Country Pride: What I Learned Growing Up in Rural America
For me, country was not a look, a style, or even a conscious attitude, but a physical place, its experience defined by distance from the forces of culture that would commodify it.
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What Is Code?
A 38,000-word answer.
The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed
The grim world of outsourced content moderation.
Revenge of the Nerds
How the Caltech basketball team, losers of 310 straight conference games, figured out a formula for winning.
When the Boss Gets Busted: Survival Stories from the Front Lines of Political Scandal
Former Bob Ney, Mark Foley and William Jefferson underlings provide a street-level view of D.C. opprobrium.
The Big Russian Life of Anna Chapman, ex-spy
A profile of the Russian spy-turned-Maxim covergirl.
The Genius of Moondog
How a blind, destitute man became a world-class composer while living on the streets of New York.
The Hazards of Duke
On a Duke student’s now infamous Powerpoint presentation of her sexual history; binge-drinking, post-feminism, and Mario Kart.
The Curse of the Ramones
How a group of Queens high schoolers changed music forever while barely managing to remain on speaking terms.
The Daredevil of the Auction World
A profile of 36-year-old curator Loïc Gouzer, who has made millions for Christie’s.
The Samurai Killer of South St. Louis
Seth Herter’s life was full of delusions. But the murder was all too real.
The Fall of Mic Was a Warning
Lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site.
Center of the Universe
Memories of a lovely afternoon with a serial killer.
The Fairy Godmother of Rock
A profile of Stevie Nicks.
Father of the Year
A profile of John Lasseter, chief creative officer at Pixar.
The Prince of Darkness Would Like a Little Peace
A profile of Ozzy Osbourne.
The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power
An investigation of Scientology.
Under the Banner of New York
How New York City responds to terrorism.
Leader of the Persistence
A profile of Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren.
The Incredibly Happy Life of Larry David, TV's Favorite Grouch
A profile of Larry David.
The Most Popular Articles of the Week
The collapse of Motorola, the Italian scientists held criminally responsible for an earthquake and the bumpy rise of Chevy Chase during SNL's first season — the week's top stories on Longform.
The Endless Fall of Suge Knight
His health failing and his business in tatters, the head of Death Row Records faces murder charges that could put him away for life.
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The Triple Jeopardy of a Chinese Math Prodigy
A secretive hedge fund used the British court system to punish an IP thief‚ even though he was already in jail.
Confessions of a Juggler
On the dilemmas facing a (very famous) working mother in New York City. “It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam—which, let me make it very clear, I have not done—than it is to speak honestly about this topic.”
Walmart’s Company Town of Bentonville, Arkansas
Bentonville, Arkansas, is home to Walmart’s headquarters. It’s also a town in which the Walton Family Foundation works like a parallel state, creating a kind of twenty-first-century company town.
