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Joe Arridy had an IQ of 46. In 1939, he was executed for a crime he neither understood nor committed.
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Joe Arridy had an IQ of 46. In 1939, he was executed for a crime he neither understood nor committed.
Alan Prendergast Westword Sep 2012 30min Permalink
Mel and Norma Gabler of Longview, Texas, want to tell your children what to learn in school.
William Martin Texas Monthly Nov 1982 30min Permalink
Prosecutors have spun creative theories to explain away scientific evidence when DNA tests haven’t fit their version of events.
Andrew Martin New York Times Magazine Nov 2011 25min Permalink
A married father of two tracks down his free-living doppelgänger, a musician who has avoided responsibility at every turn, to see who’s happier.
Eric Puchner GQ May 2012 20min Permalink
A profile of 12-year-old actress Elle Fanning, Dakota’s sister.
Frank Bruni New York Times Magazine Dec 2010 Permalink
He hacked a hospital to protest their treatment of a sick child. Now he’s facing 15 years.
David Kushner Rolling Stone Jun 2017 25min Permalink
A collection of picks on arsonists, fire fighters and more.
For 18 months, Coatesville, Penn., was besieged with an improbable number of arsons. But who started the fires—and why?
Matthew Teague Philadelphia Magazine Jan 2010 20min
The arson case that led Texas to execute an almost certainly innocent man.
David Grann New Yorker Sep 2009 1h5min
Living through a Colorado fire that burned down 169 homes.
Robert Sanchez 5280 Sep 2011 30min
Ten churches are torched in East Texas. The culprits? Two Baptist teens having a crisis of faith.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly May 2011
Thomas Sweatt torched D.C. for decades and was finally jailed for killing one person. During a year-long correspondence from prison with a reporter, he confessed there were more.
Dave Jamieson Washington City Paper Jun 2007
It started with a candle in an abandoned warehouse. It ended with temperatures above 3,000 degrees and the men of the Worcester Fire Department in a fight for their lives.
Sean Flynn Esquire Jul 2001 1h
The Granite Mountain Hotshots, an outfit of professional wildland firefighters, had 20 members. On June 30, 19 of them lost their lives.
Kyle Dickman Outside Sep 2013 35min
A rookie firefighter confronts his first test.
N.R. Kleinfeld New York Times Jun 2014 25min
Jul 2001 – Jun 2014 Permalink
Eric Schneiderman faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.
Jane Mayer, Ronan Farrow New Yorker May 2018 25min Permalink
Veterans are taking their own lives on VA hospital campuses, a desperate form of protest against a system that they feel hasn’t helped them.
Emily Wax-Thibodeaux Washington Post Feb 2019 10min Permalink
An attempt to understand why, after 50 years of decline, more and more young women are suddenly embracing religious life.
Eve Fairbanks Huffington Post Highline Jul 2019 35min Permalink
Trump transformed immigration through hundreds of quiet measures. Before they can be reversed, they have to be uncovered.
Sarah Stillman New Yorker Feb 2021 30min Permalink
In the beginning, they were known as die Dönermorde – the kebab murders. The victims had little in common, apart from immigrant backgrounds and the modest businesses they ran.
Thomas Meaney The Guardian Dec 2016 25min Permalink
We ate in our own restaurants, stayed in our own hotels, and hired our own guides. We moved through a parallel Paris—and a parallel Rome, Milan, and so on.
The reporter takes a whirlwind guided bus tour of a Europe with a group of Chinese tourists.
Evan Osnos New Yorker Apr 2011 30min Permalink
A profile of A.J. Daulerio, editor of Deadspin and procurer of, among other things, cell phone pics of Brett Favre’s penis.
Gabriel Sherman GQ Feb 2011 15min Permalink
From grizzlies in Alaska to whales at SeaWorld, a collection stories of animals turning on humans.
On Timothy Treadwell, later immortalized in Grizzly Man, who lived and died by the bears of Alaska.
Ned Zeman Vanity Fair May 2004 40min
The life story of Travis the chimp and the family of tow truck operators who raised him like a human child before it all ended in tragedy.
Dan P. Lee New York Jan 2011 25min
The life story of Tilikum, a killer whale who dragged his SeaWorld trainer into the pool and drowned her in 2010. It was the third time the orca had been involved in a death during his 27 years in captivity.
Tim Zimmerman Outside Jul 2010 35min
Encountering a pack of wild dogs in Manhattan.
Rebecca Skloot New York May 2005 10min
“Joe’s hand began to tingle, and he called the group together. The toxins would leave his system in 48 hours, he said. He’d be conscious the whole time.”
Mark W. Moffett Outside Apr 2002 10min
After two people are found dead in Yellowstone National Park, a team of investigators tracks down the unlikely culprit: a grizzly bear.
Jessica Grose Slate Apr 2012 40min
Apr 2002 – Apr 2012 Permalink
On the royal family.
Christopher Hitchens New York Times Magazine May 1991 20min
On being waterboarded.
Christopher Hitchens Vanity Fair Aug 2008 10min
On the cult of Winston Churchill and his legacy in the aftermath of 9/11.
Christopher Hitchens Atlantic Apr 2002 40min
An early foreign report on the state of the African continent.
Christopher Hitchens Vanity Fair Nov 1994 45min
An excerpt from his memoir Hitch-22, about his dreadful years at boarding school.
Christopher Hitchens Slate Jun 2010 10min
May 1991 – Jun 2010 Permalink
The doctors, patient, and ethics behind the experiment.
Sam Kean The Atlantic Aug 2016 25min Permalink
How and why the goverment pulled Silicon Valley into the war on terror.
Steven Levy Wired Jan 2014 25min Permalink
First Hormel gutted the union. Then it sped up the line. And when the pig-brain machine made workers sick, they got canned.
Ted Genoways Mother Jones Jun 2011 Permalink
Cape Coral, Florida, was built on lies. One big storm could wipe it off the map. It’s also the fastest-growing city in the United States.
Michael Grunwald Politico Magazine Oct 2017 25min Permalink
A former schoolyard bully finds a new identity through Buddhism. A classmate wonders why he changed—and if he remembers the pain he caused.
Eric Steuer Southwest Magazine Nov 2017 15min Permalink
Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.
Steven Lance The Atavist Magazine Dec 2020 1h10min Permalink
On bareback horse relay racing, a Native American tradition:
“It’s going to be America’s next extreme sport,” he predicts. “Compare it to Professional Bull Riders, PBR. Look how big that got—a million in prize money in every city they go to. That’s how Indian Relay is going to be in 10 years. I look for it to be at every track in the country by 2025.
Steve Marsh Victory Journal May 2018 25min Permalink
Thirty-year-old payment processing CEO Dan Price made an audacious decision and was rewarded with viral stardom. But what were his real motivations?
Karen Weise Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2015 15min Permalink