Rolf Potts is a veteran travel writer.
"Instead of seeking out the stories, the stories sort of found me. I miss those days. I mean, I make more money from my writing now and I'm probably a better journalist. But having seven-day weeks to wander, month after month, for two years, was a great way to find real and spontaneous and human travel stories."</i>
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Amidst the football-obsessed culture of small-town Christian colleges in Kansas, a player is killed at a party.
The author tells the story of his kidnapping by militants in Syria.
In February, Jerusalem’s FC Beitar, the only soccer team in the Israeli Premier League to have never signed an Arab player, signed two Chechnyan Muslims, sparking national controversy and pitting the organization against their ultras fan club La Familia.
A 12-hour interview on career and craft.
A visit to a Maine museum devoted to Bigfoot and other mythical creatures.
Three boys falsely accused of murder, and what the twenty-year saga says about all of us.
The last escape of Anthony Roebles.
The bureaucratic hell of enforcing legislation in Washington.
The economics of Woonsocket, where one-third of residents rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
A profile of Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia.
An asshole learns to sing.
A participant in a deadly shooting spree decides to snitch on his friends.
The daily deals company turned down a $6 billion offer from Google and went public. Now its stock is down 80% and its founder/CEO has been fired. On Groupon’s failed strategy and tenuous future.
The author on his 25 years in solitary confinement.
“We can conclude at least two things with certainty about the tenants of One Hyde Park: they are extremely wealthy, and most of them don’t want you to know who they are and how they got their money.”
As the paper closes, a collection of its greatest hits.
It’s tempting to think Marco McMillian was killed because of his race, his sexuality, or because he was running for mayor. The truth is more elusive.
The story of Tim Danielson, one of America’s top high school distance runners, who went on to murder his ex-wife.
Mementos left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the man in charge of cataloging them.
“He was, it must be said, a pig. And my heart grew fonder.”
Money, money, money.
Diary of a veteran gadfly.
Jake Silverstein is editor-in-chief of Texas Monthly.
"Texas is not a frontier in the same way it was 150 years ago, but it still has a frontier mentality. And that's definitely true from a journalistic standpoint. ... You have more of a feeling that you're figuring things out for yourself. Which means that you make more mistakes, but you also have a little bit more leeway and freedom to find a certain path down here than you would if you were surrouded by other magazines and media companies."</i>
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A profile of a 51-year-old preparing himself for the inevitable.
