Why Is It So Difficult for Syrian Refugees to Get Into the U.S.?
More than 4 million Syrians have fled the war. 2,647 have made it to the United States.
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More than 4 million Syrians have fled the war. 2,647 have made it to the United States.
Eliza Griswold New York Times Magazine Jan 2016 30min Permalink
Roberto Primero Luis set out across the U.S.-Mexico border last year as previous Guatemalan migrants had. But the crossing has changed.
James Verini New York Times Magazine Aug 2020 35min Permalink
Arise Virtual Solutions, part of the secretive world of work-at-home customer service, helps large corporations shed costs at the expense of workers.
Ken Armstrong, Justin Elliott, Ariana Tobin ProPublica Oct 2020 30min Permalink
The men and the women of the transactional-love economy. “A thing you should know is that there are very few people to root for in this story.”
Taffy Brodesser-Akner GQ Aug 2015 15min Permalink
A CIA veteran remembers his Soviet nemesis, Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin, who was the chairman of the KGB for a single day during the 1991 coup against Gorbachev, and committed suicide in Moscow in March.
Milton Bearden Foreign Policy Jul 2012 10min Permalink
“Ligurta Station, Arizona. The hottest town in America. It’s 120 in the shade. Can you dig it? Ron can. He’s been out here for the past five years, carving out his own little slice of heaven.”
Wil S. Hylton Esquire Aug 2000 15min Permalink
An examination of Brazil’s immense tannery industry shows how hides from illegally deforested ranches can easily reach the global marketplace. In the United States, much of the demand for Brazilian leather comes from automakers.
Manuela Andreoni, Hiroko Tabuchi, Albert Sun New York Times Nov 2021 15min Permalink
Why it took more than a decade for the posthumous pardon of Tim Cole, even after another inmate confessed to the brutal crime that put Cole away.
Beth Schwartzapfel Mother Jones Jan 2012 Permalink
“After college, as my friends left Michigan for better opportunities, I was determined to help fix this broken, chaotic city by building my own home in the middle of it. I was 23 years old.”
Drew Philp Buzzfeed Jan 2014 25min Permalink
Paleram Chauhan, a 52-year-old Indian farmer, was shot dead during the summer of 2013. The reason: his opposition to a gang of criminals stealing his village’s sand to sell on the black market.
Vince Beiser Wired Mar 2015 15min Permalink
The agency, seeking information on an animal rights group, attempted to recruit a former truck driver as an informant, the truck driver says.
Lee Fang The Intercept Feb 2021 15min Permalink
He has worked for Apple, Google, AOL, the Rainbow Room. He hangs out with Steve Case, Gordon Ramsey, Tim Armstrong. He's a world-class surfer, a AAA baseball legend, the founder of a seminal punk band. He's one of the more persistent and obsessive grifters to ply the streets of New York City—not to mention online dating sites—in recent decades.
From a new Supreme Court ruling to a census question about citizenship, the campaign against illegal registration is thriving. But when the top proponent was challenged in a Kansas courtroom to prove that such fraud is rampant, the claims went up in smoke.
Jessica Huseman ProPublica Jun 2018 25min Permalink
Health-care workers have been on the job throughout the pandemic. What can they teach us about the safest way to lift a lockdown?
Atul Gawande New Yorker May 2020 20min Permalink
Gerry Pickens took a paycut to join the police department in tiny, overwhelmingly white Orting, Washington. Fired less than a year later, he’s now suing the town for enough to break it.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Apr 2015 20min Permalink
Arts Business Politics World Movies & TV
The aging action star’s second wind abroad: political maneuvering, many guns and, most importantly, a market for his B movies.
Lukas I. Alpert Playboy Sep 2014 20min Permalink
After sitting alone in a forest and not moving for 24 hours, the author reflects on time, mortality, and turning 40.
Mark O'Connell Guardian Jan 2020 25min Permalink
I played a father for a 12-year-old with a single mother. The girl was bullied because she didn’t have a dad, so the mother rented me. I’ve acted as the girl’s father ever since. I am the only real father that she knows.
Roc Morin The Atlantic Nov 2017 10min Permalink
In 1965, Wheat was sentenced to death for armed robbery and murder. When his sentence was commuted, he decided to devote the rest of his life to helping people.
James Ross Gardner Seattle Met Magazine Apr 2015 25min Permalink
How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured.
Previously: Patrick Radden Keefe on the Longform Podcast.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker May 2014 40min Permalink
How young actors are navigating the new world of opportunities on our ever-shrinking screens.
Zach Baron GQ Jul 2017 25min Permalink
In the small coastal country, an exploding industry has led to big economic promises, and a steep environmental price.
Ian Urbina New Yorker Mar 2021 Permalink
The investigation that brought down K2 Productions.
Katie J.M. Baker Jezebel Mar 2013 15min
Basketball’s iconoclast is a broke recluse at 37.
Kent Babb Washington Post 10min
The hellacious childhood of two billionaires-to-be.
Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Aug 2013 40min
The story behind the spectacle.
Jessica Testa Buzzfeed May 2013 20min
He was a villain. She was a victim. It wasn’t that simple.
Jenny Kutner Texas Monthly Dec 2013 30min
The trial of a 10-year-old who murdered his neo-Nazi father.
Amy Wallace GQ Nov 2013 20min
Escaping with Kink.com’s Princess Donna Dolore.
Emily Witt n+1 May 2013 35min
Parsing the lives of middle-class twentysomethings.
Nathan Heller New Yorker Jan 2013 20min
Young love and an apartment filled with heavy weaponry.
Robert Kolker New York Mar 2013 20min
Searching for Dave Chappelle ten years after he left his show.
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah The Believer Oct 2013 35min
Jan–Dec 2013 Permalink
The comedian on his show business bucket list, Donald Sterling, and whether he ever feels guilty for being funny.
"I just know that sometimes the things that scare you the most or make you want to cry the most or are the most tragic are the things you just gravitate to or address in a comedic context, partially because you shouldn't."
Previously: Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah's "If He Hollers Let Him Go," a Best of 2013 pick.
Mark Anthony Green GQ Nov 2014 20min Permalink
As a young social psychologist, she played by the rules and won big: an influential study, a viral TED talk, a prestigious job at Harvard. Then, suddenly, the rules changed.
Susan Dominus New York Times Magazine Oct 2017 35min Permalink