The Man With His Head in the Clouds
When it’s finished, architect Adrian Smith’s Jeddah Tower will be the tallest building in the world, over a kilometer high. He’s already thinking about pushing past a mile in the air.
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The Fresno Bee and the War on Local News
The author spends time with the reporters fighting to keep news alive in an age when the forces they cover are working equally hard to destroy them.
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The Longform Guide to Miraculous Survivals
A collection of picks about people in impossible situations — lost at sea, trapped under boulders, infected with incurable diseases — who somehow survived.
Inspired by Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival, Laurence Gonzales's unforgettable account of a United flight that went down 25 years ago and the 184 souls who lived to tell the story.
The Godfather Wars
The battle to make The Godfather pitted director Francis Ford Coppola against producers including Robert Evans, and the production itself against the real life mob.
The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code
Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.
How the IRS Was Gutted
An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That’s good news for corporations and the wealthy.
Massacre in the Amazon
Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.
Culture War in the Workplace
Inside the court battle over trans employment discrimination.
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court ruled that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects gay and transgender workers from workplace discrimination.
Anatomy of a Heroin Ring
How a Chicago drug organization did business.
Death of a Building
A historic Little Rock building and its owner, before and after a catastrophic fire.
Secret of AA
A psychological, historical and neurological look at Alcoholics Anonymous.
A Fleet of One
Driving cross-country in a chemical tanker.
In and Out of Time in Iraq
An essay on PTSD.
Amber Waves of Green
How six different people live off six different, and wildly varying, incomes.
Michael Atiyah’s Imaginative State of Mind
A conversation about beauty with an 86-year-old mathematician.
King of Boise
How a home-schooled teenager became an oxy kingpin.
How Ina Drew Got Swallowed by the London Whale
JPMorgan Chase’s $6 billion mistake and the woman who took the fall.
The Toughest Woman on Two Wheels
On Juliana Buhring, a former cult member who became the first woman to bike around the world.
How the Bay Area's Last Slaughterhouse Dodged the Axe
On keeping the place where ethically raised animals are killed open.
The Civil War that Could Doom the N.R.A.
There’s a growing gap between the gun lobby’s leadership and its rank-and-file.
The American Way
The Obama administration was supposed to fight corporate concentration. In the airline industry, at least, it didn’t work out that way.
The Moneyman Behind the Alt-Right
William Regnery II spent almost 20 years funding the racist right. It finally paid off.
Witness to the Killing
In many homicides, police believe they know the killer’s identity but can’t get a witness to cooperate.
The Mad Scramble to Claim the World's Most Coveted Meteorite
On space rocks and the people who chase them.
Inside the Twisted, Worldwide Hunt for a $7 Million Stolen Car
Joe Ford, car detective, searches the world for stolen rare automobiles on the black market.
