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Publications

Buzzfeed

Crime

Busted: The Secret NYPD Files

Officers can lie to juries or brutally beat civilians and still keep their jobs.

Kendall Taggart, Mike Hayes Buzzfeed Mar 2018 15min Permalink

Science

Sliced And Diced

The inside story of how an Ivy League food scientist turned shoddy data into viral studies.

Stephanie M. Lee Buzzfeed Feb 2018 15min Permalink

Tech Media

He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse.

“We are so screwed it’s beyond what most of us can imagine.”

Charlie Warzel Buzzfeed Feb 2018 15min Permalink

Best Article Politics Tech World

This Country's Leader Shut Down Democracy – With a Little Help From Facebook

Facebook was supposed to open up societies like Cambodia—but instead it has wreaked havoc on the fragile political order and destroyed opposition leadership.

Megha Rajagopalan Buzzfeed Jan 2018 15min Permalink

Religion

How Do You Rebuild Your Life After Leaving a Polygamous Sect?

“We are better than the stories about us.”

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Jan 2018 30min Permalink

Politics

She Complained that a Powerful Congressman Harassed Her

Here’s why you didn’t hear her story.

Paul McLeod, Lissandra Villa Buzzfeed Nov 2017 10min Permalink

Politics

Welcome to Idaho. Now Go Home.

North Idaho has become one of the most desirable places in the West for conservatives to relocate. So why is the local Republican party tearing itself apart?

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Oct 2017 35min Permalink

Religion

Meet the "Young Saints" of Bethel Who Go to College to Perform Miracles

Students come from around the world to struggling Redding, California, where the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry promises to teach them to perform miracles.

Molly Hensley-Clancy Buzzfeed Oct 2017 35min Permalink

Politics Media

Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream

An email cache offers a look behind the Breitbart curtain.

Joseph Bernstein Buzzfeed Oct 2017 35min Permalink

Music

St. Vincent Is Telling You Everything

A profile of the artist at the time of her fifth solo record.

Laura Snapes Buzzfeed Sep 2017 15min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Sing, Unburied, Sing [Excerpt]"

Southern crimes and nightmares; an excerpt from Ward's latest novel.

Jesmyn Ward Buzzfeed Aug 2017 Permalink

Teaching White Students Showed Me the Difference Between Power and Privilege

“I was the wealthiest, most powerful person Brown knew, and I had sixty-seven dollars in my banking account.”

Kiese Laymon Buzzfeed Aug 2017 Permalink

Crime Politics

The Lost Girl of Unadilla

ShyShy Pate has been missing for 19 years, but you’ve probably never heard of her.

Jessica Testa Buzzfeed Jul 2017 20min Permalink

Politics

The Moneyman Behind the Alt-Right

William Regnery II spent almost 20 years funding the racist right. It finally paid off.

Aram Roston, Joel Anderson Buzzfeed Jul 2017 20min Permalink

Business Sports

Mr. Ten Percent

A profile of Chuck Blazer, “the man who built — and bilked — American soccer.”

Read more

Blazer died this week at 72.

Ken Bensinger Buzzfeed Jun 2014 30min Permalink

Arts

Sherman Alexie on "Not Being the Indian That's Expected"

A profile of the writer.

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Jun 2017 20min Permalink

Crime

Die Trying

A college student accused a powerful man of rape. Then she became a suspect.

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Katie J.M. Baker on the Longform Podcast

Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed Jun 2017 20min Permalink

Crime World

From Russia With Blood

Fourteen people connected to resistance of Vladimir Putin have died on British soil. Every case has been closed, the deaths deemed of natural causes. American intelligence believes they were all assassinated by the Kremlin.

Heidi Blake, Tom Warren, Richard Holmes, Jason Leopold, Jane Bradley, Alex Campbell Buzzfeed Jun 2017 1h Permalink

The ISIS Killers

The elite Iraqi “Golden Division” was trained by the US to hunt terrorists. But now they’re locked in a brutal street battle for control of Mosul.

Mike Giglio Buzzfeed Jun 2017 35min Permalink

Best Article Politics Media

Alex Jones Will Never Stop Being Alex Jones

After decades at the fringe, conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones helped usher a president into office. Now, the only person standing in Jones’ way is Jones.

Charlie Warzel Buzzfeed May 2017 25min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Book of Joan [Excerpt]"

Transformed bodies on a transformed earth.

Lidia Yuknavitch Buzzfeed Apr 2017 Permalink

Politics Tech

Selling Mark Zuckerberg

Making sense of the CEO’s very public tour of America, which feels like a political campaign minus the politics.

Nitasha Tiku Buzzfeed Apr 2017 20min Permalink

Arts

Hollywood's Forgotten Gay Romance

The story of 1982’s Making Love.

Kate Aurthur Buzzfeed Feb 2017 30min Permalink

Love Lives in Whitefish, But So Do Neo-Nazis

How Montana became home to the highest concentration of hate groups in the nation.

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Feb 2017 25min Permalink

Arts

The American Dream Created Anna Nicole Smith — and Then It Killed Her

Anna Nicole Smith molded herself into an American fantasy. When that fantasy fell apart, we blamed her for it.

Sarah Marshall Buzzfeed Feb 2017 35min Permalink

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