An American Drug Lord in Acapulco
How a middle-class jock from a Texas border town became La Barbie, one of the most ruthless and feared cartel leaders in Mexico.
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How a middle-class jock from a Texas border town became La Barbie, one of the most ruthless and feared cartel leaders in Mexico.
Mary Cuddehe, Vanessa Grigoriadis Rolling Stone Sep 2011 25min Permalink
How UFO culture took over America.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Aug 2020 40min Permalink
Four years ago, Dominique Jones got out of prison and learned to rap. Today he is, by many metrics, the most popular rapper in the world.
Charles Holmes Rolling Stone Jul 2020 20min Permalink
The producer behind nearly everything Drake does and the multiple sclerosis that has claimed significant portions of his brain.
Charles Holmes Rolling Stone Jun 2020 25min Permalink
How does a Latin-pop superstar spend lockdown? Hanging out with his girlfriend, watching ‘Toy Story’ and surprising the world.
Suzy Exposito Rolling Stone May 2020 20min Permalink
The life of Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, who died from COVID at age 52.
Simon Vozick-Levinson Rolling Stone Apr 2020 15min Permalink
A profile of Bill Withers at 76.
Andy Greene Rolling Stone Apr 2015 15min Permalink
A profile of climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Mar 2020 15min Permalink
How Big Oil and Big Soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades.
Tim Dickinson Rolling Stone Mar 2020 30min Permalink
In the wake of a vicious murder, the state of Oregon wrestles with what went wrong in its mental health system.
Rob Fischer Rolling Stone Feb 2020 35min Permalink
Oil-and-gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of toxic waste a year. An investigation shows how it could be making workers sick and contaminating communities across America.
Justin Nobel Rolling Stone Jan 2020 35min Permalink
But despite all that has been promised, almost nothing has been built back in Haiti, better or otherwise. Within Port-au-Prince, some 3 million people languish in permanent misery, subject to myriad experiments at "fixing" a nation that, to those who are attempting it, stubbornly refuses to be fixed. Mountains of rubble remain in the streets, hundreds of thousands of people continue to live in weather-beaten tents, and cholera, a disease that hadn't been seen in Haiti for 60 years, has swept over the land, infecting more than a quarter million people.
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone Aug 2011 50min Permalink
How Evangelicals have claimed Trump as one of their own.
Alex Morris Rolling Stone Dec 2019 25min Permalink
How killing by remote control has changed the way we fight.
Michael Hastings Rolling Stone Apr 2012 30min Permalink
It’s the epicenter of the tech industry and the wealthiest, most progressive state in the union, but homelessness is surging — and no one can agree on how to fix it.
Tessa Stuart Rolling Stone Sep 2019 20min Permalink
How legends of the American music industry made millions off the work of Solomon Linda, a Zulu tribesman who wrote “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and died a pauper.
Rian Malan Rolling Stone May 2000 45min Permalink
The inside story of a Texas gun-smuggling ring.
Seth Harp Rolling Stone Aug 2019 Permalink
A profile of the 17-year-old star.
Josh Eells Rolling Stone Jul 2019 30min Permalink
For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone May 2019 35min Permalink
John Singleton at the release of Boyz n the Hood.
Alan Light Rolling Stone Sep 1991 10min Permalink
Inside the compulsive world of airline rewards hobbyists, who spend the bulk of their lives flying around the world for free.
Ben Wofford Rolling Stone Jul 2015 25min Permalink
Tekashi 6ix9ine was SoundCloud rap’s most notorious star. But the same instincts that made him huge may put him in prison for years
Stephen Witt Rolling Stone Jan 2019 30min Permalink
When her brother embraced Orthodox Judaism, the author began to question her own reality and went to Israel to find some answers.
Ellen Willis Rolling Stone Apr 1977 1h20min Permalink
Published across three consecutive issues and later adapted into the book (and mini-series) Generation Kill, the story of bullets, bombs and a Marine platoon at war in Iraq.
Evan Wright Rolling Stone Jul 2003 1h55min Permalink
Representative Matt Shea has been trying to create a libertarian utopia in the Pacific Northwest, a 51st state called Liberty. And he keeps getting re-elected.
Leah Sottile Rolling Stone Oct 2018 20min Permalink