Inside the Mind of the MAGA Bomber
Cesar Sayoc turned his loyalty toward Donald Trump into a literal assault on the President’s Democratic enemies in 2018.
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Hype Man of the Century
The bizarre story of what happened when Chinese crypto millionaire Justin Sun acquired BitTorrent.
The Gilded Age
Gold mined in the jungles of Peru brought riches to three friends in Miami—but it also carried ruin.
John Swartzwelder, Sage of The Simpsons
The first major interview with The Simpsons’ most prolific and legendary writer.
The Road Home
The Texas Department of Transportation intends to spend $25 billion widening highways to fix traffic in Texas cities. What if we tore them down instead?
The Internet Is Rotting
Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.
Reexamining the Legacy of Race and Robert E. Lee
The historian Allen C. Guelzo believes that the Confederate general deserves a more compassionate reading.
The Company Man
On Tse Chi Lop, “the Jeff Bezos of the drug trade” and ringleader of a $21-billion crime syndicate.
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
It was the confluence of two streams of development that transformed Ted Kaczynski into the Unabomber. One stream was personal, fed by his anger toward his family and those who he felt had slighted or hurt him, in high school and college. The other derived from his philosophical critique of society and its institutions, and reflected the culture of despair he encountered at Harvard and later.
The Prosecutor and the President
The International Criminal Court embodied the hope of bringing warlords and demagogues to justice. Then Luis Moreno-Ocampo took on the heir to Kenya’s most powerful political dynasty.
How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company
Will Vinton created the California Raisins, coined the term “claymation” and had a firm making $28 million a year in the late 1990s. By 2002, he was out of a job, replaced by a failed rapper who had gone by the name “Chilly Tee” and also happened to be the son of Nike co-founder Phil Knight.
Louisiana Is Disappearing Into the Sea
“Since 1932, the Gulf of Mexico has swallowed 2,300 square miles of the state’s wetlands, an area larger than Delaware. If no action is taken, the missing Delaware will become a missing Connecticut, and then a missing Vermont.”
A Severed Head, Two Cops, and the Radical Future of Interrogation
A novel interrogation technique is transforming the art of detective work: Shut up and let the suspect do the talking.
The Water Crises Aren’t Coming—They’re Here
The symptoms are here: multiyear droughts, large-scale crop failures, a major city—Cape Town—on the verge of going dry, increasing outbreaks of violence, fears of full-scale water wars. The big question: How do we keep the water flowing?
The Longform Guide to Space
A celebrity astrophysicist, the Columbia disaster, and sex in space—a collection of our favorite articles about the cosmos.
The Barnacle Queens of the Spanish Seaside
Four Galician sisters take on the macho percebeira culture to harvest one of the world’s most expensive delicacies, the gooseneck barnacle, from the frigid sea.
Adapted from Grape, Olive, Pig: Deep Travels Through Spain’s Food Culture.
The Myth and Legend of Shecky Greene
The name Shecky can vacillate from noun to verb to adjective. The opinion of every comedian during that gilded age of show business, whether they were Republican Bob Hope or hipster Lenny Bruce, is that Shecky Greene was the wildest of them all. The craziest of them all. Most importantly - the funniest of them all.
The Surrogacy Cycle
Carrying babies for foreign couples was once touted as a win-win for everyone involved. Indian women, however, were often left with little to show for their efforts.
The Longform Guide to the Music Business
The man who made Bieber, how Nickelback cashes in, and the story of Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun—a collection of classic articles about the music industry.</p>
Suicide of the Ceasefire Babies
The Ceasefire Babies was what they called us. Those too young to remember the worst of the terror because we were either in nappies or just out of them when the Provisional IRA ceasefire was called. I was four, Jonny was three. We were the Good Friday Agreement generation, destined to never witness the horrors of war but to reap the spoils of peace. The spoils just never seemed to reach us.
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The Longform Guide to Nurses
It takes a special kind of person to become a nurse. You have to be willing to work long shifts. To care for people when nobody else will. To be there for families at their darkest hour. And to do it all while being taken for granted.
Nursing is hard, thankless work. And yet nearly four million people in America do it every day. Here are a few of their stories, a collection presented in partnership with Johnson & Johnson.
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Behind the Beanie Babies: The Secret Life of Ty Warner
A profile of the reclusive billionaire who orchestrated a collectible toy craze.
The Reformation: Can Social Scientists Save Themselves?
Policing the world of experimental research in the age of TED talks and Freakonomics.
Inside the US Government's War on Tech Support Scammers
The fall of PCCare247, an Indian company in the business of selling fixes to problems that didn’t exist.
The Target
A profile of Malala Yousafzai, the young activist from Pakistan who was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
