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The Guardian

Tech World

The Mystery of the Gatwick Drone

A drone sighting caused the airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the sky?

Samira Shackle The Guardian Dec 2020 20min Permalink

Business Health

Inside the Airline Industry's Meltdown

On the future of air travel.

Samanth Subramanian The Guardian Sep 2020 25min Permalink

Business Food Health

'If One Of Us Gets Sick, We All Get Sick'

The long struggle for workers’ rights at poultry plants is now more urgent than ever

Mya Frazier The Guardian Apr 2020 20min Permalink

Health

"The Impossible Has Already Happened"

What coronavirus can teach us about hope.

Rebecca Solnit The Guardian Apr 2020 15min Permalink

Science Health

"It’s a Razor’s Edge We’re Walking"

Around the world, more than 40 teams are working on a vaccine for Covid-19. How one doctor is approaching the most urgent quest of his life.

Samanth Subramanian The Guardian Mar 2020 25min Permalink

History

Teen Models, Powerful Men, and Private Dinners

When Donald Trump hosted and judged the world’s biggest modeling competition.

Lucy Osborne, Harry Davies, Stephanie Kirchgaessner. The Guardian Mar 2020 40min Permalink

Health

Tampon Wars: The Battle to Overthrow the Tampax Empire

For decades, one company has ruled the world of tampons. But a new wave of brands has emerged, selling themselves as more ethical, more feminist and more ecological.

Sophie Elmhirst The Guardian Feb 2020 25min Permalink

“Hope Is a​n Embrace of the Unknown”

On living in dark times.

Rebecca Solnit The Guardian Jul 2016 15min Permalink

Crime History World

A Scandal in Oxford: The Curious Case of the Stolen Gospel

What links an eccentric Oxford classics don, billionaire US evangelicals, and a tiny, missing fragment of an ancient manuscript?

Charlotte Higgins The Guardian Jan 2020 25min Permalink

The Empty Promises of Marie Kondo and the Craze for Minimalism

Unpacking the empty promises of the minimalism craze.

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Excerpted from The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism, available January 21st. Chayka on the Longform Podcast.

Kyle Chayka The Guardian Jan 2020 20min Permalink

World

“I've Seen Death in This City, but Nothing as Sad as This”

How a ferry disaster exposed the corruption devastating Iraq.

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad The Guardian Dec 2019 25min Permalink

Politics

The Wing: How an Exclusive Women's Club Sparked a Thousand Arguments

The Wing is a private members’ space for women that claims to be an ‘accelerator’ for feminist revolution in the US – and now it’s coming to the UK. But how progressive is it really?

Linda Kinstler The Guardian Oct 2019 20min Permalink

Politics Science Food

Why Do People Hate Vegans?

“The vegan wars are not really about veganism at all, but about how individual freedom is coming into conflict with a personal and environmental health crisis.”

George Reynolds The Guardian Oct 2019 20min Permalink

Business Crime

How the Prison Economy Works

From pecan pralines to ‘dots.’

Richard Davies The Guardian Aug 2019 Permalink

Business Health

Dark Crystals

The economic reality behind a billion-dollar wellness craze.

Tess McClure The Guardian Sep 2019 20min Permalink

Crime

The Cult of Columbine

How an obsession with school shooters led to a murder plot.

Rachel Monroe The Guardian Aug 2019 30min Permalink

Health

Athleisure, Barre and Kale: the Tyranny of the Ideal Woman

How we became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization.

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Excerpted from Trick Mirror

Jia Tolentino The Guardian Jul 2019 20min Permalink

Science

Perhaps the Best Dinosaur Fossil Ever Discovered. So Why Has Hardly Anyone Seen It?

A Montana rancher found two skeletons in combat—the Dueling Dinosaurs. But who do they belong to, and will the public ever see them?

Phillip Pantuso The Guardian Jul 2019 10min Permalink

Crime World

State Capture

The corruption investigation that has shaken South Africa, the world’s most unequal country.

Mark Gevisser The Guardian Jul 2019 25min Permalink

Crime

Who Killed the Prime Minister?

Three decades ago, Olof Palme was assassinated on Stockholm’s busiest street. The case remains unsolved.

Imogen West-Knights The Guardian May 2019 20min Permalink

Crime World

Blow Up: How Half a Tonne of Cocaine Transformed the Life of an Island

What happens when a great deal of cocaine suddenly washes up on the shores of a very small island.

Matthew Bremner The Guardian May 2019 20min Permalink

Health

'For Five Years We Dreaded Every Meal'

After two months in the hospital, a mother finally got to take her premature baby home. Then she spent five years trying to convince him to eat.

Tahmima Anam The Guardian Apr 2019 35min Permalink

Arts

Fifty Shades of White

The long fight against racism in romance novels.

Lois Beckett The Guardian Apr 2019 30min Permalink

His Side of the Story

Nathan Phillips wants to talk about Covington.

Julian Brave NoiseCat The Guardian Feb 2019 20min Permalink

Health

Bowel Movement

On the Squatty Potty and changing the way the you poop.

Alex Blasdel The Guardian Dec 2018 20min Permalink

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