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What the internet looks like to someone who spent the past six years in an Iranian prison.
Hossein Derakhshan Matter Jul 2015 15min Permalink
A reporter lounges at the exclusive club for months to study the beautiful people sipping rosé poolside—and whether they’re actually doing any work.
Alice Gregory GQ Sep 2015 15min Permalink
The disgraced former FIFA president tries to defend himself while eating boiled beef.
Malcolm More The Financial Times Oct 2015 10min Permalink
Phil Kennedy set out to build the ultimate brain-computer interface. In the process, he almost lost his mind.
Daniel Engber Wired Jan 2016 20min Permalink
Caitlin Curran was fired from WNYC for attending an Occupy Wall Street protest. The author explains why her boss was wrong.
Conor Friedersdorf The Atlantic Oct 2011 10min Permalink
How the daily e-mail from Mike Allen, Politico’s star reporter, has become a morning ritual for Washington’s elite.
An investigation into Lashkar-i-Taiba, the group behind the 2008 Mumbai massacre, and why Pakistani authorities has not arrested their leaders.
Sebastian Rotella ProPublica Nov 2010 15min Permalink
On the gap between how the world sees Goldman Sachs and how Goldman Sachs sees itself.
Bethany McLean Vanity Fair Jan 2010 35min Permalink
How a Russian-born Canadian 23-year-old invented Ethereum, the first cryptocurrency to seriously challenge Bitcoin.
Claire Brownell The Financial Post Jun 2017 Permalink
Three decades ago, Olof Palme was assassinated on Stockholm’s busiest street. The case remains unsolved.
Imogen West-Knights The Guardian May 2019 20min Permalink
An interview with the actor.
David Marchese New York Times Magazine Aug 2019 25min Permalink
Whenever the black dress came out, Jessica Weisman’s mother knew she was “going after the Jewish people again.”
Dan Slater Gen Nov 2019 25min Permalink
Gabriel Jiménez built Nicolás Maduro a digital coin and nearly paid with his life.
Nathaniel Popper, Ana Vanessa Herrero The New York Times Mar 2020 20min Permalink
For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus New Yorker Apr 2021 50min Permalink
Meet Me @ the Altar want to be household names—and that’s not a crazy notion.
Hanif Abdurraqib The New York Times Magazine Aug 2021 20min Permalink
The scientists working to free those trapped between life and death.
Roger Highfield Mosaic Apr 2014 35min Permalink
An interview with Joan Didion.
Sheila Heti The Believer Feb 2012 15min Permalink
Sandra Bridewell, a Dallas socialite, and the people around her who keep dying.
Eric Miller, Skip Hollandsworth D Magazine May 1987 45min Permalink
The author examines his terrible football career.
Josh Keefe Slate Aug 2014 15min Permalink
On Bill Cosby’s complicated family life.
Kelefa Sanneh The New Yorker Sep 2014 25min Permalink
Ben Bradlee’s nagging concerns about Deep Throat.
Jeff Himmelman New York Apr 2012 20min Permalink
Wandering through the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus Harper's Mar 2009 Permalink
An investigation into pedestrian deaths on railroad tracks.
Todd C. Frankel The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dec 2013 30min Permalink
On leaving New York for Portland.
William Deresiewicz The American Scholar Dec 2012 30min Permalink
A take down of the press corps and the modern presidential campaign, published on the eve of the ’88 election.
Joan Didion New York Review of Books Oct 1988 40min
On the press buses, nicknamed Bullshit 1 and Bullshit 2, following John McCain.
David Foster Wallace Rolling Stone Apr 2000 1h35min
Manny Pacquiao, still in his fighting prime, on the campaign trail for a congressional seat in the remote, untamed Southern province of the Philippines that spawned him.
Andrew Marshall The Post Aug 2010 15min
A first-time candidate working out his public identity early in his campaign for the Illinois State Senate.
Hank De Zutter Chicago Reader Dec 1995 15min
The nihilistic confessions of a presidential campaign reporter who covered Giuliani, Huckabee, and Clinton for Newsweek.
Michael Hastings GQ Oct 2008 20min
The strengths and limitations of the Republican frontrunner.
Robert Draper New York Times Magazine Nov 2011 20min
Newt Gingrich’s brief turn at the top in Iowa.
Kelefa Sanneh New Yorker Jan 2012 15min
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