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What America owes those it takes in.
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Nov 2015 35min Permalink
L’Wren Scott went from bullied Mormon teen to international model to Hollywood stylist to fashion designer, becoming Mick Jagger’s girlfriend in the process. In March, she took her own life.
Phoebe Eaton GQ (UK) Oct 2014 30min Permalink
Through a series of interviews and historical inquiries, Errol Morris dissects Anosognosia, “a condition in which a person who suffers from a disability seems unaware of or denies the existence of his or her disability.”
Errol Morris New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink
Or, the perils of promoting a middle schooler’s basketball skills. An excerpt from Play Their Hearts Out.
George Dohrmann Sports Illustrated Sep 2010 Permalink
A Stockholm prostitute is found hacked apart in a dumpster, her head is never found. Two accomplished doctors, confirmed creeps, are arrested. Uncertainty endures.
Julie Bindel The Telegraph Nov 2010 10min Permalink
How Sepp Blatter, the head of FIFA, controls soccer and keeps his position as the most powerful person in sports.
Tariq Panja, Andrew Martin, Vernon Silver Bloomberg Business Apr 2015 20min
On FIFA’s history of scandal.
Brian Phillips Grantand Aug 2011 15min
How a swindling suburban soccer dad named Chuck Blazer pocketed millions as he helped make the sport a booming success in America.
Ken Bensinger Buzzfeed Jun 2014 30min
Aug 2011 – Apr 2015 Permalink
On London’s new squad of “super-recognizers.”
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Aug 2016 30min Permalink
Inside a world where a user named Pizza can amass millions of followers, transform internet humor, get caught peddling diet pills in get-rich-quick schemes, and have her blog shut down—all before graduating high school.
Elspeth Reeve The New Republic Feb 2016 15min Permalink
Black people struggling with debts are far less likely than their white peers to gain lasting relief from bankruptcy. A style of bankruptcy practiced by lawyers in the South is primarily to blame.
Paul Kiel, Hannah Fresques ProPublica Sep 2017 25min Permalink
A recent episode of This American Life was put together by reporters from Pro Publica based on this original reporting about the bubble-profiteering hedge fund Magnetar.
Jesse Eisinger ProPublica Apr 2010 25min Permalink
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
Nicholas Thompson, Fred Vogelstein Wired Feb 2018 40min Permalink
A profile of "L.A.'s most adventurous eater," restaurant critic Jonathan Gold, who died Saturday.
Previously: a 2012 interview with Gold in The Believer.
Dana Goodyear New Yorker Nov 2009 20min Permalink
Birds like Roseate Spoonbills and Burrowing Owls are ending up in the stomachs of hungry pythons and nile monitors. Is it too late to stop them?
Chris Sweeney Audubon Sep 2018 20min Permalink
Perfect storms, drunken dares, and a man who sailed his house — a collection of our favorite articles about castaways.
Two days after the Japanese tsunami, after the waves had left their destruction, as rescue workers searched the ruins, news came of an almost surreal survival: Miles out at sea, a man was found, alone, riding on nothing but the roof of his house.
Three teenage boys from a remote island decide to set sail after a night of drinking. They go missing for 51 days.
Michael Finkel GQ May 2011 35min
During WWII, a bomber crashes into the Pacific and the crewmen begin an epic battle against dehydration, exposure, and endless attacks by sharks. Adapted from Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken.
Laura Hillenbrand Vanity Fair Dec 2010 35min
The Estonia was carrying 989 people when it sank on its way across the Baltic in September 1994. Only 140 lived.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic May 2004 35min
Swept out by a riptide, a father and his autistic son find themselves in open water after dark.
Justin Heckert Men's Journal Nov 2009 25min
The first extended telling of the story that would eventually become The Perfect Storm.
Sebastian Junger Outside Oct 1994 20min
In 1992, a Chinese freighter tipped violently during a storm and dumped a load of plastic bath toys—7,200 red beavers, 7,200 green frogs, 7,200 blue turtles, and 7,200 yellow ducks—into the open sea.
Donovan Hahn Harper's Jan 2007 1h35min
Oct 1994 – May 2011 Permalink
When Aldi arrived in Britain, Tesco and Sainsbury’s were sure they had nothing to worry about. Three decades later, they know better.
Camille Billops abandoned her four-year-old to become the artist she knew she was meant to be. Twenty years later, her daughter wanted to know: why did you leave me?
Sasha Bonét Topic May 2019 20min Permalink
How the museum-quality 55,000 film collection that an East Village video store gave away ended up in a small, possibly mob-run village in Sicily.
Karina Longworth Village Voice Sep 2012 Permalink
A profile of Jenny Offill, whose latest novel addresses climate collapse.
Parul Sehgal New York Times Magazine Feb 2020 20min Permalink
His savvy on a longboard earned him trophies. His burglary of the Natural History museum in New York earned him headlines. And his brutality on a Florida boat 50-odd years ago earned him a lifetime in prison. Now: What does penance get you?
Brian Burnsed Sports Illustrated Apr 2020 Permalink
An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals.
Ed Caesar New Yorker Jul 2020 30min Permalink
Climate change is propelling enormous human migrations as it transforms global agriculture and remakes the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia.
Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Dec 2020 Permalink
When human blood overtakes a house amid racial turmoil in 1987 Atlanta, terrifying the family inside, a mystery opens up that persists to this day.
Danny Cherry Jr. Truly*Adventurous Oct 2020 30min Permalink
Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists.
Naomi Klein The Intercept Feb 2021 15min Permalink
A fugitive from the US started fresh on Vancouver Island—then bilked new victims out of millions of dollars while law enforcement refused to act.
Tori Marlan Capital Daily Apr 2021 50min Permalink
John McAfee created one of the first anti-virus programs. Then he traveled to Belize, where he lived with a harem of young women and a lot of guns. His neighbor was murdered under mysterious circumstances.
Stephen Rodrick Men's Journal Sep 2015 20min Permalink