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Dick Cavett, the “last great intellectual talk-show host,” at 81.
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Dick Cavett, the “last great intellectual talk-show host,” at 81.
Alex Williams New York Times Aug 2018 10min Permalink
How a Sacramento Kings executive stole more than $13 million from the team—and almost got away with it.
Kevin Arnovitz ESPN Nov 2019 25min Permalink
An interview with Alan Stillman, who in 1965 founded T.G.I. Friday’s, the first singles bar in America.
Krista Ninivaggi, Nicola Twilley Edible Geography Nov 2010 15min Permalink
It was a fraught, utterly uncharted presidential transition—four years ago, from Obama to Trump. It was a prelude for so much that followed.
Mattathias Schwartz New York Times Magazine Jan 2021 30min Permalink
On a childhood fascination with the mid-18th century battle.
Annie Dillard American Heritage Jul 1987 15min Permalink
George Spahn and his California ranch, before and after the Manson family showed up.
Gay Talese Esquire Mar 1970 20min Permalink
In Colorado and beyond, a negotiated surrender in the war on drugs.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells New York Nov 2012 30min Permalink
The first in-depth piece on Michele Bachmann.
G.R. Anderson Jr. Minneapolis City Pages Oct 2006 20min
A profile of Romney from his last presidential campaign, with a focus on how he evolved from professional consultant to professional candidate.
Ryan Lizza New Yorker Oct 2007 20min
On the calculated political career of Rick Perry, and what it means for his presidential bid.
Paul Burka Texas Monthly Feb 2010 30min
Notes from the Nevada stretch of the Ron Paul campaign trail last time around.
Tucker Carlson New Republic Dec 2007 10min
A look at Jon Hunstman, the former Utah governor and ambassador to China now running well behind in the polls, as he prepared to announce his candidacy.
Chris Jones Esquire Jun 2010 25min
An exhaustive profile of Gingrich, then a 41-year-old congressman balancing a new role on the national stage with the spotlight on his personal life that came with it.
David Osborne Mother Jones Nov 1984 25min
A profile of Rick Santorum published as he began a reelection campaign for the U.S. Senate, a race widely considered a stepping stone to a run for the White House. Santorum went on to lose.
Mike Newall Philadelphia City Paper Sep 2005 25min
A primer on long-shot candidate Herman Cain, former pizza chain CEO and current Tea Party star.
Dave Weigel Slate Jan 2011
On the rapid rise of the New Jersey governor, who doubles as pundits’ favorite noncandidate.
Matt Bai New York Times Magazine Feb 2011
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Bob Voulgaris and his math prodigy sidekick attempt to create the perfect betting algorithm.
Scott Eden ESPN Feb 2013 20min Permalink
How to drive across America in less than 32 hours and 7 minutes.
Charles Graeber Wired Oct 2007 30min Permalink
A dispatch from Eloise Woods, a natural burial ground where bodies are consigned directly to the earth.
Sarah Wambold Texas Observer Jun 2015 15min Permalink
Paul Newman’s will held some unpleasant surprises for his daughters.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jul 2015 25min Permalink
The battle between 1975’s biggest shows.
Michael Riedel Vanity Fair Sep 2015 20min Permalink
How corporations are using the First Amendment to destroy government regulation.
Haley Sweetland Edwards Washington Monthly Feb 2014 45min Permalink
For centuries, a little town in Belgium has been treating the mentally ill. Why are its medieval methods so successful?
The coordinated government attack on queer Russia.
Jeff Sharlet GQ Feb 2014 30min Permalink
The web has revolutionized communications and commerce, but what does it mean for art?
Kazys Varnelis, Lauren Cornell Frieze Magazine Sep 2011 10min Permalink
Protests against the Putin regime are already drawing over 100,000 in sub-zero weather; what will they become when spring arrives?
Julia Ioffe Foreign Policy Feb 2012 10min Permalink
Ed Rosenthal recounts the six days he got lost in Joshua Tree National Park.
Ed Rosenthal, Matthew Segal Los Angeles Mar 2012 15min Permalink
Women who kill their newborns usually claim to have been in denial about their pregnancies. Can you carry a child to term without realizing it?
Nabeelah Jaffer Pacific Standard Dec 2014 20min Permalink
Immune systems don’t make for clean narratives, even as we expect them to keep us pure.
Sara Black McCulloch The New Inquiry Dec 2014 10min Permalink
We are all going to die. So what does it look like?
Ben Ehrenreich Los Angeles Magazine Nov 2010 30min Permalink
Uncovering the real story behind Capote’s Hand-Carved Coffins.
Leni Gillman, Peter Gillman Sunday Times Magazine Jun 1992 25min Permalink
The hockey legend’s new life as a medical icon for a questionable stem-cell treatment.
Reeves Wiedeman New York May 2015 20min Permalink
Inside the conflict that has caused more deaths than any since WWII—with no end in sight.