Blowing Up the Senate
A preview of the “nuclear option.”
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A preview of the “nuclear option.”
Jeffrey Toobin New Yorker Mar 2005 15min Permalink
On the insanity of America’s gun laws.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Apr 2012 30min Permalink
The story of the Grenfell Tower fire.
Tom Lamont GQ Nov 2017 30min Permalink
On the confines of masculinity.
Sarah Rich The Atlantic Jun 2018 10min Permalink
The legacy of Benihana.
Mayukh Sen The Ringer Jul 2018 15min Permalink
On the history of American nationalism.
Jill Lepore Foreign Affairs Feb 2019 20min Permalink
The joys of watching baseball.
Roger Angell The Summer Game Feb 1971 20min Permalink
On the lost-children stories of Australia.
Madeleine Watts The Believer Apr 2019 40min Permalink
Within the world of law enforcement, bounty hunting is something of an aberration. An accident arising from the combination of common law, frontier justice, chattel slavery, and capitalism. No other job is more American. Bounty hunting’s legality is a mishmash of confusing requirements, regulations, and certifications that vary widely by state.
Jeff Winkler GQ Jul 2019 35min Permalink
Adapted by the author of “Black Hawk Down.”
Mark Bowden Insider Jul 2019 40min Permalink
A story of two births.
Leslie Jamison The Atlantic Aug 2019 30min Permalink
A profile of the actress.
Jiayang Fan New Yorker Sep 2019 25min Permalink
To speak of the human as such, as the modernists did, is like taking a piece of the wild, putting it into a petri dish, adding bleach and antibiotics until more than half of what’s in there is dead and then celebrating the barely-living remains as “the human.” Provocatively put, the human is a sterile abstraction, a harmony of illusions.
Tobias Rees Noema Jun 2020 Permalink
On learning persuasion.
Janet Malcolm The New York Review of Books Sep 2020 15min Permalink
A profile of the director.
Alison Willmore Vulture Feb 2021 20min Permalink
Inside the world of competitive fireworks.
Duncan Murrell Virginia Quarterly Review Jul 2015 30min Permalink
Because women and girls don’t always kick ass, and neither should our heroines:
Bella Swan, by contrast, is a much more honest though cringe-inducing representation of adolescence. She doesn’t know who she is or what she wants. She’s clumsy, obtuse, and aggravating in her helplessness. She is also entirely internal, almost alienatingly so. One of my favorite passages from the novel New Moon is when Stephenie Meyer inserts a series of blank pages to stand in for the months that pass while Bella mourns — out of any reasonable proportion — Edward’s desertion. Bella, kind of wonderfully, takes her time.
Sarah Blackwood The Hairpin Nov 2011 Permalink
What it was like to edit The New Republic at its most contentious.
One of the little tweaks I made the first time I got the job was to change the slogan on the table of contents from “A Journal of Politics and the Arts” back to the original: “A Weekly Journal of Opinion.” All the fine reporting notwithstanding, what The New Republic did best, had always done best, was opinion. Its politics were polemical, its art was the art of argument.
Hendrik Hertzberg New Republic Nov 2014 10min Permalink
A profile of Chris Evans, star of the upcoming Captain America:
At this point, which was a…number of drinks in, it was easy to forget that it really was an interview, and I'd be lying if I said it didn't cross my mind that something might happen (and that we'd go to the Oscars and get married and have babies forever until we died?). But there was always the question of how much of it was truly Chris Evans, and whom I should pretend to be in response.
Edith Zimmerman GQ Jul 2011 15min Permalink
Few men have acquired so scandalous a reputation as did Basil Zaharoff, alias Count Zacharoff, alias Prince Zacharias Basileus Zacharoff, known to his intimates as “Zedzed.” Born in Anatolia, then part of the Ottoman Empire, perhaps in 1849, Zaharoff was a brothel tout, bigamist and arsonist, a benefactor of great universities and an intimate of royalty who reached his peak of infamy as an international arms dealer -- a “merchant of death,” as his many enemies preferred it.
Mike Dash Smithsonian Feb 2012 Permalink
Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and the host of A Slight Change of Plans.
”I am a type A person through and through. I love having the five-year plan and the ten-year plan, and mapping it all out. By nature, that's what I'm like. And I think the series of pivots that my life has naturally taken, or I've had to take, has kind of soured me on that whole way of thinking. […] Maybe it's also that I'm a more grateful person than I used to be. Like, I feel more gratitude, and so part of my orientation now is, well, how lucky am I that I even stumbled upon something?”
Mar 2022 Permalink
On the theft of 6 million pounds of maple syrup from Canada’s strategic reserve and the group of free market renegades who are fighting “The Maple Wars.”
Brendan Borrell Businessweek Jan 2013 10min Permalink
A profile of Zack Snyder, director of Watchmen, Dawn of the Dead, and the upcoming Superman series.
Alex Pappademas New York Times Magazine Mar 2011 10min Permalink
The placebo response doesn't care if the catalyst for healing is a triumph of pharmacology, a compassionate therapists, or a syringe of salt water. All it requires is a reasonable expectation of getting better.
Steve Silberman Wired Aug 2009 20min Permalink
Eagleman, a neuroscientist, describes how groundbreaking advances in the science of brain have changed our understanding of volition in criminal acts, and may erode the underpinnings of our justice system.
David Eagleman The Atlantic Jul 2011 30min Permalink