Grandpa Was A Baller
One man’s stories from the early days of the NBA.
The Longform Guide to Restaurants
Manic chefs, the first singles bar, and the secret to McDonald’s fries—a collection of stories about the restaurant business, at Slate.
Everest, the Grandaddy of Walking Adventures
Eco-tourism in the Himalayas.
The valley is everything you'd want and more. An icy milky river thunders over rocks and below steep wooded slopes are lush fields where people are working the land, oblivious to the Gore-Tex procession. Oblivious but not unaffected: the houses are smart, the prayer wheels freshly painted, just about everyone has a mobile phone, it seems, and is on it, and there are very few places you can't get a signal around here. This is not really the place to come if you're looking for peace and quiet.
Psychology of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
The story of one man’s descent into lies and illegal activity – and why it could so easily happen to any of us.
What Goes 95 Miles Per Hour for 17 Days Straight Through Mud, Sand, High-Speed Smash-Ups and Marauding Bandits?
Participating in the Dakar Rally.
Lay It Down, Clowns!
The Beastie Boys on tour in Los Angeles shortly after the release of their debut album, Licensed to Ill.
What's In a Name?
The author muses on the markers we use to identify ourselves and other people – from names to photographs to fingerprints.
The Exorcist in Love
A profile of Laura Knight, a Florida mother of five who investigates the paranormal.
The Kid Who Wasn't There
An investigation into the true identity of a high school basketball player.
Direct Fail
On trying and sentencing juvenile offenders as adults.
2012 National Magazine Awards Winners
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Paper Tigers [Essays and Criticism] Wesley Yang • New YorkWhat becomes of Asian-American overachievers after the test-taking ends?
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Joplin! [Feature Writing]Luke Dittrich • EsquireThe stories of two dozen strangers who survived the Joplin, Mo., tornado by hiding in a walk-in beer cooler.
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Italian America [Leisure] John Mariani • SaveurItalian immigrants took pride in feeding their families sumptuously.
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The Secret That Kills Four Women a Day [Personal Service] Liz Brody • GlamourWhy is relationship violence still so frighteningly common in 2011?
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Barrett Brown is Anonymous [Profile Writing]Tim Rogers • D MagazineOn the young man who helped overthrow the government of Tunisia from a Dallas apartment.
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The Invisible Army [Public Interest] Sarah Stillman • New YorkerFor foreign workers on U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, war can be hell.
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The Apostate [Reporting] Lawrence Wright • New YorkerA screenwriter flees Scientology.
The People V. Football
The story of former Vikings linebacker Fred McNeill and the lasting impact of his concussions.
David Horowitz Is Homeless
Horowitz went from the New Left to the far right. Now neither side wants him.
The Oakling and the Oak
On “Poor Hartley,” the son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius
Margaret Profet, evolutionary biologist and MacArthur grant recipient, disappeared in 2005. She has neither been seen nor heard from since.
The Purpose of Spectacular Wealth, According to a Spectacularly Wealthy Guy
Romney’s former Bain partner makes a case for inequality.
Drive-By Truckers
The rise of the long-haul trucker/serial killer, as excerpted from Ginger Strand’s book Killer on the Road.
Myths and Depths
A free-ranging conversation between music writers Simon Reynolds and Greil Marcus.
Scripting on the Lido Deck
On board the Perl Whirl 2000, a conference of hard-coding geeks on a luxury cruise ship.
Is an ESPN Columnist Scamming People on the Internet?
The strange saga of Sarah Phillips, who went from message board commenter to ESPN gambling columnist and hid her identity from editors, scamming many of the people she met along the way.
"We know that in public life, as in personal life, nothing is more destructive of the self than being surrounded by sycophants."
The Mexican novelist and activist talks about the role that the US plays in the hemisphere, and a joint future for North and South America.
We need your memory and your imagination or ours shall never be complete. You need our memory to redeem your past, and our imagination to complete your future. We may be here on this hemisphere for a long time. Let us remember one another. Let us respect one another. Let us walk together outside the night of repression and hunger and intervention, even if for you the sun is at high noon and for us at a quarter to twelve.
Colossal in Scale, Appalling in Complexity
On Norman Bel Geddes, pioneer of miniatures and maker of the “most iconic World’s Fair exhibit of all time.”
Uncatchable
George Wright spent more time on the lam, 41 years, than any fugitive in American history. Last fall, after being caught in a rural Portuguese village, he told his story.
Shop Class as Soulcraft
A call for making a living with your hands.
Vancouver's Supervised Drug Injection Center: How Does It Work?
An interview on the logistics of running North America’s only legal facility for drug addicts to push heroin and cocaine and other types of substances into their veins.
