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A nonconformist pastor sent a colony of Welsh people to Argentina to try to preserve the language in 1865. 150 years later, the traces are still there.
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A nonconformist pastor sent a colony of Welsh people to Argentina to try to preserve the language in 1865. 150 years later, the traces are still there.
Jasper Rees More Intelligent Life Jun 2015 10min Permalink
Amazon, America’s most valuable retailer, is “conducting a little-known experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers, redrawing the boundaries of what is acceptable.”
Jody Kantor, David Straitfeld New York Times Aug 2015 25min Permalink
Audrey Elrod thought she had found the man of her dreams. Today she is in a West Virginia prison. She’s broke. And the court has ordered her to pay more than $400,000 to victims of the same man who conned her.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Oct 2015 25min Permalink
A Pynchon conference in Lublin, Poland may say more about the men (yes, only men) who attend Thomas Pynchon conferences than the works of the reclusive author.
Nick Holdstock n+1 Aug 2010 10min Permalink
In Torreón, north of Mexico City, cartel gunmen are freed from a prison, commit a massacre at a wedding that includes the band, and then return to custody.
Rory Carroll The Guardian Sep 2010 10min Permalink
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
“Brace Belden can’t remember exactly when he decided to give up his life as a punk-rocker turned florist turned boxing-gym manager in San Francisco, buy a plane ticket to Iraq, sneak across the border into Syria, and take up arms against the Islamic State. But as with many major life decisions, Belden, who is 27 — “a true idiot’s age,” in his estimation — says it happened gradually and then all at once.”
Reeves Wiedeman New York Apr 2017 25min Permalink
How coach Jurgen Klinsmann, “soccer’s Alexis de Tocqueville,” is trying to give the US an identity.
Matthew Futterman Wall Street Journal Jun 2014 10min Permalink
The Harvard Law professsor on billionaires, politics and Uber.
Nitasha Tiku Valleywag Jun 2014 15min Permalink
A profile of the writer behind “Deep Thoughts” on Saturday Night Live.
Dan Kois New York Times Magazine Jul 2013 10min Permalink
The multiple lives of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Janet Reitman Jul 2013 45min
How Jerry Lee Lewis got away with murdering 25-year-old Shawn Michelle Stevens, his fifth wife.
Richard Ben Cramer Mar 1984 1h
He was a nobody who became a porn star, a porn star who became a destitute freebaser, an addict who set up his dealer to be robbed, and finally witness to a retaliatory massacre at the house they called Wonderland.
Mike Sager Mar 1989 50min
How two friends, working with nothing but an Internet connection, a couple of cellphones and a steady supply of weed, beat out Fortune 500 giants like General Dynamics to score a huge arms contract.
Guy Lawson Mar 2011 45min
How a middle-class jock from a Texas border town who became La Barbie, one of the most ruthless and feared cartel leaders in Mexico.
Vanessa Grigoriadis, Mary Cuddehe Aug 2011 25min
Matthew Weigman was blind, overweight, 14 and alone. He could also do anything he wanted with a phone. Sometimes that meant calling Lindsay Lohan. Other times it meant sending a SWAT team to an enemy’s door.For
David Kushner Dec 2009
Inside the most sensational murder in the history of study abroad.
Nathaniel Rich Jun 2011 30min
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Grizzly Bear and the surprisingly crappy economics of indie rock stardom.
Nitsuh Abebe New York Oct 2012 25min Permalink
After a 19-year-old is convicted of murdering his girlfriend, her family fights to free him from prison.
Paul Tullis New York Times Jan 2013 25min Permalink
Tales of mayhem on the set of The Canyons.
Stephen Rodrick New York Times Magazine Jan 2013 25min Permalink
The U.S. Department of Justice investigates the Blackwater founder’s new firm.
Matthew Cole, Jeremy Scahill The Intercept Mar 2016 15min Permalink