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Behind the nation’s closed doors, with YouTube.
“The Jihad route leads from Tunisia via Tripoli into Turkey and on to Syria. Thousands have followed the path into Syria, and only a few have returned.”
Mirco Keilberth, Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Christoph Reuter Der Spiegel English Nov 2014 15min Permalink
When an accountant decided to call foul on Halliburton’s financial record-keeping, he thought he was doing the right thing. He spent 10 years fighting for the courts to agree.
Jesse Eisinger ProPublica Apr 2015 20min Permalink
On medical acting and real pain.
Leslie Jamison The Believer Feb 2014 35min Permalink
“Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic May 2014 1h Permalink
Other companies tried to align themselves with the Black Lives Matter protests and failed. The Vermont creamery kept doing what it’s always done.
Jordyn Holman, Thomas Buckley Bloomberg Businessweek Jul 2020 15min Permalink
Privacy, memory, data and advertising—how the modern web has become a Ponzi scheme and how we might be able to fix it.
Maciej Cegłowski Idle Words May 2014 Permalink
Adriaan Vlok, a former apartheid leader, seeks redemption.
Eve Fairbanks The New Republic Jun 2014 20min Permalink
Fat doesn’t make us fat. So why has science led us to believe otherwise?
Ian Leslie The Guardian Apr 2016 25min Permalink
Texas’ modern day cattle rustlers and the twenty-seven lawmen who track them.
Matt Wolfe Oxford American Apr 2016 15min Permalink
“I grew up idolizing my brother. Then he killed a man.”
Issac Bailey The Marshall Project Jun 2016 20min Permalink
Humans play. So do animals. Perhaps that’s why we’re all here.
David Graeber The Baffler Feb 2014 20min Permalink
A 16-year-old journalist goes on tour with a band on top. The article that inspired Almost Famous.
Cameron Crowe Rolling Stone Dec 1973 20min Permalink
The Civil War started 150 years ago today. A primer on how and why.
Inside one woman’s often conflicted world.
Rachel Monroe The Guardian Feb 2016 20min Permalink
Mamoru Samuragochi’s story turned out to be too good to be true.
Christopher Beam The New Republic Mar 2015 30min Permalink
Lessons learned about white-collar crime from an economist turned bagel salesman whose business relied entirely on the honor system.
Stephen J. Dubner New York Times Magazine Jun 2004 15min Permalink
How the author became tangled up with an international con man who may or may not have murdered several people.
Brad Stone Businessweek Jun 2012 15min Permalink
The Great Recession meant great things for Nick Popovich, who gets paid by banks to take planes back from hard-up millionaires.
Marc Weingarten Salon Jun 2009 15min Permalink
Guy Gentile flipped, and flipped again.
Zeke Faux Bloomberg Business Mar 2017 15min Permalink
An email cache offers a look behind the Breitbart curtain.
Joseph Bernstein Buzzfeed Oct 2017 35min Permalink
The behind-closed-doors story.
Don Van Natta Jr., Seth Wickersham ESPN Oct 2017 20min Permalink
What happened next for the Barden family.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Jun 2013 25min Permalink
One man’s quest to ride the strangest wave.
Jessica Camille Aguirre Deadspin Dec 2018 15min Permalink
For decades, Jeffrey Lendrum went to extreme lengths to snatch falcon eggs from their nests and sell them to the highest bidder. Then he got caught.
Joshua Hammer Outside Jan 2019 30min Permalink