Horrific Fire Revealed a Gap in Safety for Global Brands
The human lives lost in exchange for cheaper goods.
The Gene Weingarten Archive
Legendary birthday clowns, tragically neglectful parents, and a dogged search for the armpit of America — Weingarten on Longform.
Since 1979, Brian Murtagh has fought to keep convicted murderer Jeffrey MacDonald in prison
Analysis of the divisive murder case.
2 Good 2 Be 4Gotten
An oral history of Freaks and Geeks.
The Hells Angels' Devilish Business
How the biker gang makes money.
Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder Brings Woman Agony, Not Ecstasy
Gretchen Molannen was perpetually aroused. She couldn’t work or sleep.
On December 1, the day after this story was published, she killed herself.
Tinker To Evers To Chance ... To Me
The brilliant, tragic life of Hall of Fame second baseman Johnny Evers.
Twelve Easy Pieces
On a business that sells packaged pre-sliced apples as snack food.
Choire Sicha is co-founder of The Awl.
"People come to me pretty much every week ... and say 'I'm starting a website about ... say ... Canadian ... candy makers' and they're like 'What's the secret?' And I say, the secret is when we launched there were three of us. Two of us were doing editorial. And one of was doing business. And guess what? We had a new product and he had nothing to do all day so he had to make himself a job that was about revenue. So, who is this dedicated person at your company? And they're like 'we're both editorial' and I'm like 'you're hosed, you're done, forget about it.'"
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The Bottle and the Babe
A profile of Robert Cade, a University of Florida professor and inventor of Gatorade.
Stagger Lee
Reverse engineering the details of a murder that took place in St. Louis on Christmas Night in 1895 from over a century of popular song.
The Smartest Girls in the Room
How an obscure Australian judge and a hard-charging lawyer put the S&P on trial for the global financial collapse.
When Books Could Change Your Life
On the power of youth literature.
United States of Subsidies
How business incentives impact local economies.
The Rise and Fall of 'Nails'
Baseball legend Lenny Dykstra’s on-field brilliance and private-life disasters, from drunk driving to failed investment and publishing ventures.
Remains of the Day
A wedding photographer catches up with his past clients.
Man on Fire
The story of one Tibetan’s protest.
4:52 on Christmas Morning
A father’s life, one year after the death of his three daughters in a fire.
Pregnant Pause?
On drinking alcohol while pregnant.
The Zombie Hunters
Tracking cyberextortionists and their roving swarms of bots.
An Unexpected Fix
On starting a rural retreat for recovering addicts.
Atari Teenage Riot
A “crude table-tennis arcade game” called Pong and the birth of the video game industry.
Toques from Underground
Los Angeles’ Wolvesmouth and the unlicensed dining industry.
EST, Werner Erhard, And the Corporatization of Self-Help
How Human Potential Movement workshops permeated our lives and our businesses.
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The editors take on The Atlantic, Harper's, and The Paris Review. Lawrence Jackson goes up against the Slickheads. Julia Grønnevet reports from the Anders Behring Breivik trial in Oslo. Nikil Saval surveys China's long Eighties.
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