounts of data on nearly 900,000 people with the most minimal of connections to official NSA targets. The collected information tells our “stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes.”
Barton Gellman, Julie Tate, Ashkan Soltani Washington Post Jul 2014 15min Permalink
In the bayou south of New Orleans, a program called the Nurse-Family Partnership tries to reverse the life chances for babies born into extreme poverty. Sometimes, it actually succeeds.
Katherine Boo New Yorker Feb 2006 20min Permalink
The survivors of a mass shooting, 20 years later.
Deanna Pan The Inlander Jun 2014 20min Permalink
A flight attendant's love affair.
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Melissa Goodrich PANK Jul 2014 10min Permalink
Tom Monaghan started Domino’s. Mike Ilitch started Little Caesers. Both became billionaires, both live in Detroit, both are now over 75. They’ve made very different decisions about how to spend their fortunes.
Bryan Gruley Businessweek Jul 2014 10min Permalink
On January 18, 1990, Mayor Marion Barry was caught smoking crack at D.C.’s Vista Hotel. The author was one of the first reporters on the scene. He interviewed guests, staff, anyone he could find. Then he got a room, called his regular strawbery, and got high himself.
Ruben Castaneda Politico Magazine Jun 2014 15min Permalink
How the feds went after Thick Neck, Guilty, Stomper, Gunner, Lucky, Menace, and the rest of the Amernian mob in Los Angeles.
Hayley Fox LA Weekly Jul 2014 15min Permalink
A family struggles as a 42-year-old husband, father and son becomes increasingly isolated.
Stephanie McCrummen Washington Post Jun 2014 25min Permalink
The story of a new pancreas.
John Faherty Cincinnati Enquirer Jul 2014 40min Permalink
Severely depressed snow leopards, obsessive-compulsive brown bears, phobic zebras and the inner lives of other captive creatures.
Alex Halberstadt New York Times Magazine Jul 2014 25min Permalink
The memories of rock stars’ ex-lovers.
Alexandra Molotkow The Believer Jul 2014 25min Permalink
Three years after profiling him, the author checks in with the Bieber experiment.
Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Jul 2014 20min Permalink
The life and times of James McClintock, the man behind the famed H.L. Hunley who also may or may not have faked his own death.
Mike Dash Smithsonian Jul 2014 Permalink