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A former journalist, equipped with an algorithm and the largest collection of murder records in the country, finds patterns in crime.
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A former journalist, equipped with an algorithm and the largest collection of murder records in the country, finds patterns in crime.
Alec Wilkinson New Yorker Nov 2017 15min Permalink
A gang of teen hackers snatched the keys to Microsoft’s videogame empire. Then they went too far.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Apr 2018 35min Permalink
America’s first viral story was of a Kentucky cave explorer, Floyd Collins, and the epic effort to rescue him.
Lucas Reilly Mental Floss Jul 2018 40min Permalink
An analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes the case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.
Jane Mayer New Yorker Sep 2018 30min Permalink
How Walter Liew stole titanium white from DuPont on behalf of the Chinese government.
Del Quentin Wilber Bloomberg Business Feb 2016 15min Permalink
The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth.
Ben Taub New Yorker May 2020 50min Permalink
On the anti-communist genocide known by the Indonesian Army as Operation Annihilation.
A theatre company has spent years bringing catharsis to the traumatized. In the coronavirus era, that’s all of us.
Elif Batuman New Yorker Aug 2020 30min Permalink
A convert dies in the Arizona desert and the secrets of a controversial guru start spilling out.
Nina Burleigh Rolling Stone Jun 2013 30min Permalink
The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious website allow him to speak with her once more?
Jason Fagone San Francisco Chronicle Jul 2021 50min Permalink
Scandal, conspiracy, and cover-ups in the theft of the “Irish Crown Jewels” from Dublin Castle.
Dan Nosowitz Atlas Obscura Nov 2021 Permalink
The story of imprisoned boxer James Scott, who contended for the light heavyweight title by staging fights inside Rahway prison.
Brin-Jonathan Butler, Kurt Emhoff SB Nation Mar 2014 40min Permalink
After his wife disappears, Hans Reiser’s defense contacts a Wired writer who they believe can help explain the world of groundbreaking code, video games, and sci-fi that defines Reiser’s existence.
Joshua Davis Wired Jun 2007 20min Permalink
The story of a small town just outside Pittsburgh that has suffered through a half-century of economic decline, racial tension, and endless crime. Despite that trajectory, or perhaps because of it, Aliquippa has also produced an astounding number of NFL players.
S.L. Price Sports Illustrated Jan 2011
On accent, culture, and a legendary football announcer.
Elena Passarello Creative Nonfiction Jan 2008 10min
On the impact of steel giant, Andrew Carnegie.
Christopher Hitchens Atlantic Dec 2006 10min
The possible resurrection of a Pittsburgh borough.
Sue Halpern New York Times Magazine Feb 2011
A profile of one of Mr. Rogers, who got his start at Pittsburgh’s WQED station and filmed there from 1968 until his final show.
Nov 1998 – Feb 2011 Permalink
On having sex with your high school girlfriend – and paying the price for years to come.
Abigail Pesta Marie Claire Jul 2011 Permalink
How Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction, all nine-sixteenths of a second of it, changed TV, the internet, and American culture.
Marin Cogan ESPN the Magazine Jan 2014 15min Permalink
The central witness in “one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American history” speaks out.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Nov 2014 25min Permalink
How Dennis from Head of the Class grew up to be the Aaron Sorkin of tween television.
Jonathan Dee New York Times Magazine Apr 2007 Permalink
A profile of Laura Knight, a Florida mother of five who investigates the paranormal.
Thomas French The St. Petersburg Times Feb 2000 1h30min Permalink
Peter de Jonge New York Times Magazine Oct 2001 20min Permalink
The enigmatic life and death of Bruno Zehnder, who obsessively photographed penguins in the ice fields outside of a Russian base in Antarctica.
Ned Zeman Vanity Fair Jan 2000 45min Permalink
How the killing of a 20-year-old woman upended a nation’s sense of itself.
Xan Rice The Guardian Apr 2018 20min Permalink
A profile of Paul Manafort, “a great normalizer of corruption” who “weakened the capital’s ethical immune system.”
Franklin Foer The Atlantic Jan 2018 25min Permalink
Sara Tirschwell accused her Wall Street boss of misconduct, but that was just the beginning of her troubles.
Anna Silman The Cut Aug 2019 25min Permalink
The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records. But is that the best way to catch a terrorist?
Mattathias Schwartz New Yorker Jan 2015 35min Permalink