Steve Jobs and the Portal to the Invisible
A profile of Jobs. The themes: immortality, relinquishing control, and how being adopted affected his choices for Apple. The lede: “One day, Steve Jobs is going to die.”
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A profile of Jobs. The themes: immortality, relinquishing control, and how being adopted affected his choices for Apple. The lede: “One day, Steve Jobs is going to die.”
Most military experts agree that robots, not people, will inevitably do the fighting in ground wars. In Tennessee, a high-end gunsmith is already there. The story of Jerry Baber and his robot army.
Evan Ratliff New Yorker Feb 2009 20min Permalink
The decades-long saga of Miami’s Take Once Cocktail Lounge, where you might get shot, your money will definitely be laundered, and everybody will know your name.
Gus Garcia-Roberts The Miami New Times Feb 2011 20min Permalink
Come to his Dilbert-shaped home. Bite into a Dilberito. Be persuaded on genocide, mental orgasms, and his fellow Master Wizard, the president of the United States.
Caroline Winter Bloomberg Business Mar 2017 15min Permalink
The greatest writers of the nineteenth century were drawn to the North Pole. What did they hope to find there?
Kathryn Schulz New Yorker Apr 2017 25min Permalink
The documentary filmmakers from Longbow Productions said they wanted to tell the story of the Bundy Family and their standoff with the government. Their cameras were real, but the people behind them were undercover FBI agents.
Trevor Aaronson The Intercept May 2017 25min Permalink
Once a Red Sox hero, Curt Schilling’s loud climb towards right-wing media fame may have cost him a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He doesn’t care.
Timothy Bella Esquire Jun 2017 Permalink
“‘Make America Great Again’ means ‘Make America White Again.’ So now you have this other explosion of people who want to feel above something, better than something. And who is that? That’s me.”
Mario Kaiser, Sarah Ladipo Manyika Granta Jun 2017 20min Permalink
Three years ago, the Republican-led House was close to reaching a compromise on immigration. This is the story of what went wrong.
Alec MacGillis ProPublica Sep 2016 30min Permalink
An estimated 70,000 transgender youth lack secure housing. This is what life on the streets is like for six of them.
Laura Rena Murray Rolling Stone Sep 2017 20min Permalink
On the thriving small town of Orange City, Iowa and what it can teach us about what it means when Americans decide to leave home or stay put.
Larissa MacFarquhar New Yorker Nov 2017 35min Permalink
The DVD is still king in Lagos’ Alaba International Market for Electronics.
Excerpted from Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire.
Emily Witt n+1 Nov 2017 20min Permalink
The many problems with a common forensic technique called “pattern-matching” — comparisons of bite marks, tool marks, hairs, shoe prints, tire tracks, or fingerprints.
Meehan Crist, Tim Requarth The Nation Feb 2018 45min Permalink
“Most of us should be in jail for the things we do. We just haven’t been caught. No one’s gone after us.”
Kevin Robillard Politico Magazine Mar 2018 15min Permalink
To understand the rise of Donald Trump is to understand his mentor, Roy Cohn — and the New York City establishment that aided and abetted him.
Frank Rich New York Apr 2018 30min Permalink
It all started with an unclaimed lottery ticket worth millions, soon revealing a string of unlikely winners that pointed to an inside job. But who had rigged the lottery? And how?
Reid Forgrave New York Times Magazine May 2018 25min Permalink
Burt Dorman says that the scientific mainstream missed the chance to wipe out AIDS and save the lives of 35 million people. Now he wants another try.
Adam Rogers Wired Jun 2018 20min Permalink
How one of New York’s major trash haulers does business.
Kiera Feldman ProPublica Jun 2018 30min Permalink
Can a violent adult jail teach kids to love school? A rare look inside one of the only high schools at an adult jail
Eli Hager The Marshall Project Jun 2018 10min Permalink
Outside a cookie shop in Houstons, a council member spied Trump’s name on a teenager’s shirt and yelled a few of the president’s worst words at her. Then the internet found out.
Mimi Swartz Texas Monthly Jun 2018 20min Permalink
“The echoing horror of slavery cuts both ways. We are often afraid to say what we know is true. The South is disaster and it is also miracle.”
Imani Perry Harper's Jul 2018 20min Permalink
The author survives a bite by a venomous snake in a remote area of Yosemite National Park.
My leg, from toe to hip, turned black and yellow and eventually swelled to 24 inches, more than twice its normal circumference.
Kyle Dickman Outside Jun 2018 25min Permalink
As the last remaining Blockbusters shut their doors, a portrait of the customers, the staff, and what it was like as they were finally losing each other, after almost 30 years.
Justin Heckert The Ringer Jul 2018 35min Permalink
Barack Obama and a tradition of letter-reading.
Jeanne Marie Laskas The Guardian Aug 2018 15min Permalink
A profile of a “49-year-old man whose father has just yelled at him,” Frank Sinatra Jr., a son living under the longest shadow.