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Over a decade, Theodore Robert Wright III destroyed cars, yachts, and planes. That was only the half of it.
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Over a decade, Theodore Robert Wright III destroyed cars, yachts, and planes. That was only the half of it.
Katy Vine Texas Monthly Aug 2020 20min Permalink
A report from the trial of Ivan Demjanjuk—a.k.a. “The Last Nazi”—who died on March 17.
Lawrence Douglas Harper's Mar 2012 Permalink
He has been in the NBA for 50 years. He’s won nine championships. And he can’t walk away.
Wright Thompson ESPN Apr 2017 30min Permalink
Rukmini Callimachi covers ISIS for The New York Times. Part 2 of this episode is available here.
“Nine out of 10 Americans said they were aware of James Foley's execution. That's a huge win for ISIS. That's what they want. I think they've realized that journalists are the crème de la crème as far as targets. And that's a really scary thing for our profession.”
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Feb 2015 Permalink
Satoshi Nakamoto was the mysterious creator of Bitcoin. Facing bankruptcy and jail, Craig Wright fled Australia knowing that he would soon be outed as Satoshi by multiple publications. Backed by a business group that hoped to sell his patents, Wright was due to show the proof that he possessed the original keys for Bitcoin, but did he?
Andrew O'Hagan London Review of Books Jun 2016 2h20min Permalink
The story of “the biggest retail hack in U.S. history.”
Michael Riley, Ben Elgin, Dune Lawrence, Carol Matlack Businessweek Mar 2014 15min Permalink
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“Ebert: Sometimes we do really dislike each other.
Siskel: And sometimes we don’t.”
Lawrence Grobel Playboy Jan 1991 40min Permalink
Notes from a never-finished biography of the neurologist, humanist and writer.
Lawrence Weschler Vanity Fair Apr 2015 30min Permalink
George Wright spent more time on the lam, 41 years, than any fugitive in American history. Last fall, after being caught in a rural Portuguese village, he told his story.
Michael Finkel GQ May 2012 35min Permalink
A profile of Bosnian striker Vedad Ibisevic, who has come home after escaping the war more than 20 years ago.
Wright Thompson ESPN May 2014 10min Permalink
An unlikely duo from Boston treks to Bolivia, hoping to solve a 30-year-old aviation mystery.
Peter Frick-Wright Outside Oct 2016 30min Permalink
Gwen Wright was raised in dozens of foster homes. A new housing experiment could spare her son the same fate.
Jessica Contrera Washington Post Dec 2016 10min Permalink
A profile of UConn basketball coach Geno Auriemma, who has not found peace despite unprecedented success.
Wright Thompson ESPN W Mar 2018 20min Permalink
In 1955, just past daybreak, a Chevrolet truck pulled up to an unmarked building. A 14-year-old child was in the back.
Wright Thompson The Atlantic Jul 2021 30min Permalink
On the day of the earthquake, two men went into Haiti’s Soccer Federation headquarters. Only one came out.
Wright Thompson ESPN May 2010 20min Permalink
How the ‘princeling’ descendants of Mao’s ‘Eight Immortals’consolidated unimaginable power and wealth in the New China.
Shai Oster, Michael Forsythe, Dune Lawrence, Henry Sanderson Bloomberg Jan 2013 25min Permalink
Adam Wheeler lied on his college application. Lawrence Summers facilitated the destruction of the global economy.
Only one of these Harvard men was given jail time.
Jim Newell The Baffler Jul 2012 15min Permalink
The Federal Trade Commission has brought more than 60 cases related to data security against businesses. Only one has refused to settle.
Dune Lawrence Businessweek Apr 2016 15min Permalink
Twenty-one-year-old Briton Lucie Blackman came to Tokyo and found work in the Roppongi district hostess bars, where businessmen come to flirt with paid companions, and Western women draw a premium fee. Two months later, she disappeared. She would be found underneath a bathtub in a beachside cave.
Evan Wright Time May 2001 Permalink
In bleak farmlands of East Anglia, the first wave of Eastern European migrants learned exploitation and extortion from their own experiences with day labor. Then they began to prey on fellow immigrants, luring in them into debt and then forcing them to commit crimes to pay it off.
Felicity Lawrence The Guardian May 2016 25min Permalink
For a decade, Dustin Stockton and Jennifer Lawrence had surfed the wave of populist-right politics like few other people in America. Then came Jan. 6.
David Freedlander Politico Nov 2021 40min Permalink
Struggling with depression and thoughts of suicide, Army officer Lawrence Franks went AWOL. Five years later, he reappeared as Christopher Flaherty, a member of the French Foreign Legion who served three tours in Africa. Then he was court-martialed.
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone Sep 2015 35min Permalink
David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker.
“I think it’s important — not just for me, but for the readers — that this thing exists at the highest possible level in 2016, in 2017, and on. That there’s a continuity to it. I know, because I’m not entirely stupid, that these institutions, no matter how good they are, all institutions are innately fragile. Innately fragile.”
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Jul 2016 Permalink
Corruption, venality, and tragedy: a collection of picks on what lies beneath the glitter.
He was a nobody who became a porn star, a porn star who became a destitute freebaser, an addict who set up his dealer to be robbed, and finally witness to a retaliatory massacre at the house they called Wonderland.
Mike Sager Rolling Stone May 1989 50min
Somehow, River Phoenix’s reluctance to be a star only made him more famous. When he died outside an LA club in 1993, it only cemented his troubled legend.
Tad Friend Esquire Mar 1994 25min
He came home from Vietnam, wrote the novel that became Full Metal Jacket, was nominated for an Oscar and riding high. Then he got thrown in jail for stockpiling stolen library books, started drinking, cut off his friends and fled to a remote Greek island. He never made it back.
Grover Lewis LA Weekly Jun 1993 40min
Bonnie Lee Bakley always wanted to marry a celebrity. The one she chose was Robert Blake, a troubled and only intermittently famous man who would end up accused of her murder.
David Grann The New Republic Aug 2001 20min
Peter Bart was once a movie executive like everyone else, but as the head of Variety, the industry’s powerful source of news,
Amy Wallace Los Angeles Sep 2001 45min
How a high-powered lawyer and a rough-edged private detective ended up at the center of the biggest, dirtiest scandal in Hollywood history.
Ken Auletta New Yorker Jul 2006 35min
He was just another coked-up agent (representing the likes of Steven Soderbergh) when he disappeared into Iraq, shooting heaps of footage he would attempt to package into a pro-war documentary. And that was just the beginning.
Evan Wright Vanity Fair Mar 2007 1h35min
Two years ago, the fitness guru abruptly disappeared from public life. His friends worry that he’s being held against his will inside his Hollywood Hills mansion, or something even worse.
Andy Martino New York Daily News Mar 2016 20min
May 1989 – Mar 2016 Permalink
A portrait of a toxic workplace.
Anne Victoria Clark, Jackson McHenry, Lila Shapiro, Gazelle Emami, Helen Shaw, Tara Abell, Nate Jones, E. Alex Jung, Megh Wright Vulture Apr 2021 45min Permalink