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What it’s like to be too big in America.
Tommy Tomlinson The Atlantic Jan 2019 30min Permalink
Being pregnant again means being willing to end it.
How Miami’s real estate industry turns a blind eye to climate change.
Sarah Miller Popula Apr 2019 20min Permalink
It’s much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think.
Ferris Jabr The Atlantic Apr 2019 30min Permalink
A conversation about aging, inspiration and why she refuses to cede control.
Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Times Magazine Jun 2019 30min Permalink
How a 22-year-old mother became the first woman to drive cross-country.
Gabriella Gage Truly*Adventurous Jun 2019 35min Permalink
Where Big Tech goes to ask deep questions.
Andrew Marantz New Yorker Aug 2019 30min Permalink
From pecan pralines to ‘dots.’
Richard Davies The Guardian Aug 2019 Permalink
And what can we do to fix it?
Aaron Gordon Motherboard Mar 2020 35min Permalink
One restaurant’s struggle to weather the pandemic.
CHRISTINA CAUTERUCCI Slate Apr 2020 15min Permalink
A trip to India for total silence.
Michael Finkel Men's Journal Aug 2012 20min Permalink
Collective ownership gives power back to poor farmers.
Audrea Lim Harper's Jun 2020 20min Permalink
Fear, control, and manipulation at Yoga to the People.
Laura Wagner, Shannon Wagner Vice Jul 2020 30min Permalink
Kathy Wylde’s winding path from community organizer to “lone defender of the billionaires.”
David Freedlander Curbed Nov 2020 30min Permalink
A diary of the author’s visit to Palestine.
Rachel Kushner n+1 May 2021 20min Permalink
How Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya came to challenge her country’s dictatorship.
Dexter Filkins New Yorker Dec 2021 Permalink
How reading can lead to resilience in the most trying times.
“Miles Davis was a deeply competitive artist, and the idea that he was losing audiences to white rock musicians with inferior skills—and, worse, had to open for them at concerts—inspired him to beat them at their own game. But he did so very much on his own terms.”
Adam Shatz NY Review of Books Sep 2016 15min Permalink
Scott Catt was a single dad trying to make ends meet, so he started robbing banks. Then he needed accomplices, so he asked his kids.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly May 2014 20min Permalink
After years of avoiding the uncomfortable truths about how his gadgets are made, a Mac fanboy travels to Foxconn to see for himself.
Update 3/16/12: This American Life retracted this story today after it was revealed to have “contained significant fabrications.”
Mike Daisey This American Life Jan 2012 30min Permalink
"I was a member of a fraternity that asked pledges, in order to become a brother, to: swim in a kiddie pool of vomit, urine, fecal matter, semen and rotten food products; eat omelets made of vomit; chug cups of vinegar, which in one case caused a pledge to vomit blood; drink beer poured down fellow pledges' ass cracks... among other abuses."
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone Mar 2012 35min Permalink
In 1962, Siffre spent two months living in total isolation in a subterranean cave, without access to clock, calendar, or sun. Sleeping and eating only when his body told him to, his goal was to discover how the natural rhythms of human life would be affected by living “beyond time.”
Joshua Foer Cabinet Jun 2008 10min Permalink
A look at Andy Warhol’s enduring popularity and power in the art market.
Warhol’s art was not supposed to be a matter of emotion, introspection or spiritual quest; it was to be an image, pure and simple. “During the 1960s,” he wrote knowingly in 1975, “I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered.”
Bryan Appleyard Intelligent Life Nov 2011 20min Permalink
“As we enter into a new age, maybe art will be free. Maybe the students are right. They should be able to download music and movies. I’m going to be shot for saying this. But who said art has to cost money?”
Ariston Anderson, Francis Ford Coppola The 99 Percent Jan 2011 10min Permalink
Kids say it’s fun to take cars. They brag to each other about how many they’ve stolen and the sleekest models they’ve sped away in. They say they are bored and that it’s easy, sharing videos of themselves driving at 120 miles per hour. They smile with key fobs, offering rides on Facebook. But all of the biggest car thieves had something to run from.
Lisa Gartner, Zachary T. Sampson Tampa Bay Times Aug 2017 20min Permalink