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A U.S. Marine’s journey from the Afghan war to an Illinois prison.
C.J. Chivers The New York Times Magazine Dec 2016 1h10min Permalink
Suspecting he had CTE and that it would eventually kill him, a former high school football player kept a diary of what was has happening to his brain.
Reid Forgrave GQ Jan 2017 30min Permalink
What’s a writer to do when the audacity dwindles?
Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Jul 2017 15min Permalink
Inside Stripe’s battle to upend the online payments world.
Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2017 25min Permalink
By choice, for less than $2 an hour, the female inmate firefighters of California work their bodies to the breaking point. Sometimes they even risk their lives.
Jaime Lowe New York Times Magazine Aug 2017 20min Permalink
At the height of the 2016 election, exaggerated reports of a juvenile sex crime brought a media maelstrom to Twin Falls — one the Idaho city still hasn’t recovered from.
The same “Stephen Hawking voice” is used by little girls, old men, and people of every racial and ethnic background. Inside the quest to give people a voice of their own.
Jordan Kisner The Guardian Jan 2018 Permalink
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
Nicholas Thompson, Fred Vogelstein Wired Feb 2018 40min Permalink
North Carolina’s Alexander County is a Southern Baptist stronghold. It’s also home to Mitchell Gold, an outspoken gay rights activist and the CEO of one of the region’s largest employers.
Tiffany Stanley Washington Post Apr 2018 35min Permalink
Jennifer Warren promised people counseling and recovery for free. When they arrived, she put them to work 16 hours a day for no pay at adult care homes for the elderly and disabled.
Amy Julia Harris, Shoshana Walter Reveal May 2018 20min Permalink
When the music of Vivaldi and Mozart are used to repel the homeless from sidewalks and Burger Kings, does it still glorify the dignity of humanity?
Theodore Gioia LA Review of Books May 2018 10min Permalink
Investors all over the world fell for the schemes of the man who called himself Khalid bin al-Saud. But the truth turned out to be more incredible than the lie.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Oct 2018 20min Permalink
Teo Brank found a lucrative side hustle arranging escorts for sex parties. But when his business soured, he turned to extortion.
Narratively Oct 2018 15min Permalink
I’m a 36-year-old grown-ass man, and I’m about to start crying on the plane coming back from Game 4. That’s how bad I want it.
Richard Jefferson The Players Tribune Jan 2019 20min Permalink
Perfect storms, drunken dares, and a man who sailed his house — a collection of our favorite articles about castaways.
Two days after the Japanese tsunami, after the waves had left their destruction, as rescue workers searched the ruins, news came of an almost surreal survival: Miles out at sea, a man was found, alone, riding on nothing but the roof of his house.
Three teenage boys from a remote island decide to set sail after a night of drinking. They go missing for 51 days.
Michael Finkel GQ May 2011 35min
During WWII, a bomber crashes into the Pacific and the crewmen begin an epic battle against dehydration, exposure, and endless attacks by sharks. Adapted from Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken.
Laura Hillenbrand Vanity Fair Dec 2010 35min
The Estonia was carrying 989 people when it sank on its way across the Baltic in September 1994. Only 140 lived.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic May 2004 35min
Swept out by a riptide, a father and his autistic son find themselves in open water after dark.
Justin Heckert Men's Journal Nov 2009 25min
The first extended telling of the story that would eventually become The Perfect Storm.
Sebastian Junger Outside Oct 1994 20min
In 1992, a Chinese freighter tipped violently during a storm and dumped a load of plastic bath toys—7,200 red beavers, 7,200 green frogs, 7,200 blue turtles, and 7,200 yellow ducks—into the open sea.
Donovan Hahn Harper's Jan 2007 1h35min
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For more than 50 years, world governments have trusted a single Swiss code-making machine company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers, and diplomats secret. It turns out that company was run by the CIA.
Greg Miller Washington Post Feb 2020 Permalink
The photographer who showed us the world always kept coming back to a little town by the sea.
Elon Green Inside Hook Apr 2020 15min Permalink
Our economy is built on Americans of all class levels buying things. What happens when the ability—and desire—to do so goes away?
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed May 2020 25min 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
The ads are everywhere. You can learn to serve like Serena Williams or write like Margaret Atwood. But what MasterClass really delivers is something altogether different.
Carina Chocano The Atlantic Aug 2020 30min Permalink
Climate change is propelling enormous human migrations as it transforms global agriculture and remakes the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia.
Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Dec 2020 Permalink
The region’s hyper-local response has lessons for us as we confront the winter wave and begin to distribute vaccines.
Jay Caspian Kang The New Yorker Jan 2021 25min Permalink
When a cheating scandal blew up the pastor’s life, some Hillsong congregants were left to question their relationship with a church that cultivated its own kind of fame—and the double standards that often came with it.
Alex French, Dan Adler Vanity Fair Feb 2021 30min Permalink
The agency, seeking information on an animal rights group, attempted to recruit a former truck driver as an informant, the truck driver says.
Lee Fang The Intercept Feb 2021 15min Permalink
Sooner or later a technology capable of wiping out human civilization might be invented. How far would we go to stop it?
Nick Bostrom, Matthew van der Merwe Aeon Feb 2021 15min Permalink