The Case Against Kids
On the morality of procreation and the origins of birth control.
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On the morality of procreation and the origins of birth control.
Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker Apr 2012 10min Permalink
The decade-long journey of a novel–Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding–through the unpredictable world of book publishing.
Keith Gessen Vanity Fair Oct 2011 55min Permalink
Tracing the path of one of the world’s most in-demand minerals from deadly mines in Congo to your phone.
Todd C. Frankel The Washington Post Sep 2016 30min Permalink
How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Nov 2020 25min Permalink
The behind-the-scenes story of how NFL prospect Michael Sam came out.
Cyd Zeigler Outsports Feb 2014 15min Permalink
A profile of Theo Epstein, the architect behind the Chicago Cubs.
Wright Thompson ESPN Sep 2016 20min Permalink
The complete (to date) New York Times series on the globalization of high tech industries.
New York Times Jan 2012 1h55min Permalink
The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker was extinct. Then it wasn’t. The story of an uncertain resurrection.
Wells Tower Outside Mar 2006 20min Permalink
Two summers spent teaching and living in the hills of Tennessee.
W.E.B. Du Bois The Atlantic Jan 1899 15min Permalink
A history of the gravestone laser-etching industry.
Alexis Madrigal The Atlantic Jul 2011 10min Permalink
Excerpted from the author’s biography of mathematician Simon Phillips Norton.
Alexander Masters The Guardian Aug 2011 Permalink
The surreal world of Sarah Palin and her road show.
Michael Joseph Gross Vanity Fair Sep 2010 40min Permalink
On the interminable two weeks between a bad sonogram and the end of a pregnancy.
Jessica Grose Lenny Feb 2017 10min Permalink
On the rise of Alliance Defending Freedom.
Sarah Posner The Nation Nov 2017 15min Permalink
The hard life and overlooked brilliance of Zane Campbell.
Eddie Dean The Washington Post Feb 2018 20min Permalink
The future of online speech.
Andrew Marantz New Yorker Mar 2018 30min Permalink
Can tearing down I-81 fix the sins of the past?
Aaron Gordon Jalopnik Jul 2019 30min Permalink
“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.”
Jill Lepore New Yorker Jun 2013 15min Permalink
The author relives her Romanian youth and the imprisonment of her father through the Securitate files kept on her family.
Carmen Bugan BBC Apr 2014 15min Permalink
The impact of the oil and gas booms taking place all over the world, and our future on fossil fuels.
Vince Beiser Pacific Standard Mar 2013 25min Permalink
What should be done with the bodies of ISIS fighters? While investigating in Mosul, the author uncovers a terrible crime.
Kenneth R. Rosen The Atavist Jun 2017 30min Permalink
Bobby Fischer unravels before the 1972 World Chess Championships, a.k.a. the “Match of the Century.”
Brad Darrach Playboy Jul 1973 1h10min Permalink
How a meteorite hunter’s obsession took him from the mountains of Colorado, to the Bundy Ranch, and eventually landed him in jail.
Brendan Borrell The Verge Jun 2018 30min Permalink
“The academy’s prestige has been shattered, probably forever,” by allegations of sexual harassment and corruption.
Andrew Brown The Guardian Jul 2018 20min Permalink
The world’s fastest growing economy isn’t China; it’s the “unheralded alternative economic universe of System D” aka the $10 trillion global black market.
Robert Neuwirth Foreign Policy Oct 2011 10min Permalink