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Why three young undocumented activists intentionally got themselves detained.
Why three young undocumented activists intentionally got themselves detained.
Michael May The American Prospect Jun 2013 35min Permalink
On Japan’s Hokkaido, an island the size of Ireland, and its rebel leader of lore, Shakushain.
Mike Dash Smithsonian Jun 2013 15min Permalink
Listening to music in prison.
David Peisner Spin May 2013 10min Permalink
Evan Ratliff, a co-host of the Longform Podcast, discusses "The Oilman's Daughter," his new story in The Atavist.
"This woman was given the opportunity to take on a new identity. And it was a mistake. She never should've done it. If there was a way for her to go back and say, 'No, I don't want to know this. I want to be who I am,' then I think she should've taken that. … I'm fascinated with people who want to radically shift their identity. It almost never works out well."
Jun 2013 Permalink
What good can come of tragedy.
Mark Obbie Pacific Standard Jun 2013 15min Permalink
Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe build the most powerful Tea Party organization in the country. Then a feud threatened to undo everything.
Luke Mullins Washingtonian Jun 2013 1h45min Permalink
The controversial history of WI-38, a cell strain created from an aborted fetus “that has arguably helped to save more lives than any other created by researchers.”
Meredith Wadman Nature Jun 2013 20min Permalink
The plight of temporary workers in America.
Michael Grabell ProPublica Jun 2013 20min Permalink
The long, strange trip of the Wikipedia founder, who went from being an Insane Clown Posse fan who owned the “Bomis Babe Report” to a jet-setter married to “the most connected woman in London,” all without turning much of a profit.
Amy Chozick New York Times Magazine Jun 2013 20min Permalink
An interview with Rick Rubin.
Andrew Romano Newsweek Jun 2013 20min Permalink
“Before Glenn Greenwald was the journalist who broke and defended the most important story of 2013, he was many other things: an underage South Florida politician, a lawyer at a high-powered corporate firm, Kips Bay’s most combative tenant, and even the legal arm of his business partner’s gay porn distribution company.”
Jessica Testa Buzzfeed Jun 2013 10min Permalink
How Russia consistently undermines the U.N. in order to keep a multi-billion dollar monopoly on the sales of helicopters and airplanes.
Colum Lynch Foreign Policy Jun 2013 10min Permalink
Steve Kandell is the longform editor at BuzzFeed.
"What would be the sort of longer, narrative nonfiction, journalistic equivalent of something that would have the same effect on you as a bunch of cat GIFs? And not because it's cute, but it's the kind of thing that makes you go, 'OK, I need a lot of other people to see this.'"
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Jun 2013 Permalink
A collection of picks on the history, friends and foes of gay rights.
How one driver can break a bottleneck.
On the county fair and casino circuit with Huey Lewis, who at 61 is “part of a select fraternity of musicians who can draw a couple thousand people in dozens (if not hundreds) of middle-American towns … scattered throughout the country.”
Steven Hyden Grantland Jun 2013 20min Permalink
What makes a great show?
David Auerbach The American Reader Jun 2013 20min Permalink
On the India-Pakistan proxy war in Afghanistan.
William Dalrymple The Brookings Institue Jun 2013 10min Permalink
Research into mind-altering drugs is back.
Zoë Corbyn The Chronicle of Higher Education Jun 2013 15min Permalink
The story of 1968’s Golden Globe, a race to see who could become the first sailor to circumnavigate the world solo without stopping.
Maggie Shipstead Lapham's Quarterly Jun 2013 Permalink
The heroes of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Sean Flynn GQ Jun 2013 25min Permalink
She was Becky Sue Turner, then Lori Erica Ruff. Now she’s Jane Doe.
Maureen O'Hagan Seattle Times Jun 2013 15min Permalink
The Lyme-disease infection rate is growing. So is the battle over how to treat it.
Michael Specter New Yorker Jul 2013 20min Permalink
What the writer’s newly revealed letters mean for her long-debated legacy.
Hermione Lee New York Review of Books Jun 2013 15min Permalink
The investigation that brought down K2 Productions.
Katie J.M. Baker Jezebel Mar 2013 15min Permalink