Fuel to the Fire
How a U.S. law intended to reduce dependence on fossil fuels has unleashed an environmental disaster in Indonesia.
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How a U.S. law intended to reduce dependence on fossil fuels has unleashed an environmental disaster in Indonesia.
Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Nov 2018 35min Permalink
A gym entrepreneur’s side business in marijuana spins out of control.
Doyle Murphy Riverfront Times Jan 2019 Permalink
Veterans are taking their own lives on VA hospital campuses, a desperate form of protest against a system that they feel hasn’t helped them.
Emily Wax-Thibodeaux Washington Post Feb 2019 10min Permalink
How well-meaning donations end up fueling an unproven, virtually unregulated $2 billion stem cell industry.
Caroline Chen ProPublica May 2019 30min Permalink
An attempt to understand why, after 50 years of decline, more and more young women are suddenly embracing religious life.
Eve Fairbanks Huffington Post Highline Jul 2019 35min Permalink
How Amazon’s gigantic, decentralized, next-day delivery network brought chaos, exploitation, and danger to communities across America.
Caroline O'Donovan, Ken Bensinger Buzzfeed Aug 2019 35min Permalink
Sharon Stern devoted herself to Butoh, a Buddhist-influenced Japanese dance. Did her mentor lead her down a dangerous path?
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Apr 2020 35min Permalink
On generosity, selfishness, and organ donation.
Wency Leung Globe and Mail Jun 2020 20min Permalink
All you need is a blueprint, a polymer, a printer, and a knowledge of government regulations.
Here’s how a tiny brush fire became California’s deadliest wildfire.
Paige St. John, Anna M. Phillips, Joseph Serna, Sonali Kohli, Laura Newberry Los Angeles Times Nov 2018 15min Permalink
A device connected to my heart could save my life. It could also be hacked.
Jameson Rich OneZero Nov 2020 Permalink
A brutal, bloody hunt. A ghastly, devastating attack. And a state left divided on what to do about its 2,500 black bears.
Brian Burnsed Sports Illustrated Feb 2021 Permalink
How did so many rich countries get it so wrong? How did others get it so right?
David Wallace-Wells New York Mar 2021 30min Permalink
Fred Rogers wasn’t just a brilliant educator and a profoundly moral person. He was an uncompromising artist.
Jeanne Marie Laskas New York Times Magazine Nov 2019 30min Permalink
How billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett pay so little in income tax compared to their massive wealth—sometimes, even nothing.
Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen, Paul Kiel ProPublica Jun 2021 30min Permalink
How much sand can a half-billion dollars dredge up? Almost certainly not enough.
Polly Mosendz, Eric Roston Bloomberg Green Oct 2021 15min Permalink
Carbanak’s suspected ringleader is under arrest, but $1.2 billion remains missing, and his malware attacks live on.
Charlie Devereux, Franz Wild, Edward Robinson Bloomberg Business Jun 2018 10min Permalink
Jenna Wortham is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and a co-host of Still Processing.
“I feel like I’m still writing to let my 10-year-old self know it’s okay to be you. It’s okay to be a chubby androgynous weirdo. You know what I mean? Like this weird black kid. It’s okay. There are others like you.”
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Picks on Carlin, Seinfeld, Rivers, Pryor and more.
Why the richest comedian in history keeps working.
Jonah Weiner The New York Times Magazine Dec 2012 15min
A look at the life and career of Richard Pryor as he reached the end.
Hilton Als New Yorker Sep 1999
Carlin on his start, his work, and his addictions.
Sam Merrill Playboy Jan 1982 55min
The rise and fall, and rise and fall, of a legend.
Jonathan Van Meter New York May 2010 25min
Searching for Dave Chappelle ten years after he left his show.
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah The Believer Oct 2013 35min
A young Allen writes jokes for supper club comedians, decides he will never succeed as a performer, does, idolizes and is snubbed by Mort Sahl, and develops the comic persona which will make him a star.
Kliph Nesteroff WFMU Blog Feb 2010 45min
On Sarah Silverman’s stand-up style.
Dana Goodyear New Yorker Oct 2005 20min
A profile of Larry David, with a focus on his years as a struggling stand-up.
James Kaplan New Yorker Jan 2004 25min
A profile of the reclusive Garry Shandling.
Amy Wallace GQ Aug 2010
She’s TV’s loudmouth Domestic Goddess, desecrater of our national anthem and most of our notions of good taste. And she has a secret. Meet Baby, Cindy, Susan, Nobody, Joey, Heather and the rest: An adventure in Multiple Personality Disorder.
Mike Sager Esquire Aug 2001 25min
Remembering the unsparing Patrice O’Neal.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc New York May 2012
Outtakes from a Rolling Stone profile.
Jonah Weiner The Writearound Jan 2012 45min
Jan 1982 – Oct 2013 Permalink
Jimmy Breslin on Joe Namath, Mike Sager on Todd Marinovich, and George Plimpton on himself — a collection of our favorite articles ever written about QBs.
On the desolate career of Todd Marinovich, who was engineered from birth to be an NFL quarterback and ended up a junkie.
Mike Sager Esquire May 2009 40min
A detailed account of Plimpton’s 5-play tenure as quarterback of the Detroit Lions.
George Plimpton Sports Illustrated Sep 1964 25min
Jared Lorenzen was a star quarterback in college. He won a Super Bowl. And just like the author, he has spent his entire life fighting, and losing, a battle with his weight.
Tommy Tomlinson ESPN the Magazine Aug 2014 15min
The stories of the 109 black men who have played quarterback in the NFL, from Fritz Pollard to Russell Wilson.
Greg Howard Deadspin Feb 2014 40min
A profile of Eli Manning—brother of Peyton, son of Archie, future Super Bowl MVP—published shortly after his first NFL start.
Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Dec 2004 40min
Catching up with Jake Plummer, who turned down a $5 million contract and left the NFL while still in his prime to concentrate on playing handball.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Feb 2011 30min
A profile of Tim Tebow as he dealt with NFL skeptics on the eve of his final college season.
Jason Fagone GQ Sep 2009 25min
Over a scotch a few months after his underdog Jets won Super Bowl III, a 26-year-old Joe Namath told Jimmy Breslin what he’d done the night before the game: “I went out and got a bottle and grabbed this girl.”
Jimmy Breslin New York Apr 1969 10min
Sep 1964 – Aug 2014 Permalink
The North Korean dictator kidnaps a famous actress and her film director husband, then invites them to dinner to chat about it.
Paul Fischer Esquire Feb 2015 20min Permalink
How Brock Pierce ended up as an Epstein guest along with a NASA computer engineer, an MIT professor and a Nobel laureate in theoretical physics is a bizarre tale involving Steve Bannon and an international man of mystery who may or may not be dead.
Kim Masters The Hollywood Reporter Sep 2018 15min Permalink
Ex-Ivy Leaguer and NFL-er Jeff Hatch spent years telling audiences of his triumph over opioid addiction, to great acclaim. Then as the rehab center he worked at drew national attention, a tortuous backstory of cops, dealers and deception came to light.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Oct 2019 25min Permalink
Best Article Reprints Religion Travel
“A legend is growing in Nepal, where people say a meditating boy hasn’t eaten or drunk in seven months. He barely moves, just sits under a tree, still as a stone. It’s impossible, some say. Is it a miracle? A hoax? Let’s find out.”
George Saunders GQ Jun 2006 40min Permalink
Charles Pierce’s classic GQ profile of Tiger Woods, annotated.
Charles Pierce, Michael MacCambridge Grantland Apr 2013 30min Permalink