The Wrath of Khan (Part 1)
The unlikely ascent of A.Q. Khan, the scientist who gave Pakistan the Bomb, and his suspicious fall from grace.
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The unlikely ascent of A.Q. Khan, the scientist who gave Pakistan the Bomb, and his suspicious fall from grace.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic Nov 2005 1h Permalink
The social rituals of the pansexual, bi-queer, metroflexible New York teen.
Alex Morris New York Jan 2006 20min Permalink
What it means to be an entrepreneur in Argentina, where economic crashes are a way of life.
Max Chafkin Inc. May 2011 20min Permalink
Former Bob Ney, Mark Foley and William Jefferson underlings provide a street-level view of D.C. opprobrium.
Marisa Kashino Washingtonian Jul 2011 15min Permalink
A tony bedroom community in Los Angeles, a kidnapping gone horribly wrong, and the birth of a teenage fugitive.
Jesse Katz Los Angeles Feb 2002 35min Permalink
The case for why a cup of joe is about to become a luxury item.
A profile of the Russian spy-turned-Maxim covergirl.
Brett Forrest Capital New York Jan 2012 25min Permalink
The profile of a crime syndicate which dominates the European cocaine trade.
Andreas Ulrich Der Spiegel Jan 2012 20min Permalink
The story of Southern Flight 242.
Eddie Burkhalter The Anniston Star May 2012 20min Permalink
The wealthy widow of an East Bay newspaper baron, her cowboy fantasy man, and the drowning nobody could solve.
Bryan Burrough Vanity Fair Sep 1997 40min Permalink
On life in Los Angeles, and the specter of a second riot.
Thomas Pynchon New York Times Jun 1966 20min Permalink
The lives of the Indians who were swallowed in the Bhopal gas cloud, thirty years later.
Jennifer Wells The Toronto Star Nov 2014 50min Permalink
The dilemma of providing quality health care for undocumented immigrants, and how one city is attempting to solve it.
Ricardo Nuila VQR Jan 2015 35min Permalink
What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.
Alan Siegel Washingtonian Mar 2015 15min Permalink
A treatment for liver cancer gives the writer a fresh perspective on illness – and wellness.
Oliver Sacks New York Review of Books Apr 2015 10min Permalink
Doug Dodd was a drug kingpin in high school. And now, like the narrator of a Scorcese film, he wants to tell his own story.
Guy Lawson Rolling Stone Apr 2015 30min Permalink
High school dropouts are descending on San Francisco with nothing more than a backpacks full of clothes and ideas.
Nellie Bowles California Sunday May 2015 Permalink
An uneasy friendship forms in colonial Ceylon between the future husband of Virgina Woolf and a socially repulsive police magistrate.
Lev Grossman The Believer May 2010 25min Permalink
On how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.
Jacob Riis The Atlantic Sep 1899 25min Permalink
The first article in a two-part history of the Educational Testing Service, the institution behind the SAT.
Nicholas Lemann The Atlantic Aug 1995 35min Permalink
On a Duke student’s now infamous Powerpoint presentation of her sexual history; binge-drinking, post-feminism, and Mario Kart.
Caitlin Flanagan The Atlantic Jan 2011 20min Permalink
The juvenile ward on Rikers Island is a world of constant violence fueled by gangs and, allegedly, encouraged and overseen by the guards.
Geoffrey Gray New York Jan 2011 Permalink
A profile of 36-year-old curator Loïc Gouzer, who has made millions for Christie’s.
Rebecca Mead New Yorker Jun 2016 30min Permalink
The story of a home invasion, a torture session, and one lawyer who nearly killed another.
Jason Fagone Washingtonian Oct 2016 25min Permalink
Two officers discovered rampant corruption and criminal activity at the heart of Chicago’s police department. Then they were punished by their peers. A four-part series.
Jamie Kalven The Intercept Oct 2016 1h20min Permalink