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How America is trying to fight terrorism in Africa without doing any of the actual fighting.
Eliza Griswold New York Times Magazine Jun 2014 30min Permalink
Born with spina bifida, Noor al-Zahra Haider entered the media spotlight in 2005 after U.S. troops arranged her life-saving surgery in America. This is what happened when she returned to Iraq.
Thanks to a single court case, the state of Maryland is releasing almost 150 violent offenders who believed they would spend their life behind bars.
Jason Fagone Huffington Post May 2016 30min Permalink
In California, Jeff Lee is a business school student at Stanford with an almost unhealthy work ethic and a penchant for selfies. In Malaysia, he’s teaching women how to win beauty pageants.
When a husband and wife killed 14 at an office Christmas party in San Bernardino, they also orphaned their 6-month-old daughter. This is her life — and the life of the aunt and uncle who want to adopt her — a year later.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Nov 2016 Permalink
A profile of the Atlanta star and creator, who also released a hit album in 2016 and is set to star in the next Star Wars.
Allison Samuels Wired Jan 2017 10min Permalink
In 2009, three followers of an Oprah-endorsed motivational speaker named James Arthur Ray died in an Arizona sweat lodge. Now, after serving two years in prison for negligent homicide, Ray is trying to get back on the self-help circuit.
Matt Stroud The Verge Dec 2013 25min Permalink
On returning to Lagos after years abroad.
It is always understood when you leave Nigeria as a Nigerian that you will return at some point.
Saratu Abiola This Recording Jun 2011 10min Permalink
On the magic of mother’s milk, which changes daily to meet the baby’s needs and can even start fighting an infection before anyone knows the kid is sick.
Angela Garbes The Stranger Aug 2015 10min Permalink
The city of Cleveland is on the hook $18.7 million in judgements for police brutality. They have a plan to get out of paying. And if it works, cities across the country could starting using the same maneuver.
Kyle Swenson Cleveland Scene Jan 2016 15min Permalink
The dramatic liberties a much-heralded film takes with historical fact show how hard it is to get complexity onto the big screen.
Darryl Pinckney New York Review of Books Feb 2015 15min Permalink
On the final two holdouts in Treece, Kansas, a former mining town that is soon to be wiped off the maps.
Wes Enzinna New York Times Magazine May 2012 15min Permalink
“I could give a flying crap about the political process,” Beck says. Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously. And he’s very good at it: Beck pulled in $32 million in the last year.
Lacey Rose Forbes 10min Permalink
A growing movement is seeking a deeper knowledge of themselves through tracking sleep, exercise, sex, food, location, productivity. Technology has made it possible—but hasn’t taught us how to interpret the findings.
Gary Wolf New York Times Magazine Apr 2010 Permalink
The editors of N+1 recap the revolution that is/was the internet with pit-stops to survey the Bolshevik Revolution, the NYT’s messy relationship with tech, and the value of an ad.
Editors of N+1 n+1 Apr 2010 35min Permalink
The urban legend about the guy who hooked a rocket up to the back of his car and drove/flew it into a mountain? The anonymous author claims the story is about him and some of his small town high school buddies.
“Why are you putting all that muddle in your brain that’s not needed to be there?”
An interview about why giving interviews is totally worthless.
John H. Richardson Esquire Dec 2010 Permalink
On the expanding community of American parents who believe, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, that there is a link between routine vaccinations and autism.
Seth Mnookin Simon and Schuster Jan 2011 Permalink
A young, shackled black man is shot to death — and the police say he killed himself. The resulting investigation has pitted the victim’s father against the most powerful man in New Iberia, La.
Nathaniel Rich New York Times Magazine Feb 2017 30min Permalink
In the mid-20th century, Great Britain maintained a network of 1,500 underground, volunteer-staffed bunkers in case of nuclear war. Now, one man is restoring two of these abandoned shelters to period-perfect condition.
Kate Ravilious Atlas Obscura Sep 2018 15min Permalink
These Boston high school valedictorians set off to change the world. But good grades only got them so far. Is Boston failing its brightest students? A five-part series about the students left behind.
Malcolm Gay, Meghan E. Irons, Eric Moskowitz The Boston Globe Jan 2019 1h20min Permalink
A social and financial divide is forming—between those who have student debt, and those who do not—that will have ramifications for decades to come.
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Feb 2019 35min Permalink
A giant earthquake is coming to the Northwest. Unfortunately, no one knows when.
Kathryn Schulz New Yorker Jul 2015 25min Permalink
Fentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. But law enforcement couldn’t trace it to its source—until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota.
Alex W. Palmer New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 50min Permalink
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.
Stephanie Farmer Jacobin Mar 2021 25min Permalink