The Belly of the Beast
The price we pay for cheap meat.
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The price we pay for cheap meat.
Paul Solotaroff Rolling Stone Dec 2013 Permalink
How the dream of the Euro became a nightmare.
Paul Krugman New York Times Magazine Jan 2011 25min Permalink
The story of a device that delivers electric shocks to students at a school for special needs.
Paul Kix Boston Magazine Jul 2008 Permalink
Reverse engineering the details of a murder that took place in St. Louis on Christmas Night in 1895 from over a century of popular song.
Paul Slade PlanetSlade 40min Permalink
After a 19-year-old is convicted of murdering his girlfriend, her family fights to free him from prison.
Paul Tullis New York Times Jan 2013 25min Permalink
On a parent’s relationship with unused embryos.
A writer embarks on a seven-year trek from Africa to Tierra Del Fuego.
Paul Salopek National Geographic Dec 2013 20min Permalink
Why utopias are best understood as fiction games, and how they quickly become dystopias when realized.
Paul LaFarge Bookforum Jun 2010 15min Permalink
She’s 80 now, working 13 hour days, and still won’t take so much as a reporter’s hand to cross the stream.
Paul Tullis New York Times Magazine Mar 2015 20min Permalink
On a young Arnold Schwarzenegger and the body-building culture of Venice Beach in the 1970s.
Paul Solotaroff Men's Journal Feb 2012 25min Permalink
What happened next for Harry Whittington, the guy Cheney shot in the face? Not an apology.
Paul Farhi Washington Post Oct 2010 10min Permalink
An opinion piece on the structural causes of unrest in Egypt; the business fraternity, globalization, and the fate of Egyptian women.
Paul Amar Al-Jazeera English Feb 2011 Permalink
Deaf, mute and undocumented, he was charged 12 years ago with a capital crime and has been in legal limbo ever since.
Paul Duggan Washington Post Mar 2017 20min Permalink
On Los Angeles’s 1985 declaration of “sanctuary status.”
Paul A. Kramer Los Angeles Review of Books Oct 2020 30min Permalink
Park ranger Paul Fugate vanished on an Arizona trail more than forty years ago. Investigators are still looking for him.
Brendan Borrell Outside Apr 2021 Permalink
The prison-industrial complex is not only a set of interest groups and institutions. It is also a state of mind. The lure of big money is corrupting the nation's criminal-justice system, replacing notions of public service with a drive for higher profits. The eagerness of elected officials to pass "tough-on-crime" legislation — combined with their unwillingness to disclose the true costs of these laws — has encouraged all sorts of financial improprieties. The inner workings of the prison-industrial complex can be observed in the state of New York, where the prison boom started, transforming the economy of an entire region; in Texas and Tennessee, where private prison companies have thrived; and in California, where the correctional trends of the past two decades have converged and reached extremes.
Eric Schlosser The Atlantic Dec 1998 55min Permalink
On the complete corruption of Paul Bergin, a federal attorney turned high-priced defense lawyer now awaiting trial on a host of charges.
If Paul is guilty of half the things they say, he’d be the craziest, most evil lawyer in the history of the State of New Jersey. That is saying something.
Mark Jacobson New York Jun 2011 20min Permalink
The first in-depth piece on Michele Bachmann.
G.R. Anderson Jr. Minneapolis City Pages Oct 2006 20min
A profile of Romney from his last presidential campaign, with a focus on how he evolved from professional consultant to professional candidate.
Ryan Lizza New Yorker Oct 2007 20min
On the calculated political career of Rick Perry, and what it means for his presidential bid.
Paul Burka Texas Monthly Feb 2010 30min
Notes from the Nevada stretch of the Ron Paul campaign trail last time around.
Tucker Carlson New Republic Dec 2007 10min
A look at Jon Hunstman, the former Utah governor and ambassador to China now running well behind in the polls, as he prepared to announce his candidacy.
Chris Jones Esquire Jun 2010 25min
An exhaustive profile of Gingrich, then a 41-year-old congressman balancing a new role on the national stage with the spotlight on his personal life that came with it.
David Osborne Mother Jones Nov 1984 25min
A profile of Rick Santorum published as he began a reelection campaign for the U.S. Senate, a race widely considered a stepping stone to a run for the White House. Santorum went on to lose.
Mike Newall Philadelphia City Paper Sep 2005 25min
A primer on long-shot candidate Herman Cain, former pizza chain CEO and current Tea Party star.
Dave Weigel Slate Jan 2011
On the rapid rise of the New Jersey governor, who doubles as pundits’ favorite noncandidate.
Matt Bai New York Times Magazine Feb 2011
Nov 1984 – Feb 2011 Permalink
A midwife, a rash of stillbirths and miscarriages, and a town whose economy depends on fracking.
Paul Solotaroff Rolling Stone Jun 2015 25min Permalink
Paul Newman’s will held some unpleasant surprises for his daughters.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jul 2015 25min Permalink
The origin story of Gabriel García Márquez’s classic.
Paul Elie Vanity Fair Dec 2015 20min Permalink
The intertwining histories of two men who defined twentieth century European style.
Paul Johnson This Recording Jan 2011 30min Permalink
A Supreme Court Justice revisits a rape trial from the 1950s.
[Part 2 of 2] The story behind this spring’s spate of retributive murders in Southwest D.C.
Paul Duggan Washington Post Jun 2010 15min Permalink
Thirty years ago, few people had ever heard of ADD. ‘Early onset depression’ might become a common diagnosis long before 2040.
Pamela Paul New York Times Magazine Aug 2010 Permalink