The Hardest Job in Football
A profile of Bob Fishman, the impresario of CBS’s NFL production crew.
A profile of Bob Fishman, the impresario of CBS’s NFL production crew.
Mark Bowden The Atlantic Feb 2009 20min Permalink
On the FBI’s program to infiltrate Muslim communities in America.
Trevor Aaronson Mother Jones Sep 2011 Permalink
Four unhealthy, bearded, mostly unknown comedians from Atlanta tour 3,020 miles in a van.
Justin Heckert Atlanta Magazine Apr 2011 Permalink
Gainsbourg decked out his home at 5 Rue de Verneuil in Saint Germain all in black, inspired by a time when he was younger when he'd somehow got the keys to Salvador Dali's house and made love to his first wife in every room while Dali was away. He even stole a small token souvenir in the form of a picture from Dali's porn collection. (Serge was obsessed with Dali and the pair later became friends. The title of 'Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus' - roughly translated as 'I love you, me neither' - was inspired by something Dali was once supposed to have said: "Picasso is Spanish - so am I; Picasso is a genius - so am I; Picasso is a communist - me neither.")
Jeremy Allen The Quietus Aug 2011 10min Permalink
On the constantly evolving definition of insider trading and the lingering question of how inside traders should be punished.
Roger Lowenstein New York Times Magazine Sep 2011 20min Permalink
The case for coaches in professions other than music and sports. Like medicine, for example:
Since I have taken on a coach, my complication rate has gone down. It’s too soon to know for sure whether that’s not random, but it seems real. I know that I’m learning again. I can’t say that every surgeon needs a coach to do his or her best work, but I’ve discovered that I do.
Atul Gawande New Yorker Sep 2011 30min Permalink
Abdul Raziq, a 33-year-old warlord, is an increasingly powerful player in Afghanistan and the recipient of substantial U.S. support. He may also be the perpetrator of a civilian massacre.
Matthieu Aikins The Atlantic Nov 2011 10min Permalink
An oral history of the Upright Citizens Brigade.
Brian Raftery New York Sep 2011 20min Permalink
How a town of 29,000 on the Hudson River came to be “one of the most dangerous four-mile stretches in the northeastern United States.”
Patrick Radden Keefe New York Sep 2011 20min Permalink
The Haqqani family, an organized crime militia dubbed the “Sopranos of the Afghanistan war,” will almost surely outlast the U.S. occupation and thus seize tremendous power after the U.S. exits.
Alissa J. Rubin, Mark Mazzetti, Scott Shane New York Times Sep 2011 10min Permalink
In 1959, a social psychologist in Michigan brought together three institutionalized patients for an experiment:
[W]hat would happen, he wondered, if he made three men meet and live closely side by side over a period of time, each of whom believed himself to be the one and only Jesus Christ?
Jenny Diski London Review of Books Sep 2011 20min Permalink
The first thing I did at Walt Disney World was to take an oath not to make any smart-aleck remarks. A Disney public-relations man had told me that attitude was everything. So I placed my left hand on a seven-Adventure book of tickets to the Magic Kingdom and raised my right hand and promised that there would be no sarcasm on my lips or in my heart.
Calvin Trillin New Yorker Jan 1971 10min Permalink
How an Italian thug looted MGM, brought Credit Lyonnais to its knees, and made the Pope cry.
Anne Faircloth, David McClintick Fortune Jul 1996 45min Permalink
On the life of a small-town druggist in Colorado.
Peter Hessler New Yorker Sep 2011 20min Permalink
Portrait of a Chinese-American family living in New York.
Sarah Kramer New York Times Sep 2011 15min Permalink
From the Econo-Lodge to the Porcupine Freedom Festival, on the campaign trail with former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, the fringe candidate who doesn’t really seem he should be a fringe candidate.
Lisa DePaulo GQ Sep 2011 25min Permalink
How mitigation specialists are changing the application of the death penalty:
In Texas, the most prominent mitigation strategist is a lawyer named Danalynn Recer, the executive director of the Gulf Region Advocacy Center. Based in Houston, GRACE has represented defendants in death-penalty cases since 2002. “The idea was to improve the way capital trials were done in Texas, to start an office that would bring the best practices from other places and put them to work here,” Recer said recently. “This is not some unknowable thing. This is not curing cancer. We know how to do this. It is possible to persuade a jury to value someone’s life.”
Jeffrey Toobin New Yorker May 2011 20min Permalink
The original article on Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s, published a month before the release of Moneyball.
Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Mar 2003 35min Permalink
The stories of two dozen strangers who survived the Joplin, Mo., tornado by hiding in a walk-in beer cooler.
Luke Dittrich Esquire Jan 2012 35min Permalink
N.K.: So when you saw the photo of Neda Soltan, what did you think? M.A.: It was incredibly sad, due to many reasons. First we have proof that that scene was staged, and she was killed later, at a later point. This footage was shown for the first time by BBC. Our security officers and officials had no information of such a thing. but if BBC makes the complete footage from beginning to end available to us, we will analyze it, we will research it because we do search for those who are truly guilty of murdering this young lady. And also, a scene fairly close to this—almost a photocopy I would say—was repeated previously in a South American country—in a Latin American country. this is not a new scene. And they previously tell those who are due to participate, they tell them that “you will be participating in making a short footage, a short movie, a short clip.” After their participation is finished they take them to some place and they kill them. If BBC is willing to broadcast this film, this footage in its entirety, any viewer would be able to distinguish whether it is as we say or it is as they maintain.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Nicholas Kristof New York Times Sep 2011 20min Permalink
Eight years after Moneyball, nearly every MLB front office has integrated statistical analysis into its strategic process. So where does that leave a former wunderkind like Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein?
Tom Verducci Sports Illustrated Sep 2011 20min Permalink
An account of the trial of Warren Jeffs, the polygamous prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Katy Vine Texas Monthly Oct 2011 25min Permalink
In the days after 9/11, Mark Stroman went on a revenge killing spree in Texas. Rais Bhuiyan survived and, a decade later, tried to stop Stroman’s execution.
Michael J. Mooney D Magazine Oct 2011 25min Permalink
The aftermath of a revolution:
Amid all the chaos of Libya’s transition from war to peace, one remarkable theme stood out: the relative absence of revenge. Despite the atrocities carried out by Qaddafi’s forces in the final months and even days, I heard very few reports of retaliatory killings. Once, as I watched a wounded Qaddafi soldier being brought into a hospital on a gurney, a rebel walked past and smacked him on the head. Instantly, the rebel standing next to me apologized. My Libyan fixer told me in late August that he had found the man who tortured him in prison a few weeks earlier. The torturer was now himself in a rebel prison. “I gave him a coffee and a cigarette,” he said. “We have all seen what happened in Iraq.” That restraint was easy to admire.
Robert F. Worth New York Times Sep 2011 1h15min Permalink
Tourism in Burma? A journey through Asia’s most anesthetized state.
Michael Paterniti Outside Dec 1996 30min Permalink