The Longform Guide to Rich Kids
Paris Hilton, Princeton phonies, and the prince who blew through billions—a collection of articles on young money.
Thinking Through the Tomato Harvester
The story of a machine.
Everywoman.com
On Martha Stewart, business icon.
Inside the Double Life of Aaron Hernandez
The house at 114 Lake Avenue in Bristol, CT that kept calling Aaron Hernandez, a NFL star by 20, back to “a volatile underworld of guns, drugs, and violence.”
Knight of the Swan
Her grandfather, she found out decades after he died, was not her grandfather. Who did that make her?
Raiders of the Congo
Two white security contractors set off into the remote interior. Within a week, a seemingly innocent man who crossed their path lay dead on the side of the road. The manhunt began.
Against the Law
A profile of lawyer Jacques Vergès, who died yesterday after decades spent defending war criminals, terrorists and dictators.
The Tedium Is the Message
A history of spam on the internet.
Bit
“Joe’s hand began to tingle, and he called the group together. The toxins would leave his system in 48 hours, he said. He’d be conscious the whole time.”
Body and Soul
On disability, adolescence and friendship after a paralyzing accident.
Shadow of a Nation
Basketball on a Crow reservation and a player named Jonathan Takes Enemy trying to escape.
Meet The Dread Pirate Roberts, The Man Behind Booming Black Market Drug Website Silk Road
A profile of a virtual kingpin.
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Murder by Craigslist
How a serial killer and his teenage accomplice used listings for “the job of a lifetime” to lure their victims, all down-and-out single men, to the backwoods of Ohio.
The Case of the Bank-Robbing Prostitutes
How a struggling comedian became a pimp who eventually started sending teenage hookers on bank robbery missions that earned them notoriety as the “Starlet Bandits.”
Amy Harmon, a Pulitzer Prize winner, covers the intersection of science and society for the New York Times.
"I'm not looking to expose science as problematic and I'm not looking to celebrate it. But it can be double edged. Genetic knowledge can certainly be double edged. Often the science outpaces where our culture is in terms of grappling with it, with the implications of it. Part of the reason for this widespread fear about GMOs is people don't understand what it is. I'm looking for an emotional way or a vehicle through which to get people to read about it. It's an excuse to talk about the science, not just explain it. … My contribution, what I can do, is try to tell a story that will engage people in the story and then they'll realize at the end that they learned a little bit about the science."
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The Jockey
A profile of Russell Baze, the winningest jockey in American history.
Where Hip-hop Lives
The turf wars at New York City’s hip hop station, Hot 97.
The Poorest Rich Kids in the World
Georgia and Patterson Inman, 15-year-old twins, are the only living heirs to the $1 billion Duke tobacco fortune. They are also emotional wrecks, tortured by a hellacious childhood in which they were raised by drug addicts and left to fend for themselves in mansions across the country.
How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets
A profile of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who last January received “a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key.”
How Athletes Get Great
An interview on nature vs. nurture with the author of The Sports Gene: Inside the Science Of Extraordinary Athletic Performance.
The Men Who Want AIDS—and How It Improved Their Lives
The benefits of getting sick in New York.
Bloodlines
How the heir to a horse racing empire became an informant on the Zetas cartel as they pushed their money laundering operations into the lucrative quarter horse trade.
Journey Through Morocco
Departing Marrakech by car with a plan to record music for the Library of Congress.
Deconstructing Harry
The drunken genius of Harry Nilsson, the American Beatle.
