The Mister Rogers No One Saw
Fred Rogers wasn’t just a brilliant educator and a profoundly moral person. He was an uncompromising artist.
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Fred Rogers wasn’t just a brilliant educator and a profoundly moral person. He was an uncompromising artist.
Jeanne Marie Laskas New York Times Magazine Nov 2019 30min Permalink
Five hundred feet below ground with Ohio coal miners.
I followed them underground, home, to church, to the strip club where they drink and gossip and taunt and jab and worry about one another. I listened while they worried about Smitty, the loner of the group, who had just ordered himself a mail-order woman.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Apr 2007 40min Permalink
A report from Sprague’s Sports, a firearms emporium in Yuma, Arizona.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Sep 2012 25min Permalink
A graveyard, a stutter, and Ray-Bans.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Jul 2013 25min Permalink
Life as an air-traffic controller at LaGuardia.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Apr 2009 35min Permalink
Barack Obama and a tradition of letter-reading.
Jeanne Marie Laskas The Guardian Aug 2018 15min Permalink
Over eight years, through millions of letters, the staff of the White House mailroom read the unfiltered story of a nation.
Jeanne Marie Laskas New York Times Magazine Jan 2017 35min Permalink
There’s no telling how many guns there are in America—and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated. On purpose.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Aug 2016 25min Permalink
Life on an oil rig in the Arctic.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Sep 2008 40min Permalink
How one man wants to transport the world’s heaviest cargo in airships that are lighter than air.
Jeanne Marie Laskas New Yorker Feb 2016 25min Permalink
Forty-five years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second man to walk on the moon. It made him one of the most famous people in the world. And it has haunted the rest of his life.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Dec 2014 25min Permalink
The postscript to a miracle.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Jul 2014 35min Permalink
They advertise murder for hire but work for the government. Inside the world of America’s fake hit men.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Nov 2013 20min Permalink
The rigors of youth football.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Oct 2013 25min Permalink
The story of former Vikings linebacker Fred McNeill and the lasting impact of his concussions.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Mar 2011 Permalink
On the rodeo.
Jeanne Marie Laskas Esquire Jan 1999 25min Permalink
A profile of Joe Paterno.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Oct 2007 25min Permalink
On the life of illegal immigrant fruit pickers.
Without 1 million people on the ground, on ladders, in bushes—armies of pickers swooping in like bees—all the tilling, planting, and fertilizing of America's $144 billion horticultural production is for naught. The fruit falls to the ground and rots.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Sep 2011 25min Permalink
Behind-the-scenes the Cincinnati Ben-Gal cheerleaders.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Jan 2008 30min Permalink
According to Lou Dobbs, we’re wrong about his stance on illegal immigrants, wrong about why he quit CNN, and wrong about his presidential aspirations. Well, we might actually be right about that last thing.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Apr 2010 25min Permalink