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How Human Potential Movement workshops permeated our lives and our businesses.
Suzanne Snider The Believer May 2003 25min Permalink
The first in-depth piece on Michele Bachmann.
G.R. Anderson Jr. Minneapolis City Pages Oct 2006 20min
A profile of Romney from his last presidential campaign, with a focus on how he evolved from professional consultant to professional candidate.
Ryan Lizza New Yorker Oct 2007 20min
On the calculated political career of Rick Perry, and what it means for his presidential bid.
Paul Burka Texas Monthly Feb 2010 30min
Notes from the Nevada stretch of the Ron Paul campaign trail last time around.
Tucker Carlson New Republic Dec 2007 10min
A look at Jon Hunstman, the former Utah governor and ambassador to China now running well behind in the polls, as he prepared to announce his candidacy.
Chris Jones Esquire Jun 2010 25min
An exhaustive profile of Gingrich, then a 41-year-old congressman balancing a new role on the national stage with the spotlight on his personal life that came with it.
David Osborne Mother Jones Nov 1984 25min
A profile of Rick Santorum published as he began a reelection campaign for the U.S. Senate, a race widely considered a stepping stone to a run for the White House. Santorum went on to lose.
Mike Newall Philadelphia City Paper Sep 2005 25min
A primer on long-shot candidate Herman Cain, former pizza chain CEO and current Tea Party star.
Dave Weigel Slate Jan 2011
On the rapid rise of the New Jersey governor, who doubles as pundits’ favorite noncandidate.
Matt Bai New York Times Magazine Feb 2011
Nov 1984 – Feb 2011 Permalink
Bob Voulgaris and his math prodigy sidekick attempt to create the perfect betting algorithm.
Scott Eden ESPN Feb 2013 20min Permalink
Behind the scenes of Lost Highway
A profile of Marlon Brando, age 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.
Truman Capote New Yorker Nov 1957 55min
It was the middle of the day in the steamy Philippine jungle and the sun was merciless. Director Francis Ford Coppola, dressed in rumpled white Mao pajamas, was slowly making his way upriver in a motor launch.
Maureen Orth Newsweek Jun 1977
A “fanatical Lynch fan from way back,” David Foster Wallace visits the set of Lost Highway, never actually talks to the director, and writes a profile.
David Foster Wallace Premiere Sep 1996 45min
Inside the five-year (and counting) production of the Ilya Khrzhanovsky film Dau.
Michael Idov GQ Nov 2011 15min
In Austin in 1973, politicos and hippies could get together and create violent, visionary horror films for $60,000. So they did. The story of how The Texas Chainsaw Massacre got made:
John Bloom Texas Monthly Nov 2004 50min
The battle to make The Godfather pitted director Francis Ford Coppola against producers including Robert Evans, and the production itself against the real-life mob.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Mar 2009 40min
An oral history of Goodfellas.
GQ Oct 2010 35min
How Warren Beatty seduced the studios into making the comedy Ishtar, which set the modern bar for cinematic debacles.
Peter Biskind Vanity Fair Feb 2012 35min
Nov 1957 – Feb 2012 Permalink
“He was, it must be said, a pig. And my heart grew fonder.”
Bill 'Muffy' O'Brien SB Nation Mar 2013 10min Permalink
A 12-hour interview on career and craft.
Douglas Brinkley, Terry McDonell The Paris Review Sep 2000 35min Permalink
How to drive across America in less than 32 hours and 7 minutes.
Charles Graeber Wired Oct 2007 30min Permalink
The “naked technological realities” of America’s heartland and how they power a “cosy coastal world of pretend farmers’ markets and happy cows.”
Venkatesh Rao Aeon Jul 2013 15min Permalink
A profile of a virtual kingpin.
Andy Greenberg Forbes Aug 2013 Permalink
A dispatch from Eloise Woods, a natural burial ground where bodies are consigned directly to the earth.
Sarah Wambold Texas Observer Jun 2015 15min Permalink
Paul Newman’s will held some unpleasant surprises for his daughters.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jul 2015 25min Permalink
The story of “Madam Walker,” who built a thriving empire of hair products for black women.
Hunter Oatman-Stanford Collector's Weekly Aug 2015 15min Permalink
Activist investor Bill Ackman set out to destroy the multilevel marketing company. But did he wind up helping it succeed instead?
Roger Parloff Fortune Sep 2015 45min Permalink
The producer of Big Star’s Third and piano player on ‘Wild Horses’ recounts a life of music in Memphis.
Jim Dickinson Oxford American Dec 2013 1h10min Permalink
A profile of Joe Biden, written not long after the car crash that killed his wife and daughter.
Kitty Kelley Washingtonian Jun 1974 20min Permalink
How the Caltech basketball team, losers of 310 straight conference games, figured out a formula for winning.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Nov 2015 30min Permalink
Vengeance, abuse, and the strange double standards of death penalty politics.
Marc Bookman Mother Jones Nov 2015 15min Permalink
The origin story of Gabriel García Márquez’s classic.
Paul Elie Vanity Fair Dec 2015 20min Permalink
A trip to the zoo, Charlie Kaufman’s new film, and human despair.
Zadie Smith New York Review of Books Feb 2016 20min Permalink
How an up-and-coming company went bust.
Steve LeVine Quartz Dec 2013 30min Permalink
How corporations are using the First Amendment to destroy government regulation.
Haley Sweetland Edwards Washington Monthly Feb 2014 45min Permalink
A profile of Evgeny Morozov, “either the most astute, feared, loathed, or useless writer about digital technology working today.”
Michael Meyer Columbia Journalism Review Jan 2013 20min Permalink
For centuries, a little town in Belgium has been treating the mentally ill. Why are its medieval methods so successful?
The coordinated government attack on queer Russia.
Jeff Sharlet GQ Feb 2014 30min Permalink
How a man of little education and little means invented a simple machine that changed the lives of women in rural India.
Vibeke Venema BBC Mar 2014 10min Permalink