The Case of the Mormon Historian
Michael Quinn took on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – and lost.
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Michael Quinn took on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – and lost.
David Haglund Slate Nov 2012 35min Permalink
The legendary artist has radically upended his distinctive style of portraiture—and his entire life. Why?
Wil S. Hylton The New York Times Magazine Jul 2016 30min Permalink
The life history of an unassuming Sudanese man, Noor Uthman Muhammed, who has spent the last nine years in Guantánamo Bay prison.
Tyler Cabot Esquire Sep 2011 1h5min Permalink
Jeremy Wilson spent years crisscrossing the country and inventing new identities as a war hero, an MIT grad, a Hollywood journalist, and more.
Guy Lawson GQ Jun 2019 30min Permalink
The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious website allow him to speak with her once more?
Jason Fagone San Francisco Chronicle Jul 2021 50min Permalink
Why dealing with the IRS is so difficult – and the woman charged with making it easier:
[Nina] Olson noted that the IRS relied on computers to audit all but the highest-income brackets. “We’re getting to a situation where the only people who will get face-to-face audits are the 1 Percent,” she said. “For the majority of taxpayers, the IRS has become faceless, nameless, with no accountability and no liability.”
Elizabeth Dwoskin Businessweek Apr 2012 15min Permalink
A longtime Harper’s contributor considers America as he dies: “When I died, I died of many things: the failing systems; the weakening of age; the exhaustion of the long war against dying. Finally, I succumbed to the lack of ethics in a California hospital, killed by filth and neglect.”
Earl Shorris Harper's Dec 2011 Permalink
“The specific dissonance of Trumpism—advocacy for discriminatory, even cruel, policies combined with vehement denials that such policies are racially motivated—provides the emotional core of its appeal. It is the most recent manifestation of a contradiction as old as the United States, a society founded by slaveholders on the principle that all men are created equal.”
Adam Serwer The Atlantic Nov 2017 50min Permalink
How pop-up tax preparers make billions off the poor.
Gary Rivlin Mother Jones Mar 2011 15min Permalink
On PredictIt, a site that allows you to bet on politics, and the people who are getting rich off it.
David Hill The Ringer Mar 2018 20min Permalink
Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.
David Dayen The Prospect Mar 2021 30min Permalink
A profile of Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia.
William Finnegan New Yorker Mar 2013 35min Permalink
On the talent, ego, and late father of Bryant Gumbel.
Rick Reilly Sports Illustrated Sep 1988 20min Permalink
A footnoted inquiry into the physics and metaphysics of tennis.
David Foster Wallace Esquire Jul 1996 Permalink
Tracking down the very best in Grateful Dead concert concessions.
Zach Brooks Lucky Peach Aug 2015 15min Permalink
A profile of Henry Hook, the world’s best crossword puzzler, who died this week.
Burkhard Bilger New Yorker Mar 2002 25min Permalink
On the “horrible weirdness” of Kim Jung Il’s Korea.
Philip Gourevitch New Yorker Sep 2003 1h Permalink
On JFK and the 1960 Democratic National Convention.
Norman Mailer Esquire Nov 1960 55min Permalink
The life and work of a Manhattan psychoanalyst.
Janet Malcolm New Yorker Nov 1980 1h10min Permalink
A former first-string tackle considers the green zone as a war zone:
Just as football has evolved in accordance with the evolving business ethic of American society, so has it evolved in accordance with the changing strategic assumptions about war. The development (or rebirth) of the T-formation in football coincided almost exactly with the development of a new era of mobility and speed in warfare best exemplified in the Blitzkrieg tactics of the German armies in Europe in 1939-40. The T-formation soon overwhelmed the “Maginot Line” mentality of traditional football, based as it was on rigid lines and massive concentrations of defensive and offensive power.
Wilcomb E. Washburn The New Republic Jul 1977 10min Permalink
Twenty-six years after he was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Michael Morton sees the real killer brought to justice in a Texas courthouse.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Jun 2013 25min Permalink
How the medical research industry came to almost exclusively use rodents for testing—and the danger that reliance now poses to human health.
Daniel Engber Slate Nov 2011 1h30min Permalink
NSA-grade spyware is up for sale, and the world’s worst dictatorships are buying.
Amar Toor, Russell Brandom The Verge Jan 2015 20min Permalink
Alaska brims with stories of people who vanish and are given up for dead. Once in a while, the dead return.
Alex Tizon The Atlantic Mar 2016 25min Permalink
The dramatic imbalance in pay and power has created the conditions for abuse.
Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Nov 2017 35min Permalink