The Inside Story of the Largest Drug Bust in UK history
It started with a vague tip-off: a tug boat approaching the UK could be transporting cocaine. What followed was a race against the clock to find £500m in narcotics
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It started with a vague tip-off: a tug boat approaching the UK could be transporting cocaine. What followed was a race against the clock to find £500m in narcotics
Greg Williams Wired (UK) Dec 2016 25min Permalink
The annual tradition in the grape-growing country of South Africa’s Western Cape was that locals could gather fruit before it rotted on the vine. But this season produced a body amongst the rows.
Christopher Clark Roads and Kingdoms Mar 2017 20min Permalink
How the children of African immigrants came to control the destiny of teams in France and Belgium and what it says about European identity.
Laurent Dubois Roads & Kingdoms Jan 2014 15min Permalink
These women want the right to compete in big-wave contests—and get paid as much as men do.
Daniel Duane New York Times Magazine Feb 2019 35min Permalink
Upon returning to my hometown, though, some twenty-odd years after that bus ride, I kept seeing signs that perhaps, even in rural Appalachia, the times had changed.
Mesha Maren Oxford American Mar 2019 40min Permalink
Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., known as the Golden State Killer, is alleged to have murdered 13 people in California during the 1970s and 1980s. He also raped 50 women. He’ll stand trial for the murders only.
Paige St. John Los Angeles Times Jun 2019 30min Permalink
“The tragedy of digital media isn’t that it’s run by ruthless, profiteering guys in ill-fitting suits; it’s that the people posing as the experts know less about how to make money than their employees, to whom they won’t listen.”
Megan Greenwell Deadspin Aug 2019 10min Permalink
Inside the Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington, the first Covid-19 hot spot in the U.S., where 46 people associated with the nursing home died.
Katie Engelhart California Sunday Aug 2020 50min Permalink
For years, Mark Zuckerberg has faced criticism that Facebook is bad for democracy. A cache of leaked audio reveals the story of how much ultimately comes down to his judgment—and the forces freezing him in place.
Casey Newton The Verge Sep 2020 25min Permalink
How a middle-class jock from a Texas border town became La Barbie, one of the most ruthless and feared cartel leaders in Mexico.
Mary Cuddehe, Vanessa Grigoriadis Rolling Stone Sep 2011 25min Permalink
The economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus has led to enormous food insecurity across America—even in its richest cities.
Samantha Michaels Mother Jones Dec 2020 15min Permalink
“There is only one given: On the afternoon of August 16, a 22-year-old from Australia named Christopher Lane, who had come to America to go to college and play baseball, went out running and, without warning or knowing why, was shot to death in Duncan.”
Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair Jan 2014 30min Permalink
A history of the women’s television channel and its push to employ female writers and directors long before it became an issue in Hollywood.
Laura Goode Buzzfeed Apr 2016 20min Permalink
Barbara Williamson co-founded Sandstone, one of the most famous radical experiments in group sex and communal living of the 1970s. Then she got wild.
Alex Mar Atlas Obscura Jun 2016 25min Permalink
In the face of death threats, a forensic anthropologist has spent two decades exhuming the victims of a “dirty” civil war. Now his work might help bring justice for their murders.
Maggie Jones New York Times Magazine Jun 2016 10min Permalink
The story of Christopher Knight, who lived in the Maine woods for 27 years with virtually no human contact.
Craig Crosby Kennebec Journal Apr 2013 10min Permalink
While war raged across Afghanistan, expats lived in a bubble of good times and easy money. But as the U.S. withdraws, life has taken a deadly turn.
Matthieu Aikins Rolling Stone Aug 2014 20min Permalink
“I probably am mellowing. I’m happy about that. I was a pretty angry young man, but if I were angry now, it’d be like, What the fuck is my problem? I’ve got a really terrific life. It’s so rare to be an artist in my position.”
Lane Brown New York Aug 2015 20min Permalink
A young black gentrifier gets lumped in with both groups, often depending on what she’s wearing and where she’s drinking. She is always aware of that fact.
Shani O. Hilton Washington City Paper Mar 2011 30min Permalink
A Denver businessman’s revolutionary green energy company turned out to be nothing but a Ponzi scheme built to fund a lifestyle of booze-soaked hotel orgies with flown-in prostitutes.
James Carlson 5280 Jul 2011 25min Permalink
Inside the Afghan Local Police, who are accused of killing and raping villagers, and are believed to be the United States’s last shot in Afghanistan.
A statistics-based argument that drug pricing, not drug use or law enformencement, is the only way to predict swings in violent crime rates.
Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones The Atlantic Nov 2011 10min Permalink
The director on Obama, the state of black cinema, the Knicks, the Nets, the tragedy of public education in America, gentrified New York and why he lives on the Upper East Side.
Spike Lee, Will Leitch New York Jul 2012 25min Permalink
Ty Cobb, who would go on to be the greatest baseball player of his time, was a 17-year-old minor league prospect when his mother shot and killed his father at home in Georgia.
K. Rheinheimer Blue Ridge Country Jun 2010 Permalink
Far outside of Juarez, villagers in rural areas are trapped without supplies or protection as rival cartels attempt to starve each other out of ranch hideouts. A heavily armed convoy attempts to deliver pensions behind siege lines.
Richard Marosi The Los Angeles Times Oct 2010 Permalink