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Not long ago, Rand Paul, opthalmologist and son of Ron, would have been written off as a wacky extremist. Thanks to his Dad and the Tea Partiers, he’s poised to become the most radical member of the U.S Senate.
Not long ago, Rand Paul, opthalmologist and son of Ron, would have been written off as a wacky extremist. Thanks to his Dad and the Tea Partiers, he’s poised to become the most radical member of the U.S Senate.
Jason Zengerle GQ Oct 2010 20min Permalink
India’s greatest terror threat may not be militants slipping across the Pakistani border, but rather the homegrown Maoist rebels who control the villages of the interior.
Jason Motlagh The Virginia Quarterly Review Jun 2008 40min Permalink
A profile of Joe Biden, whose political stock has continued to rise even as his boss’s falls.
Mark Bowden The Atlantic Sep 2010 35min Permalink
A profile of Jon Stewart, who’s now run The Daily Show for more than a decade.
Chris Smith New York Sep 2010 20min Permalink
A profile of Rahm Emanuel, written during his first congressional campaign in Illinois. Emanuel was running to fill the seat vacated by Rod Blagojevich.
Ben Joravsky Chicago Reader Feb 2002 20min Permalink
Inside the C Street house in Washington and the little-known spiritual group behind it.
Peter J. Boyer New Yorker Sep 2010 30min Permalink
The surreal world of Sarah Palin and her road show.
Michael Joseph Gross Vanity Fair Sep 2010 40min Permalink
The billionaire Koch brothers have declared war on Obama.
Jane Mayer New Yorker Apr 2011 40min Permalink
A profile of Francis Collins, a fervent Christian, former head of the Human Genome Project and Obama’s appointee to head N.I.H., now at the center of the stem cell research debate.
Peter J. Boyer New Yorker Sep 2010 25min Permalink
Alex Haley interviews the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s number two - Malcolm X - in a Harlem restaurant.
Alex Haley, Malcolm X Playboy May 1963 35min Permalink
A day in the political life of Barack Obama.
Todd Purdum Vanity Fair Aug 2010 Permalink
How sex scandals have made Silvio Berlusconi even more powerful in Italy.
Devin Friedman GQ Jun 2010 25min Permalink
A year after dozens died protesting his election and hundreds more were imprisoned, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad grants a rare interview to an American journalist.
John Lee Anderson New Yorker Aug 2010 30min Permalink
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Pat Robertson was 29 years old, possessionless, and living in a Bed-Stuy brownstone when he announced that God had told him to buy a fledgling TV station in Virginia. Here’s what happened next.
Why the U.S. Senate gets so little done.
George Packer New Yorker Aug 2010 45min Permalink
The Appleseed Project is ostensibly a traveling marksmanship school - but what else is it teaching?
Frank Rich on The Promise, Jonathan Alter’s book about the first year of the Obama administration.
Frank Rich New York Review of Books Jul 2010 15min Permalink
How Christopher Hitchens, a former socialist, became one of the most vigorous defenders of the war in Iraq.
Ian Parker New Yorker Oct 2006 40min Permalink
Sandinista, reverend, and president of the U.N. General Assembly.
James Verini The New Republic Jun 2009 Permalink
A profile of Tom Donohue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the sixth-highest paid lobbyist in the country. Since Obama took office, Donohue has scared-up tens of millions in new donations.
James Verini Washington Monthly Jul 2010 20min Permalink
On January 1st, 2011, the U.S. estate tax will jump from zero to around 50%, which gives a lot of very rich elders (or perhaps more accurately, their heirs) millions of dollars in incentive to expedite death.
What exactly is going on politically in Thailand?
Andrew MacGregor Marshall Reuters Jul 2010 40min Permalink
The rise and fall of NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association), from its 1970s founding as a splinter group within the gay rights movement to its current incarnation as the most reviled organization in America.
Benoit Denizet-Lewis Boston Magazine May 2006 25min Permalink
Political races don’t run on ideas and grassroots activism–they run on voter databases. And no one has more voter data than Aristotle Inc., whose information has helped elect every president since Reagan.
James Verini Vanity Fair Dec 2007 15min Permalink
Is Mike Huckabee the GOP’s best hope in 2012? Mike Huckabee’s not so sure.
Ariel Levy New Yorker Jun 2010 35min Permalink