The Paranoid Style in American Politics
“American politics has often been an arena for angry minds.”
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Mysterious Circumstances
The world’s foremost Sherlock Holmes expert found dead in a locked room, leaving no note.
The Tragedy of Britney Spears
A profile of Spears at her nadir.
Occasional Dispatches from the Republic of Anhedonia
Live from the World Series of Poker.
Tribes
Generations of the writer’s family experience the “romantic delusions and hazardous fortunes” of San Francisco.
Out in the Great Alone
A trip to the Iditarod.
The Coast of Utopia
On the influencer moms of Byron Bay.
How Science Beat the Virus
And what it lost in the process.
Michael Pollan writes for The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker and is the author of nine books. His latest is How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.
“I don’t like writing as an expert. I’m fine doing public speeches as an expert. Or writing op-ed pieces as an expert. But as a writer, it’s a killer. Nobody likes an expert. Nobody likes to be lectured at. And if you’ve read anything I’ve written, I’m kind of an idiot on page one. I am the naïve fish out of water. I’m learning though. The narrative that we always have as writers is our own education on the topic. We can recreate the process of learning that's behind the book.”
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Business, Casual.
TheFacebook, as it was then called, had just reached 1.5 million users:
In the end, Zuckerberg says, quarrels over money rarely come up because money is not their priority. “We’re in a really interesting place because if you look at the assets we have, we’re fucking rich,” Zuckerberg adds. “But if you look at like the cash and the amount of money we have to live with, we’re dirt poor. All the stuff we own is tied up in random assets” like servers and the company itself. “Living like we do now, it’s, like, not that big of a deal for us. We’re not like, Aw man, I wish I had a million dollars now. Because, like, we kind of like living like college students and being dirty. It’s fun."
Inside Instagram: How Slowing Its Roll Put the Little Startup in the Fast Lane
On the popular iPhone app.
Just the day before, President Barack Obama had signed on and begun sending out photos. This seemed like a real sign that Instagram had arrived. Obama already has accounts on Flickr and Facebook. He (or his people) must have seen something unique and wonderful in Instagram's audience, some way to reach people via that channel that it couldn't through others. When the President joins your network, it's news. And while it's great news, it can be the kind of thing a company isn't prepared for. But as it turns out, Obama is a fractional compared to Justin Bieber.
Fear of a Black President
The false promise and double standard of integration in the Obama era.
Diary of a Mad Fact-Checker
On “soldiers for credibility” and the tug of war over truth.
The Rebuilding
Scott Raab’s ongoing reports on the reconstruction at the World Trade Center site.
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The Truth About the World Trade Center: A history of boondoggles. (Sep 2012)
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The Memorial: How the site came together. (Sep 2011)
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Good Days at Ground Zero: One World Trade reaches to the sky. (Oct 2010)
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Of Time and the Freedom Tower: Why is construction taking so long? (Sep 2008)
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The Steel: Construction begins, six years after 9-11. (Jun 2007)
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The Blasters: Getting ready to rebuild. (Sep 2006)
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The Engineers: The challenges of the construction site. (Feb 2006)
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The Foundation: Larry Silverstein and Governor Pataki play nice, for now. (Sep 2005)
Boss Rail
How a high-speed rail disaster exposed China’s corruption.
Remains of the Day
A wedding photographer catches up with his past clients.
A Jew in the Northwest
On leaving New York for Portland.
His Game, His Rules
A profile of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
Nothing Like Being Scared
The life, work, and early death of writer Shirley Jackson.
The Chosen One
The first profile of Michele Bachmann.
The Neverending Nightmare of Amanda Knox
Inside the most sensational murder in the history of study abroad.
Getting bin Laden
The story of the Abbottabad raid, in detail.
Coach Fitz's Management Theory
On the best teacher the writer ever had.
And… Scene.
An oral history of the Upright Citizens Brigade.
King of Kings
On the life, legacy, and last days of Muammar Qaddafi.
