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A giant earthquake is coming to the Northwest. Unfortunately, no one knows when.
Kathryn Schulz New Yorker Jul 2015 25min Permalink
A profile of the “acrobatic genius of the trapeze”:
As he spoke, he looked up at the pipes and swings in the arena ceiling. A mechanic was working on the rigging, but Tito spoke thoughtfully, for he seemed to be seeing something else. "Sometimes I see movies of myself in the air and I say, 'Jesus, how can I do that?' I wonder who do I think I am ... but, yes, I do admire myself in films sometimes as if I am watching another person. I have sometimes dreamed my tricks at night, you know, and then tried to master them from the dream."
William Johnson Sports Illustrated Apr 1974 25min Permalink
A report from the oil boom in North Dakota, where unemployment is 3.4 percent and McDonald’s gives out $300 signing bonuses.
Eric Koningsberg New Yorker Apr 2011 30min Permalink
David Roberts spent his life facing death in the mountains. Now he is facing a fatal prognosis.
Brad Rassler Outside Oct 2016 25min Permalink
The men who are trying to find out if wireless carjacking is possible.
Andy Greenberg Wired Jul 2015 15min Permalink
The anti-human trafficking stings conducted by Operation Underground Railroad are flashy, exciting, camera-ready. Whether or not they truly help victims is another question.
Thomas Stackpole Foreign Policy Jul 2015 20min Permalink
On the potential existence of personalized bioweapons, which could attack a single individual without leaving a trace, and how they might be stopped.
Andrew Hessel, Marc Goodman, Steven Kotler The Atlantic Oct 2012 35min Permalink
A profile of the 23-year-old woman who was savagely raped on a private bus as it circled New Delhi.
From 1975-1986, Anthony Edward Dokoupil distributed more than 50 tons of weed in the United States. The operation ruined his family and destroyed his life. Three decades later, his son came looking for answers.
Tony Dokoupil Newsweek Jul 2009 15min Permalink
A collection of picks about the best and worst bettors in the world.
In 2007, Harrah’s made 5.6 percent of its total Las Vegas revenue off a single person: Terrance Watanabe.
Alexandra Berzon Wall Street Journal Dec 2009 10min
A story of gambling addiction, in seven parts.
Jay Kang Morning News Oct 2010 20min
“On a small scale, Titanic Thompson is an American legend. I say on a small scale, because an overpowering majority of the public has never heard of him. That is the way Titanic likes it. He is a professional gambler. He has sometimes been called the gambler’s gambler.”
John Lardner True Apr 1951 25min
In 1980, a bankrupt gambler came up with a plan to get his money back. He built an incredibly complex bomb, one that was impossible to defuse and that only he knew how to move, and snuck it into a Lake Tahoe casino with an extortion note demanding $3 million. Part of the plan worked. Part of it did not.
Adam Higginbotham The Atavist Magazine Jul 2014 1h25min
How Billy Walters, the world’s most successful gambler, keeps winning.
Mike Fish ESPN the Magazine Feb 2015 10min
On playing chess and waiting to get arrested.
David Hill McSweeney's Nov 2011 10min
“Again I ask, Is this really the way the American people want it to be?”
Robert F. Kennedy The Atlantic Apr 1962 10min
The men who say they’ll try to save the once-bustling gambling resort town.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Aug 2015 40min
Apr 1951 – Aug 2015 Permalink
A series on how some Wall Street bankers, seeking to enrich themselves at the expense of their clients and sometimes even their own firms, at first delayed but then worsened the financial crisis.
Jake Bernstein, Jesse Eisinger ProPublica Jan 2010 55min Permalink
Between 1937 and 1973, Earl Johnson served out the sentences on nine felonies, worked for Charlie “Cherry Nose” Gio, became friends with a Soviet spy, and tried to kill “Joe Cargo” Valachi of the Cosa Nostra with a poison dart.
David Harris Rolling Stone Dec 1973 30min Permalink
When juveniles are found guilty of sexual misconduct, the sex-offender registry can be a life sentence.
Sarah Stillman New Yorker Mar 2016 45min Permalink
A reporter heads to Nauru, a tiny island nation in the Pacific, to track down the hub of a worldwide money-laundering operation—a shack filled with computers, air-conditioners, and little else.
Jack Hitt New York Times Magazine Dec 2000 20min Permalink
The perpetually underpaid author takes a moonlighting job with Demand Media, publisher of search-engine optimized articles with titles like “Hair Styles for Women Over 50 With Glasses”, absurdity ensues.
Jessanne Collins The Awl Nov 2010 10min Permalink
“My father didn’t believe in things that were a reminder of the past because he had never had things in the past, and, more important, he had never had a past—not a past that mattered, that should be passed on to me, his son.”
Pat Jordan Men's Journal Dec 2009 20min Permalink
A CD plant employee ushered in the modern era of music piracy by teaming up with a shadowy “Scene” crew on IRC chat.
Stephen Witt New Yorker Apr 2015 35min Permalink
Alex Nieto died because a series of white men saw him as a menacing intruder in the place he’d spent his whole life.
Rebecca Solnit The Guardian Mar 2016 20min Permalink
In the fall of 2015, Germany designated Sumte, population 102, as a sanctuary for nearly 800 refugees. What followed was a living experiment in the country’s principles.
Ben Mauk Virginia Quarterly Review Apr 2017 45min Permalink
The author travels to Mexico to meet a retired assassin and kidnapper, now himself a target of the cartels that once employed him.
Charles Bowden Harper's Apr 2009 35min Permalink
Buried in media scholar Jonathan Albright’s research was proof of a massive political misinformation campaign. Now he’s taking on the the world’s biggest platforms before it’s too late.
Issie Lapowsky Wired Jul 2018 15min Permalink
Discussions of character with the Late Show host.
Joel Lovell GQ Aug 2015 25min Permalink
For a century, the humble paper towel has dominated public toilets. But a new generation of hand dryers has sparked a war for loo supremacy.
Samanth Subramanian Guardian Apr 2019 30min Permalink
Randy Quaid and his wife Evi have fled to Canada and are living in their car. They are seeking asylum from the menace of the “Hollywood Star Whackers.”
Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Jan 2011 25min Permalink
The Capitol was breached by Trump supporters who had been declaring, at rally after rally, that they would go to violent lengths to keep the President in power. A chronicle of an attack foretold.
Luke Mogelson New Yorker Jan 2021 50min Permalink