How Compass Became the Bane of Real Estate
The high-tech real estate startup boasts SoftBank backing, a $1.6 billion war chest, and plenty of skeptics. Now it’s cashing in on the pandemic real estate boom.
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The high-tech real estate startup boasts SoftBank backing, a $1.6 billion war chest, and plenty of skeptics. Now it’s cashing in on the pandemic real estate boom.
Patrick Sisson Marker Dec 2020 20min Permalink
Baby Olivia weighed 1 pound, 10 ounces. Her doctors faced a stressful paradox: giving her the healing power of a parent’s touch, while keeping the virus out.
Eva Holland Wired Feb 2021 15min Permalink
Over the span of four years, federal investigators estimated millions of dollars stolen from Mexican taxpayers passed through one South Texas bank. When they followed the trail, it led to real estate, cars, and airplanes. But in 2018, those investigations suddenly stopped.
Jason Buch Texas Observer May 2021 20min Permalink
A writer tries to understand his dad through the space race.
Nicholas Schmidle GQ Apr 2021 15min Permalink
Dumba has spent her life performing in circuses around Europe, but in recent years animal rights activists have been campaigning to rescue her. When it looked like they might succeed, Dumba and her owners disappeared.
Laura Spinney The Guardian Jun 2021 20min Permalink
Authorities say Ramon Abbas, aka Hushpuppi, perfected a simple internet scam and laundered millions of dollars. His past says a lot about digital swagger, and the kinds of stories that get told online.
Evan Ratliff Bloomberg Businessweek Jun 2021 Permalink
In “the trial of the century,” a Houston socialite was accused of plotting her husband’s murder—and of having an affair with her nephew. But Candace Mossler was only getting started.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Nov 2021 50min Permalink
A profile of Eliot Higgins, whose blog, Brown Moses, has become required reading at intelligence agencies, human rights organizations, and news outlets around the world.
Bianca Bosker Huffington Post Nov 2013 20min Permalink
What Rüdiger Heim learned about his father.
Excerpted from The Eternal Nazi.</p>
Nicholas Kulish, Souad Mekhennet The Atlantic Mar 2014 10min Permalink

Nina Simone, a child of Scientology, and a murderous college student—a collection of articles based on private journals.</p>

Carlin, Seinfeld, Rivers, Chappelle, a young Woody Allen and more—a collection of articles about stand-up comedians.</p>
Her grandfather, she found out decades after he died, was not her grandfather. Who did that make her?
Molly Minturn The Toast Aug 2013 15min Permalink
“I think I knew that at heart I was an aging spinster.”
Jeanne McCulloch, Mona Simpson, Alice Munro The Paris Review Jun 1994 45min Permalink
A semester with first-year medical students as they dissect a human body.
Jamie Leigh Jones’s story of gang-rape in Iraq changed the law to help victims, even though she might not have been one herself.
Stephanie Mencimer Washington Monthly Oct 2013 2h30min Permalink
It mostly had to do with Patch, the executive’s hyperlocal and unprofitable baby.
Nicholas Carlson Business Insider Nov 2013 1h45min Permalink
On the lobotomizing of 2,000 U.S. veterans after World War II.
A jailhouse interview with Vladimir Putin’s rival at the very end of his decade behind bars.
Neil Buckley Financial Times Oct 2013 25min Permalink
There are 45,000 service members missing in action from WWII and other wars who experts say are recoverable. Last year, the U.S. brought home 60 of them.
Megan McCloskey ProPublica Mar 2014 20min Permalink
“As an American woman, I currently have less reproductive autonomy than I would have had the day I was born.”
Alex Morris Rolling Stone Apr 2016 25min Permalink
The South's favorite food critic, the investigation that helped free the slaves that peel your shrimp, and the enduring magic of chicken tenders — a collection of the food writing honored at this week's James Beard Awards. (Photo: Garrett Ziegler)
Perfection, performance, and the allure of the kids’ menu.
“Every morning at 2 a.m., they heard a kick on the door and a threat: Get up or get beaten.”
A profile of Christiane Lauterbach, “the South’s most knowledgeable, enlightening and badass restaurant critic.”
A minute-by-minute account of what it takes to run a restaurant.
“Your craft beer aisle may feature a dozen IPAs, but good luck finding an African-style sorghum ale.”
Dave Infante Thrillist 20min
An autobiography in seven meals.
Todd Kliman Lucky Peach 30min
The road to Lhakpa Sherpa’s seventh potential summit has been nothing if not complicated.
Grayson Schaffer Outside May 2016 20min Permalink
The story of streetcar 393, which plunged into Fort Point Channel via an open drawbridge in 1916. Forty-six people were killed.
Eric Moskowitz Boston Globe Oct 2016 Permalink
Mary Kuanen escaped the violence of Sudan only to live through her husband’s murder in suburban Denver. This is her life today.
Robert Sanchez 5280 Dec 2016 Permalink
The Harvard Law School legend has defended everyone from O.J. Simpson to Claus von Bülow. Now he’s facing his toughest case yet: his own.