America is Bull
On the rodeo.
On the rodeo.
Jeanne Marie Laskas Esquire Jan 1999 25min Permalink
A profile of Ron Paul.
Kelefa Sanneh New Yorker Feb 2012 20min Permalink
The story of a young man on the run in the slum he dreams of escaping.
The stories of a record-setting chain of transplants.
Kevin Sack New York Times Feb 2012 Permalink
Exploring the relationship between authors and their parents.
It mattered to her that she could have, or might have, been a writer, and perhaps it mattered to me more than I fully understood. She watched my books appear with considerable interest, and wrote me an oddly formal letter about the style of each one, but she was, I knew, also uneasy about my novels. She found them too slow and sad and oddly personal. She was careful not to say too much about this, except once when she felt that I had described her and things which had happened to her too obviously and too openly. That time she said that she might indeed soon write her own book. She made a book sound like a weapon.
Colm Tóibín The Guardian Feb 2012 15min Permalink
“In the very near future, the act of remembering will become a choice.”
Jonah Lehrer Wired Feb 2012 25min Permalink
A profile of New York chef and fisherman David Pasternack.
Mark Singer New Yorker Sep 2005 30min Permalink
A profile of Taylor Wilson, who achieved nuclear fusion at age 14.
Tom Clynes Popular Science Feb 2012 20min Permalink
Before I met Robert Jeffress, I wanted to hate him. Jeffress is the conservative preacher who made national headlines in October, when he called Mormonism a cult. He’s the senior pastor at First Baptist Dallas, the oldest megachurch in America, and I am certainly not a Baptist. He endorsed Rick Perry for president, and I’m definitely no fan of Perry’s. As a matter of fact, Robert Jeffress and I probably disagree on every major political and religious issue. And yet, I really, really like him.
Michael J. Mooney D Magazine Jan 2012 15min Permalink
Contemplating Gaudi’s unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia church, as the controversial finishing work is completed.
Stephen Crittenden The Global Mail Feb 2012 10min Permalink
The story of Olympic boxing hopeful Quanitta Underwood, who was sexually abused by her father as a child.
Barry Bearak New York Times Feb 2012 15min Permalink
An investigation into how a 19-year-old college freshman ended up buried in a landfill.
Dan P. Lee Philadelphia Magazine Jun 2008 15min Permalink
As U.S. troops departed, Baghdad in ruins.
Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. While on assignment for the New York Times, Anthony Shadid died today in Syria.
Anthony Shadid Washington Post Jul 2009 10min Permalink
Dotcom didn’t look like a criminal genius. With his ginger hair, chubby cheeks, and odd fashion sense—he often wore black suits and white-on-black wingtip shoes—he looked like he should be setting up a magic table.
How Kim Schmitz, the proprietor of Megaupload, made his fortune and landed in a New Zealand prison.
Bryan Gruley, Cornelius Rahn, David Fickling Businessweek Feb 2012 15min Permalink
Inside the world of targeted marketing.
Charles Duhigg New York Times Magazine Feb 2012 15min Permalink
On House Xtravaganza and the life and death of its house mother Angie Xtravaganza, one of the stars of the documentary Paris is Burning, which brought vogueing and New York City’s transgendered ball culture into the spotlight.
Michael Cunningham Open City Jan 1995 30min Permalink
On the Susan B. Anthony List, the anti-choice power broker:
In a year when 11 women are running for the U.S. Senate, including six pro-choice Democratic incumbents, the efforts of a group founded by second-wave feminists, named for a first-wave feminist, could once again be a major force in reducing female representation in Congress.
Monica Potts The American Prospect Feb 2012 20min Permalink
The story of a high school star who died minutes after hitting a game-winner to end an undefeated season, and the family and friends he left behind.
Thomas Lake Sports Illustrated Feb 2012 25min Permalink
On Mike Powell, a Chicago-area high school wrestling coach who hasn’t allowed a life-threatening illness to interrupt his life’s work.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Feb 2012 30min Permalink
He has worked for Apple, Google, AOL, the Rainbow Room. He hangs out with Steve Case, Gordon Ramsey, Tim Armstrong. He's a world-class surfer, a AAA baseball legend, the founder of a seminal punk band. He's one of the more persistent and obsessive grifters to ply the streets of New York City—not to mention online dating sites—in recent decades.
A profile of Quentin Rowan, a.k.a. Q. R. Markham, ‘author’ of last fall’s short-lived spy novel hit Assassins of Secrets, which was pieced together using more than a dozen sources.
Lizzie Widdicombe New Yorker Feb 2012 25min Permalink
An industry responds to the recession by rebranding the carrot as anything but vegetable.
Douglas McGray Fast Company Mar 2011 10min Permalink
A report from the freediving word championships.
James Nestor Outside Feb 2012 25min Permalink
Idleness is not just a psychological necessity, requisite to the construction of a complete human being; it constitutes as well a kind of political space, a space as necessary to the workings of an actual democracy as, say, a free press.
Mark Slouka Harper's Nov 2004 20min Permalink
How an industry that couldn’t miss did just that.
Juliet Eilperin Wired Feb 2012 25min Permalink