Birdie Africa: The Lost Boy
What happened to the only child who survived the 1985 MOVE bombing.
What happened to the only child who survived the 1985 MOVE bombing.
Jason Fagone Philadelphia Magazine Feb 2014 25min Permalink
The downside of opening up.
Evan Hughes The New Republic Apr 2014 15min Permalink
“That educated women’s eggs are in demand is one thing, that they are willing to provide them is another.”
Moira Donegan The New Inquiry Apr 2014 15min Permalink
Cassie Chadwick pulled her first con in 1870, at the age of 13. Over the next 30 years, she would scam her way to $633,000, about $16.5 million in today’s dollars.
Karen Abbott Smithsonian Jun 2012 10min Permalink
On the mechanics of New Jersey state politics.
Ryan Lizza New Yorker Apr 2014 40min Permalink
Two men, separated by more than 150 years, discover the folly of attempting Western-style capitalism in Micronesia.
Jonathan Gourlay The Morning News Apr 2014 25min Permalink
A case for why race has been the real story of the Obama presidency all along.
Jonathan Chait New York Apr 2014 25min Permalink
Inside Harun Yahya, which promotes a “sexed-up Disney version of Islam,” publishes a 800-page creationist atlas, runs a surreal TV station, and has films it members in orgies that often include high-ranking politicians.
Lily Lynch Balkanist Mar 2014 15min Permalink
Migrant workers in California and the consequences of a deliberate low-wage economy.
Eric Schlosser The Atlantic Nov 1995 45min Permalink
The mysterious death of Alfred Wright in the shadow of a town’s history of racial violence.
Patrick Michels Texas Observer Mar 2014 25min Permalink
Stolen time with the writer as he neared the end.
Jeff Himmelman New York Times Magazine Apr 2014 20min Permalink
Following the hunters and poachers, servers and saviors of the little-known pangolin—a scaly, endangered creature sold by the thousands on the black market.
John D. Sutter CNN Apr 2014 45min Permalink
The author relives her Romanian youth and the imprisonment of her father through the Securitate files kept on her family.
Carmen Bugan BBC Apr 2014 15min Permalink
An addict navigates 1980s Detroit.
Matt Sailor The Collapsar Mar 2014 40min Permalink
On Michael Jackson’s talent.
John Jeremiah Sullivan GQ Sep 2009 20min Permalink
A teenager orchestrates his own attempted murder via an Internet chatroom.
Judy Bachrach Vanity Fair Feb 2005 30min Permalink
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An investigation into the ill-fated text messaging platform ZunZuneo.
Desmond Butler, Jack Gillum, Alberto Arce AP Apr 2014 20min Permalink
A dispatch from Vermont, which is in the midst of what the governor calls a “full-blown heroin crisis.”
David Amsden Rolling Stone Apr 2014 25min Permalink
“Every Sunday at my house … we watched The Ed Sullivan Show…. Whether we enjoyed it or not. That was my first lesson in show business. I don’t think anybody in the house particularly enjoyed it. We just watched it. Maybe that’s the purpose of television. You just turn it on and watch it whether you want to or not.”
Kliph Nesteroff WFMU Blog Mar 2010 30min Permalink
The case against Jonathan Pollard, an American who spied for Israel.
Seymour Hersh New Yorker Jan 1999 25min Permalink
How do you sell a $3000 vacuum?
Mike Riggs The Awl Nov 2010 25min Permalink
The cheerleader who sued the Raiders for failure to pay minimum wage.
Amanda Hess ESPN the Magazine Apr 2014 15min Permalink
The secretive group that owns the venerable magazine.
Ben Dooley Mother Jones May 2014 15min Permalink
The author goes in search of his father’s days as a member of an elite club of sport parachutists.
Michael Graff Washingtonian Apr 2014 30min Permalink