The Case of the Mormon Historian
Michael Quinn took on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – and lost.
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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.”
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.
Moby-Duck: Or, the synthetic wilderness of childhood
In 1992, a Chinese freighter tipped violently in a storm dumping a load of plastic floatee toys—7,200 red beavers, 7,200 green frogs, 7,200 blue turtles, and 7,200 yellow ducks—to the open sea. This is their story.
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 People of Las Vegas
Las Vegas is both stranger and more normal than you might imagine, and for some reason, people don’t think anyone lives there.
The False Promise of DNA Testing
Once viewed as a forensic “silver bullet,” DNA evidence is coming under fire.
The Fall of the Sleaze King
Dov Charney’s struggle to keep control of American Apparel.
The Supermarket of Struggling Artists
On the staff of a Trader Joe’s in New York City.
The Importance Of Being Francesa
On the cranky king of New York sports talk.
The Shape of History
On historian Ian Morris and his predictions for humanity’s future.
In the Violent Favelas of Brazil
Rampant rape and murder in the Brazilian slums.
The Glory of the Rails
Why we must bring trains back.
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Part 1
“The world before the railways appeared so very different from what came afterward and from what we know today because the railways did more than just facilitate travel and thereby change the way the world was seen and depicted. They transformed the very landscape itself.”
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Part 2
“It is simply not possible to envision any conceivable modern, urban-based economy shorn of its subways, its tramways, its light rail and suburban networks, its rail connections, and its intercity links.”
The Frauds of Memory, the Limits of Penitence. And Baseball.
On God, childhood, and baseball.
The Joy of Cam Newton
A profile of the Carolina Panthers quarterback, this season’s likely MVP.
The Last Days of Target Canada
The inside story of Target’s brief, disastrous expansion north.
The Real Housewives of Wall Street
The story of $220M in bailout money.
The Ride of a Lifetime
The making of Thelma & Louise.
The Secret Life of Transgender Rocker Tom Gabel
A profile of the Against Me! frontman.
The Mark of a Masterpiece
The man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art.
The Death of a Pitcher
The story of a young man killed in Juarez.
