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Behind the scenes of Conan vs. Leno. An excerpt from The War for Late Night.
Behind the scenes of Conan vs. Leno. An excerpt from The War for Late Night.
Bill Carter Vanity Fair Nov 2010 30min Permalink
A profile of Auburn quarterback Cameron Newton, junior college transfer and Heisman Trophy frontrunner.
Lars Anderson Sports Illustrated Nov 2010 10min Permalink
On China’s modern-day Communist Party and why foundational myths can never be shed.
Slavoj Žižek London Review of Books Oct 2010 10min Permalink
How an aging trio of Irish ‘travelers’ criss-crossed America in a mobile home conning Home Depot out of over $1 million.
Kara Platoni East Bay Express Sep 2003 25min Permalink
An early attempt to explain the world-changing power of computer software—and the minds of young programmers like Bill Gates—to a mass audience. “Software,” the article begins, “is the magic carpet to the future.”
Michael Moritz, Peter Stoler Time Apr 1984 Permalink
On public radio and the emerging genre of shows inspired by This American Life.
When ‘Ceca’, the Madonna of the Balkans, met Arkan, bank robber turned paramilitary leader and war criminal, and how it all came to a tragic end in the lobby of the Belgrade Intercontinental.
Adam Higginbotham The Observer Jan 2004 25min Permalink
A profile of embattled White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
Robert Draper GQ Nov 2010 20min Permalink
The cops thought they had captured a fugitive. They had not. Elias Fishburne was a hairdresser from Maryland and was going to jail.
Tamara Jones Washington Post Jun 2006 20min Permalink
400,000 Wiki-leaked reports that confirm the minute-by-minute misadventures of a “military at war with its own inner demons” in the unforgiving terrain of Iraq.
Spiegel Staff Der Spiegel Oct 2010 35min Permalink
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How two Italian teenagers hacked the Soviet space program and may have heard the dying breaths of a lost cosmonaut.
Kris Hollington Fortean Times Jul 2008 Permalink
Nineteenth century Muslim-Christian hero Abd el-Kader, the “Algerian George Washington.”
Rany Jazayerli Rany on the Royals Jul 2010 25min Permalink
Are we at war? The U.S. government’s evolving response to cyber security and its impact on privacy.
Seymour Hersh New Yorker Nov 2010 25min Permalink
Why Darwin’s theory of sexual selection is wrong and “gayness is a necessary side effect of getting along.”
Jonah Lehrer Seed Jun 2006 10min Permalink
On the set of Afghanistan’s first soap opera and at home with its cast.
When it comes to representing pharmaceutical companies, a doctor’s medical record is far less important than his or her ability to sell.
C. Ornstein, D. Nguyen, T. Weber ProPublica Oct 2010 15min Permalink
How “tissue engineering” will change regenerative medicine.
Sharon Begley Wired Nov 2010 25min Permalink
An 18-month investigation proves reveals how easy it is to get away with murder in Baltimore.
Jim Haner, John B. O'Donnell, Kimberly A.C. Wilson The Baltimore Sun Sep 2002 35min Permalink
Far outside of Juarez, villagers in rural areas are trapped without supplies or protection as rival cartels attempt to starve each other out of ranch hideouts. A heavily armed convoy attempts to deliver pensions behind siege lines.
Richard Marosi The Los Angeles Times Oct 2010 Permalink
A profile of Ernie Adams, Bill Belichick’s mysterious right hand man.
Wright Thompson ESPN Feb 2008 15min Permalink
Li Dao, a young Minnesota nurse, appeared in suicide chat rooms, contacted the most desperate, and made pacts to die with them via webcam. After some in the forum caught on, Dao disappeared; or rather, Dao had never existed at all. She was a middle-aged man. And he may have encouraged and witnessed dozens of live suicides.
Nadya Labi GQ Oct 2010 25min Permalink
Mikhail Kalashnikov’s brainchild, Avtomat Kalashnikovais aka the AK-47, is the most stockpiled firearm in the world and has altered the last century like no other product. C.J. Chivers, author of The Gun, discusses.
Charles Homans Foreign Policy Oct 2010 Permalink
Tony Kushner and the burdens of being one of the last public intellectuals in American theater.
Jesse Green New York Oct 2010 20min Permalink
As CEO of HBO, Chris Albrecht was responsible for putting The Wire, The Sopranos, and Sex and the City on the air. Then he choked his girlfriend outside a Vegas casino, got fired, and took a job running Starz.
Amy Wallace GQ Nov 2010 15min Permalink
A group of childhood friends, two of whom had already climbed Everest, finds tragedy on Mont Blanc.
Ned Zeman Vanity Fair Nov 2010 20min Permalink