The Assistant Economy
Nowadays, the young and privileged view un- and under-paid assistantships as the road to a successful creative career. Are they deluding themselves?
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Nowadays, the young and privileged view un- and under-paid assistantships as the road to a successful creative career. Are they deluding themselves?
Francesca Mari Dissent Apr 2015 20min Permalink
The families who are choosing to live in the exclusion zone’s ghost villages and nearby.
Zhanna Bezpiatchuk BBC Oct 2018 Permalink
History’s largest mining operation is about to begin. It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable.
Wil S. Hylton The Atlantic Dec 2019 30min Permalink
The author, age 96, on the end.
Diana Athill The Guardian Sep 2014 10min 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
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
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
On Witanhurst, the dilapidated London mansion whose ownership is cloaked in mystery.
Ed Caesar New Yorker Jun 2015 30min Permalink
Explaining the explainer.
Justin Ray Columbia Journalism Review Mar 2018 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
Four American rock climbers are kidnapped by guerillas in Kyrgyzstan.
Greg Child Outside Nov 2000 30min 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
How can you know if you’re about to get replaced by an invading algorithm or an augmented immigrant? “If your job can be easily explained, it can be automated,” Anders Sandberg, of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, tells Oppenheimer. “If it can’t, it won’t.” (Rotten luck for people whose job description is “Predict the future.”)
Jill Lepore New Yorker Feb 2019 30min Permalink
How one obscure sentence upset the New York Times.
Renata Adler Harper's Aug 2000 45min Permalink
Investigating the spike in Afghan-on-American military murders.
Matthieu Aikins Mother Jones Oct 2013 25min Permalink
Why Obama won’t rein in the NSA.
Ryan Lizza New Yorker Dec 2013 50min Permalink
Gentrification and its discontents in Paris, throughout the centuries.
Eric Hazan New Left Review Apr 2010 Permalink
On Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, “the permanent revolutionary,” and his son Seif.
Andrew Solomon New Yorker May 2006 55min Permalink
On the relationship between rivalry and creativity.
Hua Hsu Lapham's Quarterly Sep 2018 15min Permalink
A decade before #MeToo, a multimillionaire sex offender from Florida got the ultimate break.
Julie K. Brown Miami Herald Nov 2018 Permalink
Why don’t police catch serial rapists?
Barbara Bradley Hagerty The Atlantic Jul 2019 30min Permalink