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When the Arlee Warriors cleared an astonishing path to the state basketball championship, they brought healing to the community.
Abe Streep Esquire Aug 2021 30min Permalink
Inside the puppet trial of the decade.
Julia Ioffe The New Republic Aug 2012 15min Permalink
The story of 1968’s Golden Globe, a race to see who could become the first sailor to circumnavigate the world solo without stopping.
Maggie Shipstead Lapham's Quarterly Jun 2013 Permalink
On immigration detainees in the United Kingdom, and the suffering that lands them in detention.
Ali Smith The Guardian Jun 2015 20min Permalink
On the science of being fooled.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman Caltech May 1974 Permalink
A two-part account of the recent elections in Uganada and the unlikely candidacy of Rabbi Gershom Sizomu Wambedde, the leader of a small community of Ugandan Jews.
Matthew Fishbane Tablet Mar 2011 30min Permalink
A log of the 32 shitless hours that the author spent in the Tombs prison after being arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest.
Keith Gessen New Yorker Nov 2011 25min Permalink
On “If You Are the One”, the smash hit Chinese dating show that raised the ire of censors.
Edward Wong New York Times Jan 2011 10min Permalink
On switching to the gold standard and a trip to the Yukon to witness the modern gold rush.
Wells Tower GQ Jan 2012 15min Permalink
A six-day hoax in which the newspaper fooled its readers into believing that life had been found on the moon.
Sir John Herschel The New York Sun Aug 1835 2h35min Permalink
The highest-ranking CIA officer to be convicted of spying passes the tricks of the trade along to his son.
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee GQ Jun 2012 25min Permalink
An hour-by-hour account of the explosion and rescue effort on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
Sean Flynn GQ Jun 2010 30min Permalink
The battle to contain the Asian tiger mosquito–one suburban, above-ground pool at a time.
Tom Scocca The National Sep 2009 Permalink
How both the drugs and the music have evolved together.
P. Nash Jenkins The Atlantic Sep 2013 20min Permalink
The Supreme Court justice on gay rights, the problem with consensus, and the Devil.
Jennifer Senior New York Oct 2013 25min Permalink
There are 1.7 million active Uber riders in London, about half the daily ridership of the Tube. Three years ago, there were 5,000.
Sam Knight The Guardian Apr 2016 35min Permalink
The connections he made at a 2013 pageant in Russia may have helped give him the Presidency.
Jeffrey Toobin The New Yorker Feb 2018 25min Permalink
The life and death of Georgia Frontiere, who was the only woman owner in professional sports when her St. Louis Rams won the 2000 Super Bowl.
Joshua Neuman Victory Journal Jul 2019 15min Permalink
On the British and American fascination with rocking chairs and upholstery springs in the 19th century.
Hunter Dukes The Public Domain Review Feb 2021 25min Permalink
The president is overseeing a sea change in the world of economic policy, and so much hangs in the balance.
Rebecca Traister New York Jul 2021 15min Permalink
Was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre actually a smokescreen to obscure an even more audacious art crime?
Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler Vanity Fair May 2009 25min Permalink
On the nature of violence.
When my brother was twelve, I found six mice nailed to the wall of the abandoned tree house in the woods near our apartment. He spent a lot of time there. It seemed to me the little mouse faces were frozen in agony. As though they’d been alive when he’d hammered the nails through them.
J. Mays The Sun Magazine Aug 2018 10min Permalink
The making of a lost generation:
According to the Unicef report, which measured 40 indicators of quality of life – including the strength of relationships with friends and family, educational achievements and personal aspirations, and exposure to drinking, drug taking and other risky behavior – British children have the most miserable upbringing in the developed world. American children come next, second from the bottom.
Maria Hampton Adbusters Aug 2011 Permalink
He’s their hero, but he’s also their soulmate, the one person in the world who understands them. That’s why Stephen Wesley and the legions of fans like him can’t get enough of the Mountain Goats. And that burden is crushing Darnielle.
On the passionate relationship between fans and John Danielle of the Mountain Goats.
Stephen Rodrick New York Mar 2009 20min Permalink
“It is overwhelmingly young people of color, and those who work in their schools, who will bear the brunt of these closings and witness the worst effects of the budget cuts. Over the last six months, the SDP and the state of Pennsylvania have decided, again and again, that this is acceptable.”
Jesse Montgomery n+1 Sep 2013 20min Permalink