Beck Is Home
The musician visits the Los Angeles of his youth and says goodbye to the past.
The musician visits the Los Angeles of his youth and says goodbye to the past.
Amanda Petrusich New Yorker Nov 2019 30min Permalink
Amazon’s internal injury records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for speed.
Will Evans Reveal Nov 2019 25min Permalink
Can his cerebral politics still galvanize voters in an age of extremes?
Ryan Lizza Politico Nov 2019 15min Permalink
An insider watches Kink.com prepare to leave the hundred-year-old armory it occupies in San Francisco.
How Texas Instruments monopolized math class.
Maya Kosoff Gen Nov 2019 25min Permalink
Kross cuts through the moans and shouts from off-camera: “Someone go wide!” She’s telling the cameramen to make sure they are adequately capturing the reverse gang bang of Ferrara—the love of her life.
Tracy Clark-Flory Jezebel Oct 2019 30min Permalink
What happened to the National Enquirer after it went all in for Trump.
Simon van Zuylen-Wood Columbia Journalism Review Nov 2019 25min Permalink
A group of volunteers is helping incarcerated people negotiate a system that is all but broken.
Jennifer Gonnerman New Yorker Nov 2019 25min Permalink
“Economic theory as it exists increasingly resembles a shed full of broken tools.”
David Graeber New York Review of Books Nov 2019 20min Permalink
A dispatch from th Park Slope Food Co-op.
Alexandra Schwartz New Yorker Nov 2019 30min Permalink
The Arctic permafrost is thawing, revealing millions of buried mammoth skeletons. But the rush for mammoth ivory could put elephants in danger all over again
Sabrina Weiss Wired UK Nov 2019 15min Permalink
The film is a rare portrayal of black people in our fullness—angry and frightened and hurt, euphoric and loving and free.
Carvell Wallace New York Times Magazine Nov 2019 20min Permalink
For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats who lived in a ruined palace in the Indian capital. It was a tragic, astonishing story. But was it true?
Ellen Barry New York Times Nov 2019 30min Permalink
On the fraught relationship between Bolivia’s Evo Morales and the indigenous activists who support him.
Jessica Camille Aguirre n+1 Jan 2018 15min Permalink
Inside the Rams-Chargers marriage.
Seth Wickersham, Don Van Natta Jr. ESPN Nov 2019 30min Permalink
A night of various crises and personal reflection.
Christopher Gonzalez Berfrois Nov 2019 Permalink
There are two different tales we tell ourselves about houses. The primary story is not about ghosts or demons or red rooms or ghouls, but rather about bright futures, long lives, children, grandchildren, and hard-earned success. The second story, the darker story, is about the horror of being trapped.
Katy Kelleher Curbed Nov 2019 20min Permalink
Lori Gottlieb is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the author of Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough. Her new book is Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.
“Everything that I had done all coalesced into one thing. As a journalist i was helping people to tell their stories, as a therapist I could help people to edit their stories, to change their stories. I could be immersed in the human condition in both of these things.”
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Independent “researchers” are sharing unfounded theories across social media, which have the potential to spread panic and confusion—and have even fooled legitimate government agencies.
Anna Merlan Vice Nov 2019 15min Permalink
How a Sacramento Kings executive stole more than $13 million from the team—and almost got away with it.
Kevin Arnovitz ESPN Nov 2019 25min Permalink
A profile of the film critic.
Chris Jones Esquire Mar 2010 30min Permalink
A year in the lives of Abigail Spanberger and Ayanna Pressley.
Susan Dominus The New York Times Magazine Nov 2019 30min Permalink
Uncovering evidence of unequal treatment by real estate agents.
Ann Choi, Bill Dedman, Keith Herbert, Olivia Winslow Newsday Nov 2019 40min Permalink
A year living in a shack in Oakland.
Wes Enzinna Harpers Nov 2019 25min Permalink
The rise of “natural” wines, and what happens next.
Rachel Monroe New Yorker Nov 2019 25min Permalink