Fear on the Family Farm
After watching his father Sandy abuse his paralyzed former-jockey mother for years, Mat Crichton committed murder. Nearly the entire local farming community rallied in support of him.
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After watching his father Sandy abuse his paralyzed former-jockey mother for years, Mat Crichton committed murder. Nearly the entire local farming community rallied in support of him.
Jana G. Pruden The Edmonton Journal Mar 2013 Permalink
Life in Green Bank, West Virginia, a town without cell signals and a haven people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity (a disease that may or may not exist).
Joseph Stromberg Slate Apr 2013 15min Permalink
On an Indonesian town that serves both as stopping point for those seeking to reach Australia by boat and a hotspot for short term ‘contract marriage,’ which allows Saudi tourists a loophole to engage in Islamic-sanctioned prostitution.
Aubrey Belford The Global Mail Apr 2013 15min Permalink
In the not-so-distant future, all of our objects will talk to each other. They’ll make our coffee, find our keys, save our lives. The roadmap to a fully networked existence.
Bill Wasik Wired May 2013 Permalink
On “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez,who terrorized Los Angeles and San Francisco through a string of over 30 home invasion murders starting in 1984 and ending when he was recognized and apprehended by an angry mob.
Joseph Geringer Crime Library Nov 2005 45min Permalink
Seven years after being fired from The Replacements, their founding guitarist is an thirty-three-year-old unemployed line cook living amongst memories in Minneapolis. He would be dead within two years.
Charles Aaron Spin Jun 1993 15min Permalink
“You know a storm is going to be bad, people in Oklahoma will tell you, when Gary England removes his jacket.” A profile of a meteorologist who has worked Tornado Alley for more than 40 years.
Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Aug 2013 20min Permalink
On Silicon Valley's newfound interest in the weed business.
Previously: Mat Honan on the Longform Podcast.
How divisions between Nigeria’s Muslim North and Christian South resulted in the birth of terror’s most ruthless movement.
Alex Perry Newsweek Jul 2014 Permalink
A profile of the Rookie editor-in-chief, who makes her Broadway debut next week.
Amy Larocca New York Aug 2014 15min Permalink
The bumpy rise of Saturday Night Live’s first star.
Douglas Hill, Jeff Weingrad Grantland Aug 2014 25min Permalink
Almost 40 percent of the world’s population lives in countries with limits on abortion. Activists like Rebecca Gompert imagine a future where those limits are meaningless because most abortions happen at home.
Emily Bazelon New York Times Magazine Aug 2014 30min Permalink
The fall of Richard Roberts, anointed son and successor of televangelist Oral Roberts, who was fired as president of Oral Roberts University and evicted from the home he’d lived in for nearly 50 years.
Kiera Feldman This Land Press Oct 2014 35min Permalink
Jamie Smith said he was a co-founder of Blackwater and a former CIA officer. He appeared on cable news as a counterterrorism expert and he received millions in goverment contracts to train personnel. The money was real. The resume wasn’t.
Ace Atkins, Michael Fechter Outside Oct 2014 35min Permalink
The author on why he belives in God (“It makes things better”), the perils of writing high (“Annie Wilkes is cocaine, she was my number-one fan”) and what he thinks of other writers (“Hemingway sucks, basically”).
Andy Greene Rolling Stone Oct 2014 30min Permalink
Christopher Catambrone wants to help illegal migrants who try to cross the Mediterranean in ill-equipped, unsafe boats. But it’s hard to do alone.
Giles Tremlett The Guardian Jul 2015 25min Permalink
Struggling with depression and thoughts of suicide, Army officer Lawrence Franks went AWOL. Five years later, he reappeared as Christopher Flaherty, a member of the French Foreign Legion who served three tours in Africa. Then he was court-martialed.
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone Sep 2015 35min Permalink
Why are so many teenagers killing themselves in Palo Alto?
Hanna Rosin The Atlantic Nov 2015 35min Permalink
If you wanted a divorce in the late 1800s, you had to move to South Dakota. Even if you were the niece of John Jacob Astor III.
April White The Atavist Magazine Dec 2015 35min Permalink
A week on the campaign trail in the coffin-shaped Immortality Bus with Zoltan Istvan, the presidential candidate for the Transhumanist Party.
How a distillery worker in Kentucky stole hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of bourbon, one barrel at a time.
Reeves Wiedeman Men's Journal Mar 2016 15min Permalink
When cops kill civilians, their union is on hand to defend them. In many cases this has come at the expense of the truth.
Yana Kunichoff, Sam Stecklow Chicago Reader Feb 2016 25min Permalink
The idea was to shoot a Neiman Marcus fur catalog in the Andes mountains, not get stranded on them.
Mickey Rapkin Elle Feb 2016 Permalink
Corey Arthur made headlines after being arrested and convicted in connection with the 1997 murder of his high school teacher. But the story is much more complicated than that.
Alexander Nazaryan Newsweek Feb 2016 Permalink
Melissa Cook is carrying triplets for a man she has never met, conceived with an egg that isn't hers. He only wants two of them, but won't let her keep the third. So she is suing, in the hopes that the court will arrive at a new meaning of parenthood.
Michelle Goldberg Slate Feb 2016 20min Permalink