The Fragile Success of School Reform in the Bronx
Ramón González’s middle school is a model for how an empowered principal can transform a troubled school. But can he maintain that momentum when the forces of reform are now working against him?
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Ramón González’s middle school is a model for how an empowered principal can transform a troubled school. But can he maintain that momentum when the forces of reform are now working against him?
Jonathan Mahler New York Times Magazine Apr 2011 40min Permalink
A dispatch from the early days of AIDS:
It is as relentless as leukemia, as contagious as hepatitis, and its cause has eluded researchers for more than two years.
Robin Marantz New York Times Magazine Feb 1983 25min Permalink
Abdul Raziq, a 33-year-old warlord, is an increasingly powerful player in Afghanistan and the recipient of substantial U.S. support. He may also be the perpetrator of a civilian massacre.
Matthieu Aikins The Atlantic Nov 2011 10min Permalink
Walter Isaacson’s book is long, dull, often flat-footed, and humorless. It hammers on one nail, incessantly: that Steve Jobs was an awful man, but awful in the service of products people really liked (and eventually bought lots of) and so in the end his awfulness was probably OK.
Gary Sernovitz n+1 Dec 2011 15min Permalink
Last summer, Gia Allemand took her own life in a New Orleans apartment complex. The first person on the scene was her boyfriend, NBA star Ryan Anderson. This is the story of how he survived.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Nov 2014 1h15min Permalink
An art museum in Tasmania is saving the local economy. It also offers an “eternity membership” which, for $75,000, will see your ashes displayed there once you’ve gone.
Job Cohen, the current mayor of Amsterdam, is leading the Dutch race for Prime Minister on a platform of racial integration that could transform the relationship between European politics and immigration.
It is agreed that the 1977 political murder of a couple in Johannesburg was a political killing that covered up mysterious Swiss Bank deposits. Various reports implicate Cuban Nationalists, Italian Fascists and the CIA.
James Myburgh PoliticsWeb Jun 2010 Permalink
Soap operas, enrollment in multiple graduate programs at once, student films alongside Hollywood blockbusters. Is James Franco’s entire career a piece of performance art?
Sam Anderson New York Jul 2010 25min Permalink
If Annie Leibovitz sold her work through the traditional channels of the art world, she would have amassed a small fortune. But at the tail end of a career that has snubbed art galleries and collectors, she is destitute.
John Gapper The Financial Times Oct 2010 15min Permalink
What happens when a decades old video, featuring the artist Larry Rivers’ prepubescent daughters bare-chested, is claimed both as child pornography and as an important part of the archive of a major American painter.
Michael Shnayerson Vanity Fair Dec 2010 25min Permalink
On the pair of entrepreneurs behind a Wal-Mart of weed in Oakland. The duo is talking IPO. “Everybody I was meeting was a little bit older, more a part of the hippie generation,” says one. “I was like, ‘I bet there’s so much room for innovation and new ideas.’”
Josh Harkinson Mother Jones Jan 2011 Permalink
At Nancy Reagan’s memorial, Hillary Clinton praised her fellow former first lady for “starting a national conversation” about AIDS. That is not how everyone remembers it.
Chris Geidner Buzzfeed Feb 2015 20min Permalink
Purdue Pharma’s marketing materials say OxyContin works for 12 hours. It doesn’t. And this problem, long-denied by the drugmaker, is what makes it highly addictive.
Harriet Ryan, Lisa Girion, Scott Glover Los Angeles Times May 2016 25min Permalink
“This is Britain in 2017. A Britain that increasingly looks like a “managed” democracy. Paid for by a US billionaire. Using military-style technology. Delivered by Facebook. And enabled by us.”
Carole Cadwalladr The Guardian May 2017 25min Permalink
An on-the-ground investigation reveals that the U.S.-led battle against ISIS — hailed as the most precise air campaign in history — is killing far more Iraqi civilians than the coalition has acknowledged.
Azmat Khan, Anand Gopal New York Times Magazine Nov 2017 45min Permalink
The real question is this: can I love the art but hate the artist? Can you? When I say we, I mean I. I mean you.
Claire Dederer The Paris Review Nov 2017 20min Permalink
A Philadelphia neighborhood is the largest open-air narcotics market for heroin on the East Coast. Addicts come from all over, and many never leave.
Jennifer Percy New York Times Magazine Oct 2018 25min Permalink
For decades, the artist’s Saturday Evening Post covers championed a retrograde view of America. This is the story of the politically turbulent 1960s, a singular painting, and Rockwell’s unlikely change of heart.
Tom Carson Vox Feb 2020 25min Permalink
Two men died of meth overdoses at the home of a West Hollywood political donor. Dark conspiracy theories abounded— but the truth is even darker
Jesse Barron New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 35min Permalink
On the legacy of Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Johnson and her battle with the Deep South’s white power structure.
Elon Green The Appeal Mar 2021 40min Permalink
A shoot-out at a Big Bend ranch captured the nation’s attention: first as an alleged ambush by undocumented migrants, then as a fear-mongering hoax. The real story is much more mysterious.
Wes Ferguson Texas Monthly Sep 2021 30min Permalink
A profile of Chris Rock as he makes one last attempt to jump from standup to leading man.
Kelefa Sanneh New Yorker Nov 2014 25min Permalink
Another inmate was unable to complete his application, and assented to voluntary departure, in which an immigrant agrees to leave the country at his or her own expense. “You’ll be on your way back to Mexico today,” said the judge.
Madeleine Schwartz New York Review of Books Sep 2019 20min Permalink
Her life in South Korea seemed perfect: new friends, a burgeoning career, reality-TV fame. But she was about to become notorious—disappearing without a trace, only to reappear pledging allegiance to North Korea. What happened to Lim Ji-hyun?
Abigail Haworth Marie Claire Feb 2021 30min Permalink