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Chad Walde believed in his work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Then he got a rare brain cancer linked to radiation, and the government denied it had any responsibility.
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Chad Walde believed in his work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Then he got a rare brain cancer linked to radiation, and the government denied it had any responsibility.
Rebecca Moss ProPublica Oct 2018 40min Permalink
A secretive hedge fund used the British court system to punish an IP thief‚ even though he was already in jail.
Kit Chellel, Jeremy Hodges Bloomberg Businessweek Nov 2018 20min Permalink
Amid the brutal civil war, a town fought off the regime and the fundamentalists—and dared to hold an election. Can its experiment in democracy survive?
Anand Gopal New Yorker Nov 2018 45min Permalink
A glimpse of life on the suburban road, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney.
Lauren Hough Huffington Post Dec 2018 25min Permalink
On Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
By reengineering the economy and society to their own benefit, Google and Facebook are perverting capitalism in a way that undermines personal freedom and corrodes democracy.
Nicholas Carr Los Angeles Review of Books Jan 2019 15min Permalink
In 2007, NBA ref Tim Donaghy pleaded guilty to betting on games he officiated. But it was never proved that he fixed them—until now.
Scott Eden ESPN Feb 2019 50min Permalink
While driving through a dangerous curve in East Texas, James Fulton crossed into oncoming traffic and killed a young woman. The cops said the crash was an accident. But the Smith County DA saw it differently.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Mar 2019 30min Permalink
With an uncompromising vision and the studio hours to back it up, the enigmatic singer is back with a new single—and a promise that her first album in six years will be worth the wait.
Camille Dodero Pitchfork Mar 2019 15min Permalink
A profile of the actor following a car accident that left him briefly in a coma and ultimately with a settlement so large he never has to work again.
Vinson Cunningham New Yorker May 2019 40min Permalink
How a big crime in a small town produced a whodunit as gripping and colorful as “The Wizard of Oz” itself.
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson The Washington Post Magazine Apr 2019 55min Permalink
Bennington College in the 1980s was a hothouse of sex, drugs, and future literary stars—among them, Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, and Jonathan Lethem. Return to a campus and an era like no other.
Lili Anolik Esquire May 2019 55min Permalink
For more than 20 years, Judith Sheindlin has dominated daytime ratings—by making justice in a complicated world look easy.
Jazmine Hughes New York Times Magazine Jun 2019 25min Permalink
Once the bright young hope of the Latin-American left, Alan García was caught up in an epic corruption investigation.
Daniel Alarcón New Yorker Jul 2019 30min Permalink
In 1971, an unlikely activist sued to overturn Iowa’s ban on married women and mothers playing school sports. She just wanted to play.
Britni de la Cretaz Longreads Aug 2019 Permalink
The largest crowdfunding site in the world puts up a mirror to who we are and what matters most to us. Try not to look away.
Rachel Monroe The Atlantic Oct 2019 30min Permalink
Andy Burcham is navigating his first season as the on-air replacement for his best friend, a beloved college football announcer named Rod Bramblett who was killed with his wife in a car crash. But a bigger change is at home, where the Burchams are raising the Brambletts’ son.
Sam Borden ESPN Nov 2019 25min Permalink
When her former student was found wandering the streets a decade after she’d last seen him, Michelle Girard immediately agreed to take him in. Then she decided to do far more, including give him the Christmas he’d never had.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Dec 2019 15min Permalink
Iranian operative Qassem Suleimani has been reshaping the Middle East. Now he’s directing Bashar al-Assad’s war in Syria.
Dexter Filkins New Yorker Sep 2013 40min Permalink
There’s a hidden cost to the way Florida’s farmers bring in the sugar crop. Just visit the hospitals and measure the climate impact.
Paul Tullis Bloomberg Businessweek Mar 2020 15min Permalink
An oral history of the day oil prices went below zero for the first time in trading history.
Jessica Camille Aguirre Vanity Fair May 2020 Permalink
Myth, storytelling, and lore in the most disappointing clubhouses of America’s pastime.
Rolf Potts Medium Oct 2016 15min Permalink
Four years ago, Dominique Jones got out of prison and learned to rap. Today he is, by many metrics, the most popular rapper in the world.
Charles Holmes Rolling Stone Jul 2020 20min Permalink
My mother is an urban peasant and I am my mother’s daughter. The city is our natural element. We each have daily adventures with bus drivers, bag ladies, ticket takers, and street crazies. Walking brings out the best in us.
Vivian Gornick Village Voice Mar 1987 30min Permalink
Against all odds, it really was a refuge of competence, normalcy and transcendent play. But the outside world has a way of sneaking in.
Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 20min Permalink
In staying, I was not only denying myself the chance at true happiness, but I was keeping him from having it, too. It was that realization—that I was preventing my husband from having the life he deserved—that ultimately outweighed the fears I had about leaving.
Britni de la Cretaz Catapult Nov 2020 15min Permalink