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Writers

Patrick Radden Keefe

Politics Movies & TV

How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success

With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump—then a floundering D-lister—as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Dec 2018 50min Permalink

Best Article World

The Snakehead

Working from a tiny shop in Chinatown, Sister Ping brought in thousands of Chinese immigrants by boat, bringing in over $40 million. Then one of her ships ran aground.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Apr 2006 30min Permalink

Crime

How a Notorious Gangster Was Exposed By His Own Sister

She secretly recorded her brother, Holland’s most notorious criminal, confessing to multiple murders. Will he exact revenge?

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Aug 2018 45min Permalink

Food Travel

Anthony Bourdain’s Moveable Feast

A profile.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Feb 2017 50min Permalink

Best Article Crime

A Loaded Gun

The haunted past of Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama neurobiologist who shot six colleagues during a staff meeting.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Feb 2013 55min Permalink

Business

The Family That Built an Empire of Pain

The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Oct 2017 55min Permalink

Best Article Business Politics

Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington

Was President Trump’s richest adviser focussed on helping the country—or his own bottom line?

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Aug 2017 50min Permalink

Crime

The Detectives Who Never Forget a Face

On London’s new squad of “super-recognizers.”

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Patrick Radden Keefe on the Longform Podcast

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Aug 2016 30min Permalink

Business Crime

The Great Swiss Bank Heist

Hervé Falciani, a computer engineer working at HSBC, stole the bank’s list of secret accounts. But was he out to expose tax cheats or get rich himself? Perhaps both.

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Previously: Patrick Radden Keefe on the Longform Podcast

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker May 2016 40min Permalink

Crime World

The Avenger

Ken Dornstein’s older brother died when a bomb exploded on Pan Am Flight 103. For the past three decades, he’s been obsessed with identifying who’s really responsible.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Sep 2015 40min Permalink

Crime

The Worst of the Worst

A profile of Judy Clarke, who takes on the most heinous, notorious defendants in America, trying to save them from the death penalty. Until Dzokhar Tsarnaev, she usually succeeded.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Sep 2015 45min Permalink

Crime World

The Hunt for El Chapo

How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured.

Previously: Patrick Radden Keefe on the Longform Podcast.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker May 2014 40min Permalink

Crime World

Where the Bodies Are Buried

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

Business Crime

The Empire of Edge

How a doctor and an S.A.C. trader got entangled in a financial scandal.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Oct 2014 50min Permalink

Business

Buzzkill

The challenges of establishing a legal marijuana economy in Washington State.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Nov 2013 40min Permalink

Best Article Business World

Buried Secrets

How a secretive Israel billionaire seized control of an untapped iron ore deposit beneath one of Africa’s poorest countries.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Jul 2013 45min Permalink

Politics Tech

I Spy

How amateur satellite aficionados track the U.S. government’s spy technology.

Patrick Radden Keefe Wired Feb 2006 15min Permalink

Arts Crime

The Idol Thief

Inside one of the biggest antiquities-smuggling rings in history.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker May 2007 30min Permalink

Best Article Business Crime World

Cocaine, Inc.

How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions.

Patrick Radden Keefe New York Times Magazine Jun 2012 20min Permalink

Crime Science World

Reversal of Fortune

Steven Donziger, an American lawyer, headed up a successful lawsuit against Chevron on behalf of Ecuadorans. Then the legal tables turned on him.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Jan 2012 35min Permalink

Crime

Welcome to Newburgh, Murder Capital of New York

How a town of 29,000 on the Hudson River came to be “one of the most dangerous four-mile stretches in the northeastern United States.”

Patrick Radden Keefe New York Sep 2011 20min Permalink

Crime World

The Trafficker

The amiable international arms dealer and the sting.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Feb 2010 35min Permalink