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The use and abuse of civil forfeiture.
Sarah Stillman New Yorker Aug 2013 45min Permalink
Why we must bring trains back.
“The world before the railways appeared so very different from what came afterward and from what we know today because the railways did more than just facilitate travel and thereby change the way the world was seen and depicted. They transformed the very landscape itself.”
“It is simply not possible to envision any conceivable modern, urban-based economy shorn of its subways, its tramways, its light rail and suburban networks, its rail connections, and its intercity links.”
Tony Judt New York Review of Books Dec 2010 – Jan 2011 25min Permalink
On Johnny Carson, a cold man in a hot seat.
Kenneth Tynan New Yorker Feb 1978 1h30min Permalink
How two love-struck, type A high schoolers almost got away with murder.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Dec 1996 40min Permalink
What becomes of Asian-American overachievers after the test-taking ends?
Wesley Yang New York Jan 2012 35min Permalink
A profile of Phoenix Jones, real-life superhero.
Jon Ronson GQ Aug 2011 20min Permalink
Taking the measure of the president, with a view to history.
James Fallows The Atlantic Feb 2012 15min Permalink
The 2011 Tohoku Japan earthquake and tsunami, as experienced by eight schoolchildren.
Chris Heath GQ Jul 2011 30min Permalink
A clandestine meeting between Western journalists and Hezbollah fighters in a Beirut strip mall.
Mitchell Prothero Vice Mar 2012 25min Permalink
Life and death inside a NATO hospital in Afghanistan.
Corinne Reilly The Virginian Pilot Jul 2011 45min Permalink
On “Poor Hartley,” the son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Anne Fadiman Lapham's Quarterly Dec 2011 20min Permalink
The story of William Morgan: American, wanderer, Cuban revolutionary.
David Grann New Yorker May 2012 1h25min Permalink
How a surgical innovation allowed Dallas Weins to find a new face.
Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Feb 2012 Permalink
The rise of anonymous group suicide in Japan.
David Samuels The Atlantic May 2007 20min Permalink
Is Mike Huckabee the GOP’s best hope in 2012? Mike Huckabee’s not so sure.
Ariel Levy New Yorker Jun 2010 35min Permalink
An anatomy of a failure.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells Rolling Stone Dec 2007 1h Permalink
Best Article History Tech Media
The challenges facing the historians of the internet.
Ariel Bleicher IEEE Spectrum Mar 2011 15min Permalink
The battle between government and industry for America’s best hackers.
David Kushner Rolling Stone Sep 2013 Permalink
The right to choose in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Kiera Feldman Harper's Nov 2016 25min Permalink
On race and risk in American culture.
Zadie Smith Harper's Jun 2017 15min Permalink
Ten years in the life of a young woman from the Bronx.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc New Yorker Apr 2000 40min Permalink
How a rugby legend came out.
Gary Smith Sports Illustrated May 2010 30min Permalink
A jailhouse interview.
David Felton, David Dalton Rolling Stone Jun 1970 2h Permalink
The complicated post-retirement life of Joe DiMaggio.
Gay Talese Esquire Jul 1966 35min Permalink
A profile of a suburban New Jersey fifth-grader named Colin Duffy.
Susan Orlean Esquire Dec 1992 20min Permalink