Corruption, Murder, and the Beautiful Game
On FIFA’s history of scandal.
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The Precious Ordinary
Faulkner, a small writing shed, and Salida, Colorado: a profile of novelist Kent Haruf.
The Anchor
A profile of Univision’s Jorge Ramos.
Getting Made The Scorsese Way
An oral history of Goodfellas.
The Real Syl
A profile of Chicago soul great Syl Johnson.
Fire on the Mountain
A night of terror in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Regular, Degular, Shmegular Girl From the Bronx
A profile of Cardi B.
The Star Treatment
As R. Kelly’s career flourished, an industry overlooked allegations of abusive behavior toward young women.
Tiger Woods, the Man. Amen.
A profile of Tiger Woods at 21.
The Soul Man Who Walked Away
A profile of Bill Withers at 76.
The Minor Regional Novelist
A profile of Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author Larry McMurtry.
How Beeple Crashed the Art World
Making sense of a $69 million NFT.
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The Longform Guide to Rich Kids
Paris Hilton, Princeton phonies, and the prince who blew through billions—a collection of articles on young money.
The Longform Guide to Cruises
A collection of stories about celebrity, debauchery and tragedy on the open seas.</p>
Are You Sure You Want To Quit The World?
Li Dao, a young Minnesota nurse, appeared in suicide chat rooms, contacted the most desperate, and made pacts to die with them via webcam. After some in the forum caught on, Dao disappeared; or rather, Dao had never existed at all. She was a middle-aged man. And he may have encouraged and witnessed dozens of live suicides.
The Great Swiss Bank Heist
Hervé Falciani, a computer engineer working at HSBC, stole the bank’s list of secret accounts. But was he out to expose tax cheats or get rich himself? Perhaps both.
Losing It in the Anti-Dieting Age
The agonies of being overweight—or running a diet company—in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size.
A Homeless City in the Woods
A crusading minister has built a forested Utopia for the itinerant and destitute. But is a social experiment what they’re looking for, or just a place to live?
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Welcome to the Idea Economy
“The days when you could nurture a new idea for months or years are long gone. Today, it has become days and weeks. Increasingly, it is shrinking to hours.”
Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook—and the World
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
The Big Thaw: How Russia Could Dominate a Warming World
Climate change is propelling enormous human migrations as it transforms global agriculture and remakes the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia.
The Man Who Loves Books Too Much
On the motivations and techniques of a prolific book thief who “built a vast collection of rare works, most of which he will never read and no one will ever see.”
PJ Vogt is the co-host of Reply All.
“Every radio story is broken. Everything is missing some piece it’s supposed to have. Everything has some weird interview that didn’t go the way you thought it was going to go, or you thought you had an answer but you were wrong.”
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The Reckoning
On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman entered the University of Texas at Austin’s Main Building. Armed with a number of rifles, he proceeded to kill 14 people and wound 32. Among them was a pregnant Claire Wilson.
The Perfect Weapon
An investigation into how “Mr. Putin, a student of martial arts, had turned two institutions at the core of American democracy — political campaigns and independent media — to his own ends.”
