To Obama With Love, and Hate, and Desperation
Over eight years, through millions of letters, the staff of the White House mailroom read the unfiltered story of a nation.
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Over eight years, through millions of letters, the staff of the White House mailroom read the unfiltered story of a nation.
Jeanne Marie Laskas New York Times Magazine Jan 2017 35min Permalink
The life story of Rick Rescorla: immigrant, war hero, husband, and head of security at Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter, occupant of 22 floors in the South Tower on September 11, 2001.
James B. Stewart New Yorker Feb 2002 40min Permalink
Bruce Wisan received one of the toughest assignments ever thrust upon an accountant: to take control of the assets (and by proxy, followers) of the polygamist Mormon breakaway sect, F.L.D.S., after their prophet, Warren Jeffs, went on the lam and their compound was raided.
Claire Hoffman Portfolio May 2008 25min Permalink
The secretive titan behind one of America’s largest poultry companies, who is also one of the President’s top donors, is ruthlessly leveraging the coronavirus crisis—and his vast fortune—to strip workers of protections.
Jane Mayer New Yorker Jul 2020 25min Permalink
In 2019, President Trump pardoned Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance, who was serving a 20-year sentence for ordering the murder of two Afghan civilians.
To Lorance’s defenders, the act was long overdue. To members of his platoon, it was a gross miscarriage of justice.
Nathaniel Penn California Sunday Sep 2020 1h20min Permalink
Zacharias Holmes grew up idolizing the anarchy of ‘Jackass.’ Then he took his idols’ vision of chaos to a whole other level. This is the story of Zackass, the Most Self-Destructive Man in America.
Justin Heckert The Ringer Oct 2020 35min Permalink
On the Capitol assault.
Some people may treat the appearance of a Confederate flag as another bit of absurdity, but I’ve never had the luxury of taking it in any way other than literally and seriously.
Blair McClendon n+1 Jan 2021 10min Permalink
How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Vince Beiser Wired Feb 2021 Permalink
Anatomy of a murder trial.
Janet Malcolm New Yorker May 2010 1h45min Permalink
The anatomy of a collapse.
Ted C. Fishman Chicago Magazine Aug 2014 25min Permalink
An oral history of the Tinderverse.
Kiera Feldman Playboy Sep 2014 30min Permalink
Understanding genius.
Tamsin Shaw New York Review of Books Oct 2014 15min Permalink
On the crash of Air France Flight 447.
William Langewiesche Vanity Fair Sep 2014 50min Permalink
The story of rivers and relationships.
David Quammen Outside May 1986 10min Permalink
The economics of being a young writer.
Keith Gessen n+1 Mar 2006 10min Permalink
The science of sleeplessness.
Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker Mar 2013 15min Permalink
The story of Lilly Grossman’s genome.
Ed Yong National Geographic Mar 2013 15min Permalink
The story of a suicide.
Alex Halperin Salon Mar 2013 20min Permalink
A profile of the prime minister.
Charles Moore Vanity Fair Dec 2011 30min Permalink
A profile of the California governor.
James Fallows The Atlantic May 2013 30min Permalink
Encountering a pack of wild dogs in Manhattan.
Rebecca Skloot New York May 2005 10min Permalink
The invention of political consulting.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Sep 2012 25min Permalink
An out-of-character conversation.
Eric Spitznagel Playboy Oct 2012 30min Permalink
On joy, pleasure and Ecstacy.
Zadie Smith New York Review of Books Dec 2012 Permalink
The rise of Israel’s far right.
David Remnick New Yorker Jan 2013 35min Permalink