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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s friends didn’t realize what he’d done until they saw his image on television.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s friends didn’t realize what he’d done until they saw his image on television.
Masha Gessen Buzzfeed Apr 2015 10min Permalink
A profile of Judy Clarke, the publicity-shy anti-death-penalty attorney, who has defended the Unabomber, Susan Smith, and Jared Loughner.
Mark Bowden Vanity Fair Mar 2005 25min Permalink
One man’s story.
Joshua Partlow Washington Post Mar 2015 10min Permalink
Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, denies that he was ever in the IRA. The murder of Jean McConville threatened to expose him as a liar.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Mar 2015 1h5min Permalink
Reconstructing the investigation into Rafik Hariri’s assassination, for which five men stand trial in absentia.
Ronen Bergman New York Times Magazine Feb 2015 35min Permalink
How a woman born of wealth and privilege tries to bomb the establishment from which she came and ultimately dies in the process.
This Pulitzer-winning series is reprinted online in full and for the first time by Longform.
Lucinda Franks, Thomas Powers United Press International Sep 1970 55min Permalink
Chérif and Saïd Kouachi’s path to the Paris attack at Charlie Hebdo.
Rukmini Callimachi, Jim Yardley New York Times Jan 2015 Permalink
The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records. But is that the best way to catch a terrorist?
Mattathias Schwartz New Yorker Jan 2015 35min Permalink
Michel Houellebecq on his controversial new novel, Submission, which imagines France electing its first Muslim president.
Sylvain Bourmeau The Paris Review Jan 2015 20min Permalink
An Islamic State senior commander reveals the terror group’s origins.
Martin Chulov The Guardian Dec 2014 20min Permalink
More than 500 Germans, including a former rapper named Deso Dogg, have joined ISIS in Syria.
Der Spiegel Nov 2014 10min Permalink
A man, a woman, and a child negotiate their uneasy triangle in the days and weeks following 9/11.
"His briefcase sat beside the table like something yanked out of a landfill. He said there was a shirt coming down out of the sky."
Don DeLillo New Yorker Apr 2007 25min Permalink
While war raged across Afghanistan, expats lived in a bubble of good times and easy money. But as the U.S. withdraws, life has taken a deadly turn.
Matthieu Aikins Rolling Stone Aug 2014 20min Permalink
Accused of being part of a terror cell at age 12, Gitmo’s youngest prisoner recounts his life
Mohammed el Gorani, Jérôme Tubiana London Review of Books Dec 2011 20min Permalink
How divisions between Nigeria’s Muslim North and Christian South resulted in the birth of terror’s most ruthless movement.
Alex Perry Newsweek Jul 2014 Permalink
How America is trying to fight terrorism in Africa without doing any of the actual fighting.
Eliza Griswold New York Times Magazine Jun 2014 30min Permalink
The saga of Naji Mansour.
Nick Baumann Mother Jones May 2014 25min Permalink
In northern Nigeria, radical Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram is facing a vigilante backlash from armed teenagers with nothing to lose.
Alex Preston GQ (UK) Feb 2014 25min Permalink
A family’s story, one year after the Boston Marathon bombing.
David Abel Boston Globe Apr 2014 55min Permalink
Eleven members of an Australian rugby club traveled to Bali. After a bomb went off at a nightclub, only five of them made it home.
Michael Paterniti GQ Oct 2004 35min Permalink
An investigation into the family of the accused Boston Marathon bombers.
Sally Jacobs, David Filipov, Patricia Wen The Boston Globe Dec 2013 1h5min Permalink
An act of terror at an art museum.
"When – with difficulty – I made my way into the centre of the space, or what seemed like the centre of the space, I saw that one door was obscured by rags of hanging debris, and I turned and began to work in the other direction. There, the lintel had fallen, dumping a pile of brick almost as tall as I was and leaving a smoky space at the top big enough to drive a car through. Laboriously I began to climb and scramble for it – over and around the chunks of concrete – but I had not got very far when I realised that I was going to have to go the other way. Faint traces of fire licked down the far walls of what had been the exhibition shop, spitting and sparkling in the dim, some of it well below the level where the floor should have been."
Donna Tartt The Telegraph Oct 2013 30min Permalink
An inside account of the Nairobi mall attack.
James Verini New Yorker Sep 2013 10min Permalink
How New York City built its own CIA.
Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman New York Aug 2013 20min Permalink
After texts and phone calls are hacked and leaked, women across America are murdering each other for insults, slights, and dishonesty.
"Mom was trying to board up the window. She was terrible with hammers, with nails. Our living room was a sea of glass. The window was everywhere and everything was wrong. I wanted to tell someone about this but I couldn’t call Guncha. The phones didn’t even work anymore. That was how America was trying to fight. Just get people to stop interacting. There were curfews in effect. The phones were shut down. They figured if they could keep us from being near each other then maybe we would stop killing each other.
Caroline Kepnes Necessary Fiction Jul 2013 10min Permalink