The Ballad of the Piggyback Bandit
How Sherwin Shayegan pulled off a 3,000-mile, piggyback ride-fueled road trip.
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How Sherwin Shayegan pulled off a 3,000-mile, piggyback ride-fueled road trip.
Bryan Curtis Grantland Jul 2012 20min Permalink
On calling off a wedding, and studying whooping cranes.
CJ Hauser The Paris Review Jul 2019 Permalink
In February 2010, a killer whale named Tilikum dragged his SeaWorld trainer into the pool and drowned her. It was the third time the orca had been involved in a death during his 27 years in captivity. This is his story.
Tim Zimmermann Outside Jul 2010 35min Permalink
When the author’s wife was dying, his best friend moved in.
Matthew Teague Esquire May 2015 25min Permalink
From the 1940s through the early 70s, incoming freshman at Harvard, Yale, Vassar, Wellesley, and several other top schools were photographed nude in the name of science–bogus science, as it turned out. Most of the photos were destroyed, but not all.
When Clark Rockefeller snatched his daughter during a custody dispute, what the D.A. called “the longest con I’ve seen in my professional career” came unraveled, and the trail led to bones buried in a California backyard.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jan 2009 50min Permalink
“The tragedy of digital media isn’t that it’s run by ruthless, profiteering guys in ill-fitting suits; it’s that the people posing as the experts know less about how to make money than their employees, to whom they won’t listen.”
Megan Greenwell Deadspin Aug 2019 10min Permalink
There are a thousand ways to buy weed in New York City, but the Green Angels devised a novel strategy for standing out: They hired models to be their dealers.
Suketu Mehta GQ Feb 2017 25min Permalink
In 1913, a ship carrying 31 explorers got stuck in the Arctic ice, hundreds of miles from civilization. The leader left to carry on the expedition. Others stuck with the boat. Help wouldn’t come for a year.
Dugald McConnell CNN Jul 2013 15min Permalink
Daniel Norris lives out of his car. He’s also the #1 pitching prospect for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Eli Saslow ESPN the Magazine Mar 2015 10min Permalink
On the eve of the Civil War, a nightmare at sea turned into one of the greatest rescues in maritime history. More than a century later, a rookie treasure hunter went looking for the lost ship—and found a different kind of ruin.
David Wolman The Atavist Magazine Mar 2017 35min Permalink
"I remember lying on my side, dust everywhere, and I looked down and saw my arms were split open and squirting blood and I had just two bloody stumps above my knees," said Marine 1st Lt. James Byler, 26, who was blown up a few weeks before Mark Litynski. "My first coherent words to my Marines were, 'Hey! check my nuts!'
David Wood The Huffington Post Mar 2012 15min Permalink
Team America voyages to Jordan’s King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center to compete against top-seeded China and other squads in challenges based on counter-terrorism scenarios.
Josh Eells New York Times Magazine Jul 2013 20min Permalink
At 93, Jimmy Carter still spends most weekends in his hometown, preaching wise and powerful sermons. Sermons that speak to our current national crisis. That make us realize: We need Mr. Jimmy now more than ever.
Michael Paterniti GQ Jun 2018 25min Permalink
Jonathan Blow is both the video game industry’s most cynical critic and its most ambitious game developer. As he finishes his indescribable game-opus, a trip inside the head of a videogame auteur.
Taylor Clark The Atlantic May 2012 30min Permalink
Operations gone wrong, how the media covered for spies, and the story that became Argo — a collection of our favorite articles about the CIA.
How the CIA used a fake science fiction film to sneak six Americans out of revolutionary Iran. The declassified story that became Ben Affleck’s Argo.
Joshuah Bearman Wired Apr 2007 20min
Throughout the ’50s and ’60s, media outlets including the New York Times and CBS News provided the CIA with information and cover for agents. Then everyone decided to pretend it had never happened.
Carl Bernstein Rolling Stone Oct 1977 55min
Erik Prince, the boyish CEO of America’s largest and most controversial mercenary force, Blackwater, also happened to be a CIA agent.
Adam Ciralsky Vanity Fair Jan 2010 25min
The story of William Morgan: American, wanderer, Cuban revolutionary, possible spy.
David Grann New Yorker May 2012 1h25min
When a CIA operation in Pakistan went bad, leaving three men dead, the episode offered a rare glimpse inside a shadowy world of espionage. It also jeopardized America’s most critical outpost in the war against terrorism.
Matthew Teague Men's Journal Jun 2011
On the CIA’s early operations.
Jason Epstein New York Review of Books Apr 1967
A spy takes on his own agency.
David Wise Smithsonian Oct 2012
A three-part series on the U.S. intelligence system post-9/11.
Apr 1967 – Oct 2012 Permalink
On the tortured psyche of former 49ers coach Bill Walsh and how it led to Finding the Winning Edge, his 550-page guide to the game that has become the football’s bible.
Seth Wickersham ESPN Jan 2013 20min Permalink
A trip to Turkey for a soccer game between bitter rivals and its accompanying madness.
Spencer Hall SB Nation Apr 2014 30min Permalink
Police monitored a hundred million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by career criminals to discuss drug deals, murders, and extortion plots.
Joseph Cox Motherboard Jul 2020 30min Permalink
Washington state’s redoubled climate goals and fresh action plan revive hope to cut emissions. But ongoing fossil fuel development in BC could undercut Cascadia’s progress.
Peter Fairley Investigate West Jan 2021 15min Permalink
If you’re one of four million Ahmadis in Pakistan, posting on Facebook can mean exposing yourself to danger.
Alizeh Kohari Rest of World Aug 2021 20min Permalink
In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town, capturing the world’s attention.
Kaleb Horton Vox, Epic Magazine Jul 2021 Permalink
The misconception? You do nice things for the people you like and bad things to the people you hate.
The truth? You grow to like people for whom you do nice things and hate people you harm.
David McRaney You're Not So Smart Oct 2011 20min Permalink
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
Six months after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, a member of the Presidential commission that investigated the crash presents his personal findings.
Richard Feynman Rogers Commission Report Jun 1986 20min Permalink
The Michigan kidnapping case is a major test for the Biden administration’s commitment to fighting domestic terrorism—and a crucible for the fierce ideological divisions pulling the country apart.
Ken Bensigner, Jessica Garrison Buzzfeed Jul 2021 40min Permalink