In the City of Death
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.
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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
The inspiration for Boogie Nights, how Jerry Lee Lewis got away with murder and the article that prompted this week’s cover — a collection of great crime reporting published by Rolling Stone.
The real-life events that inspired the new Richard Linklater dark comedy Bernie:
It’s a story about people believing what they want to believe, even when there’s evidence to the contrary. It’s a story about people not being what they seem. And it’s a story, as the movie poster says, “so unbelievable it must be true.” Which it is. I know this because the widow in the freezer was, in real life, my Aunt Marge, Mrs. Marjorie Nugent, my mother’s sister and, depending on whom you ask, the meanest woman in East Texas. She was 81 when she was murdered, and Bernie Tiede, her constant companion and rumored paramour, was 38. He’ll be eligible for parole in 2027, when he’ll be 69.
Joe Rhodes New York Times Magazine Apr 2012 20min 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
Not available in full:
“Death Sentence” (Timothy Bolger • Long Island Press)
“A Design for Healing” (Melissa Harris • The Chicago Tribune)
“A Killing in Cordova: The Trial and Tribulations of Harry Ray Coleman” (Graham Hillard • Memphis Magazine)
“Taxpayers’ $8.4 million Spent on Doomed Project” (Mike Morris • Houston Chronicle)
Frozen fish from the supermarket often has excess ice — and consumers pay the price.
Inside New Jersey’s halfway houses.
After the 2001 terrorist attacks, California lawmakers sought a way to channel the patriotic fervor and use it to help victims, families and law enforcement. Their answer: Specialty memorial license plates emblazoned with the words, “We Will Never Forget.”
The anatomy of a sex abuse scandal at a Christian school in Oklahoma.
Kiera Feldman This Land 55min
Police force fails to protect the state’s most vulnerable residents.
A son’s secret brings a Southern Baptist minister to his knees.
How Earl Eugene Mawyer got a chance to be a hero.
On the “toxic legacy” of Anniston, Alabama.
At 24, Ray Wauson was thrilled to land a job as an armored-car guard. But he was entering an unregulated world in which the people guarding the cargo are often defenseless against the cargo itself.
How faulty data lowered Milwaukee’s crime rate.
City cameras track anyone, even Minneapolis Mayor Rybak.
On homeless sex offenders in metro Phoenix.
A year-long examination of the abuse investigations of unlicensed youth reform programs that operate in Florida and are overseen by the Florida Association of Christian Child Caring Agencies, a private, nonprofit group.
Drones, renditions, and underground prisons; inside the war on terror’s African front.
In the eighteen years since the infamous “Black Hawk Down” incident in Mogadishu, US policy on Somalia has been marked by neglect, miscalculation and failed attempts to use warlords to build indigenous counterterrorism capacity, many of which have backfired dramatically. At times, largely because of abuses committed by Somali militias the CIA has supported, US policy has strengthened the hand of the very groups it purports to oppose and inadvertently aided the rise of militant groups, including the Shabab.
Jeremy Scahill The Nation Aug 2011 15min Permalink
The author expounds on culture and crime in the early 90s:
Yes, I know there are sensational tabloid crimes everywhere and the closeness to the Manhattan media nexus tends to magnify everything. But even so, that was always true. There's just no denying that something has changed in the past decade, that, as our bard Billy Joel sings on his new album, there's "lots more to read about, Lolita and suburban lust." But why? Why is this Island different from all other islands? And why are so many Long Islanders suddenly running amok?
Ron Rosenbaum New York Times Magazine Aug 1993 30min Permalink
On being gay in the military, three years before Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell:
A vast majority of those interviewed had been interrogated at least once, and what they described was nearly the same. They said those under suspicion of homosexuality suffer bright lights in their eyes and sometimes handcuffs on their wrists, warnings that their parents will be informed or their hometown newspapers called, threats that their stripes will be torn off and they will pushed through the gates of the base before a jeering crowd.
Jane Gross New York Times Apr 1990 10min Permalink
A pilgrimage to J.D. Salinger’s New Hampshire home:
The silence surrounding this place is not just any silence. It is the work of a lifetime. It is the work of renunciation and determination and expensive litigation. It is a silence of self-exile, cunning, and contemplation. In its own powerful, invisible way, the silence is in itself an eloquent work of art. It is the Great Wall of Silence J.D. Salinger has built around himself.
Ron Rosenbaum Esquire Jun 1997 35min Permalink
A conversation with Vasily Gotov:
"Russia undoubtedly celebrated the reports in American media about its activities. They want to instill doubt. They want to be part of the agenda. They want to penetrate our media culture. Russian penetration is dramatically overstated in American media, but that only serves them better. It creates the impression that they're more powerful than they are. That discussions like this are necessary at all is a tremendous win for Russia."
Sean Illing Vox Dec 2016 10min Permalink
The last breaths of pop music, memories of having a stroke and the war over Airbnb in New York — the most-read articles this week in the new Longform App, available free for iPhone and iPad.
The end of the rock star era.
David Samuels n+1 Sep 2014
“When I woke up hours later, I really believed I had been in those mountains hiking — that it was not a dream. And I really had lost my voice. I had lost my words. I was unable to say, ‘I am trapped in my brain’ or, ‘My memories are mixing with imagination.’”
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee Buzzfeed Sep 2014 20min
When Carmen Segarra was hired to examine Goldman Sachs for the New York Fed, she bought a small recorder and began taping her meetings. Here is what she found before she was fired.
Jake Bernstein ProPublica Sep 2014 25min
Sam Simon made a fortune from The Simpsons. Now, diagnosed with terminal cancer, he is racing to spend it.
Merrill Markoe Vanity Fair Sep 2014 25min
The war over Airbnb gets personal.
Jessica Pressler New York Sep 2014 25min
Sep 2014 Permalink
<img src="http://longform.org/stuff/images/seven-month-old-twins-615.jpg" title=“babies and babies" class="bleed" alt=“”>The rise and murderous fall of a pecan dynasty in Texas, the inside story of how Marissa Mayer lost her way at Yahoo! and why a baby’s brain needs love to develop — the most read articles this week in the Longform App, available free for iPhone and iPad.
Notes on consuming a novel.
The rise and murderous fall of the Harkey family, the scions of a pecan dynasty.
Sonia Smith Texas Monthly 35min
The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way.
A baby’s brain needs love to develop.
Michael Brown beat the odds by graduating from high school before his death—odds that remain stacked against black students in St. Louis and the rest of the country.
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