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Foreign policy as architecture; how embassies went from lavish social hubs to reinforced strongholds.
William Langewiesche Vanity Fair Nov 2007 20min Permalink
“In 2000, Zimbabwe’s dictator began kicking white farmers off their land. One man decided to stay.”
Andrew Corsello GQ Jul 2006 40min Permalink
Obama’s presidency may well be defined by whether or not he can curb unemployment. Step One: find a decent idea.
Peter Baker New York Times Magazine Jan 2011 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
Deaf, mute and undocumented, he was charged 12 years ago with a capital crime and has been in legal limbo ever since.
Paul Duggan Washington Post Mar 2017 20min Permalink
An investigation into “a subtler form of redlining.”
Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Lauren Kirchner, Surya Mattu ProPublica Apr 2017 20min Permalink
Her fiction has imagined societies riddled with misogyny, oppression, and environmental havoc. These visions now feel all too real.
Rebecca Mead New Yorker Apr 2017 35min Permalink
“There wasn’t anything normal about this.”
Matt Apuzzo, Michael S. Schmidt, Adam Goldman, Eric Lichtblau New York Times Apr 2017 30min Permalink
What it feels like to get hit by a major league fastball.
Tim Kurkjian ESPN Aug 2012 25min Permalink
A collection of our favorite articles about dependency.
Confessions of a white-collar heroin addict.
Anonymous Washington City Paper Jan 1995 1h15min
Remembering the loss of a parent and the birth of an addiction.
Cheryl Strayed DoubleTake Apr 1999 35min
A father on his son’s meth problem.
David Scheff New York Times Feb 2005 25min
Three years lost to Grand Theft Auto.
Tom Bissell Guardian Mar 2010 20min
Giving yourself over to poker.
Jay Caspian Kang Morning News Oct 2010 20min
On quitting cigarettes.
David Sedaris New Yorker May 2008 15min
Seventy-five years after its founding, it’s still hard to explain exactly why Alcoholics Anonymous works.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Jun 2010 20min
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On former Knicks savior Stephon Marbury and his post-NBA life playing in China.
Wells Tower GQ Apr 2011 25min Permalink
In El Salvador, more and more young women are choosing—or being forced into—gang life.
Lauren Markham Pacific Standard Sep 2017 25min Permalink
How Edith Windsor fell in love, got married, and won a landmark case for gay marriage.
Ariel Levy New Yorker Sep 2013 30min Permalink
Some of unit’s clients stifle opposition, stoke extremism.
Lauren Etter, Vernon Silver, Sarah Frier Bloomberg Business Dec 2017 10min Permalink
How extreme weather, which displaced more than a million people last year, could reshape America.
Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone Feb 2018 25min Permalink
How Jerry Lee Lewis got away with murdering 25-year-old Shawn Michelle Stevens, his fifth wife.
Richard Ben Cramer Rolling Stone Mar 1984 1h5min Permalink
Minara Akhter came to America with uncertainty and hope. Then her husband, a Muslim religious leader, was murdered in a suspected hate crime.
Rahima Nasa ProPublica Sep 2018 15min Permalink
How prosecutors tied a brazen murder in an upscale Dallas suburb to one of Mexico’s most violent criminal organizations.
Michael J. Mooney Texas Monthly Aug 2018 30min Permalink
More than 600,000 U.S.-born children of undocumented parents live in Mexico. What happens when you return to a country you’ve never known?
Brooke Jarvis California Sunday Jan 2019 15min Permalink
Tom Justice was once a cyclist chasing Olympic gold. Then he began using his bike for a much different purpose: robbing banks.
Steven Leckart Chicago Magazine Jan 2019 40min Permalink
How Craig Carton, a morning host on WFAN, ended up running a Ponzi scheme.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Apr 2019 25min Permalink
A very Florida investigation.
Rebecca Woolington, Justin Trombly Tampa Bay Times May 2019 20min Permalink
A young British man was drawn to a white-supremacist group, until they started plotting to kill.
Ed Caesar New Yorker May 2019 Permalink
A two-part investigation into why so many more young players are getting seriously injured.
Baxter Holmes ESPN Jul 2019 15min Permalink
After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear.
McKenzie Funk New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 40min Permalink