Trasmissions from Camp Trans
The author visits Camp Trans, an annual protest organized after the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival evicted a transsexual woman.
The author visits Camp Trans, an annual protest organized after the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival evicted a transsexual woman.
Michelle Tea The Believer Nov 2003 1h Permalink
How OxyContin permeated one small town.
Ann Silversides Maisonneuve Apr 2013 30min Permalink
On the holy city of Canudos, and other attempts at better living “by the dispossessed and marginalized the world over.”
Jacob Mikanowski The Awl Apr 2013 15min Permalink
A legal battle over stolen computer monitors ends one man’s career and the lives of three others.
Brantley Hargrove Dallas Observer May 2013 20min Permalink
In the days following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, more than 100 cities experienced significant civil disturbance. In New York, everyone expected riots. What happened next.
Clay Risen The Morning News Jan 2009 10min Permalink
Natasha Vargas-Cooper has written for GQ, Spin and BuzzFeed.
"Writing is the worst part of this gig for me. I hate sitting down and writing; it's being with my worst self. … But then, when it's over, it's the best. I have no greater joy than reading what I've published—with the exception of some editors who have fucked up my shit."</i>
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May 2013 Permalink
On Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh, “the world’s most wanted terrorist not named Osama bin Laden,” whose death five years ago remains a mystery.
Mark Perry Foreign Policy Apr 2013 15min Permalink
The brief life and complicated death of Tommy Lasorda’s gay son.
Peter Richmond GQ Oct 1992 30min Permalink
A profile of the country music legend.
Nick Tosches Texas Monthly Jul 1994 25min Permalink
Excerpts from the once-classified journals of a current prisoner.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi Slate Apr 2013 1h5min Permalink
The story of three peace activists — a drifter, an 82-year-old nun and a house painter — who penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the United States.
Dan Zak Washington Post Apr 2013 40min Permalink
A captured bank robber makes a remarkable claim.
Tom Schoenberg Businessweek Apr 2013 10min Permalink
“It’s insanity to kill your father with a kitchen knife. It’s also insanity to close hospitals, fire therapists, and leave families to face mental illness on their own.”
Mac McClelland Mother Jones Apr 2013 35min Permalink
Libor, ISDAfix, and how the big banks do business.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Apr 2013 15min Permalink
Kosovo’s leaders have been accused of grotesque war crimes. But can anyone prove it?
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker May 2013 35min Permalink
The story of the manhunt.
Globe Staff The Boston Globe Apr 2013 55min Permalink
How social psychologist Diederik Stapel committed and rationalized an audacious academic fraud, and what his lies reveal about the culture of scientific research.
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee New York Times Magazine Apr 2013 20min Permalink
Iverson, DiMaggio, Dykstra, Canseco, TO — a collection of picks on post-career woe.
“Which is the largest country in the world, economically speaking? It’s America, the United States. Do you know why? Because way back—this is history, you can look it up on the Internet—the colonization was done by men who believed in the word of God. And they were tithers. That’s why you see on the dollar bill: ‘In God we trust.”
Alex Cuadros Businessweek Apr 2013 15min Permalink
“I love my mother a not-normal amount.”
Mary H K Choi Aeon Apr 2013 10min Permalink
Marketing research,the pre-Facebook history of ‘likeability,’ and why there will never be a ‘dislike’ button.
Robert W. Gehl The New Inquiry Mar 2013 Permalink
A profile of Alexey Navalny, a Russian anti-corruption crusader.
Julia Ioffe New Yorker Apr 2011 25min Permalink
Why awareness isn’t saving lives.
Peggy Orenstein New York Times Magazine Apr 2013 20min Permalink
When a 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur pulled over to answer a text message he was carjacked by Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. This is what happened that night and how he escaped.
Eric Moskowitz The Boston Globe Apr 2013 10min Permalink
Aside from the wealthiest players, nine out of 10 NFL athletes are likely to be insolvent within 10 years of retirement. A new executive MBA program aims to change that.
Ben Austen GQ Apr 2013 20min Permalink