The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought
Inside the boardroom as Uber’s press nightmare unfolded.
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Inside the boardroom as Uber’s press nightmare unfolded.
Eric Newcomer, Brad Stone Businessweek Jan 2018 15min Permalink
Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda?
Jane Mayer New Yorker Mar 2019 30min Permalink
A surgeon tastes viral fame via Twitter and then things get really weird.
He spent years scrimping and saving. But without a will, where’s his money going?
Claire Martin Bloomberg Businessweek May 2019 20min Permalink
What happens when the chefs behind North America’s most hedonistic restaurant quit drinking.
Hannah Goldfield New Yorker May 2019 20min Permalink
What happened when Brooklyn’s oldest nursery school decided to become less old-fashioned? A riot among the one percent.
Jessica Pressler New York Jul 2019 35min Permalink
A jailhouse interview with Steve Washak, who made millions selling “natural male enhancement” pills.
Amy Wallace GQ Sep 2009 20min Permalink
They were exhausting, impossible, stingy, and cruel, just like at their day jobs.
Moe Tkacik Slate Jan 2021 15min Permalink
With her new book, the model tries to escape the oppressions of the male gaze. So our writer is keeping some of her secrets.
Andrea Long Chu New York Times Magazine Nov 2021 30min Permalink
Smigel: Louis comes up with, "What if he says, 'I'm the nurturing president,'and I've developed the ability to breastfeed!" And I'm like, "Yeah, that's great! And then let's have him open the shirt and he's got eight nipples and he can breastfeed dogs and cats." Colbert: We had already lost a lot of sponsors. [Starts singing] It's a beautiful root beer day, the folks from Mug Root Beer have agreed to stay. But you better not breastfeed any puppies today, or you sure as hell will be on your way. So be careful you little punk, Dana Carvey! Even I think it's odd I remember all of the lyrics. I am very impressive...remembering reasons why shows I'm on failed.
Stalking bluefin tuna, the most valuable wild animal in the world.
John Seabrook Harper's Jun 1994 30min Permalink
The original new journalist on his start at the Times, his daily writing routine, and why he’s always taken notes on shirt boards.
Gay Talese, Katie Roiphe The Paris Review Jun 2009 50min Permalink
A blow-by-blow account of Howard Unruh’s slow, deadly walk through Camden, New Jersey – filed an hour before deadline.
Last year, a 26-year-old American missionary set out to convert the world’s most isolated hunter-gatherer tribe. This is the untold story of John Chau’s mission and the tragedy that awaited him.
Doug Bock Clark GQ Aug 2019 40min Permalink
The author muses on the markers we use to identify ourselves and other people – from names to photographs to fingerprints.
Errol Morris New York Times May 2012 1h25min Permalink
The self-help author kicks off her presidential campaign.
Anna Peele The Washington Post Magazine Feb 2019 20min Permalink
On the bohemian poet’s hidden career as a prolific copywriter.
Dale Hrabi The Walrus Nov 2019 25min Permalink
“I wanted to be prepared for the worst nature could throw at me. But the real threat turned out to be human.”
Heidi Julavits New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 25min Permalink
The story of Levine’s father and his involvement in the legal battle over the 798 finished paintings Rothko had in his studio when he was discovered there in a pool of blood. The case spawned a feature film, Legal Eagles, and hinged on an unusual question; was Mark Rothko an artistic genius?
David Levine Triple Canopy Jul 2011 Permalink
In the weeks after Davis shot the six cops, faked out the costly, nationwide manhunt for 17 days, and held a major portion of the NYPD to a standoff in the Twin Parks Houses near Fordham Road, huge black-and-white mug shot-like photos of a starry-eyed, baby-faced killer adorned the front pages of the tabloids under headlines like “They Won’t Take Me Alive” and the local news anchors excitedly invoked his name at the top of every show.
Barry Michael Cooper Village Voice Nov 1988 35min Permalink
Mel Brooks in his 90s.
David Denby The Atlantic Jul 2018 15min Permalink
The Harvard Law professsor on billionaires, politics and Uber.
Nitasha Tiku Valleywag Jun 2014 15min Permalink
An investigation into how the Church moves its money.
Josh Saul Bloomberg Businessweek Jan 2020 15min Permalink
It wasn’t until death rates began to soar that society began to take the outbreak seriously enough.
Vernon Silver Bloomberg Businessweek Mar 2020 15min Permalink
The Arctic permafrost is thawing, revealing millions of buried mammoth skeletons. But the rush for mammoth ivory could put elephants in danger all over again
Sabrina Weiss Wired UK Nov 2019 15min Permalink