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On the moral failure of über-wealthy do-gooders.
On the moral failure of über-wealthy do-gooders.
Maria Bustillos The Awl Jun 2012 25min Permalink
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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
In 1941, hundreds of Jedwabne’s Jews were massacred by their neighbors.
Jan T. Gross New Yorker Mar 2001 35min Permalink
An interview with Marc Maron.
Kyle Dowling, Marc Maron The Believer Jun 2012 20min Permalink
A profile of life in Owsley County, one of the poorest in the country.
Monica Potts The American Prospect Jun 2012 30min Permalink
In the remote wilderness along northern British Columbia’s Highway 16, at least 18 women have gone missing over the past four decades. Is it the work of a serial killer or multiple offenders?
An essay on language, fatherhood and forgiveness.
Mark Warren Esquire Jun 2012 15min Permalink
On the Mexican drug cartel accused of laundering money with race horses.
Ginger Thompson New York Times Jun 2012 Permalink
The game’s past, present, and future.
Noah Davis The Verge Jun 2012 15min Permalink
The decline and fall of Cabrini-Green, Chicago’s infamous public housing development.
Ben Austen Harper's May 2012 Permalink
A 21-year-old’s audacious real estate scam and subsequent escape.
Kevin Purdy Buffalo Spree Jun 2012 25min Permalink
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A coffee shop owner finally gets to shut down his store.
Neal Pollack Chicago Reader Sep 2000 10min Permalink
On the Boston mobster’s exes.
T.J. English The Daily Beast Jun 2012 20min Permalink
The man who made millions selling counterfeit wines.
Michael Steinberger Vanity Fair Jul 2012 20min Permalink
Invented in 1899, it hasn’t been improved upon since.
Sara Goldsmith Slate May 2012 10min Permalink
The wealthy widow of an East Bay newspaper baron, her cowboy fantasy man, and the drowning nobody could solve.
Bryan Burrough Vanity Fair Sep 1997 40min Permalink
On Jenny Craig’s European expansion and how dieting differs in France and the States.
Susan Dominus New York Times Magazine Jun 2012 15min Permalink
From Joe Paterno to coal miners, the rodeo to fruit pickers, our story picks by the GQ correspondent.
Laskas on Longform.
On the complex nature of a presidential second term and what Obama would do if he wins one.
Ryan Lizza New Yorker Jun 2012 40min Permalink
I am gay. I am Mormon. I am married to a woman. I am happy every single day. My life is filled with joy. I have a wonderful sex life. And I’ve been married for ten years, and plan to be married for decades more to come to the woman of my dreams.
Shiva Ayyadurai told the world he invented email. Not everyone agreed.
Janelle Nanos Boston Magazine Jun 2012 15min Permalink
A former sex worker interviews a longtime John on how it feels to pay for it.
Antonia Crane The Rumpus Jun 2012 20min Permalink
The Watergate reporters look back.
In the course of his five-and-a-half-year presidency, beginning in 1969, Nixon launched and managed five successive and overlapping wars — against the anti-Vietnam War movement, the news media, the Democrats, the justice system and, finally, against history itself. All reflected a mind-set and a pattern of behavior that were uniquely and pervasively Nixon’s: a willingness to disregard the law for political advantage, and a quest for dirt and secrets about his opponents as an organizing principle of his presidency.
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein Washington Post Jun 2012 15min Permalink