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On settling in Los Angeles after life as a war correspondent in the Middle East.
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On settling in Los Angeles after life as a war correspondent in the Middle East.
Kelly McEvers Lenny Apr 2016 Permalink
Behind a Muslim community in northern Wyoming — and 20 percent of all Muslims in the state — lies one very enterprising man.
Kathryn Schulz New Yorker May 2016 30min Permalink
Supreme, founded by a secretive self-made millionaire in 1994, is the most influential streetwear brand in the world.
Kyle Chayka Racked Jul 2016 Permalink
An interview with the Japanese artist, who has resided in a mental institution since committing herself in 1975.
Grady Turner, Yayoi Kusama BOMB Magazine Dec 1999 20min Permalink
In 2003, a platoon of American soldiers opened fire on a family in a Baghdad intersection. A decade later, one of the shooters tracks down the survivors.
Dexter Filkins New Yorker Oct 2012 35min Permalink
On cushy jobs in web development, deeply un-cushy opportunities in writing, and our assumptions about the value of labor.
James Somers Aeon Jun 2013 15min Permalink
The story of Melissa Barthelemy, a prostitute killed in a string of murders on Long Island in December 2010.
Robert Kolker Slate Jul 2013 15min Permalink
Elias Pompa is the lone deputy in one of the poorest counties in Texas. He is also at the center of the U.S. border crisis.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Aug 2014 Permalink
The central witness in “one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American history” speaks out.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Nov 2014 25min Permalink
On the “Pacification Process,” or how we ended up in the least violent moment in our species’ existence.
Steven Pinker EDGE Sep 2011 45min Permalink
On stolen bicycles, “a solvent in America’s underground economy, a currency in the world of drug addicts and petty thieves.”
Patrick Symmes Outside Jan 2012 25min Permalink
George Wright spent more time on the lam, 41 years, than any fugitive in American history. Last fall, after being caught in a rural Portuguese village, he told his story.
Michael Finkel GQ May 2012 35min Permalink
In the early ’80s, underground chemists cooked up synthetic versions of heroin that took over the market in California—and left young users with symptoms typically associated with Parkinson’s.
Jack Shafer Science 85 Mar 1985 Permalink
A history of entrepreneurship in New York City, starting with shipping magnate Jeremiah Thompson’s big gamble in the 1820s: scheduled departures.
Edward L. Glaeser City Journal Nov 2010 20min Permalink
The enigmatic life and death of Bruno Zehnder, who obsessively photographed penguins in the ice fields outside of a Russian base in Antarctica.
Ned Zeman Vanity Fair Jan 2000 45min Permalink
In 1963, a Palestinian teenager was an exchange student in a rural Minnesota town. Fifty years later, he went back.
Zaina Arafat The Believer May 2018 30min Permalink
How one immigration court in Texas has shut the door on those seeking refuge in America.
Justine van der Leun Virginia Quarterly Review Oct 2018 50min Permalink
Donald Trump assaulted me in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years ago. But he’s not alone on the list of awful men in my life.
E. Jean Carroll New York Jun 2019 15min Permalink
In American baseball, flipping your bat is frowned upon. In South Korea, it’s an art.
Mina Kimes ESPN Oct 2016 20min Permalink
God has fled, avenging angels hide out in the Everglades, and more “secret stories” passed down by homeless kids in Miami shelters.
Lynda Edwards Miami New Times Jun 1997 20min Permalink
In 1916, a pair of 29-year-old women, bored with their lives in Upstate New York, took teaching jobs in a remote area of the Rocky Mountains. This is the story of what they found.
Dorothy Wickenden New Yorker Apr 2009 30min Permalink
It was the middle of the day in the steamy Philippine jungle and the sun was merciless. Director Francis Ford Coppola, dressed in rumpled white Mao pajamas, was slowly making his way upriver in a motor launch.
Maureen Orth Newsweek Jun 1977 15min Permalink
In late 2018, Pittsburgh’s Jewish community was mourning the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Then a stranger and his family landed in their midst.
“Successful brand identities in the House and on talk radio have never before relied on such similar skill sets — there has never been so much politics in media, and media in politics.”
The bodies in the chalet were found in a secret chamber, arranged radiating out from a point like spokes in a wheel. Some had suffocated, some had been shot. They all were followers of a mysterious prophet, Luc Jouret.