What the Heck Is Crab Rangoon Anyway?
On the history and origin of the crab rangoon.
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This Is the Story of a Happy Reader
A trip to Nashville to interview the writer Ann Patchett.
Who Is Charlie Crist? The Answer Is Complicated
A profile of Florida’s former (and perhaps future) governor.
Pornhub Is the Kinsey Report of Our Time
How a streaming empire has changed the way the world has sex.
The Worst Day of My Life Is Now New York’s Hottest Tourist Attraction
The author visits the 9/11 Memorial Museum, 13 years after his sister’s death.
Where is the Mystery Monkey of Tampa Bay?
The primate who ruled the news vanished again. A quest to find him led deep into Florida’s monkey kingdom.
The Tedium Is the Message
A history of spam on the internet.
Is It Too Late to Save the World?
The role of a writer in 2017.
How the Sausage Is Made
The search for the perfect hot dog—by way of haute cuisine.
“This Is Going to Change the World”
On the rise and demise of the Segway.
“This Is How We Lost to the White Man”
The audacity of Bill Cosby’s black conservatism.
The Social Graph is Neither
Relying on programmers to map real world social connections is like “hiring a Mormon bartender” and other observations on why our strange urge to document the nodes of friendship is doomed.
The Web Is a Customer Service Medium
But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It's its own thing. And like other media it has a question that it answers better than any other. That question is: Why wasn't I consulted?
Simone Biles Is the Best Gymnast in the World
A pre-Olympics profile of the now-gold medalist.
Pakistan’s Biometric ID Scheme Is Stripping Citizenship from Thousands of People
Pakistan has received global praise for the design and maintenance of a vast system that holds the information of 98% of the country’s population. For some, however, it is making normal life impossible.
Tina Turner Is Having the Time of Her Life
A Swiss chateau. A Broadway musical all about her. And absolutely nothing she has to do.
11,431 Rape Kits Were Collected and Forgotten in Detroit. This Is the Story of One of Them.
Ardelia Ali was raped in 1995. Twenty years later, her attacker was convicted.
This Is the Comedy Godfather of Television
A profile of Norman Lear, the producer behind All in the Family and The Jeffersons, who is still making TV at age 94.
The Baron of Botox Is Gone, But His Face Lives On
Dr. Fredric Brandt redefined cosmetic dermatology forever by bringing a smooth, plump, and ageless face to the masses.
The Kick Is Up and It’s...a Career Killer
The precarious existence of NFL placekickers.
What the Hole Is Going On?
The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020.
The Most Successful Female Everest Climber of All Time Is a Housekeeper in Hartford, Connecticut
The road to Lhakpa Sherpa’s seventh potential summit has been nothing if not complicated.
Tilda Swinton Is in a World of Her Own
On the actress’s stellar year.
Is the Staggeringly Profitable Business of Scientific Publishing Bad for Science?
Inside the economics of scientific publishing, an industry that’s somehow nearly as profitable as film and has changed the course of science in the process.
Waking Up Is Violent but Easy. The Problem Is Everything After That
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!
