When My Crazy Father Actually Lost His Mind
On caring for a bipolar parent amidst a broken mental health care system.
On caring for a bipolar parent amidst a broken mental health care system.
Jeneen Interlandi New York Times Magazine Jun 2012 20min Permalink
Inside the increasingly hostile global warming debate.
Tom Clynes Popular Science Jun 2012 20min Permalink
The case against Richard Florida.
Frank Bures Thirty Two Jun 2012 15min Permalink
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One night in Newark with Chris Christie and Bruce Springsteen.
“No one is beyond the reach of Bruce!” he screams over the noise of the crowd, and then screams it again, to make sure I understand: “No one is beyond the reach of Bruce!”
Jeffrey Goldberg The Atlantic Jul 2012 Permalink
Meet Dr. Schnoz, the nose-sculpting YouTube king of Miami.
Michael E. Miller The Miami New Times Jun 2012 20min Permalink
A profile of Ann Coulter, “the glowing scimitar of the American right.”
George Gurley The New York Observer Aug 2002 15min Permalink
How a Harvard-educated neurologist, a courtly southern gentlemen, and a Hollywood rent boy ended up at the center of an international manhunt that spread from the staid business community of Columbus, Ohio to the coffee shops of Amsterdam.
Ann Louise Bardach Vanity Fair Oct 1989 2h15min Permalink
The bizarre story of the disappearance of “downtown legend” John Lurie after a former friend resolved to take his life.
Tad Friend New Yorker Aug 2010 35min Permalink
“My mother became my daughter when I was nine years old.”
Samantha Irby The Rumpus Jun 2012 15min Permalink
Americans learn to love themselves.
A three-part investigation into New Jersey’s halfway house system.
Sam Dolnick New York Times Jun 2012 55min Permalink
The fifty-year battle over where we store our nuclear remains.
Matt Stroud The Verge Jun 2012 40min Permalink
Vindication for an awkward art.
Ben McGrath New Yorker May 2004 20min Permalink
How technological progress slowed from its 20th-century peak, why we’ve shifted from changing reality to simply simulating reality, and whether capitalism is the true culprit.
David Graeber The Baffler Jun 2012 Permalink
A profile of Fiona Apple.
Dan P. Lee New York Jun 2012 30min Permalink
On a child born during the L.A. riots, and South Central a decade later.
Daniel Voll Esquire May 2002 40min Permalink
On Jack Idema, a con-man who once ran a pet hotel before reinventing himself as a black-ops secret agent in Afghanistan, and the history of counterinsurgency theory.
Adam Curtis BBC Jun 2012 25min Permalink
Visiting his daughter in San Francisco, the author longs for food delivery in Manhattan.
Calvin Trillin New Yorker Jan 2003 10min Permalink
Revealing the murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians during a 1968 search-and-destroy mission on a rumored Viet Gong stronghold, often referred to in military circles as Pinkville, actually the village of My Lai.
Seymour Hersh The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Nov 1969 20min Permalink
The highest-ranking CIA officer to be convicted of spying passes the tricks of the trade along to his son.
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee GQ Jun 2012 25min Permalink
The people behind San Francisco’s Summer of Love.
Sheila Weller Vanity Fair Jul 2012 25min Permalink
Perpetually reinvented through experimental chemistry, manufactured in Asian mills, packaged in foil with names like White Slut Concentrated and Charley Sheene for use as “hookah cleaner,” distributed in college town head shops, snorted and injected by hardened addicts and high school thrill seekers alike, bath salts may be the strangest and most volatile American drug craze since crack. And they’re (quasi) legal.
Natasha Vargas-Cooper Spin Jun 2012 Permalink
On the moral failure of über-wealthy do-gooders.
Maria Bustillos The Awl Jun 2012 25min Permalink
Best Article Business Crime World
How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions.
Patrick Radden Keefe New York Times Magazine Jun 2012 20min Permalink
The education of a campaign manager.
Joshua Green Businessweek Jun 2012 15min Permalink