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The legalizing of euthanasia is usually seen as a advancement in human rights. But is it appropriate for cases of non-terminal illness?
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The legalizing of euthanasia is usually seen as a advancement in human rights. But is it appropriate for cases of non-terminal illness?
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Jun 2015 35min Permalink
A year after the tragedy of Hurricane Maria, the 51st state has become the favorite playground for extremely wealthy Americans looking to keep their money from the taxman. The only catch? They have to cut all ties to the mainland (wink, wink).
Jesse Barron GQ Sep 2018 20min Permalink
Calvin Stanley is a fourth-grader at Cross Country Elementary School. He rides a bike, watches TV, plays video games and does just about everything other 10-year-old boys do. Except see.
Alice Steinbach Baltimore Sun May 1984 15min Permalink
A profile of the director, written from the set of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Lynn Hirschberg W Jan 2011 15min Permalink
“Project Veritas, founded in 2010, is a tax-exempt charity that says its mission is to “investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud and other misconduct.” It raised $4.8 million and employed 38 people in 2016, according to its public tax filing. It also had 92 volunteers.”
Shawn Boburg, Aaron C. Davis, Alice Crites Washington Post Nov 2017 10min Permalink
The story that certified Gehry as a genius and the Guggenheim Bilbao as the building of the late 20th century.
Herbert Muschamp New York Times Magazine Sep 1997 20min Permalink
On Terri Schiavo, “persistent vegetative state,” and life or death decisions:
Imagine it. You are in your early twenties. You are watching a movie, say on Lifetime, in which someone has a feeding tube. You pick up the empty chip bowl. “No tubes for me,” you say as you get up to fill it. What are the chances you have given this even a passing thought?
Joan Didion New York Review of Books Jun 2005 35min Permalink
It’s not just the virus that stands in the way, it’s bureaucratic logistics, and the frightening look of those hazmat suits.
Sarah Boseley The Guardian Feb 2015 20min Permalink
The mob that rampaged the halls of Congress included infamous white supremacists and conspiracy theorists.
Sabrina Tavernise, Matthew Rosenberg New York Times Jan 2021 10min Permalink
How the Brazilian butt lift, one of the world’s most dangerous plastic surgery procedures, went mainstream.
Rebecca Jennings The Goods Aug 2021 30min Permalink
“When it comes down to it, really, genes don’t make you who you are. Gene expression does. And gene expression varies depending on the life you live.”
David Dobbs Pacific Standard Sep 2013 25min Permalink
How a Japanese company took over the American living room.
Blake J. Harris Grantland May 2014 20min Permalink
Inside Zappos as it transitions to something called a “Teal organization” that involves no managers and what amounts scouting merit badges and something called “People Points.”
Roger D. Hodge The New Republic Oct 2015 10min Permalink
More Americans rely on Puerto Rico’s grid than on any other public electric utility. How one renegade plant worker led them through the shadows.
Daniel Alarcón Wired Aug 2018 20min Permalink
Tekashi 6ix9ine was SoundCloud rap’s most notorious star. But the same instincts that made him huge may put him in prison for years
Stephen Witt Rolling Stone Jan 2019 30min Permalink
When a car careened onto a baseball field in Sanford, Maine, during a Babe Ruth game in 2018, it set in motion a true-crime mystery 50 years in the making.
A reporter watches as a Hindu nationalist government uses tech from the companies he covers to destroy a secular democracy.
Pranav Dixit Buzzfeed News Apr 2021 20min Permalink
In 2003, a man robbed a bank with a bomb around his neck. It exploded shortly thereafter, taking his life and leaving authorities to try to figure out who had put it there.
Rich Schapiro Wired Dec 2010 20min Permalink
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The latest version of our all-time favorite video game is here! And the best part about the new EA SPORTS FIFA 16? For the first time, you can play with women's national teams from around the globe, including this summer's World Cup championship U.S. squad.
In honor of the new game—and the endless time we are going to waste playing it—here are some of our favorite stories about the stars of women's soccer.
How Carli Lloyd became a World Cup hero.
Grant Wahl Sports Illustrated Jul 2015 10min
On the eve of the World Cup, Abby Wambach considers what life will be like once her career is over.
Kate Fagan ESPN Oct 2014
A profile of Brazil’s Marta, widely regarded as one of the most talented women to ever play the game.
Wiebke Hollersen Der Spiegel Jun 2011 15min
On American star Megan Rapinoe, who does it it her way no matter where in the world she is playing.
Sam Borden New York Times Apr 2013 10min
An investigation, in Sweeden.
Allison McCann Howler Feb 2013 15min
Sydney Leroux's journey from Canada to the USWNT.
Kevin Koczwara SB Nation Jun 2015 30min
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Robert Berman was a passionate and polarizing English teacher at the Horace Mann School. He is also accused of sexually abusing many of his devoted students.
Marc Fisher New Yorker Apr 2013 50min Permalink
“The central conflict of domestic life right now is not men versus women, mothers versus fathers. It is family versus money.”
Stephen Marche The Atlantic Jul 2013 15min Permalink
Documents from Edward Snowden show that the intelligence agency is arming America for future digital wars—a struggle for control of the Internet that is already well underway.
Der Spiegel Jan 2015 Permalink
He’s been accused of fraud, sexual assault, and using drugs. But for Chris Bathum, who doesn’t have prior experience treating people struggling with addiction, opening several facilities promising to do just that has been surprisingly easy—and lucrative.
Hillel Aron LA Weekly Dec 2015 20min Permalink
The underground economy of child sex trafficking, and what happens after someone is rescued from it.
J. David McSwane Sarasota Herald-Tribune Oct 2013 1h5min Permalink
Drought is shrinking one of the country’s largest reservoirs, revealing a hidden Eden.
Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker Aug 2021 25min Permalink