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As NATO leaves, the Afghan National Army grapples with a resilient Taliban.
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As NATO leaves, the Afghan National Army grapples with a resilient Taliban.
Luke Mogelson New York Times Magazine Jan 2013 20min Permalink
A trip to CES, “what a World’s Fair might look like if brands were more important than countries.”
Lydia DePillis The New Republic Jan 2013 20min Permalink
On the volunteer “Wikipedians” who devote their free time to editing Wikipedia.
Jonathan Dee New York Times Magazine Jul 2007 20min Permalink
How four prisoners in solitary confinement launched the largest hunger strike in American history.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells New York Feb 2014 30min Permalink
Inside Obama’s most glaring reversal.
Anne E. Kornblut, Peter Finn Washington Post Apr 2011 15min Permalink
A New York lawyer’s attempt to secure an American aid worker’s release from ISIS.
Ali Younes, Shiv Malik, Spencer Ackerman, Mustafa Khalili The Guardian Dec 2014 25min Permalink
With a little South American reinterpretation, Confederate imagery becomes harmless kitsch. Or does it?
Mimi Dwyer Vice Feb 2015 20min Permalink
John Barrymore once had a totem pole on his Beverly Hills estate. But where did it come from?
Paige Williams New Yorker Apr 2015 25min Permalink
A report from the oil boom in North Dakota, where unemployment is 3.4 percent and McDonald’s gives out $300 signing bonuses.
Eric Koningsberg New Yorker Apr 2011 30min Permalink
In 1981, Randall Smith murdered two hikers on the Appalachian Trail. Twenty-seven years later, he tried to do it again.
Wil Haygood Washington Post Jul 2008 25min Permalink
How an art project led to a visit from the U.S. Secret Service.
Kyle McDonald Wired Jul 2012 35min Permalink
How did the gambling magnate and prolific super PAC donor amass his billions?
Lowell Bergman, Matt Isaacs, Stephen Engelberg Frontline Jul 2012 20min Permalink
June 4, 1974: the first and last 10-cent beer night in Cleveland Indians history.
Paul Jackson ESPN Jun 2008 15min Permalink
Albert Talton started with some recycled newsprint and a cheap printer from Staples. By the end, he’d put more than $7 million into circulation.
Adam Higginbotham Wired (UK) Oct 2009 10min Permalink
Scenes from Madonna’s first major tour and an author struggling to explain the 26-year-old’s massive, surging appeal.
A look at what it takes to protect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he’s in New York City.
Marc Ambinder The Atlantic Mar 2011 Permalink
What it’s like to write about a candidate who hates you.
Seth Stevenson Slate Mar 2016 10min Permalink
David Roberts spent his life facing death in the mountains. Now he is facing a fatal prognosis.
Brad Rassler Outside Oct 2016 25min Permalink
The complicated relationship between Gawker founder Nick Denton and his arch-nemesis investorr Peter Thiel.
David Margolick Vanity Fair Nov 2016 20min Permalink
Visiting the treasures – bear skulls, footprints, an ancient emerald necklace – that surfaced with shipwrecks at Yenikapi in Turkey.
Elif Batuman New Yorker Aug 2015 25min Permalink
If you’re falsely claiming to have once been a Navy SEAL, Don Shipley will expose you. And then he’ll put the video on YouTube.
Michael Gaynor Washingtonian Aug 2015 25min Permalink
The wild fire that consumed Harbin Hot Springs, a legendary clothing-optional resort in Northern California.
Brandon R. Reynolds San Francisco Dec 2015 20min Permalink
Australian scientists Pat and Peter Shaw always planned to take their lives, together. After saying goodbye to their daughters last October, they did.
Julia Medew The Age Jan 2016 Permalink
On his twelfth appearance on Letterman, Bill Hicks killed. The network refused to air it.
Mike Sager GQ Sep 1994 30min Permalink
Articles about meditation, solitude, and the quietest square inch in America.
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
A trip to one of America’s quietest places with a man who has dedicated his life to keeping it that way.
Kathleen Dean Moore Orion Nov 2008 15min
Silent since a car accident nine years before, Erik Ramsey prepares to speak again.
Joshua Foer Esquire Oct 2008
A speech on the value of being alone with your thoughts, delivered to the plebe class at West Point.
William Deresiewicz American Scholar Apr 2010 25min
John Cage’s art of noise.
Alex Ross New Yorker Oct 2010 20min
A trip to India for total silence.
Michael Finkel Men’s Journal Aug 2012 20min
The Barden family today.
Eli Saslow The Washington Post Jun 2013 25min
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