The Facebook Comment That Ruined a Life
“I guess what you post on Facebook matters.” An 18-year-old faces 10 years in jail for a sarcastic threat on Facebook.
“I guess what you post on Facebook matters.” An 18-year-old faces 10 years in jail for a sarcastic threat on Facebook.
Craig Malisow Dallas Observer Feb 2014 10min Permalink
The first known infiltration of the finance fraternity Kappa Beta Phi.
Excerpted from Young Money.
Kevin Roose New York Feb 2014 10min Permalink
On the culture of abuse and coverup at Patrick Henry College.
Kiera Feldman New Republic Feb 2014 Permalink
On the increasingly dangerous situation for journalists in Syria.
James Traub Foreign Policy Jan 2014 15min Permalink
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Spending time with the Tonya Harding Fan Club in the wake of the assault on Nancy Kerrigan.
Susan Orlean New Yorker Feb 1995 20min Permalink
Life after The Real World.
John Jeremiah Sullivan GQ Jul 2005 25min Permalink
The bleak final season of Tony Gonzalez’s Hall of Fame career.
Seth Wickersham ESPN the Magazine Feb 2014 10min Permalink
“Everyone on the boat is racist and nice. Including me.”
Caity Weaver Gawker Feb 2014 30min Permalink
The story of an intensely creative young artist.
Grayson Schaffer Outside Feb 2014 15min Permalink
An actor, fresh from prison, attempts to reconnect with his son in 1950s California.
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Molly Antopol Joyland Jan 2014 40min Permalink
A dispatch from Morocco.
George Orwell New Writing Dec 1939 10min Permalink
The murder of a rapper amid the rise of Greece’s fascist party.
Dorian Lynskey Buzzfeed Jan 2014 30min Permalink
How a disgraced principal-turned real estate mogul helped cause the global financial crisis.
Gary Silverman Financial Times Feb 2014 15min Permalink
“An Indian farmer has committed suicide every half hour since 2001.”
Ilan Greenberg Modern Farmer Dec 2013 10min Permalink
The rise and fall of a teen fashion empire.
Matthew Shaer New York Feb 2014 15min Permalink
Why do Syrian civilians in a Turkish camp live in relative luxury?
Mac McClelland New York Times Magazine Feb 2014 25min Permalink
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The neurologist explores the mystery of hallucinations.
Ron Rosenbaum Smithsonian Dec 2012 Permalink
“The problem with Christie isn’t merely that he is a bully. It’s that his political career is built on a rotten foundation.”
Alec MacGillis New Republic Feb 2014 30min Permalink
David Kushner, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired and The Atavist.
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“And yet we live still in Cheney’s world. All around us are the consequences of those decisions.”
Mark Danner New York Review of Books Feb 2014 20min Permalink
A tale of ambition, motherhood and political mythmaking in the race for governor of Texas.
Robert Draper New York Times Magazine Feb 2014 30min Permalink
An investigtion into higher education’s treatment, and often punishment, of mentally ill students.
Katie J.M. Baker Newsweek Feb 2014 25min Permalink
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