The 3D-Printed Gun Isn’t Coming. It’s Already Here.
All you need is a blueprint, a polymer, a printer, and a knowledge of government regulations.
All you need is a blueprint, a polymer, a printer, and a knowledge of government regulations.
How the USPS works.
Jesse Lichtenstein Esquire Feb 2013 40min Permalink
Cesar Sayoc turned his loyalty toward Donald Trump into a literal assault on the President’s Democratic enemies in 2018.
Luke Mullins Washingtonian Aug 2020 20min Permalink
From 1968-1973, the three teenage Wiggin sisters, guided by a domineering father, played their strange music at New Hampshire ballrooms and recorded a single album. The Philosophy of the World LP goes for over $500 today, but the intervening decades have not been kind to the Wiggins.
Susan Orlean New Yorker Sep 1999 20min Permalink
On Jared Kushner and his relationship with his father-in-law.
Franklin Foer The Atlantic Aug 2020 20min Permalink
An encounter with a bear opens a strange world of self-discovery.
Joshua Shaw Third Point Press Aug 2020 Permalink
The case for paying college athletes.
Taylor Branch The Atlantic Oct 2011 1h Permalink
In their depictions of domination, the artist’s works, full of world-building and philosophy, do more than flip the script.
Zadie Smith New Yorker Aug 2020 10min Permalink
The rise and fall of Quayside, a futuristic city concept that Google’s Sidewalk Labs planned to build in neglected part of Toronto.
Brian J. Barth OneZero Aug 2020 Permalink
Jason Parham is a senior writer at Wired.
“I think of myself some days as a critic. Some days I think of myself as a journalist. But I essentially mostly think of myself as an essayist, somebody who is trying to bridge those two traditions. My approach to writing now is kind of simple…I’m always writing about things I like and want to hear about.”
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The role of money plays a two-sided role in Borges’ artistic life. On one side of the coin’s face, Borges was blessed with the most privileged, ideal life for a burgeoning literary genius. Educated in Europe, raised by his father to become a serious writer, Borges devoted his entire life to literature. He did not take a full-time job for nearly 40 years. But on the coin’s reverse side, we see that young Georgie Borges did not actually write his great fictions until after his family lost their money.
Elizabeth Hyde Stevens Longreads Jun 2016 Permalink
Every year eleven million people attend Magh Mela, a Hindu festival on the banks of the Ganges. The temporary infrastructure to support them includes hospitals and power stations, plus a massive surveillance apparatus.
Monica Jha Rest of World Jun 2020 Permalink
The ads are everywhere. You can learn to serve like Serena Williams or write like Margaret Atwood. But what MasterClass really delivers is something altogether different.
Carina Chocano The Atlantic Aug 2020 30min Permalink
A look at Chicago’s DJ culture in the ’90s.
One day in 1997, Sneak promised his friend and fellow Chicago DJ Derrick Carter a new 12-inch for Carter's label Classic, then spent hours fruitlessly laboring over a basic, bustling four-four beat. Finally, Sneak gave in and smoked the J he'd had stashed for later in the day. When he came back inside, he carelessly dropped the needle onto a Teddy Pendergrass LP, heard the word "Well . . . ," and realized, "That's the sample, right there." He threaded Pendergrass's 20-year-old disco hit "You Can't Hide From Yourself" through a low-pass filter to give it the effect of going in and out of aural focus, creating one of the definitive Chicago house singles.
Michaelangelo Matos Chicago Reader May 2012 30min Permalink
“What people need to know is we’re not protesting churches. We’re protesting this church.”
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed News Aug 2020 30min Permalink
If something isn’t done now, antibiotic-resistant bacteria could kill as many as 10 million people a year by 2050.
Maryn McKenna Boston Globe Magazine Aug 2020 20min Permalink
Decades ago, a marketing stunt promised Philippine soda drinkers a chance at a million pesos. But an error at a bottling plant led to 600,000 winners—and to lawsuits, rioting, and even deaths.
Jeff Maysh Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2020 20min Permalink
As rural Wisconsin’s fortunes have declined, its political importance has grown.
Dan Kaufman New Yorker Aug 2020 25min Permalink
What is it like when a city abandons a neighborhood and the police vanish? Business owners describe a harrowing experience of calling for help and being left all alone.
Nellie Bowles New York Times Aug 2020 10min Permalink
Best Article Reprints Religion Travel
“A legend is growing in Nepal, where people say a meditating boy hasn’t eaten or drunk in seven months. He barely moves, just sits under a tree, still as a stone. It’s impossible, some say. Is it a miracle? A hoax? Let’s find out.”
George Saunders GQ Jun 2006 40min Permalink
How the fashion industry collapsed.
Irina Aleksander New York Times Magazine Aug 2020 30min Permalink
Brutality and resistance on the front lines of Hong Kong’s battle for democracy.
Lauren Hilgers The Atavist Magazine Jul 2020 35min Permalink
How the FBI manufactures phony crimes to arrest so-called terrorists.
Petra Bartosiewicz Harper's Aug 2011 30min Permalink
The world is consumed by violent fights and hostile disagreements. Sarah Schulman sees a way out of them.
Molly Fischer The Cut Aug 2020 30min Permalink
Cultures clash when a man bonds with his boyfriend's mother.
Bryan Washington New Yorker Aug 2020 25min Permalink