An argument for outing a notorious message board member: “Under Reddit logic, outing Violentacrez is worse than anonymously posting creepshots of innocent women, because doing so would undermine Reddit’s role as a safe place for people to anonymously post creepshots of innocent women. I am OK with that.”
Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian launches an ambitious campaign.
Joshuah Bearman discusses "The Great Escape," his article about a CIA operation in Iran that became the basis for the new film Argo.
"We were sitting there and we were like, 'This would be perfect for George Clooney.' And it very quickly in fact turned out that George Clooney wanted it. So not long after David and I had been having our daydream, we had this project that Clooney had taken quickly into the empyrean heights of Hollywood."
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A strange, ongoing property battle among the richest of Texans.
How a couple made millions on uncanny forgeries.
The last men who ride the rails, “where silence and lawlessness still reign.”
Meet Kareem Ahmed, the President’s reclusive bankroller.
Chris Jones (Live in Romania)
Evan Ratliff interviews Chris Jones before a live audience in Bucharest, hosted by the Romanian magazine Decât o Revistă.
"It just feels good to fucking win ... If you want to say 'Let's get rid of [journalism awards],' no problem. But if they exist, I want to win them. Just because I won two—I know Gary Smith has won four. I want five. Unless Gary Smith wins five, and then I want six. That's just how I work. And maybe that's a terrible, competitive, creepy thing. But journalism is competitive."
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A Javanese shrine where Muslim pilgrims seeking good fortune must peform a ritual: find a stranger, have sex with them.
Unraveling the layers of upstate New York’s most reclusive community.
In Argentina, where the fútbol underworld controls everything from t-shirt vending to murder, and “rowdy gangs” have turned the stadium into a battleground.
How one woman is monitoring the jihadi network from a home office in Montana.
A spy takes on his own agency.
Why the flood of money in this election is just the beginning.
On Bruce Springsteen’s song, and growing up in a factory town.
The complete (to date) New York Times series on the globalization of high tech industries.
For the first time, the giants of the tech industry are spending more on creating, buying, and fighting patents than they are on R&D.
Part of New York Times’ ongoing iEconomy series.
Separated from his older brother at a train, five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan found himself lost in the slums of Calcutta. In his 20s, living in Australia, he began his search for his birth home armed with nothing but hazy memories and Google Earth.
Frank Firetti, a 54-year-old pool salesman in Virginia, and his fading American dream.
On a biography of David Foster Wallace.
On the strange relationship between Lionel Messi and his Argentinian hometown.
On the staff of a Trader Joe’s in New York City.
A clue-filled children’s book, a golden hare, and Britain’s greatest treasure hunt.
How Tony Galeota went from mobbed-up teen on Long Island to legendary strip club manager in Miami to distraught prisoner in a Panamanian jail.
Grizzly Bear and the surprisingly crappy economics of indie rock stardom.
