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“Amazon has done a great job,” Jobs said. “We’re going to stand on their shoulders and go a little bit farther.” Or they were planning to stand on Amazon’s neck and press down hard.
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“Amazon has done a great job,” Jobs said. “We’re going to stand on their shoulders and go a little bit farther.” Or they were planning to stand on Amazon’s neck and press down hard.
Ken Auletta New Yorker Apr 2010 25min Permalink
A famed attorney begins a transformation away from being a man; and dies after a companion shoves her under an oncoming train.
Elizabeth Day The Guardian Jan 2011 20min Permalink
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“My brother Evan was born female. He came out as transgender 16 years ago but never stopped wanting to have a baby. This spring he gave birth to his first child.”
Jessi Hempel Time Sep 2016 20min Permalink
In Liberland, a small borderland between Serbia and Croatia, ‘‘government will be banned except for three things: security, legal stuff and diplomacy.’’
Gideon Lewis-Kraus New York Times Magazine Aug 2015 35min Permalink
Mark Hogancamp nearly died after being jumped by five men in 2000. After waking from a coma with no memories, he developed an extraordinary coping device: he built a miniature town in his garden where he gets his revenge.
Jon Ronson The Guardian Oct 2015 10min Permalink
An interview with Michael Schur, who wrote for Saturday Night Live and The Office before co-creating Parks and Recreation and Brookyn Nine-Nine.
Stephanie Palumbo The Believer Nov 2015 15min Permalink
According to the trades and his pitch to investors, Ryan Kavanaugh had found film business formula that couldn’t lose. It could. Unraveling a Tinseltown Ponzi scheme.
Benjamin Wallace New York Jan 2016 30min Permalink
On September 14, 2001, Lyle Stevik checked into the Lake Quinault Inn. Three days later, the motel’s housekeeper found him dead. But “Lyle Stevik,” it turns out, was an alias.
Donors all over America opened their wallets for his United States Navy Veterans Association. Politicians all over Washington posed for grip-and-grins with him. But not only was he not a legitimate fundraiser for military families—he wasn’t even Bobby Charles Thompson.
Daniel Fromson Washingtonian Mar 2017 25min Permalink
Horseshoe crab blood is an irreplaceable medical marvel. Which means it’s incredibly valuable. Which means biomedical companies are bleeding 500,000 crabs a year. Nobody knows quite what that means for the crabs.
Caren Chesler Popular Mechanics Apr 2017 15min Permalink
Undercover in an industrial slaughterhouse.
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Ted Conover Harper's May 2013 55min Permalink
An enormous entitlement in the tax code props up home prices—and overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy and the upper middle class.
Matthew Desmond New York Times Magazine May 2017 30min Permalink
Jeff Walton is a 69-year-old plumber with a wife and 35-year-old son. It turns out he’s also Ronald Stan, a Canadian man who faked his own death in 1977.
Tim Alamenciak The Toronto Star Sep 2014 15min Permalink
When a day hike in Rocky Mountain National Park ended in a grisly death, Investigative Services Branch veteran Beth Shott hit the trail, where she began unraveling a harrowing case.
Rachel Monroe Outside Oct 2018 25min Permalink
At the Jimmy Buffett-branded community, a hint at how increasingly long-lived species might choose to spend their extra decades.
Kim Tingley New York Times Magazine Nov 2018 20min Permalink
They work in hotel rooms, Airbnbs and secondhand RVs just over the state line, so that women can give birth on their own terms.
Rebecca Grant Huffington Post Highline Dec 2018 20min Permalink
Dan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his debut thriller, The Woman in the Window. His life contains even stranger twists.
Ian Parker New Yorker Feb 2018 50min Permalink
A man named Tristan Beaudette was killed while camping in Malibu Creek State Park with his two young daughters. For residents, it became a true crime sensation. But for his family, it was something very different.
Zach Baron GQ Jun 2019 40min Permalink
He was a convicted felon who found a niche in Seattle’s construction boom. As the region’s fortunes rose and fell—and rose again—so did his. Then a fatal boating accident came for Michael Powers’s fairy-tale ending.
James Ross Gardner Seattle Met Aug 2109 30min Permalink
Patrick Bryne’s tenure at Overstock.com was already on the rocks, due to an all in bet on blockchain technology, before he admitted that he had an affair with the Russian operative Maria Butina.
Lauren Debter Forbes Aug 2019 Permalink
One teammate made tennis his whole life. The other had a grandfather whose company invented Hot Pockets. Guess which one went to Georgetown as a Division I recruit.
Daniel Golden, Doris Burke ProPublica Oct 2019 30min Permalink
A charming assistant funeral home director named Bernie Tiede murders a wealthy widow, keeps her in a freezer for months, finally gets caught, and still has the town's sympathy as his case goes to trial. The story that became Richard Linklater's Bernie.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jan 1998 20min Permalink
An Eastern Airlines shuttle to Boston 50 years ago started out routine. It ended up changing how America flies.
Neil Swidey The Boston Globe Mar 2020 40min Permalink
How a fearsome, fast-talking union boss became a leading figure in cannabis legalization while shaking down the very people he was supposed to be helping.
Jason Fagone San Francisco Chronicle, Epic Magazine Mar 2020 1h15min Permalink