The Economics of Infomercials
The $200 billion industry behind the Snuggie.
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The Inside Story of Facebook’s Biggest Setback
The social network positioned its plan to bring the internet to millions of Indians as a gift. The country saw a catch.
The Elvis Impersonator, the Karate Instructor, a Fridge Full of Severed Heads, and the Plot 2 Kill the President
The story of a rivalry gone awry.
When SimCity Got Serious: The Story of Maxis Business Simulations
After the massive success of SimCity, the company behind the game began building private simulations for corporations.
In Mississippi, the Mysterious Murder of a Gay, Black Politician
It’s tempting to think Marco McMillian was killed because of his race, his sexuality, or because he was running for mayor. The truth is more elusive.
The Collateral Damage of a Teenager
What adolescence does to adolescents is nowhere near as brutal as what it does to their parents.
An excerpt from All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood.
Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch
“That learning to cook could lead an American woman to success of any kind would have seemed utterly implausible in 1949; that it is so thoroughly plausible 60 years later owes everything to Julia Child’s legacy.”
The Best Years of Our Lives
Memories of “Hollywood’s most grinding bore,” Ronald Reagan.
The Myth of Chinese Super Schools
What the Chinese education system can teach America about relying on test scores as the main metric of success.
Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear?
The misidentification of a Boston Marathon bomber and the future of breaking news.
The Case of the Mormon Historian
Michael Quinn took on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – and lost.
Uncovering The Secret History Of Myers-Briggs
The frustrated – and well-hidden – story of Isabel Myers Briggs, inventor of the famous personality test.
The Rise and Fall of Haitian Drug Lord Jacques Ketant
The difficulty of catching a “cocaine trafficker with his hands on the country’s levers of power.”
The Holder of Secrets
A profile of Laura Poitras.
“Fixer Upper” Is Over, But Waco’s Transformation Is Just Beginning
How HGTV changed a city.
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
The Beleaguered Tenants of ‘Kushnerville’
Baltimore-area renters complain about a property owner they say is neglectful and litigious. Few know their landlord is the president’s son-in-law.
The Murders of Gonzago
On the film The Act of Killing, in which the actual perpetrators of a 1966-1966 Indonesian genocide recreate their own actions for the camera, and what it can tell us about our memories of the Vietnam War.
The Search for the Lost Marines of Tarawa
Seventy years after three of the bloodiest days in U.S. history, the battle continues to bring the missing men home.
The Inside Story of the $8 Million Heist from the Carnegie Library
How precious maps, books, and art vanished from the Pittsburgh archive over the course of 25 years.
A Broken System: The Number of Indigenous People Who Died from Coronavirus May Never Be Known
From medical health privacy laws to a maze of siloed information systems, the true impact of COVID-19 on American Indian and Alaska Natives is impossible to calculate.
The Savage Descent of Mustang Sallie
Sallie Belling was an inspirational figure in her community for having overcome a childhood of abuse, drugs, and prostitution — a childhood her sister Rachel says is pure fiction.
She Was Convicted of Killing Her Mother. Prosecutors Withheld the Evidence That Would Have Freed Her.
By the time Noura Jackson’s conviction was overturned, she had spent nine years in prison. This type of prosecutorial error is almost never punished.
The Shame of College Sports
The case for paying college athletes.
The False Promise of DNA Testing
Once viewed as a forensic “silver bullet,” DNA evidence is coming under fire.
