The Case Against Kids
On the morality of procreation and the origins of birth control.
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The Book on Publishing
The decade-long journey of a novel–Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding–through the unpredictable world of book publishing.
The Prism
“As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets. In other words, the case for privacy always comes too late.”
The Cobalt Pipeline
Tracing the path of one of the world’s most in-demand minerals from deadly mines in Congo to your phone.
Will Trump Burn the Evidence?
How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.
The Motorcycle Gangs
A profile of the Hell’s Angels following “front-page reports of a heinous gang rape in the moonlit sand dunes near the town of Seaside on the Monterey Peninsula.”
"The Eagle Has Landed"
The behind-the-scenes story of how NFL prospect Michael Sam came out.
The Mastermind
A profile of Theo Epstein, the architect behind the Chicago Cubs.
The iEconomy (Pt. 1-7)
The complete (to date) New York Times series on the globalization of high tech industries.
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1. How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work (by Charles Duhigg & Keith Bradsher, Jan 2012)
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2. In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad (by Charles Duhigg & David Barboza, Jan 2012)
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3. How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes (by Charles Duhigg & David Kocienewski, Apr 2012)
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4. Apples Retail Army, Long on Loyalty but Short on Pay (by David Segal, Jun 2012)
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5. In Pursuit of Nissan, a Jobs Lesson for the Tech Industry? (by Bill Vlasic, Hiroko Tabuchi & Charles Duhigg, Aug 2012)
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6. Skilled Work, Without the Worker (by John Markoff, Aug 2012)
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7. The Patent, Used as a Sword (by Charles Duhigg & Steve Lohr, Oct 2012)
The Thing With Feathers
The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker was extinct. Then it wasn’t. The story of an uncertain resurrection.
A Negro Schoolmaster in the South
Two summers spent teaching and living in the hills of Tennessee.
Lasers for the Dead
A history of the gravestone laser-etching industry.
The Genius Who Lives Downstairs
Excerpted from the author’s biography of mathematician Simon Phillips Norton.
The Sound and the Fury
The surreal world of Sarah Palin and her road show.
The Wait
On the interminable two weeks between a bad sonogram and the end of a pregnancy.
The Christian Legal Army Behind ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’
On the rise of Alliance Defending Freedom.
The Man Who Would Save Country Music
The hard life and overlooked brilliance of Zane Campbell.
Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet
The future of online speech.
The Highway that Was Supposed to Save Syracuse
Can tearing down I-81 fix the sins of the past?
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Haul Road"
Two truckers talk on a wintry Alaskan highway.
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Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Planet for Rent"
Trials and dangers abound for an interplanetary social worker.
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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Field Recordings"
Cemetery field recordings reveal terrifying messages.
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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Ericka"
A young man's connection with a circle-drawing, perceptive young woman.
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The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi
Slowly, Bobo pulled off his shoes, his socks. He stood up, unbuttoned his shirt, dropped his pants, his shorts. He stood there naked. It was Sunday morning, a little before 7.
A Tale of Money, Sex and Power: The Ellen Pao and Buddy Fletcher Affair
How Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher Jr., an openly gay hedge fund star, came to marry Ellen Pao, a partner at a powerful Silicon Valley firm, before they “went to war with their elite worlds.”
