Jack Handey Is the Envy of Every Comedy Writer in America
A profile of the writer behind “Deep Thoughts” on Saturday Night Live.
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The Longform Guide to Crime Writing in Rolling Stone
Down and Out in the Top 10
Grizzly Bear and the surprisingly crappy economics of indie rock stardom.
Can Forgiveness Play a Role in Criminal Justice?
After a 19-year-old is convicted of murdering his girlfriend, her family fights to free him from prison.
Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie
Tales of mayhem on the set of The Canyons.
Erik Prince in the Hot Seat
The U.S. Department of Justice investigates the Blackwater founder’s new firm.
Something Uneasy in the Los Angeles Air
On the overstated effect of the Santa Ana winds on human behavior and the understated impact of climate change on LA’s seasons.
Everybody Is a Star: How the Rock Club First Avenue Made Minneapolis the Center of Music in the ’80s
The fabled venue where the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, and Prince emerged.
Quiet: A Soldier’s Fight for the Most Silent Place in America
A veteran with PTSD takes on the fighter jets that fly above his sanctuary on the Olympic Peninsula.
One Day in the Life of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
The world’s richest prisoner interviewed from the Siberian prison colony he calls home.
Adventures in Extreme Science
A profile of computational biologist Eric Schadt, the guy who’s figuring out what comes next after the Human Genome Project.
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
On internships at Disney World, where “labor is meant to have an almost invisible quality.”
Dropping in on the Demented Utopia of the Gathering of the Juggalos
A reporter recounts her weekend as an undercover Juggalette.
Veteran Kills 12 In Mad Rampage on Camden Street
A blow-by-blow account of Howard Unruh’s slow, deadly walk through Camden, New Jersey – filed an hour before deadline.
Whitey Bulger in Exile
On the lifestyle of a fugitive retiree, and how it came to an end.
In the New Gangland of El Salvador
How LA-style gang life migrated to the slums of San Salvador.
The Decade in Indie
On the increasing tension between the pleasant, thoughtful indie rock of car commercials and those who insist on something weirder.
The Man Who Sleeps in Hitler’s Bed
Kevin Wheatcroft owns the world’s largest collection of Nazi memorabilia. And he’s suddenly eager to show it off.
Send in the Weathermen
Inside the world of special operations weather technicians, “the Department of Defense’s only commando forecasters.”
The Muppets in Movieland
A profile of Jim Henson before the release of the first Muppet movie.
In the Eye of a Firestorm
An investigative look at the killing of Trayvon Martin.
What's In a Name?
The author muses on the markers we use to identify ourselves and other people – from names to photographs to fingerprints.
A Drug Family in the Winner’s Circle
On the Mexican drug cartel accused of laundering money with race horses.
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Lost in Space
How two Italian teenagers hacked the Soviet space program and may have heard the dying breaths of a lost cosmonaut.
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A Pilgrimage of Sin: Booze, Bombs, and Hookers in Islamic Thailand
A travelogue through the contradiction-rich and predominantly Muslim Southern Thailand.
