Car Trouble
Inside the lucrative, predatory, booming world of subprime car loans.
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Inside the lucrative, predatory, booming world of subprime car loans.
Gary Rivlin Mother Jones Apr 2016 20min Permalink
Unraveling the story of an amnesiac who doesn’t want to know his past.
Michael Paterniti GQ Jun 2007 45min Permalink
“You are wondering what kind of people put their house pet in a cat show.”
Omar Mouallem Hazlitt Jul 2016 15min Permalink
A profile of Theo Epstein, the architect behind the Chicago Cubs.
Wright Thompson ESPN Sep 2016 20min Permalink
“Oh, I think I do overshare, and I sometime marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself. I don't know. I get it out of my head. It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. Otherwise, I don't know - I felt very lonely with some of the issues that I had or history that I had. And when I shared about it, I found that others had it, too.”
Terry Gross NPR Dec 2016 25min Permalink
On getting a brain implant to slow the progress of Parkinson’s disease.
Steven Gulie Wired Mar 2007 20min Permalink
An appraisal of the Wisconsin congressman’s “green-eyeshade fiscal conservatism.”
Jonathan Chait New York Apr 2012 20min Permalink
The governor of Arkansas, profiled.
On Nate Silver and the messiness of modern political polling.
Jason Zengerle New York Oct 2012 20min Permalink
The complete (to date) New York Times series on the globalization of high tech industries.
New York Times Jan 2012 1h55min Permalink
A strange, ongoing property battle among the richest of Texans.
Terrence McCoy Houston Press Oct 2012 20min Permalink
The allure of conclusion-shaping and a wunderkind’s fall.
Boris Kachka New York Oct 2012 20min Permalink
On Politico’s brand of insider journalism.
Alex Pareene The Baffler Nov 2012 25min Permalink
Dunks, drugs, and disappointment: an oral history of the 1980s Houston Rockets.
Jonathan Abrams Grantland Nov 2012 55min Permalink
Memoir of a Latter-day campaign correspondent.
McKay Coppins Buzzfeed Nov 2012 15min Permalink
How a team of 40 engineers helped reelect Barack Obama.
Alexis Madrigal The Atlantic Nov 2012 30min Permalink
The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker was extinct. Then it wasn’t. The story of an uncertain resurrection.
Wells Tower Outside Mar 2006 20min Permalink
Arts Business Politics World Movies & TV
France, wealth and the saga of tax exile Gérard Depardieu.
Lauren Collins New Yorker Feb 2013 25min Permalink
Confessions of a Sweet Valley High ghostwriter.
Amy Boesky The Kenyon Review Feb 2013 20min Permalink
Diary of a veteran gadfly.
George Gurley The New York Observer Mar 2013 35min Permalink
The crumbling of an American icon.
Jay Caspian Kang Grantland Apr 2013 25min Permalink
Inside the DIY world of synthetic drugs.
Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Apr 2013 25min Permalink
The harrowing first ascent of the mountain’s West Ridge.
Grayson Schaffer Outside Apr 2013 Permalink
A profile of Alexey Navalny, a Russian anti-corruption crusader.
Julia Ioffe New Yorker Apr 2011 25min Permalink
Adventures in the cosmetics department of a Neiman Marcus in Dallas.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Sep 2003 15min Permalink