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How virtual worlds like Ultima Online form economies and the sellers who make a living in digital goods.
Julian Dibbell Wired Nov 2001 20min Permalink
How the Weinstein Brothers barked their way into an empire and then lost it.
Peter Biskind Vanity Fair Feb 2004 50min Permalink
Fifty years ago, rodeo man Bob Gimlin was a Bigfoot skeptic. Then he and a friend caught the creature on tape.
Leah Sottile Outside Magazine Jul 2016 15min Permalink
“In my view, Trump wouldn’t be president if not for Bob.”
Jane Mayer New Yorker Mar 2017 40min Permalink
A conversation with 97-year-old Ben Ferencz.
Lesley Stahl 60 Minutes May 2017 10min Permalink
How the federal government abused its power to seize property for a border fence.
T. Christian Miller, Kiah Collier, Julián Aguilar ProPublica, Texas Tribune Dec 2017 40min Permalink
More than a year ago, Nevada death row prisoner Scott Dozier gave up his legal appeals and asked to be executed. He’s still waiting.
Maurice Chammah The Marshall Project Jan 2018 20min Permalink
What we know (and don’t), more than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba.
Tim Golden, Sebastian Rotella ProPublica Feb 2018 Permalink
Three days in Wyoming as the hip-hop firebrand tends to his scars.
Jon Caramanica New York Times Jun 2018 20min Permalink
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
Stories from our archive about how marijuana is grown, bought, sold, smuggled, and smoked.
Brought to you by Stoner, a new podcast from Longform co-founder Aaron Lammer featuring conversations with creative people about their experiences with marijuana. Subscribe here or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Writing in his mid-30s—and, it’s worth noting, in 1969—the scientist breaks down the many pleasures he’s found in getting high.
Carl Sagan Marijuana Reconsidered Jan 1969 10min
A journey inside California’s medical marijuana industry, with a guide named Captain Blue.
David Samuels New Yorker Jul 2008 50min
A trip to the Cannabis Cup serves as a backdrop for an explanation of how the War on Drugs revolutionized the way marijuana is grown in America.
Michael Pollan New York Times Magazine Feb 1995 30min
The story of how a 19-year-old kid in Idaho went from delivering pizza to leading a operation responsible for smuggling at least seven tons of marijuana across the Canadian border.
Mike Binelli Rolling Stone Oct 2009 20min
On marijuana’s impact on national politics, the economy, and the prison system.
Eric Schlosser The Atlantic Aug 1994 40min
Looking for a glimpse of America’s possibly legalized future, a reporter spends a week working at an Amsterdam coffee shop (and confronts his fear of weed, kind of).
Wells Tower GQ Aug 2010 25min
A journey to Disney World with kids and weed.
John Jeremiah Sullivan New York Times Magazine Jun 2011 25min
How a group of hippie surfers and a former Spanish teacher built the largest weed-smuggling empire on the West Coast.
Joshuah Bearman The Atavist Magazine Sep 2013
Jan 1969 – Sep 2013 Permalink
A young Allen writes jokes for supper club comedians, decides he will never make it as a performer and then does, idolizes and is snubbed by Mort Sahl, and develops the comic persona which will make him a star.
Kliph Nesteroff WMFU Blog Feb 2010 45min
Allen, a huge basketball fan, wrote this profile of his favorite player.
Woody Allen Sport Nov 1977 15min
Didion on what she calls Allen’s “serious” movies.
Joan Didion New York Review of Books Oct 1979
Allen, in his own words, on his work.
Michiko Kakutani Paris Review Sep 1995 25min
A sympathetic profile, written as Allen hit 70.
Peter Biskind Vanity Fair Dec 2005 30min
Lessons learned from the complete Allen catalog, save Midnight in Paris.
Juliet Lapidos Slate Mar 2011 10min
Nov 1977 – Mar 2011 Permalink
Will artificial intelligence bring utopia or destruction?
Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Nov 2015 50min Permalink
Contributing editors Gretchen Gavett and Elon Green pick ten stories read before the Games, on the Longform blog.
A baby’s brain needs love to develop.
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee National Geographic Dec 2014 15min Permalink
Why do people with dementia become lost?
Amy Dempsey The Toronto Star Nov 2014 Permalink
Six women tell their stories.
How one Texas boxing match changed history.
Cary Clack Truly*Adventurous Feb 2020 30min Permalink
Growing up with Charlie Brown.
Jonathan Franzen New Yorker Nov 2004 30min Permalink
What it’s like to be struck by lightning.
Ferris Jabr Outside Sep 2014 15min Permalink
An essay on Derek Jeter.
J.R. Moehringer ESPN Sep 2014 10min Permalink
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, profiled.
Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker Mar 2004 20min Permalink