The Encyclopedia of the Missing
She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country. For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.
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She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country. For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.
Jeremy Lybarger Longreads Jan 2018 20min Permalink
The story of the 100-mile Barkley Marathons.
“What makes it so bad? No trail, for one. A cumulative elevation gain that’s nearly twice the height of Everest.”
Leslie Jamison The Believer May 2011 25min Permalink
The chef, who died last year, was one of San Francisco’s culinary stars in the 1990s. She created a space for the city’s queer women to thrive in the kitchen.
Mayukh Sen Eater Jun 2020 15min Permalink
A drone sighting caused the airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the sky?
Samira Shackle The Guardian Dec 2020 20min Permalink
How companies and large temp agencies benefit from—and tacitly collaborate with—an underworld of labor brokers, known as “raiteros,” who charge workers fees, pushing their pay below minimum wage.
Michael Grabell ProPubica Apr 2013 20min Permalink
How a burglary, social media and politics led to a Nooksack Tribal Councilwoman being bullied out of office.
Jane C. Hu High Country News Feb 2020 20min Permalink
In 2005, the prisoner who had set the U.S. penal system record for years in solitary confinement was moved to what’s called “the Alcatraz of the Rockies”—a jail in Colorado built just for him.
Alan Prendergast Westword Aug 2007 20min Permalink
The use and abuse of civil forfeiture.
Sarah Stillman New Yorker Aug 2013 45min Permalink
Why we must bring trains back.
“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.”
“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.”
Tony Judt New York Review of Books Dec 2010 – Jan 2011 25min Permalink
The story of William Morgan: American, wanderer, Cuban revolutionary.
David Grann New Yorker May 2012 1h25min Permalink
A jailhouse interview.
David Felton, David Dalton Rolling Stone Jun 1970 2h Permalink
The complicated post-retirement life of Joe DiMaggio.
Gay Talese Esquire Jul 1966 35min Permalink
The first profile of Michele Bachmann.
G.R. Anderson Jr. City Pages Oct 2006 20min Permalink
A Montana sheriff and a manhunt in the mountains.
Richard Ben Cramer Esquire Oct 1985 35min Permalink
The enduring system of organized crime in Naples.
William Langewiesche Vanity Fair Apr 2012 35min Permalink
Vidal on Midge Decter, homophobia and a proposed alliance between Jews and gays.
Gore Vidal The Nation Nov 1981 Permalink
How a young state rep from Missouri, seemingly guaranteed political greatness, ended up behind bars.
Jason Zengerle The New Republic Jan 2011 25min Permalink
Notes on a summer spent aboard an industrial fishing boat off the Alaskan coast.
Julia Gronnevet n+1 Nov 2003 10min Permalink
A 30-year-old funeral director in LA wants to help the living get closer to death.
Rebecca Mead New Yorker Nov 2015 25min Permalink
Catch shares are touted by the government and environmental groups as the solution to overfishing. But for a new generation under the system, the economics consist mainly of “absentee landlords, brokers and bankers, [and] fish quota that costs more than your house.”
Lee van der Voo Seattle Weekly Jan 2013 Permalink
For decades, the United States and Britain’s vision of democracy and freedom defined the postwar world. What will happen in an age of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage?
Ian Buruma The New York Times Magazine Nov 2016 20min Permalink
The rise and fall of Intrade, the betting market for world events—elections, hurricanes, Academy Awards—and the death of its CEO near the top of Everest.
Graeme Wood Pacific Standard Nov 2013 20min Permalink
Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.
Kit Chellel Bloomberg Business May 2018 25min Permalink
An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That’s good news for corporations and the wealthy.
Paul Kiel, Jesse Eisinger ProPublica Dec 2018 25min Permalink
They executed people for the state of South Carolina. For some, it nearly destroyed them.
Chaira Eisner The State Nov 2021 Permalink