Where the Bodies Are Buried
In 1910, East Texas saw one of America’s deadliest post-Reconstruction racial purges. One survivor’s descendants have waged an uphill battle for generations to unearth that violent past.
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In 1910, East Texas saw one of America’s deadliest post-Reconstruction racial purges. One survivor’s descendants have waged an uphill battle for generations to unearth that violent past.
Michael Barajas Texas Observer Jul 2019 20min Permalink
Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. But then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable—for a long time, no one could make sense of it.
Sandra Upson Wired Apr 2020 35min Permalink
Daniel Kish is entirely sightless. So how can he ride a bike on busy streets? Go hiking for days alone? By using a technique borrowed from bats.
Michael Finkel Men's Journal May 2012 25min Permalink
On animal cremation and burial in New York:
Riding around Manhattan on a delivery run with a car full of pet cremains, it's hard not to look at the world differently. The omnipresence of pets becomes glaringly obvious, and their inevitable fate is never far from the mind. It's easy to imagine the whippet being jaywalked across Eighth Avenue getting hit by a car. The cocker spaniel on 23rd Street? A bucket of cocker bones in the making.
Steven Thrasher Village Voice Nov 2009 15min Permalink
Throughout 2015 and 2016, amid a series of conversations I had socially with gay and bisexual men about chemsex, new, darker elements to this scene began to emerge; details from unconnected participants that mirrored each other – the same incidents, the same crimes, sometimes even the same culprits. Together they formed a picture: that beneath the surface reports about chemsex – the endless hedonism, the irresistibly intense sex – there is a much blacker sea, unmapped.
Patrick Strudwick Buzzfeed Dec 2016 20min Permalink
How a 26-year-old cocktail waitress ended up running a private weekly poker game for some of Hollywood’s highest rollers.
Molly Bloom Vanity Fair Jul 2014 20min Permalink
The GOP’s younger generation confronts its future.
Robert Draper New York Times Magazine Feb 2013 20min Permalink
The enduring disadvantage of getting locked up.
John Tierney New York Times Jan 2013 10min Permalink
The story of a whale attack.
Gilbert King Smithsonian Mar 2013 Permalink
A mother struggles to cope when a child is born with albinism.
Emily Urquhart The Walrus Apr 2013 25min Permalink
Libor, ISDAfix, and how the big banks do business.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Apr 2013 15min Permalink
Excerpts from the once-classified journals of a current prisoner.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi Slate Apr 2013 1h5min Permalink
Horst von Wächter confronts - and rationalizes - a difficult family legacy.
Philippe Sands The Financial Times May 2013 15min Permalink
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Unpacking a false confession 20 years later.
Marc Bookman The Atlantic Aug 2013 25min Permalink
A profile of Russell Baze, the winningest jockey in American history.
Barry Bearak New York Times Aug 2013 10min Permalink
Investigating the burning of ancient books by rebels in Timbuktu.
Patrick Symmes Outside Apr 2014 25min Permalink
The Srebrenica massacre, almost 20 years later.
Scott Anderson New York Times Magazine May 2014 30min Permalink
Following a lobster from sea to table.
Ian Brown The Globe and Mail Jul 2014 35min Permalink
Rand Paul as the movement’s Pearl Jam.
Robert Draper New York Times Magazine Aug 2014 25min Permalink
On the rise in gay teens who are cast out by their families.
Alex Morris Rolling Stone Sep 2014 25min Permalink
How an education reform effort became the new Obamacare.
Tim Murphy Mother Jones Sep 2014 25min Permalink
A trip to the U.S. Open of ping-pong.
Eric Nusbaum Deadspin Oct 2014 25min Permalink
Fame, fashion, and a trip to the zoo.
Benjamin Wallace New York Aug 2012 15min Permalink
Retro, apocalypticism, and our “culture of disaster.”
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