Uprising
An unlikely environmentalist exposes the natural gas industry’s leaky infrastructure.
An unlikely environmentalist exposes the natural gas industry’s leaky infrastructure.
Phil McKenna Matter Nov 2013 25min Permalink
A visit to Glenn Greenwald’s house in Rio.
Natasha Vargas-Cooper The Advocate Oct 2013 20min Permalink
A profile of former Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice, who was fired in April after a video of him berating players went viral.
Jonathan Mahler New York Times Magazine Nov 2013 25min Permalink
Bibek Dhong traveled from Nepal to Malaysia to test cameras for the new iPhone 5. When production ended abruptly, he and his coworkers found themselves stranded for two months without money, food or passports.
Cam Simpson Businessweek Nov 2013 15min Permalink
It mostly had to do with Patch, the executive’s hyperlocal and unprofitable baby.
Nicholas Carlson Business Insider Nov 2013 1h45min Permalink
Evan Wright, a two-time National Magazine Award winner, is the author of Generation Kill.
"When people were killed, civilians especially, I realized I was the only person there who would write it down. I was frantic about getting names, and in the book there are a few Arabic names, some of the victims. Not that anyone cares. But I thought, 'At least somewhere there's a record of this.'"
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A homegrown boxer sets his sights on the big time.
Brendan O'Connor BKLYNR Nov 2013 15min Permalink
President Bush’s strange friendship with Vladimir Putin.
Peter Baker Foreign Policy Nov 2013 35min Permalink
“The only problem is he was so successful that Hollywood decided to devour his Xanadu, with premium vodka parties and assistants scouring the Park City Albertsons for Fiji water. ‘It makes me fucking nuts,’ says Redford.”
Stephen Rodrick Men's Journal Nov 2013 25min Permalink
The trial of a 10-year-old who murdered his neo-Nazi father.
Amy Wallace GQ Nov 2013 20min Permalink
Last fall, a team of American Special Forces arrived in Nerkh, a district just west of Kabul. Six months later, amid allegations of torturing and murdering locals, the team was gone. Shortly after they left, the remains of 10 missing villagers were found outside their vacated base. An investigation into a possible war crime.
Matthieu Aikins Rolling Stone Nov 2013 25min Permalink
How the corpses of Hitler’s victims still haunt modern science—and American abortion politics.
Emily Bazelon Slate Nov 2013 30min Permalink
On interviewing and napping beside Norman Mailer.
Andrew O’Hagan London Review of Books Nov 2013 20min Permalink
An interview with painter Chris Martin.
Ross Simonini The Believer Nov 2013 15min Permalink
How John Snavely went from petty criminal to porn star to prison.
Michael E. Miller Miami New Times Nov 2013 20min Permalink
Do dolphins and humans really share a special bond?
Justin Gregg Aeon Dec 2013 10min Permalink
Ignored early warnings, political pressure, and a botched Obamacare rollout.
Amy Goldstein, Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Nov 2013 10min Permalink
An interview with Cleve Backster, a former interrogation specialist with the CIA who used a polygraph machine in the 1960s to develop his theory of “primary perception,” which contends that plants have feelings.
Derrick Jensen The Sun Magazine Jul 1997 20min Permalink
They advertise murder for hire but work for the government. Inside the world of America’s fake hit men.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Nov 2013 20min Permalink
Eleven months after Sandy Hook, Newtown’s mourning remains incalculable, especially that of the parents who lost their children. And the influx of sympathy—and money—has sometimes made the grieving more difficult rather than less.
Lisa Miller New York Nov 2013 25min Permalink
Inside the N.S.A.’s mission to spy on just about everyone.
Scott Shane New York Times Nov 2013 20min Permalink
The world’s richest prisoner interviewed from the Siberian prison colony he calls home.
Neil Buckley, Mikhail Khodorovsky Financial Times Oct 2013 25min Permalink
He’d blown the Denver debate. Now he was on the verge of blowing the second and risking his reelection. “I just don’t know if I can do this,” Obama told his team. The story of how they turned things around, excerpted from Double Down: Game Change 2012.
John Heilemann, Mark Halperin New York Nov 2013 25min Permalink
Separating truth from lore in Haiti: “The dossier was, at bottom, a murder story, the judge said—but it was a murder story with the great oddity that the victim did not die.”
Mischa Berlinski Men's Journal Sep 2009 Permalink
What did soccer have to do with two brutal murders after a pickup game?
Jeré Longman, Taylor Barnes New York Times Oct 2013 20min Permalink