Queen of the Mommybloggers
A profile of Heather Armstrong, a mom in Salt Lake City who has more than 1.5 million Twitter followers and a personal blog generating $30,000-$50,000 monthly.
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A profile of Heather Armstrong, a mom in Salt Lake City who has more than 1.5 million Twitter followers and a personal blog generating $30,000-$50,000 monthly.
Lisa Belkin New York Times Magazine Feb 2011 Permalink
“Over and over again, records show, predatory physicians took advantage of a doctor’s special privilege — the daily practice of asking trusting people to disrobe in a private room and permit themselves to be touched.”
Thousands of people have waded into New Mexico’s high desert searching for a small chest filled with millions in gold, jewels, and jade. Randy Bilyeu never made it back.
Robert Sanchez 5280 Jul 2016 30min Permalink
Only 16 counties regularly impose death sentences, and they have three things in common: overaggressive prosecutors, defense lawyers who aren’t up to the task and cultural legacies of racial bias. Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit is among them.
The radical environmental group Earth First! orchestrates a musical in Florida.
Rachel Monroe Oxford American Aug 2016 25min Permalink
An Ironman consists of a 2.4-mile swim, then a 112-mile bike ride and then a marathon. The Quintuple Anvil Triathlon is five Ironmans in a row.
Randal C. Archibold New York Times Nov 2016 Permalink
A global outpouring of generosity after the massacre in January has left the satirical magazine rich. Its leftist staffers have conflicted feelings about that.
Roger Cohen Vanity Fair Jul 2015 15min Permalink
In Liberland, a small borderland between Serbia and Croatia, ‘‘government will be banned except for three things: security, legal stuff and diplomacy.’’
Gideon Lewis-Kraus New York Times Magazine Aug 2015 35min Permalink
While a Marine stationed in Afghanistan, Austin Tice decided he wanted to become a war photographer. He entered Syria and filed stories for McClatchy and the Washington Post. Then he disappeared.
Sonia Smith Texas Monthly Oct 2015 35min Permalink
Thirty years ago, Elizabeth Haysom and Jens Soering fell in love as freshman at the University of Virginia. It was the same year Haysom’s parents were brutally murdered. Each says the other committed the crime.
Nathan Heller New Yorker Nov 2015 45min Permalink
What happens when an impoverished island nation enters into a deal to sell its own citizenship in bulk.
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian The Guardian Nov 2015 20min Permalink
A trip to Enya’s castle in Ireland.
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Nov 2015 25min Permalink
How women in the L.A. comedy scene, long pressured to stay quiet about sexual abuse and harassment for the sake of their careers, began to fight back.
Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed Jan 2015 25min Permalink
“Florida, in some ways, resembles a modern Ponzi scheme. Everything is fine for me if a thousand newcomers come tomorrow. The problem is…no one knew what would happen if they stopped coming.”
George Packer New Yorker Feb 2009 40min Permalink
Bill Ackman’s hedge fund planned to make a fortune while doing good by exposing Herbalife as a scheme that preyed upon and lied to the poor. How one of the highest profile stock shorts in market history went awry.
Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Feb 2017 35min Permalink
On the eve of the Civil War, a nightmare at sea turned into one of the greatest rescues in maritime history. More than a century later, a rookie treasure hunter went looking for the lost ship—and found a different kind of ruin.
David Wolman The Atavist Magazine Mar 2017 35min Permalink
Every year, thousands of teenagers from one city in Nigeria risk death and endure forced labor and sex work on the long route to Europe.
Ben Taub New Yorker Apr 2017 45min Permalink
To support their families back home, women from the Philippines have found work and a new way of life in Israel. But at what price?
Ruth Margalit New York Times Magazine May 2017 20min Permalink
“It was a crumbling Parkdale rooming house, populated by drug users and squatters and available on the cheap. We were cash-strapped, desperate to move and hemmed in by a hot market.”
Catherine Jheon Toronto Life May 2016 15min Permalink
They’re friends who once vied for the same jobs. Now, as editors of The New York Times and The Washington Post, they’re locked in a daily battle for Trump scoops.
Joe Pompeo Politico Jun 2017 35min Permalink
A young, pregnant woman named Laci Peterson disappears, her husband begins to act strangely, and one of the largest media circuses in history descends on the sleepy community of Modesto, CA.
Maureen Orth Vanity Fair Aug 2003 15min Permalink
The intertwined destinies of Siti Aisyah, a 25-year-old devout Muslim villager turned prostitute and eventual assassin, and Kim Jong-nam, who was raised as the heir to the North Korean dictatorship and died in a Malaysian airport.
Doug Bock Clark GQ Sep 2017 30min Permalink
An enormous entitlement in the tax code props up home prices—and overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy and the upper middle class.
Matthew Desmond New York Times Magazine May 2017 30min Permalink
From a penthouse on Central Park, Guo Wengui has exposed a phenomenal web of corruption in China’s ruling elite — if, that is, he’s telling the truth.
Lauren Hilgers New York Times Magazine Jan 2018 20min Permalink
Life and debt as a young writer in New York.
Meghan Daum New Yorker Oct 1999 25min Permalink