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The night when Terry Thompson let his zoo-worthy collection of big animals, including lions and a bear, into the wilds of Zanesville, Ohio before shooting himself in the head.
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The night when Terry Thompson let his zoo-worthy collection of big animals, including lions and a bear, into the wilds of Zanesville, Ohio before shooting himself in the head.
Chris Jones Esquire Mar 2012 40min Permalink
A group of Long Island misfits with aspirations towards Satanic worship disappeared into the woods to take mescaline. One of them never came back.
David Breskin Rolling Stone Nov 1984 30min Permalink
On the enduring political influence and entrenched racism of the Greek system at the University of Alabama.
Jason Zengerle The New Republic Feb 2002 15min Permalink
On the escape of hundreds of insurgents from Kandahar’s Sarposa Prison through a tunnel dug from the outside, and an unlikely suspect: the jail’s former warden.
Luke Mogelson GQ Jun 2012 25min Permalink
A profile of life in Owsley County, one of the poorest in the country.
Monica Potts The American Prospect Jun 2012 30min Permalink
The story of a deadly collision on the D.C. Metro, told from surviving passengers’ point of view.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Jun 2009 10min Permalink
Pitching a no-hitter in the middle of a multi-day acid bender was only one of Dock Ellis’ many amazing exploits.
Kliph Nesteroff WFMU Blog Sep 2009 25min Permalink
On public radio and the emerging genre of shows inspired by This American Life.
How an aging trio of Irish ‘travelers’ criss-crossed America in a mobile home conning Home Depot out of over $1 million.
Kara Platoni East Bay Express Sep 2003 25min Permalink
In the feral communities of Russia’s Far East, tiger poaching is among the few lucrative pursuits. This is the story of a tiger who fought back.
John Vaillant Men's Journal Sep 2010 25min Permalink
On Huck Finn, the book Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, and the evolution of language and race in America.
Hilton Als New Yorker Feb 2002 20min Permalink
Searching for the line between courage and humility on an expedition to Cirque of the Unclimbables, a remote ring of perfect rock-climbing mountains in Canada.
Eva Holland SB Nation May 2015 30min Permalink
Inside Friends of Abe, one of Hollywood’s most influential (and most discreet) political organizations.
Andy Kroll California Sunday May 2016 15min Permalink
The story of the meeting that led to the creation of ISIS, as explained by someone still on the inside.
Harald Doornbos, Jenan Moussa Foreign Policy Aug 2016 15min Permalink
On the obsession with the sexual and social habits of American teenage girls.
Zoë Heller New York Review of Books Aug 2016 10min Permalink
Life in the NFL when your job requires an impossible level of perfection (plus a lot of waiting around).
Dylan Howlett MMQB Jul 2016 Permalink
Chipotle once fed the equivalent of the population of Philadelphia every day. Then the E. coli outbreak happened.
Austin Carr Fast Company Oct 2016 1h5min Permalink
The bloody reign of Rodrigo Duterte, who was elected President of the Phillipines in May.
Adrian Chen New Yorker Nov 2016 40min Permalink
Carrie Goldberg is a pioneer in the field of sexual privacy, using the law to defend victims of hacking, leaking, and other online assaults.
Margaret Talbot New Yorker Nov 2016 35min Permalink
Revisiting California’s grape vines more than 70 years after the publication of The Grapes of Wrath.
Gabriel Thompson Virginia Quarterly Review Jul 2015 20min Permalink
Video-game designer Zoë Quinn in the aftermath of Gamergate, an act of web harassment with world-altering implications.
Noreen Malone New York Jul 2017 25min Permalink
A case of mistaken identity leads to the prosecution of an ordinary Eritrean for human smuggling.
Ben Taub New Yorker Jul 2017 20min Permalink
The haunted past of Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama neurobiologist who shot six colleagues during a staff meeting.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Feb 2013 55min Permalink
After a cop walks into his station and confesses to murder, an investigation reveals the toll of lethal force on both sides of the gun.
Wendy Gillis The Toronto Star Dec 2017 35min Permalink
The decades-long saga of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Dec 2012 1h50min Permalink