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On the private, for-profit probation industry.
Sarah Stillman New Yorker Jun 2014 40min Permalink
Profiling the sleepy reality tv star.
Sarah Miller Cafe Oct 2014 15min Permalink
On the lawyers who defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Jared Loughner and Whitey Bulger.
Scott Helman Boston Globe Jan 2015 15min Permalink
Explaining the explainer.
Justin Ray Columbia Journalism Review Mar 2018 15min Permalink
A literary memoir.
Darryl Pinckney The Threepenny Review Sep 2013 30min Permalink
The slacker auteur reinvents himself.
Abraham Riesman Vulture Sep 2017 15min Permalink
How a Colorado ranch taught the author to sit still.
Pam Houston Outside Sep 2017 15min Permalink
Mel Brooks in his 90s.
David Denby The Atlantic Jul 2018 15min Permalink
Four days, two murders, and one poplar tree that almost ignited World War III.
Josh Dean The Atavist Magazine Aug 2018 50min Permalink
On the ground to witness Cuba’s last days:
“Either we rectify our course or the time for teetering along on the brink runs out and we go down. And we will go down…[with] the effort of entire generations.”—Raul Castro
Jose Manuel Prieto New York Review of Books May 2011 15min Permalink
In the late 90s, an American man adopted a 5-year-old from the Ukraine. A decade later, one of the two would be accused of molesting young boys. The other would be charged with murder.
Chris Vogel Boston Magazine Aug 2012 Permalink
The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world. The story of a neonatal nurse helps illustrate why.
Nina Martin, Renee Montagne ProPublica May 2017 35min Permalink
The story of the 100-mile Barkley Marathons.
“What makes it so bad? No trail, for one. A cumulative elevation gain that’s nearly twice the height of Everest.”
Leslie Jamison The Believer May 2011 25min Permalink
A four-part investigation of brothers William and James ‘Whitey’ Bulger. One was president of the Massachusetts Senate for 17 years. The other was on the lam for 16 years before being captured.
Christine Chinlund, Dick Lehr, Kevin Cullen The Boston Globe Sep 1998 1h15min Permalink
Drones, renditions, and underground prisons; inside the war on terror’s African front.
In the eighteen years since the infamous “Black Hawk Down” incident in Mogadishu, US policy on Somalia has been marked by neglect, miscalculation and failed attempts to use warlords to build indigenous counterterrorism capacity, many of which have backfired dramatically. At times, largely because of abuses committed by Somali militias the CIA has supported, US policy has strengthened the hand of the very groups it purports to oppose and inadvertently aided the rise of militant groups, including the Shabab.
Jeremy Scahill The Nation Aug 2011 15min Permalink
After oil was discovered on their Oklahoma reservation, the Osage Nation became the richest people per capita in the world. Then they began to be murdered off mysteriously. In 1924 the nascent FBI sent a team of undercover agents, including a Native American, to the Osage reservation.
David Grann New Yorker Mar 2017 15min Permalink
The author, age 96, on the end.
Diana Athill The Guardian Sep 2014 10min Permalink
The story of TWA Flight 841.
Hear Buzz Bissinger discuss this story, a Pultizer finalist now available online for the first time, on the Longform Podcast.
Buzz Bissinger St. Paul Pioneer Press May 1981 25min Permalink
The whole thing began over a puddle in the driveway. Eight years later, Peter Nygard and his neighbor Louis Bacon, who own houses next to each other in paradise, have spent tens of millions in a constantly escalating legal war. Neither man spends much time on the island anymore.
Eric Koningsberg Vanity Fair Dec 2015 25min Permalink
John Aldridge fell overboard in the middle of the night, 40 miles from shore, and the Coast Guard was looking in the wrong place. How did he survive?
Paul Tough New York Times Magazine Jan 2014 30min Permalink
In 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy and held the entire American diplomatic mission hostage for fifteen months. Twenty-five years later, the students reflected on their actions, many with regret.
Mark Bowden The Atlantic Dec 2004 35min Permalink
For the first time since exposing the atrocities at Abu Ghraib, Joe Darby speaks out.
Wil S. Hylton GQ Sep 2006 15min Permalink
On the grief that comes with losing livestock.
E.B. White The Atlantic Jan 1948 15min Permalink
'It’s raised the bar,' Craig finally conceded. 'It’s fucking raised the bar.'
Sam Knight GQ Mar 2020 30min Permalink
The strange saga of a 2009 Gary Oldman profile that his manager, Douglas Urbanski, aggressively sought to kill.
"Mr. Heath's motives are dishonest in the least...supposed 'journalism' at its very lowest...while Mr. Heath may find his sloppy reporting cute, in fact it is destructive, and he knows it...his out of context and uninformed pot shots...out of context swipes at me...stretching the most basic rules of journalism...in certain ways has aspects of a thinly disguised hit piece... a hole filled swiss cheese of wrong facts, misleading insinuations, and in general lazy, substandard, agendized non-reporting...again and again Mr. Heath attempts to turn the piece into a political piece...GQ has allowed Heath to go for the cheap shot..."
Chris Heath GQ Feb 2012 1h5min Permalink