‘They Are Manufacturing Foreigners’
How India disenfranchises Muslims.
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How India disenfranchises Muslims.
Siddhartha Deb New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 30min Permalink
Inside an international smuggling operation.
Clare Fieseler The Walrus Nov 2021 Permalink
On the experimental favela police force UPP (aka “The Big Skull”) and their efforts to clean Rio’s largest slum in advance of the World Cup and Olympics.
Misha Glenny The Financial Times Nov 2012 15min Permalink
With up to four million World War II soldiers considered missing in action on the Eastern front, a group of Russian volunteers vows to unearth, identify and properly bury their remains.
The investigation of 20-year-old Russian model’s fall from a Manhattan rooftop uncovers a string of mysteries and clues embedded within the insular world of international models and those who scout them.
Peter Pomerantsev Newsweek May 2011 10min Permalink
When a CIA operation in Pakistan went bad, leaving three men dead, the episode offered a rare glimpse inside a shadowy world of espionage. It also jeopardized America’s most critical outpost in the war against terrorism.
Matthew Teague Men's Journal Jun 2011 25min Permalink
Why had the U.S. once again targeted Gaddafi? Of all the evils and perils in the world, there is none that galls Reagan more than terrorism. Of all the anti-American thugs who hang out in the back alleys of the Third World, there is none Reagan despises more than Gaddafi.
On coming to see your home country the way the rest of the world does.
Suzy Hansen The Guardian Aug 2017 20min Permalink
The story of a massacre in El Salvador.
Mark Danner New Yorker Dec 1993 2h45min Permalink
An execution in war-torn Cuba.
Richard Harding Davis New York Journal Feb 1897 10min Permalink
An investigation into violence against Mexican citizens by the U.S. Border Patrol.
Nate Blakeslee Texas Monthly May 2014 25min Permalink
During World War II, the indigenous Aleut people were forced into camps. 10% died.
Eva Holland Maisonneuve Jul 2014 20min Permalink
Visiting the site of the Chernobyl meltdown.
George Johnson National Geographic Oct 2014 10min Permalink
The fight for South Africa’s future.
Eve Fairbanks The New Republic Mar 2013 20min Permalink
A profile of Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia.
William Finnegan New Yorker Mar 2013 35min Permalink
The NFL attempts to set up a beachhead in China.
Why the integration of a South African university didn’t last.
Eve Fairbanks Moment Jun 2013 25min Permalink
An Aboriginal community’s attempt to maintain a 50,000-year-old way of life.
Michael Finkel National Geographic May 2013 20min Permalink
A crash course in Tantra and superficial spirituality.
Rolf Potts Perceptive Travel Dec 2005 10min Permalink
The odyssey of Kim Jong-il’s personal chef.
Adam Johnson GQ Jul 2013 35min Permalink
When Manny Ramirez played half a season for the E-DA Rhinos.
Sam Graham-Felsen Buzzfeed Jul 2013 25min Permalink
The fate of a star 16-year-old pitcher in Japan.
Chris Jones ESPN the Magazine Jul 2013 25min Permalink
The story of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Barry Bearak New York Times Magazine Nov 2005 1h10min Permalink
Behind the scenes of the lovely, strange world of competitive eating.
Jon Ronson GQ Oct 2012 20min Permalink
Life and death in an underground economy.
James Verini National Geographic Nov 2012 20min Permalink