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A critique of Davis Guggenheim’s Waiting for ‘Superman’.
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A critique of Davis Guggenheim’s Waiting for ‘Superman’.
Diane Ravitch New York Review of Books Oct 2010 20min Permalink
On the group of friends who came to rule the bizarre, decreasingly lucrative world of Internet porn.
Benjamin Wallace New York Jan 2011 20min Permalink
“Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. I’m one of them.”
Neal Gabler The Atlantic Apr 2016 25min Permalink
The stories of women who “are operating at unprecedented levels on every floor of CIA headquarters and throughout its far-flung global outposts.”
Abigail Jones Newsweek Sep 2016 30min Permalink
On black bodies in the age of the Charleston shootings.
Claudia Rankine New York Times Magazine Jun 2015 10min Permalink
The history of the City of London Corporation, a “prehistoric monster which had mysteriously survived into the modern world.”
Nicholas Shaxson New Statesman Feb 2011 10min Permalink
A pre-eminent expert on large carnivores runs afoul of the enemies of the wolf.
Christopher Solomon New York Times Magazine Jul 2018 25min Permalink
What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father?
Ezra Marcus, James D. Walsh New York Apr 2019 Permalink
On the death of a young reporter named Christopher Allen and the state of conflict journalism.
Charlotte Alfred Huffington Post Dec 2019 25min Permalink
The island of Borneo is the only home of the proboscis monkey, an endangered primate that is surprisingly resilient.
Jude Isabella Hakai May 2020 25min Permalink
The remarkable stories of the nine other women in the Harvard Law class of ‘59.
Dahlia Lithwick, Molly Olmstead Slate Jul 2020 40min Permalink
In their depictions of domination, the artist’s works, full of world-building and philosophy, do more than flip the script.
Zadie Smith New Yorker Aug 2020 10min Permalink
Animal nature, human racism, and the future of zoos.
David Samuels Harper's 45min
Vegetables are "blue" in Japanese and other observations on the uneasy relationship between color and language.
Aatish Bhatia Empirical Zeal 10min
Kelley Benham Orion 20min
Ashlyn Blocker, 13, has a “congenital insensitivity to pain.”
A profile of Taylor Wilson, who achieved nuclear fusion at age 14.
Tom Clynes Popular Science 20min
The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”
William McGowan Slate 30min
The story of William Morgan: American, wanderer, Cuban revolutionary.
David Grann New Yorker 1h25min
In 1810, a freed slave named Tom Molineaux fought one of the most important bouts in boxing history.
Brian Phillips Grantland 20min
The legacy of a secret Cold War program that tested chemical weapons on thousands of American soldiers.
The evolution of currency as “a complete abstraction.”
Dorothy Stratten was the focus of the dreams and ambitions of three men. One killed her.
The winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, available online for the first time.
Teresa Carpenter Village Voice Nov 1980 35min Permalink
Three interviews with John Gardner, author of Grendel and The Art of Fiction, conducted over the last decade of his life.
Frank McConnell, John Gardner, John R. Maier, Paul F. Ferguson, Sara Matthiessen The Paris Review Apr 1979 50min Permalink
In the mid-20th century, Great Britain maintained a network of 1,500 underground, volunteer-staffed bunkers in case of nuclear war. Now, one man is restoring two of these abandoned shelters to period-perfect condition.
Kate Ravilious Atlas Obscura Sep 2018 15min Permalink
The story of a lynching in rural CO in 1900, while hundreds watched, done with the complicity of press and cops, and why it still resonates today.
Alan Prendergast Westword Nov 2018 25min Permalink
For a century, Anglos from cold corners of the country have been lured here by the promise that this was a place where they could live among their own, in communities with nary a brown person in sight.
Fernanda Santos Guernica Feb 2019 20min Permalink
Last fall, when the deadliest blaze in America in a century blew through Northern California, thousands of people—including those in the tiny community of Helltown—were forced to flee. This is the story of four friends who stayed to fight.
Robert P. Baird GQ Apr 2019 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
The Western student of international politics knows to nod approvingly when Lee’s name is mentioned. Frustrated by the sludge of partisan politics in his own country, he sees in Lee’s legacy a kind of exotic escape. If asked, he remarks sagely: Singapore is proof of what enlightened authoritarianism can achieve.
Haonan Li, Victor Yaw Palladium Aug 2020 15min Permalink
A first-person account of the author’s time spent volunteering with a group of Burmese activists in Thailand, who turn out to be not Korean but in fact Karen, members of Burma’s persecuted ethnic minority. In the course of her time there, they show her videos of their risky forays across the border, and she shows them MySpace.
Mac McClelland Mother Jones Apr 2011 40min Permalink
An appreciation of the hometown team.
Woody Allen The New York Observer May 1998 10min Permalink
Excerpts from the once-classified journals of a current prisoner.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi Slate Apr 2013 1h5min Permalink