Why No One Remembers the Peacemakers
Why do we honor dead soldiers rather than the fighters who deserted and the activists who demanded peace?
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Why do we honor dead soldiers rather than the fighters who deserted and the activists who demanded peace?
Adam Hochschild In These Times Dec 2014 10min Permalink
How the author writes best-selling non-fiction books without the ability to leave her house.
Wil S. Hylton New York Times Magazine Dec 2014 25min Permalink
The article that kept the New Yorker alive was written by a debutante. Who happened to be married to Irving Berlin.
Ian Frazier New Yorker Feb 2015 25min Permalink
A report from Camp Hope, the tent city that’s sprung up next to the Chilean mine where 33 men have been trapped since early August.
Sean Flynn GQ Oct 2010 25min Permalink
The “Shaggy Defense,” the “Little Man Defense,” and more—live from R. Kelly’s 2008 child pornography trial.
Josh Levin Slate May 2008 Permalink
Can Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski make the casual audience care about figure skating?
Leander Schaerlaeckens SB Nation Apr 2016 15min Permalink
The hot dog black market and the immigrants it exploits.
Jeff Koyen Crain's Jun 2016 15min Permalink
In Peru, an unsolved killing has brought the Mashco Piro into contact with the outside world.
John Lee Anderson New Yorker Aug 2016 40min Permalink
Inside the campaign to canonize the fire department chaplain who died on September 11.
Ruth Graham Slate Sep 2017 15min Permalink
How Shane Battier could score zero points in an NBA game and still be the most important player on the floor.
Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Feb 2009 40min Permalink
How the Coast Guard expanded the war on drugs into international waters.
Seth Freed Wessler New York Times Magazine Nov 2017 25min Permalink
A widow and her stepchildren battle Chase and each other.
Joseph Guinto D Magazine Jan 2018 20min Permalink
Three days in the creative wilderness with Francis Farewell Starlite, the reclusive muse to Kanye West, Bon Iver and Drake.
Reggie Ugwu New York Times Mar 2020 10min Permalink
The F.B.I. tried to recruit an Iranian scientist as an informant. When he balked, the payback was brutal.
Laura Secor New Yorker Sep 2020 35min Permalink
While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?
Annalisa Quinn Boston Globe Magazine Nov 2020 20min Permalink
Our climate models could be missing something big.
Peter Brannen The Atlantic Feb 2021 Permalink
Why did so many Americans receive strange packages they didn’t think they’d ordered?
Chris Heath The Atlantic Jul 2021 30min Permalink
Utah says the White Mesa Mill isn’t contaminating groundwater, but its neighbor, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, disagrees.
Jessica Douglas High Country News Nov 2021 20min Permalink
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The lonesome death of Arnold Rothstein, notorious gambler, inspiration for a the character Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby, alleged fixer of the 1916 World Series, opiate importation pioneer, mobster and Jew.
Nick Tosches Vanity Fair May 2005 40min
When New York was perpetually on fire.
Luc Sante New York Review of Books Nov 2003 15min
On police brutality in New York and the race riots of 1964.
James Baldwin The Nation Jul 1966
Watching the jazz singer in New York.
Elizabeth Hardwick New York Review of Books Mar 1976 15min
Jacob Riis, writing in 1899, on how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.
Jacob Riis The Atlantic Sep 1899 25min
A profile of Chloë Sevigny, 19-year-old It Girl.
Jay McInerney New Yorker Nov 1994
Memories of the old neighborhood, before everything changed.
Arthur Miller Holiday Mar 1955 25min
Sep 1899 – May 2005 Permalink
From his early days in Indiana to his exit interview after 33 years in late night, a David Letterman reading list.</p>
From Muncie to NBC.
Kliph Nesteroff WFMU Blog Mar 2010 30min
A pre-Late Night profile.
Peter Kaplan Esquire Dec 1981 25min
Recounting an appearance on Letterman.
David Foster Wallace Playboy Jun 1988 30min
Memories of working on the show in the ’90s.
Daniel Kellison Grantland May 2015 25min
The sex scandal.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Apr 2010 30min
An exit interview.
Dave Itzkoff New York Times Apr 2015 15min
Dec 1981 – May 2015 Permalink
Why the future feels frozen in time, as framed by Marshall McLuhan (“We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”) and William Gibson (“The future is already here; it is just unevenly distributed.”)
Venkatesh Rao Ribbonfarm May 2012 20min Permalink
John Beale was an exemplary employee at the Environmental Protection Agency. He also led a double life, though not the rumored one at the CIA his colleagues whispered about.
Michael Gaynor Washingtonian Mar 2014 15min Permalink
California’s redwoods, sequoias and Joshua trees define the American West and nature’s resilience through the ages. Wildfires this year were their deadliest test.
John Branch The New York Times Dec 2020 20min Permalink
A profoundly neglected 6-year-old gets a new home.
Lane DeGregory Tampa Bay Times Jul 2008 25min Permalink
The day Hurricane Irene nearly drowned Prattsville, New York.