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January 6, 2014

Tech

Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet

How violent threats made online go unchecked.

Amanda Hess Pacific Standard Jan 2014 30min Permalink

Politics Sports

Smokey and the Bandit

How Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder, with a little help from the Bush Administration, got 140 trees chopped down in a national park to improve his view and ruined the life of a park ranger in the process.

Tim Murphy Washington Monthly Jan 2014 25min Permalink

Arts

Written Off

A profile of novelist Jennifer Weiner.

Rebecca Mead New Yorker Jan 2014 25min Permalink

January 5, 2014

Arts Tech Movies & TV

How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood

Unpacking the 76,897 micro-genres that make up the cinematic DNA.

Alexis Madrigal The Atlantic Jan 2014 20min Permalink

Arts Music

‘And I Cannot Lie’

An oral history of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s ‘Baby Got Back.’

Rob Kemp New York Jan 2014 15min Permalink

January 4, 2014

Business Sports

Degenerate, Inc.

The life of a mid-level bookie.

Doug Brown Cleveland Scene Dec 2013 20min Permalink

The Rise of a Bourgeois Paradise

A move to Los Angeles and a foray into the bourgeoisie.

Megan Daum BlackBook Apr 2004 15min Permalink

Crime Science

Blood in the Sand

Investigating the murder of a Costa Rican conservationist.

Matthew Power Outside Jan 2014 20min Permalink

January 3, 2014

Crime Science

The Irish Clan Behind Europe's Rhino-Horn Theft Epidemic

Unraveling a lucrative crime ring.

Adam Higginbotham Businessweek Jan 2014 15min Permalink

Tech

Evgeny vs. the Internet

A profile of Evgeny Morozov, “either the most astute, feared, loathed, or useless writer about digital technology working today.”

Michael Meyer Columbia Journalism Review Jan 2013 20min Permalink

Sex

The Hidden Man

Capt. Stephen Hill became famous when he came out as a gay soldier during a 2011 GOP presidential debate. Here’s how he got to that point, and what happened after.

Christopher Goffard The Los Angeles Times Dec 2013 15min Permalink

Arts Sports Media

Remote Control

Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan and the “why me?” misheard around the world.

Sarah Marshall The Believer Jan 2014 45min Permalink

January 2, 2014

Crime

The Secrets of White Collar Prisons

Bernie Kerik and Jack Abramoff on “Club Fed.”

Lisa DePaulo Dujour Jan 2014 Permalink

A Speck in the Sea

John Aldridge fell overboard in the middle of the night, 40 miles from shore, and the Coast Guard was looking in the wrong place. How did he survive?

Paul Tough New York Times Magazine Jan 2014 30min Permalink

Arts Crime Movies & TV

Drugs, Diamonds, International Intrigue — You Won't Believe Two Hollywood Producers' Crazy Backstory

Did Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian “orchestrate” a contract killing in Moscow?

Gene Maddaus LA Weekly Jan 2014 20min Permalink

January 1, 2014

History World

Bashar Al Assad: An Intimate Profile of a Mass Murderer

How the Syrian president stays in power.

Annia Ciezadlo The New Republic Dec 2013 20min Permalink

Arts

Jon Gosselin in the Wilderness

The reality TV star today.

Simon van Zuylen-Wood Philadelphia Magazine Dec 2013 20min Permalink

December 31, 2013

Crime

“"Did Your Father Touch You?”"

In 1997, 8-year-old Chaneya Kelly reported that she had been raped by her father, Daryl Kelly, sending him to prison for up to 40 years. Since then, she’s wanted more than anything to take it back.

Jennifer Gonnerman New York Dec 2013 20min Permalink

Science

The Madness of the Planets

Space is only getting weirder.

Corey S. Powell Nautilus Dec 2013 15min Permalink

What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies

“It’s Tuesday, it’s February, it’s my first day back at work after a week on vacation. I notice the candle in the foyer just as the whoosh of the door blows it out. They never did that for my birthday, I think as I walk past reception.”

Michael Hobbes The Billfold Dec 2013 10min Permalink

December 30, 2013

Sports

Fallon Fox: The Toughest Woman in Sports

A profile of the first and only transgender MMA fighter.

Nancy Hass GQ Dec 2013 20min Permalink

Arts Crime History World Movies & TV

The Defense of a Jewish Collaborator

On Benjamin Murmelstein, the head of the council of elders at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Mark Lilla New York Review of Books Dec 2013 20min Permalink

History World

Arendt & Eichmann: The New Truth

Rethinking Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.

Mark Lilla New York Review of Books Nov 2013 15min Permalink

Crime Politics

A Mission Gone Wrong

A bungled operation in Honduras and the enduring ineffectiveness of America’s war on drugs.

Mattathias Schwartz New Yorker Jan 2014 35min Permalink

December 29, 2013

Sports World Travel

Qatar Chronicles

A trip to the 2022 World Cup host nation.

  1. Part 1: Destination Everywhere

  2. Part 2: Buying a Masterpiece

  3. Part 3: Only for the Rich

  4. Part 4: They Wanted It More

  5. Part 5: On Their Own Terms

David Roth SB Nation Dec 2013 1h Permalink

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