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Publications

New York

Media

Last Woman Standing

Shari Redstone sits atop a $30 billion media empire.

Irin Carmon New York Jul 2019 25min Permalink

The Battle of Grace Church

What happened when Brooklyn’s oldest nursery school decided to become less old-fashioned? A riot among the one percent.

Jessica Pressler New York Jul 2019 35min Permalink

Crime

Cain and Abel and Oil

Greed, drugs, dirty cops, and the bitter sibling rivalry burning up an $800 million Louisiana family dynasty.

Ian Frisch New York Jun 2019 20min Permalink

Crime

Hideous Men

Donald Trump assaulted me in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years ago. But he’s not alone on the list of awful men in my life.

E. Jean Carroll New York Jun 2019 15min Permalink

Politics Religion

Tulsi Gabbard Had a Very Strange Childhood

A profile of the long-shot presidential candidate.

Kerry Howley New York Jun 2019 25min Permalink

Business Tech

The I in We

How Adam Neumann turned WeWork into a $47 billion business.

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Wiedeman on the Longform Podcast

Reeves Wiedeman New York Jun 2019 45min Permalink

Best Article Sex Science Health

How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid?

“Incels” are going under the knife to reshape their faces, and their dating prospects.

Alice Hines New York May 2019 25min Permalink

Best Article Crime

The Single-Mom Murder

She moved to Cape Cod to escape the glitzy Manhattan world she born into. The only witness to her murder was her 2-year-old daughter. Everyone she knew, it seemed, was a suspect.

Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Feb 2002 25min Permalink

Science

Los Angeles Fire Season Is Beginning Again. And It Will Never End.

A bulletin from our climate future.

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Wallace-Wells on the Longform Podcast

David Wallace-Wells New York May 2019 40min Permalink

Tech

How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.

For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event “the Inversion.”

Max Read New York Dec 2018 10min Permalink

Best Article

The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence

What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father?

Ezra Marcus, James D. Walsh New York Apr 2019 Permalink

Arts Business

The Invention of the ‘Salvator Mundi’

In 2005, the painting sold at auction for $1,000. Its most recent price? $450 million.

Matthew Shaer New York Apr 2019 35min Permalink

Media

What Was the Washington Post Afraid Of?

The paper spiked a #MeToo story. Why?

Irin Carmon New York Apr 2019 25min Permalink

Best Article Arts

Karl Lagerfeld, Boy Prince of Fashion

A profile of the designer, who died on February 19, 2019.

Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Feb 2006 20min Permalink

Business

The Five Families of Feces

On the cutthroat dealings of the porta-potty business.

David Gauvey Herbert New York Feb 2019 15min Permalink

Media

Who Was Lil Tay

The making, and marketing, of a 9-year-old meme machine.

Lauren Levy New York Jan 2019 25min Permalink

Health

A Precocious Puberty Case

I went through puberty at age 2.

Patrick Burleigh New York Jan 2019 25min Permalink

Politics

Children of Ted

Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes.

John H. Richardson New York Dec 2018 40min Permalink

Movies & TV

Can Special Effects Be Special Again?

How the VFX industry plateaued —and where it might go from here.

Bilge Ebiri New York Dec 2018 15min Permalink

Crime

The Watcher

The haunting of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey.

Reeves Wiedeman New York Nov 2018 20min Permalink

Crime

Everyone Believed Larry Nassar

The predatory trainer may have just taken down USA Gymnastics. How did he deceive so many for so long?

Kerry Howley New York Nov 2018 20min Permalink

Crime

The Bad, Good Lawyer

David Boies argued Bush v. Gore all the way to the Supreme Court. He lost the case, but in the process gained another client: Harvey Weinstein.

Andrew Rice New York Oct 2018 40min Permalink

Politics

David Hogg, After Parkland

On trying to figure out what’s next.

Lisa Miller New York Aug 2018 30min Permalink

Politics

Leader of the Persistence

A profile of Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren.

Rebecca Traister New York Jul 2018 30min Permalink

Tech

The Most Important Video Game on the Planet

How Fortnite became the Instagram of gaming.

Brian Feldman New York Jul 2018 20min Permalink

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