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The East India Company was once “too big to fail.”
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The East India Company was once “too big to fail.”
William Dalrymple The Guardian Mar 2015 25min Permalink
How life has changed in the neighborhood where Trayvon Martin was killed.
Lane DeGregory The Tampa Bay Times Mar 2012 10min Permalink
The amiable international arms dealer and the sting.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Feb 2010 35min Permalink
On gay life in Saudi Arabia.
Nadya Labi The Atlantic May 2007 25min Permalink
Love and loss on the Texas Panhandle plains.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jul 2017 30min Permalink
Tech takes over the post-Soviet nation.
Nathan Heller The New Yorker Dec 2017 30min Permalink
On the 13-member rap collective Brockhampton.
Craig Jenkins Vulture Nov 2018 15min Permalink
On the controversy behind the False Memory Syndrome Foundation.
Katie Heaney New York Jan 2021 25min Permalink
The use and abuse of civil forfeiture.
Sarah Stillman New Yorker Aug 2013 45min
The shadowy cartel of doctors that controls U.S. healthcare.
Haley Sweetland Edwards Washington Monthly Jul 2013 2h
The Vice President, his future, and the jokes.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Jul 2013 25min
How Hasidic Jews took over Ramapo, New York.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells New York Apr 2013 25min
In Texas, politicians and CEOs are one and the same.
Jay Root Texas Tribune May 2013 25min
Apr–Aug 2013 Permalink
How Tim Armstrong bet AOL’s future on his own unprofitable baby, Patch.
Nicholas Carlson Business Insider Nov 2013 1h45min
How a pair of pharmaceutical companies set their prices.
Barry Werth Technology Review Oct 2013 20min
The capitalist evangelism of Lean In.
Susan Faludi The Baffler Oct 2013 35min
A profile of Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia.
William Finnegan New Yorker Mar 2013 35min
Ego, hubris, and the failure to adapt.
Sean Silcoff, Jacquie McNish, Steve Ladurantaye The Globe and Mail Sep 2013 30min
Mar–Nov 2013 Permalink
Undercover in an industrial slaughterhouse.
Ted Conover Harper's May 2013 55min
How adoptive parents give their problem children away.
Megan Twohey Reuters Sep 2013 10min
Biogenesis and the final fall of Alex Rodriguez.
Tim Elfrink The Miami New Times Jan 2013 20min
The plight of temporary workers in America.
Michael Grabell ProPublica Jun 2013 20min
Where donation dollars actually go.
Jan–Sep 2013 Permalink
Tales of mayhem on the set of The Canyons.
Stephen Rodrick New York Times Magazine Jan 2013 25min
The secretive British men obsessed with the eggs of rare birds.
Julian Rubinstein New Yorker Jul 2013 30min
A haute couture confession.
Buzz Bissinger GQ Mar 2013 25min
Hippie surfers, a Spanish teacher and their weed empire.
Joshuah Bearman The Atavist Sep 2013 1h35min
A world-renowned physicist’s miscalculation.
Maxine Swann New York Times Magazine Mar 2013 25min
Jan–Sep 2013 Permalink
The false promise and double standard of integration in the Obama era.
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic 40min
The insanity of U.S. gun law.
Jill Lepore New Yorker 30min
Lessons learned about Washington from investigating how the “grand bargain” fell apart.
Hanging out with Barack Obama.
Michael Lewis Vanity Fair 55min
How a high-speed rail disaster exposed China’s corruption.
Evan Osnos New Yorker 30min
On Edgar Ray Killen.
Patsy Sims Oxford American Nov 2014 20min Permalink
Remembering Amy Winehouse.
Leslie Jamison Tin House Jul 2018 20min Permalink
How a financial advisor for NHL players may have orchestrated a massive fraud.
Katie Benner Fortune Jul 2013 15min Permalink
Skyrocketing prices for yarchagumba, a rare fungus prized as an aphrodisiac, has led to Nepali villagers to turf wars—and possibly murder.
Eric Hansen Outside Aug 2011 20min Permalink
A 15-year-old Russian has a shorter life expectancy than a peer in Bangladesh, Cambodia, or Yemen.
Masha Gessen New York Review of Books Sep 2014 15min Permalink
Kosovo’s leaders have been accused of grotesque war crimes. But can anyone prove it?
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker May 2013 35min Permalink
Newton Murray got his first job in 1926. He’s seldom missed a day of work since.
Lane DeGregory Tampa Bay Times Jul 2013 10min Permalink
A profile of Salvatore Strazzullo, who represents celebrities, whether major or minor, who get themselves in trouble in Manhattan after dark.
Alan Feuer New York Times Aug 2012 10min Permalink
A palliative-care doctor and triple amputee has built a new kind of hospice in San Francisco.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine Jan 2017 30min Permalink
An ode to Juiceboxxx, a 27-year-old rapper from Milwaukee no one’s ever heard of.
Leon Neyfakh n+1 Feb 2015 40min Permalink
It took Nav Sarao a long time to accept that he might have been scammed out of $50 million.
Liam Vaughn Businessweek Feb 2017 20min Permalink
An investigation into “a subtler form of redlining.”
Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Lauren Kirchner, Surya Mattu ProPublica Apr 2017 20min Permalink