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How a baby-faced CEO turned a Farmville clone into a massive Ponzi scheme.
Paul Benjamin Osterlund Rest of World Jul 2021 15min Permalink
A collection of articles about drug lord Joaquín Guzmán, who was recaptured Friday, and his Sinaloa cartel.
How Guzmán was captured the last time.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker May 2014 40min
The Sinaloa cartel was flooding cocaine across the border. The DEA was listening. A 4-part series based on hundreds of pages of transcripts from intercepted calls, court testimony, and investigative reports.
Richard Marosi The Los Angeles Times Jul 2011 10min
El Chapo and the ruins of the Mexican-American border.
Alma Guillermoprieto New York Review of Books Oct 2010 20min
On a Mexican newsweekly brave enough to cover El Chapo.
Drake Bennett, Michael Riley Businessweek Apr 2012 15min
A report from El Chapo’s battle for Guadalajara.
William Finnegan New Yorker Jun 2012 40min
On Sinaloa’s multi-billion dollar business model.
Patrick Radden Keefe New York Times Magazine Jun 2012 20min
Oct 2010 – May 2014 Permalink
An excerpt from his book on the 1988 presidential campaign, one of the great pieces of political reporting in American history.
Cramer’s most famous piece of writing, a profile of an aging Ted Williams.
Esquire Jun 1986
How Jerry Lee Lewis, whose nickname was “The Killer,” got away with murdering 25-year-old Shawn Michelle Stevens, his fifth wife.
Rolling Stone Mar 1984 1h
Cramer on his hometown of Baltimore and its hero, Cal Ripken Jr.
Sports Illustrated Sep 1995 25min
A profile of a Montana sheriff in the midst of a manhunt.
Esquire Oct 1985 35min
Mar 1984 – Sep 1995 Permalink
The politics behind the anti-trend trend known as “Normcore” turn out to be as conservative as ever.
Eugenia Williamson The Baffler Mar 2015 15min Permalink
The author discovers devastating secrets while going through her late father’s belongings.
Yeah, you’ve seen that headline before. The difference? This time it’s not journalists trying to do the saving. It’s Google.
James Fallows The Atlantic May 2010 Permalink
Tracing an airstrike halfway around the world back to an American bomb factory.
Jeffrey E. Stern The New York Times Magazine Dec 2018 30min Permalink
Inside the lives of Sri Lanka’s Tamils as they emerge from a multi-decade war that defined and nearly destroyed them.
Getting the married man back to her place was the easy part.
Anonymous New York Observer Jan 1999 10min
A insider account of the British real-estate business from 20-year industry veteran.
Anonymous Guardian Observer Nov 2008 15min
In tragedy’s wake, a man tries methylenedioxymethamphetamine.
Serial infidelity is not all it’s cracked up to be. For one thing, it’s really expensive.
“And finally, to girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you.”
Jan 1999 – Jun 2016 Permalink
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Project Alamo, Trump’s digital marketing and media operation, is building a base for his post-election future.
Joshua Green, Sasha Issenberg Businessweek Oct 2016 20min Permalink
A father and his 9-year-old daughter watch Harvard play Yale in football.
George Plimpton Sports Illustrated Nov 1981 Permalink
How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses – and how their officers failed to stop them.
Mark Boal Rolling Stone Mar 2011 35min Permalink
More than 500 Germans, including a former rapper named Deso Dogg, have joined ISIS in Syria.
Der Spiegel Nov 2014 10min 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
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
Born in Germany, raised in Montana, now living in New York, comedian Reggie Watts describes his style as “culture sampling.”
Sam Anderson New York Jun 2010 10min Permalink
From his testimonoy before the House Unamerican Activities Committee to his final fight, a collection of picks on the folk singer, who died Monday.</p>
A dispatch from a tiny-house convention:
Here the stories pivoted around Turning Tiny. Before Tiny, there was an unhappy marriage, unpaid bills, stifling office work, a home of 2,500 square feet or more; after Tiny came freedom, new love, debt relief, self-employment, and, of course, a handmade nest.
Mark Sundeen Outside Dec 2016 20min Permalink
What do you do when you think a family member is a murderer? Step one: stop eating her food.
Scrutinizing the gluten-free craze.
Michael Specter New Yorker Oct 2014 25min Permalink
A refugee’s odyssey from Syria to Sweden.
Patrick Kingsley The Guardian Jun 2015 Permalink
Prison medicine and the coming plague.
Wil S. Hylton Harper's Aug 2003 35min Permalink
A briefing on drone warfare.
Mark Bowden The Atlantic Aug 2013 40min Permalink
What we get wrong about the opioid crisis.
Brian Goldstone Harper's Mar 2018 30min Permalink
On the Yonkers Hoot Owls.
Anthony Castrovince MLB.com Mar 2021 15min Permalink