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For five decades, as the children at Camp Shane shed pounds, made friends, and found romance, a fierce succession drama was playing out.
Fossils have become a hot new asset class. Paleontologists aren’t thrilled, but for Clayton Phipps and his peers, it’s a living.
Andrew Zaleski Bloomberg Businessweek Sep 2021 20min Permalink
Jen Tullock is ready for her moment. Is the moment ready for her?
Rosecrans Baldwin Gen Aug 2019 25min Permalink
How divisions between Nigeria’s Muslim North and Christian South resulted in the birth of terror’s most ruthless movement.
Alex Perry Newsweek Jul 2014 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
On September 11, 2001, three out of every four people who worked for Howard Lutnick died. The story of a recovery.
Susanne Craig New York Times Sep 2011 Permalink
When the Feds sought the death penalty for four African-American drug dealers in Baltimore, the accused found a defense in the unlikeliest of places: the legal theories of white supremacists.
Kevin Carey Washington Monthly May 2008 25min 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
The grocer started communicating with Chinese counterparts in January and was running tabletop simulations a few weeks later. (But nothing prepared it for the rush on toilet paper.)
Dan Solomon, Paula Forbes Texas Monthly Mar 2020 20min Permalink
The phrase ‘adult beginner’ can sound patronising. It implies you are learning something you should have mastered as a child. But learning is not just for the young.
Tom Vanderbilt Guardian Jan 2021 15min Permalink
For years, Hou was the only woman who stood a chance against the very best. But she had her own ambitions.
Louisa Thomas New Yorker Jul 2021 25min Permalink
Ah yes, you should also know that most of your colleagues are some of the biggest neurotics in the country, so you might as well get used right now to the way they're gonna be writing you five and ten page single spaced inflammatory letters reviling you for knocking some group that they have proved is the next Stones.
Lester Bangs Shakin' Street Gazette Oct 1974 20min Permalink
This presentation was shown to potential recruits for the new Maven SI venture, and it details exactly how the people now in charge of Sports Illustrated plan on turning it into the sort of volume-driven content farm that ruled the web a dozen or so tweaks of the Google algorithm ago.
Laura Wagner, Kelsey McKinney, David Roth Deadspin Oct 2019 30min Permalink
Romney’s former Bain partner makes a case for inequality.
Adam Davidson New York Times Magazine May 2012 15min Permalink
Activists hoped President Obama would fight for stronger regulation. Eight years later, they’re still waiting.
Michael Pollan New York Times Magazine Oct 2016 25min Permalink
Millions of American workers sign away legal rights without knowing what they’re in for: Arbitration Hell.
Max Abelson Bloomberg Businessweek Jan 2019 20min Permalink
Using different email addresses and a lot of exclamation points, teenager Jonathan Lebed worked finance message boards in the morning before school and made nearly a million bucks. Then he made the head of the S.E.C. look like a fool.
Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Feb 2001 35min
Sitting alone in his San Jose office, Michael Burry saw the subprime bubble before anyone else. So he convinced Wall Street to let him bet on it, even though few were betting on him (a story excerpted from The Big Short).
Michael Lewis Vanity Fair Apr 2010 45min
On Jim Clark and the culture of Silicon Valley before the dot-com crash (the story that lead to The New New Thing).
Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Oct 1999 35min
Riots in Athens, the shadowy Vatopaidi monastery, and a quarter million dollars in debt for every citizen. Welcome to Greece.
Michael Lewis Vanity Fair Oct 2010 45min
The original article on Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s, published a month before the release of Moneyball.
Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Mar 2003 35min
Oct 1999 – Oct 2010 Permalink
Stories about looking for people who don't want to be found.
On June 4, 1989, the bodies of Jo, Michelle and Christe were found floating in Tampa Bay. This is the story of how Glen Moore and his detectives brought the killer to justice.
Thomas French St. Petersburg Times Oct 1997 3h30min
On the lifestyle of a fugitive retiree, and how it came to an end.
Shelley Murphy, Maria Cramer The Boston Globe Oct 2013 25min
The search for a disgraced ex-LAPD officer bent on killing his former colleagues and their families.
Christopher Goffard, Kurt Streeter, Joel Rubin The Los Angeles Times Dec 2013 25min
It started as a bluebird New Year’s Day in Mount Rainier National Park. But when a gunman murdered a ranger and then fled back into the park’s frozen backcountry, every climber, skier, and camper became a suspect—and a potential victim.
Bruce Barcott Outside Sep 2012 25min
A Montana sheriff and a manhunt in the mountains.
Richard Ben Cramer Esquire Oct 1985 35min
Can a writer disappear in America for a month with a $5,000 bounty on his head?
Evan Ratliff Wired Nov 2009 35min
The search for Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Globe Staff The Boston Globe Apr 2013 55min
The making of Thelma & Louise.
Sheila Weller Vanity Fair Mar 2011 30min
Oct 1985 – Dec 2013 Permalink
The paper reports on a battle of its own.
Nicole Perlroth New York Times Jan 2013 10min Permalink
On the blurry ethical lines in the part-time Texas state legislature, where politicians and CEO’s are one and the same.
Jay Root Texas Tribune May 2013 25min Permalink
A veteran with PTSD takes on the fighter jets that fly above his sanctuary on the Olympic Peninsula.
Madeline Ostrander Seattle Met Nov 2016 15min Permalink
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Doyle Murphy Riverfront Times Feb 2016 20min Permalink
Private planes, caviar lunches and Little League.
Irina Aleksander New York Times Magazine Jan 2015 20min Permalink
An unexplainable murder, double jeopardy, and military courts: the strange case of Tim Hennis.
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker Nov 2011 35min Permalink