The Ballad of Richard Jewell
How the media and law enforcement fingered the wrong man for the 1996 Olympic Park bombing.
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How the media and law enforcement fingered the wrong man for the 1996 Olympic Park bombing.
Marie Brenner Vanity Fair Feb 1997 1h15min Permalink
The global scramble for this vital item has exposed the harsh realities of international politics and the limits of the free market.
Samanth Subramanian Guardian Apr 2020 25min Permalink
The story of a high school star who died minutes after hitting a game-winner to end an undefeated season, and the family and friends he left behind.
Thomas Lake Sports Illustrated Feb 2012 25min Permalink
A tech neophyte looks for answers in Silicon Valley, “the last place in America where people are this optimistic.”
Devin Friedman GQ Dec 2010 Permalink
Interviews, documents and jailhouse recordings reveal a clearer picture of the life and death of the 26-year-old emergency room technician.
Rukmini Callimachi New York Times Aug 2020 25min Permalink
The story of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Barry Bearak New York Times Magazine Nov 2005 1h10min Permalink
Watching Florida government on the state and local level is like watching two parents bring an alcoholic home after he got kicked out of rehab and deciding that the best course of action is leaving him with $5,000 in an apartment up the street from a dive bar and then going to Cancun for the week. It was on the calendar already, there wasn’t any choice, he looked very healthy at the time!
Jeb Lund Welcome To Hell World Jul 2020 15min Permalink
The people behind the search for the “God particle.”
Dennis Overbye New York Times Mar 2013 25min Permalink
Billy Mitchell’s quest for video game perfection.
David Ramsey Oxford American May 2006 Permalink
Seven months ago, an underdog Brazilian soccer team boarded a plane to play the game of their lives. They never made it.
Sam Borden ESPN Jun 2017 30min Permalink
How a series of lies and an incompetent lawyer led to a Florida woman’s wrongful conviction.
Terrence McCoy New Times Broward-Palm Beach Sep 2013 20min Permalink
Inside a small town revived by an influx of immigrants and then destroyed by a Homeland Security raid.
Maggie Jones New York Times Magazine Jul 2012 15min Permalink
“I feel like we sort of choked.”
Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima, Adam Entous Washington Post Jun 2017 25min Permalink
Andrew Therrien wanted payback. He got it—and uncovered a conspiracy.
Zeke Faux Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2017 15min Permalink
A group of volunteers is helping incarcerated people negotiate a system that is all but broken.
Jennifer Gonnerman New Yorker Nov 2019 25min Permalink
How two interior decorators took the fall for the Cali Cartel.
Gus Garcia-Roberts USA Today Nov 2019 50min Permalink
In the midst of a national crisis, mothers addicted to drugs struggle to get off them — for their babies’ sake, and their own.
Jennifer Egan New York Times Magazine May 2018 25min Permalink
She survived an evil, gruesome attack. Her partner did not. An account of a victim, a widow, telling her story on the witness stand.
Update, 4/16/12: This piece was just awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
Eli Sanders The Stranger Jun 2011 20min Permalink
Gavin McInnes used to be known as a Vice magazine co-founder with controversial political leanings and an affinity for darkly unfunny jokes. Now, he’s also known as the founder of the far-right group the Proud Boys.
Adam Leith Gollner Vanity Fair Jun 2021 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
A few months after working at Ground Zero, Kurt Sonnenfeld became a suspect in the mysterious and high-profile death of his wife. He got off, barely, and started a new life in South America. But when the U.S. tried to bring him back to face charges, Sonnenfeld went to the local media. The Feds didn’t want him for murder, he said. They wanted to put him away because of what he knew about 9/11.
Evan Hughes GQ Jun 2016 30min Permalink
The story of September 26, 2014, the day 43 Mexican students went missing.
John Gibler California Sunday Dec 2014 Permalink
Did A.Q. Khan sell nuclear secrets on the black market? The fame had unbalanced him. He was subjected to a degree of public acclaim rarely seen in the West—an extreme close to idol worship, which made him hungry for more. Money seems never to have been his obsession, but it did play a role.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic Jan 2006 55min Permalink
The baseball game that launched a career in fiction.
Haruki Murakami The Lit Hub Jun 2015 15min Permalink
The case for paying college athletes.
Taylor Branch The Atlantic Oct 2011 1h Permalink