A Mission Gone Wrong
A bungled operation in Honduras and the enduring ineffectiveness of America’s war on drugs.
A bungled operation in Honduras and the enduring ineffectiveness of America’s war on drugs.
Mattathias Schwartz New Yorker Jan 2014 35min Permalink
A trip to the 2022 World Cup host nation.
David Roth SB Nation Dec 2013 1h Permalink
Investigating the murky reality behind the attack in Libya.
David D. Kirkpatrick New York Times Dec 2013 10min Permalink
Arriving in China at 23, Sidney Rittenberg spent 35 years as a “friend, confidante, translator, and journalist” for the Communist Party’s top leaders. In this interview, he recalls both his friendship with Chairman Mao and the 16 years he spent in solitary confinement.
Matt Schiavenza The Atlantic Dec 2013 20min Permalink
The rise and fall of the new oligarchs, who raided the Russian state. When Putin came to power most fled, but not Mikhail Khodorkovsky: “The other oligarchs, when they saw the fuzz, knew they should run. But Khodorkovsky forgot.”
Keith Gessen London Review of Books Feb 2010 25min Permalink
On the neurobiology of flora.
Michael Pollan New Yorker Dec 2013 40min Permalink
“Does a talent for comedy necessitate a tragic life?”
The rise of automatic number plate recognition and its real-world consequences.
James Bridle Matter Dec 2013 Permalink
Eleven members of an Australian rugby club traveled to Bali. After a bomb went off at a nightclub, only five of them made it home.
Michael Paterniti GQ Oct 2004 35min Permalink
How a 20-something made millions as an e-commerce hustler.
Taylor Clark The Atlantic Jan 2014 35min Permalink
“Americans find it hard to believe that foreigners are unalterably foreign, for they have seen generations of immigrants who became Americans.”
Saul Bellow The New Republic May 1955 10min Permalink
How corporations are using the First Amendment to destroy government regulation.
Haley Sweetland Edwards Washington Monthly Feb 2014 45min Permalink
The riotous private sector life of former New York senator, Al D’Amato.
Jennifer Senior New York Aug 1999 25min Permalink
What happens when we run out of houses.
James Meek London Review of Books Jan 2014 50min Permalink
“Let them say what they want. It’s not about me.”
Barton Gellman Washington Post Dec 2013 15min Permalink
Resurrecting a legendary typeface.
The Economist Dec 2013 10min Permalink
The author dives to the wreck of the Mohawk, where his uncle died in 1935.
Patrick Symmes Outside Apr 2002 15min Permalink
In 1916, a pair of 29-year-old women, bored with their lives in Upstate New York, took teaching jobs in a remote area of the Rocky Mountains. This is the story of what they found.
Dorothy Wickenden New Yorker Apr 2009 30min Permalink
A cave in Russia, a long-lost tip of a pinkie bone, and the discovery of a new kind of human being.
Jamie Shreeve National Geographic Jul 2013 15min Permalink
The Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman star on being married to Woody Allen, Jewish words, and Girls.
Claire Barliant The Toast Dec 2013 25min Permalink
“I’ve tried therapy, drugs, and booze. Here’s what helps.”
Scott Stossel The Atlantic Dec 2013 50min Permalink
A comic who had previously refused to discuss his private life opens up for the first time, riding high on the surprise success of Blazing Saddles more than thirty years into his career.
Brad Darrach, Mel Brooks Playboy Feb 1975 1h20min Permalink
A jailhouse interview with Vladimir Putin’s rival at the very end of his decade behind bars.
Neil Buckley Financial Times Oct 2013 25min Permalink
Experiencing the first moon walk with a wide range of New Yorkers.
E. B. White New Yorker Jul 1969 20min Permalink
“This is a story about how the future gets weird.”
Alexis Madrigal The Atlantic Dec 2013 15min Permalink