The Devil in George Jones
A profile of the country music legend.
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
Arts Politics World Movies & TV
On dissident filmmakers in Syria.
Lawrence Wright New Yorker May 2006 30min Permalink
The Livingston Awards honor the year’s best work by journliasts under the age of 35. Finalists in local, national, and international reporting were announced today—see the full list.
Dinner with the novelist, the book critic and “Myshkin, a 14-year-old female dachshund who is deaf but decidedly not mute.”
Boris Kachka New York Apr 2013 15min Permalink
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Dillie Nerios’s job is to convince people food is a right, not a luxury.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Apr 2013 10min Permalink
The harrowing first ascent of the mountain’s West Ridge.
Grayson Schaffer Outside Apr 2013 Permalink
Ted Conover is the author of five books and the recent Harper's article "The Way of All Flesh."
"My identity is a rubber band. It can stretch that way and it can stretch this way. When I get home it goes mostly back into the shape it's been, but not completely. And it's that not completely that is interesting and makes me who I am."</i>
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Apr 2013 Permalink
On the drone strikes that killed Anwar al-Awlaki and his U.S.-born son.
Jeremy Scahill The Nation Apr 2013 20min Permalink