Hollywood Ending
How a high-powered lawyer and a rough-edged private detective ended up at the center of the biggest, dirtiest scandal in Hollywood history.
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Enes Kanter Contains Multitudes
The 26-year-old is many things: New York Knicks center, devout Muslim, star of #NBATwitter, and enemy of the Turkish state.
The Lost Boys of Galveston, Texas
Young immigrants who have been separated from their parents find a home at the Children’s Center.
How Jim White Helped His Bluebird Spread Her Wings
An outsider artist’s odyssey to the center of his daughter’s life.
Bloodlines
How the heir to a horse racing empire became an informant on the Zetas cartel as they pushed their money laundering operations into the lucrative quarter horse trade.
A Liar Standing Next to a Hole in the Ground
Prospecting for gold is still a live trade in America, if you’re willing to walk deep into the desert with a hand-drawn map.
A Leak Wounded This Company. Fighting the Feds Finished It Off.
The Federal Trade Commission has brought more than 60 cases related to data security against businesses. Only one has refused to settle.
Who Killed Julian Pierce?
He was a Georgetown-educated Native-American lawyer who’d left behind a career in D.C. to advocate on behalf of poor and minority populations in rural North Carolina. At the time of his 1988 murder, he was investigating ties between police and the local cocaine trade.
The author spent nearly 30 years looking into what really happened.
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Sponsor: Aeon Magazine
Our sponsor again this week is Aeon, a great new digital magazine covering ideas and culture. Aeon publishes an original essay every weekday, several of which have been picked for Longform. Here are three recent favorites:
No Drama, King Obama, by Edward L. Fox
In Javanese culture, a ruler must stand chivalrously above strife: cool, intelligent and self-contained. Sound familiar?
Mortal Remains, by Thomas Lynch
The dead are no longer welcome at their own funerals. So how can the living send them on their way?
Animal Spirits, by Stephen T. Asma
The more we learn about the emotions shared by all mammals, the more we must rethink our own human intelligence.
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Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours a Day, in a Six-by-Eight-Foot Box
An investigation into the practice of putting teenagers in solitary confinement.
The Shooter
A profile of the Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden and came home to a life in shambles.
Going It Alone
Elias Pompa is the lone deputy in one of the poorest counties in Texas. He is also at the center of the U.S. border crisis.
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Insane After Coronavirus?
‘Florida and Ohio, man,’ the barista at the local café said to my husband, when he asked about the tourist trade. ‘People here at least acknowledge that it’s real. But people from Florida and Ohio don’t even seem to think it’s happening.’ Having lived in both places, I believe him: I have long had a theory that the surrealism that has overtaken the political landscape in America can be traced back to the poisoned ground of Ohio Facebook.
Journalistic Standards in Reporting of the Te'o Hoax: Q&A with Deadspin's Tommy Craggs
A lesson in ethics.
Female Workers Face Rape, Harassment in U.S. Agriculture Industry
The dangerous work of harvesting your food.
Andrew Marantz is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His new book is Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation.
“Some nonfiction can be reduced to a bulletpoint primer, but a good book is a good book. Whether it’s fiction or nonfiction, it should create a feeling, it should create a world, it should be a feeling that you want to live in and that tilts the way you see things. Isn’t that the point?”
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Alex Perry, based in England, has covered Africa and Asia for Newsweek and Time. His most recent book is The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free.
“I got a call from one of my editors in 2003 or 2004, and he said something like, ‘You realize someone has died in the first line of every story you’ve filed for the last eight months?’ And my response was, ‘Of course. Isn’t that how we know it’s important?’ It took me a long time to work out that the importance of a story isn’t established only by death.”
Thanks to MailChimp, </em>Feverborn</a>, and AlarmGrid for sponsoring this week's episode.</p>
Offshore in Central London
Why has a prestigious address been used so many times as a center for elaborate international fraud?
This Is a Story About Loss
On finding something at Unclaimed Baggage Center, the Alabama store that sells what America loses.
How to Perform a Heart Transplant
How the Baylor University Medical Center became a force in the heart transplant business.
MLB Game-Fixing Investigation Uncovers Lies, Luck and Hard Feelings
This is what happens when you concoct game-fixing allegations against a Major League pitcher because of a perceived slight on Facebook.
Kidnapped at Birth
One day Nejdra Nance realized the woman she had called Mom for 23 years may have been at the center of one of the most harrowing kidnappings in decades—hers.
U.S. Research Lab Lets Livestock Suffer in Quest for Profit
“Easy care” sheep, crushed piglets, and starving calves. These are the products of a remote research center where scientists are trying to re-engineer the farm animal to fit the needs of the 21st-century meat industry.
