Acid Trap
How warming and acidifying oceans endanger the entire marine food chain.
How warming and acidifying oceans endanger the entire marine food chain.
Peter Brannen Aeon Feb 2014 10min Permalink
An investigation into America’s Greek system.
Caitlin Flanagan The Atlantic Feb 2014 55min Permalink
“If we do nothing, we’re dead! We’re toast!”
Joe Hagan Men's Journal Mar 2014 20min Permalink
An Englishman’s eighteen years of exile-by-choice.
James Wood London Review of Books Feb 2014 25min Permalink
Wil S. Hylton, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, is the author of Vanished.
"I despise the fucking nut graf. I think it's a joke, a cop out. The story probably should be about something larger than itself but if you have to tell people what that is, you've failed from the beginning. If they can't find it, you didn't put it there and you shouldn't be beating them over the head with it."
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Over the course of 25 years, he’s repeatedly toyed with the idea of running for president and now, maybe, governor of New York. With all but his closest apostles finally tired of the charade, even the Donald himself has to ask, what’s the point? On the plane and by the pool with the man who will not be king.
McKay Coppins Buzzfeed Feb 2014 25min Permalink
The dissolution of Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng’s marriage amidst evidence of her affairs with Tony Blair and Eric Schmidt.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Feb 2014 45min Permalink
Inside the criminal operation illegally buying, selling and killing tigers – and selling their meat at the local butcher.
Jon Yates, Maurice Possley Chicago Tribune Nov 2002 15min Permalink
Investigating ska’s moment of conception.
John Jeremiah Sullivan Oxford American Feb 2014 30min Permalink
“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