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How one driver can break a bottleneck.
Why some immigrants can never escape their parents’ battles.
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An interview with Curtis Mayfield.
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To save William Buttars’s life, his parents had to risk it.
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How celebrity-led humanitarian aid exacerbated a crisis.
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Two successful tech geeks slip into organized crime.
Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley Bloomberg Businessweek Jul 2015 20min Permalink
Why China’s super-rich send their children west.
Jiayang Fan New Yorker Feb 2016 20min Permalink
Was Edwin Raymond punished for not meeting quotas?
Saki Knafo New York Times Magazine Feb 2016 25min Permalink
A New Yorker finds an unlikely house guest on Craigslist.
Brian Boucher New York Jan 2006 15min Permalink
What happened to Air France Flight 447?
Wil S. Hylton New York Times Magazine May 2011 30min Permalink
A former employee’s horror stories.
On Cheryl Strayed and why Wild became a hit.
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Sown by science, a new eco-faith takes root.
How a cabbie came to assist a jail break.
Twenty years later, looking back at an infamous paragraph.
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How a Hollywood icon found himself at a dead end.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Jun 2018 40min Permalink
Inside an international Mormon ticket reselling ring.
Travis Pilling SB Nation, Epic Oct 2019 40min Permalink
Strangers want their past relationships witnessed, and other strangers come to Zagreb to witness them.
Leslie Jamison Virginia Quarterly Review Feb 2018 25min Permalink
Following fallen soldier Joe Montgomery from field to grave.
Chris Jones Esquire Mar 2008 1h5min Permalink
A dispatch from th Park Slope Food Co-op.
Alexandra Schwartz New Yorker Nov 2019 30min Permalink
How Amazon’s self-publishing arm became a haven for white supremacists.
Ava Kofman, Francis Tseng, Moira Weigel ProPublica Apr 2020 20min Permalink
On a battle between billionaire hedge-funders.
William D. Cohan Vanity Fair Apr 2013 30min Permalink
How North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack.
Geoff White, Jean H. Lee BBC Jun 2021 20min Permalink
Our favorite stories about hitting the road.
How Sherwin Shayegan pulled off a 3,000-mile, piggyback ride-fueled journey.
Bryan Curtis Grantland Jul 2012 20min
On the road with John Coster-Mullen, a truck driver who reverse engineered the atomic bomb.
David Samuels New Yorker Dec 2008 40min
A wandering summer road trip.
Annie Proulx Outside May 2004 30min
A Liberian road trip with the creator of MTV, Ralph Reed, and a reformed cannibal named General Butt Naked.
Joe Hagan Men's Journal Feb 2013 25min
The Great Railway Bazaar author drives across the country.
Paul Theroux Smithsonian Sep 2009
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”
Hunter S. Thompson Rolling Stone Nov 1971 1h35min
On his last night, Williams lay dying in the back of a blue Cadillac, with 17-year-old Charles Carr at the wheel.
Peter Cooper The Tennessean Jan 2003 15min
A cross-country drive with the first head writer of Saturday Night Live.
Paul Slansky Playboy Mar 1983
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On a convict too young to vote but old enough to be strapped to a chair.
From our guide to the death penalty at Slate.
Tina Rosenberg Rolling Stone Oct 1995 Permalink