Never Forget
Visiting Cambodia, and a Khmer Rouge prison camp, 30 years after the genocide.
Visiting Cambodia, and a Khmer Rouge prison camp, 30 years after the genocide.
Michael Paterniti GQ Jul 2009 40min Permalink
The war between Major League Baseball and Alex Rodriguez, “fought with six-figure payoffs in the tanning salons and strip malls of South Florida.”
Steve Fishman New York Dec 2013 30min Permalink
He was the poster boy for the movement to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Now Dan Choi is sleeping on a couch, smoking too much weed, watching TED talks and wondering what he’ll do with the rest of his life.
Gabriel Arana The American Prospect Dec 2013 30min Permalink
On Ambien and the search for the next blockbuster insomnia drug.
Ian Parker New Yorker Dec 2013 45min Permalink
At 9:14pm on November 22, 1987, sportscaster Dan Roan was doing the Bears highlights on Chicago’s WGN-TV when the station’s signal was hijacked. Someone wearning a rubber Max Headroom mask appeared, silently, on TV screens around the city. A few hours later, Headroom popped up again on another channel, this time for longer and with audio. Despite FBI and FCC investigations, the case remains unsolved.
Chris Knittel Motherboard Nov 2013 25min Permalink
How the American worker got screwed.
Harold Meyerson The American Prospect Oct 2013 20min Permalink
In the ’90s, a gynecologist named Gao Yaojie exposed an AIDS epidemic in rural China and the ensuing government cover-up. Forced to leave, she’s now 85 and living alone in New York.
Kathleen McLaughlin Buzzfeed Dec 2013 20min Permalink
The conspiracy theories surrounding the 1931 death of Hitler’s niece and object of affection.
Ron Rosenbaum Vanity Fair Apr 1992 55min Permalink
On the factories of India and the women whose lives they ruin.
Dana Liebelson Mother Jones Nov 2013 15min Permalink
A collection of picks by and about the former editor of the New York Observer, who died Friday.</p>
A Bosnian social psychologist who studies guilt and responsibility in the collective memory (and denial) of Sreberbica, which is “among the most scientifically documented mass killings in history.”
Tom Bartlett The Chronicle of Higher Education Nov 2013 25min Permalink
The death of a Russian dissident and how radioactive poison became a tool of assassins.
Will Storr Matter Nov 2013 35min Permalink
A profile of the world’s top photo retoucher, who typically can retouch over 100 images in a single issue of Vogue.
Lauren Collins New Yorker May 2008 25min Permalink
A political history of Donald Rumsfeld.
Mark Danner New York Review of Books Nov 2013 20min Permalink
On Silvio Berlusconi’s hedonism.
Berlusconi is Italy’s waning Hugh Hefner, alternately reviled and admired for his loyalty to his own appetites—except that he’s supposed to be running the country.
Ariel Levy New Yorker May 2011 40min Permalink
Lyndon Baines Johnson in retirement.
Leo Janos The Atlantic Jul 1973 Permalink
Amy Wallace is an editor-at-large for Los Angeles and a correspondent for GQ .
"I've written about the anti-vaccine movement. I love true crime. I've written a lot of murder stories. The thing that unites all of them—whether it's a celebrity profile or a biologist who murdered a bunch of people or Justin Timberlake—it's almost trite to say, but there's a humanity to each of these people. And figuring out what's making them tick in the moment, or in general, is interesting to me. In a way, that's my sweet spot."
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An interview with a Mexican-born American attorney who defended and eventually smuggled for the cartels in the ’90s.
Anonymous Borderland Beat Nov 2013 30min Permalink
Adventures as a mortuary assistant.
Simon Winchester Lapham's Quarterly Nov 2013 10min Permalink
On faith and football.
Thomas Lake Sports Illustrated Dec 2013 Permalink
An investigation into how Hollywood abuses animals.
Gary Baum The Hollywood Reporter Dec 2013 25min Permalink
A former teacher on what students lose when elementary schools skimp on science.
Belle Boggs Orion Nov 2013 20min Permalink
Eleven years ago, three-year-old Audrey Santo fell into a pool. She nearly drowned. Much of her brain died. She cannot speak, can only barely move. And every Wednesday, pilgrims show up at her family’s house, ready for a miracle.
Gene Weingarten Washington Post Jul 1998 25min Permalink
On new art boom and one of its most powerful players, David Zwirner.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Nov 2013 40min Permalink
The fight to vaccinate children in the border regions between Pakistan and Afghanistan as part of an attempt to eradicate polio worldwide.
Matthieu Aikins Wired Nov 2013 Permalink