Hasids vs. Hipsters
The abridged history of a Brooklyn culture war.
The abridged history of a Brooklyn culture war.
Christopher Glazek n+1 Feb 2011 15min Permalink
The story of H1N1 and one of the lives it claimed.
Thomas Lake Atlanta Magazine Jun 2010 Permalink
On the dilemmas facing a (very famous) working mother in New York City. “It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam—which, let me make it very clear, I have not done—than it is to speak honestly about this topic.”
Tina Fey New Yorker Feb 2011 Permalink
How J.C. Penney gamed Google and became the top result for searches on everything from “area rugs” to “skinny jeans.”
David Segal New York Times Feb 2011 Permalink
The father: an Oscar-winning songwriter. The son, a college dropout and partier around downtown New York. Their alleged crimes; serial casting-couch rape (the senior) and a drowning murder in a Soho House bathtub (the junior).
James Verini New York Feb 2011 20min Permalink
“You’re either with Korn and Limp Bizkit, or you’re against them.” The birth of nu-metal.
Steven Hyden AV Club Feb 2011 Permalink
A look at the legislative lobbying efforts of Michael Bloomberg’s $7 billion-per-year company. While the mayor has no specific day-to-day role at Bloomberg LP, he maintains “the type of involvement that he believes is consistent with his being the majority shareholder.”
Aram Roston The Nation Feb 2011 Permalink
How a Nigerian-American conned upwards of $40 million from banks during the housing boom using publicly available information from the internet, persuasive storytelling, and prepaid cellphones, and then ditched his FBI tail in a casino.
Luke O'Brien Fortune Jan 2011 15min Permalink
The story of three months spent training reporters in Saudi Arabia, where the press is far from free. “I suspected that behind the closed gates of Saudi society there was a social revolution in the making. With some guidance, I thought, these journalists could help inspire change.”
Lawrence Wright New Yorker Jan 2004 Permalink
Brooklyn, Illinois has one of the most dense clusters of strip clubs and rubdown parlors in the entire country, drawing patrons from nearby St. Louis and its suburbs. Inside the clubs with the dancers, a strip club scholar, the mayor, and the regulars whose dollars keep the depressed local economy afloat.
Scott Eden Maisonneuve Dec 2004 50min Permalink
When Conan O’Brien left NBC, he agreed to stay off TV for months and stay quiet about the network and its executives. The agreement contained no mention of social media, however. On the origins of a digital renaissance.
Douglas Alden Warshaw Fortune Feb 2011 15min Permalink
An opinion piece on the structural causes of unrest in Egypt; the business fraternity, globalization, and the fate of Egyptian women.
Paul Amar Al-Jazeera English Feb 2011 Permalink
On the enduring racial segregation in Chicago and why it’s an issue no mayoral candidate is willing to touch.
Steve Bogira Chicago Reader Feb 2011 Permalink
Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity; when will our minds meld with the machine?
Lev Grossman Time Feb 2011 Permalink
A profile of Vova Galchenko, teenage juggling virtuoso and early viral star.
Jason Fagone Play Jun 2008 Permalink
On the Cairo knifing of 82-year-old Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz and its aftermath.
Mary Anne Weaver New Yorker Jan 1995 55min Permalink
On Mark Twain’s recently released memoir.
A primer on income inequality in America.
Tyler Cowen The American Interest Feb 2011 Permalink
A profile of Republican Eric Cantor: six-term congressman, new House majority leader, highest-ranking Jewish elected official in American history.
Allison Hoffman Tablet Feb 2011 Permalink
Cathie Black, former magazine executive, currently Bloomberg’s hand-picked Chancellor of New York City schools
Chris Smith New York Feb 2011 25min Permalink
A look at what it takes to protect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he’s in New York City.
Marc Ambinder The Atlantic Mar 2011 Permalink
A profile of Arianna Huffington.
Lauren Collins New Yorker Oct 2008 40min Permalink
Born into Sea Org; a diary of a misspent youth (and adulthood) in the service of Scientology. “One of the first things I learned in the Sea Org, because I was a receptionist, was how to handle process servers.” (25,000 words)
Ex-Scientology Kids Jan 2011 1h40min Permalink
How the Taliban reestablished itself as both a “quasi government” and a military force, and what that success means for the Pentagon’s plan to pass responsibility to Afghan forces by 2014.
C.J. Chivers New York Times Feb 2011 Permalink
What the twentieth century history of rocketry can tell us about innovation.
Neal Stephenson Slate Feb 2011 20min Permalink