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Her House of Cards
How a 26-year-old cocktail waitress ended up running a private weekly poker game for some of Hollywood’s highest rollers.
Rolling Nowhere, Part Two
Father and son bond by hopping freight trains.
Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire's Music Biz Misadventures
The postscript of a viral hit.
Linux for Lettuce
The “subtly radical” open-source plant movement.
Seeing
On what we see and what we don’t.
The Spirit and the Law
On the Becket Fund, a little-known firm that has become the leading force in the fight for corporations seeking a religious exemption from covering employees’ birth control.
Baptism by Fire
A rookie firefighter confronts his first test.
The Faded Smile
Eddie Griffin made it to the NBA. Then his life began to unravel.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Answer"
A man heads to Key West in a quest for sobriety.
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The Slumdog Millionaire Architect
How Hafeez Contractor is creating an alternate India in the sky, where professionsals are “insulated from the chaos that has long hamstrung their homeland.”
Lest Ye Be Judged
On a preacher who counsels and ministers Major League umpires.
"I Have Sinned Against the Lord and Against You! Will You Forgive Me?"
Adriaan Vlok, a former apartheid leader, seeks redemption.
Porklife
How the modern pig farm came to be.
Woo Cho Bang Bang
The gangs of Brooklyn’s Brownsville, an area with the higest concentration of public housing in America.
The Big Lobotomy
How the Gingrich-era brain drain crippled the government and led to last year’s shutdown.
Q&A With Larry Lessig On Why You Should Have Faith In Silicon Valley
The Harvard Law professsor on billionaires, politics and Uber.
The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker
The formative years of the Republican star.
How General Motors Silenced a Whistle-Blower
Courtland Kelley knew there was a problem more than a decade ago. He tried to speak up. He sued. He lost.
They Came. They Sawed.
In Austin in 1973, politicos and hippies could get together and create violent, visionary horror films for $60,000. So they did. The story of how The Texas Chainsaw Massacre got made.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic. His latest cover story is "The Case for Reparations."
"The writer hopes for change, but writers can't assume that their work is going to cause change."
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How To Catch A Chess Cheater
A profile of Ken Regan, a computer scientist, chess master, and world champion at detecting cheaters in chess.
Mother's Mind
A series on maternal mental illness.
Geoff Dyer: The Art of Nonfiction No. 6
“If I’m writing a thing based on something that happened, it often starts to become fun for me when I see there’s an opportunity to make myself look even more of a jerk than I am in real life.”
From the Longform archive: George Orwell, Maya Angelou, Haruki Murakami and 25 more writers on writing.
Heroes for Sale
A final visit with late boxer Teófilo Stevenson, who could have fought or even been Muhammad Ali had he not stayed in Cuba.
