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.”
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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.”
Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger, Scott Shane New York Times Dec 2016 Permalink
Against all odds, it really was a refuge of competence, normalcy and transcendent play. But the outside world has a way of sneaking in.
Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 20min Permalink
How Norman Mailer and other writers wanted to go out.
George Plimpton New York Review of Books Aug 1977 20min Permalink
Memoir of a Latter-day campaign correspondent.
McKay Coppins Buzzfeed Nov 2012 15min Permalink
Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language?
John Colapinto New Yorker Apr 2007 50min Permalink
A profile of photographer Robert Frank in his 90th year.
Nicholas Dawidoff New York Times Magazine Jul 2015 25min Permalink
A profile of Felipe Lopez, high school phenom.
Susan Orlean New Yorker Mar 1993 40min Permalink
On FIFA’s history of scandal.
Brian Phillips Grantland Aug 2011 15min Permalink
Faulkner, a small writing shed, and Salida, Colorado: a profile of novelist Kent Haruf.
Chris Outcalt 5280 May 2015 20min Permalink
A profile of Univision’s Jorge Ramos.
Laura M. Colarusso Washington Monthly May 2012 40min Permalink
An oral history of Goodfellas.
A profile of Chicago soul great Syl Johnson.
Peter Margasak Chicago Reader Nov 2010 15min Permalink
A night of terror in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Justin Heckert Garden and Gun May 2017 20min Permalink
A profile of Cardi B.
Allison P. Davis New York Nov 2017 20min Permalink
As R. Kelly’s career flourished, an industry overlooked allegations of abusive behavior toward young women.
Geoff Edgers Washington Post May 2018 20min Permalink
A profile of Tiger Woods at 21.
Charles P. Pierce GQ Mar 1997 25min Permalink
A profile of Bill Withers at 76.
Andy Greene Rolling Stone Apr 2015 15min Permalink
A profile of Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author Larry McMurtry.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jun 2016 30min Permalink
Making sense of a $69 million NFT.
Kyle Chayka New Yorker Mar 2021 15min Permalink
A profile of Steve Bannon — former naval officer and Goldman Sachs banker, executive chairman of Breitbart News, founding chairman of the Government Accountability Institute, and, as of yesterday, Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist.
Joshua Green Businessweek Oct 2015 25min Permalink
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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Sep 2017 Permalink
The decades-long saga of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly 50min
As a 15-year runaway hitchhiker, the writer was nearly killed by a trucker. Twenty seven years later, she investigates whether her attacker was truck stop serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who often kept his victims chained in the back of his truck for weeks before killing and dumping them.
Vanessa Veselka GQ 30min
The murderous tale of Washington D.C. fabulist Albrecht Muth and his late wife Viola Drath.
Trevell Coleman wasn’t sure whether he’d killed a man. But after 17 years, he needed to find out.
Jennifer Gonnerman New York 20min
A medical device company experiments on humans.
Mina Kimes Fortune 30min
How the United States came to spend more on defense than all the other nations of the world combined.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Jan 2013 20min
Last fall, a team of American Special Forces arrived in Nerkh, a district just west of Kabul. Six months later, amid allegations of torturing and murdering locals, the team was gone. Shortly after they left, the remains of 10 missing villagers were found outside their vacated base. An investigation into a possible war crime.
Matthieu Aikins Rolling Stone Nov 2013 25min
On decorated sniper Chris Kyle and the troubled young veteran who took his life.
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker May 2013 50min
After two tours in Iraq, the writer returns to a volatile region of Afghanistan as an embedded journalist.
Matt Cook Texas Monthly Jul 2013 35min
As NATO leaves, the Afghan National Army grapples with a resilient Taliban.
Luke Mogelson New York Times Magazine Jan 2013 20min
Jan–Nov 2013 Permalink
A profile of Jamie Dimon as he became CEO of JP Morgan Chase.
Shawn Tully Fortune Mar 2006 15min Permalink
A profile of Rei Kawakubo, an artist of few words who changed women’s fashion.
Judith Thurman New Yorker Jul 2005 25min Permalink