Exit Interview: Timothy Geithner
The outgoing treasury secretary on his financial crisis regrets, putting policy before politics, and whether Washington will ever be able to strike a grand bargain.
The outgoing treasury secretary on his financial crisis regrets, putting policy before politics, and whether Washington will ever be able to strike a grand bargain.
Liaquat Ahamed, Timothy Geithner The New Republic Jan 2013 15min Permalink
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Calculating restitution for victims of child pornography.
Emily Bazelon New York Times Magazine Jan 2013 20min Permalink
“Hillary Clinton was never a shy person.”
Connie Bruck New Yorker May 1994 2h10min Permalink
A history of the Hollywood publicity racket.
Anne Helen Petersen The Virginia Quarterly Review Jan 2013 30min Permalink
On being stalked in the age of the Internet.
James Lasdun The Chronicle of Higher Education Jan 2013 20min Permalink
Susan Orlean is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
"There's always the fear, which comes with having done it for a long time, that you're repeating yourself. That's actually a genuine concern—you worry that you're becoming an imitiation of yourself ... The funny thing is that you spend the first half of your career wanting desperately to have a voice that's distinctive and recognizable, then you go to the other side of that and think oh my god, all my stories sound the same."
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Twenty years ago, Ramaphosa was by Mandela’s side as apartheid ended and in line to become deputy president. He didn’t get the job. Now one of the richest men in Africa, he’s finally getting the chance.
Bill Keller New York Times Magazine Jan 2013 20min Permalink
Digging for Return of the Jedi set remnants in the desert.
Jon Mooallem Harper's Mar 2009 30min Permalink
On the cranky king of New York sports talk.
Joe DePaolo SB Nation Jan 2013 30min Permalink
A scholarly dispute devolves into criminal impersonation.
Batya Ungar-Sargon Tablet Jan 2013 10min Permalink
The science behind why high school sucks.
Jennifer Senior New York Jan 2013 20min Permalink
How the United States came to spend more on defense than all the other nations of the world combined.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Jan 2013 20min Permalink
Afghanistan’s Kyrgyz nomads survive in one of Earth’s most remote places, a pocket of land 14,000 feet high where the currency is sheep, the dream is a road, and many will go an entire lifetime without ever seeing a tree.
Michael Finkel National Geographic Feb 2013 15min Permalink
When the East Coast mob showed up in L.A. in 1946, the LAPD formed a ruthess special unit to run them out of town: the Gangster Squad.
Paul Lieberman The Los Angeles Times Oct 2008 30min Permalink
Learning of a plot against the life of the newly elected Lincoln, Alan Pinkerton decamps to Baltimore and infiltrates the conspiracy.
Daniel Stashower Smithsonian Jan 2013 Permalink
A trip to CES, “what a World’s Fair might look like if brands were more important than countries.”
Lydia DePillis The New Republic Jan 2013 20min Permalink
In search of the perfect lie detector test.
Adam Higginbotham Wired Jan 2013 15min Permalink
On commercial diving, the third most deadly profession.
Nathaniel Rich New York Review of Books Jan 2013 20min Permalink
In this special episode with Stephen Rodrick, contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and contributing editor at Men's Journal, Rodrick discusses his recent story "Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie."
"Publicists don't want to give you access because they're afraid of what you're going to see. But if you spend enough time with anybody, short of Mussolini or Ghengis Khan, they're going to humanize themselves. Because they're human beings, like you are. And they have whatever demented battles they're fighting, their version of crazy, but if you get to spend some time with them as flesh and blood, they're going to come across as flesh and blood in the story."
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Being injured in the NFL.
How an overzealous forensic pathologist and his odontologist sidekick put innocent Mississippi residents behind bars – and let killers run free.
Radley Balko The Huffington Post Jan 2013 30min Permalink
How PTSD spreads from returning soldiers to their families.
Mac McClelland Mother Jones Jan 2013 35min Permalink
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He was an 18 year old Marine bound for Iraq. She was a high school senior in West Virginia. They grew intimate over IM. His dad also started contacting her. No one was who they claimed to be and it led to a murder.
Nadya Labi Wired Aug 2007 15min
John Dirr’s son Eli didn’t really have cancer. In fact, neither Eli nor John Dirr ever existed. The story of a decade-long hoax.
Adrian Chen Gawker Jun 2012
On an affliction for the digital age, “Munchausen by internet.”
Cienna Madrid The Stranger Nov 2012 35min
How a 19-year-old actress and a few struggling Web filmmakers created a star.
Joshua Davis Wired Dec 2006 15min
How a Massachusetts psychotherapist fell for a Nigerian e-mail scam.
Michael Zuckoff New Yorker May 2006 20min
The story was told by Sports Illustrated, CBS News, and countless others: linbeacker Manti Te’o, Heisman trophy candidate and the face of Notre Dame football, was playing brilliantly despite the tragic loss of his girfriend to leukemia early in the season. The reporters missed one key element of Te’o’s story, however: the girl hadn’t died. She couldn’t have. She didn’t exist.
Timothy Burke, Jack Dickey Deadspin Jan 2013 15min
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