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Do spirituality and self-help have a political constituency?
Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Magazine Sep 2019 25min Permalink
On the plight of indigenous suicide in Alaska.
Devon Heinen New Statesman Jan 2020 25min Permalink
A letter from a cyclist who survived.
Andrew J. Bernstein Outside May 2020 Permalink
Reckoning with the American flag.
Kiese Laymon The Fader Sep 2016 15min Permalink
“I watched my friend dying on Facebook. But it was all a GoFundMe scam.”
Sarah Treleaven OneZero Oct 2020 25min Permalink
On the legal quagmire facing the President if Joe Biden wins.
Jane Mayer New Yorker Nov 2020 25min Permalink
On George Plimpton and the founders of The Paris Review.
Early in the fifties another young generation of American expatriates in Paris became twenty-six years old, but they were not Sad Young Men, nor were they Lost; they were the witty, irreverent sons of a conquering nation.
Gay Talese Esquire Jul 1963 20min Permalink
Champions, record-breakers, frauds, and underdogs — our favorite articles about runners.
A profile of a young Steve Prefontaine.
Pat Putnam Sports Illustrated Jun 1970 15min
A 16-year-old runner, her coach and the lasting memory of an improbable race.
Steve Friedman Runner's World Dec 2012 30min
The strange case of Kip Litton, road race fraud.
Mark Singer New Yorker Aug 2012 40min
On the world’s longest foot race, which takes place entirely within Queens.
He rose from poverty to fame as a marathon champion at only 23. But was his fall from a balcony outside of Nairobi murder, accident, or suicide?
Anna Clark Grantland Oct 2011 15min
A profile of 101-year-old marathoner Fauja Singh.
Jordan Conn ESPN Feb 2013 15min
At age 17, Bonnie Richardson won the Texas state track team championship all by herself. Then she did it again.
Gary Smith Sports Illustrated Sep 2009 25min
In Mexico’s remote Copper Canyon, the Tarahumara Indians party hard, get by on a diet of carbs and beer, and can still run 100-mile races, even in their 60s.
Christopher McDougall Men's Health Apr 2008 20min
His brain and body shattered in a horrible accident as a young boy, Bret Dunlap thought just being able to hold down a job, keep an apartment, and survive on his own added up to a good enough life. Then he discovered running.
Steve Friedman Runner's World May 2013 30min
Jun 1970 – May 2013 Permalink
“Jeannie Peeper’s diagnosis meant that, over her lifetime, she would essentially develop a second skeleton. Within a few years, she would begin to grow new bones that would stretch across her body, some fusing to her original skeleton. Bone by bone, the disease would lock her into stillness. The Mayo doctors didn’t tell Peeper’s parents that. All they did say was that Peeper would not live long.”
Carl Zimmer The Atlantic May 2013 25min Permalink

Manic chefs, the first singles bar, and the secret to McDonald’s fries—a collection of stories about the restaurant business, at Slate.
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A trip to Disney, the origins of Gatorade, the carny capital of America and how Miami ends — ten of our favorite articles about Florida.
The author visits Walt Disney World with his niece and wife.
Forty years later, John Jeremiah Sullivan visited Disney with his kid and weed.
Calvin Trillin New Yorker Jan 1971 10min
On June 4, 1989, the bodies of Jo, Michelle and Christe were found floating in Tampa Bay. This is the story of the murders, their aftermath, and the handful of people who kept faith amid the unthinkable.
Thomas French St. Petersburg Times Oct 1997 3h35min
A profile of Robert Cade, a University of Florida professor and inventor of Gatorade.
Gilbert Rogin Sports Illustrated Jul 1968 25min
God has fled, avenging angels hide out in the Everglades, and more “secret stories” passed down by homeless kids in Miami shelters.
Lynda Edwards Miami New Times Jun 1997 20min
A local boy brings a touch of class to the city on the Bay.
Sean Manning Deadspin Aug 2012 25min
On the 1934 lynching of Claude Neal, and the Florida town that kept the identity of those responsible a secret.
Ben Montgomery Tampa Bay Times Oct 2011 25min
Welcome to Gibsonton, Fla., the carny capital of the nation.
David Kushner Rolling Stone Sep 2003 20min
Life as a pageant queen in Plant City, Florida.
Anne Hull The New Yorker Aug 2008 20min
They lose millions in a Florida real estate scam.
Jen Banbury Businessweek Jun 2014 15min
How the city will drown.
Jeff Goddell Rolling Stone Jun 2013 30min
Jul 1968 – Jun 2014 Permalink
An entrepreneurial primer from the founder of 37Signals. “So here’s a great way to practice making money: Buy and sell the same thing over and over on Craigslist or eBay. Seriously.”
Jason Fried Inc. Mar 2010 Permalink
How a con-man convinced Los Angeles that he was prepared to purchase the Dodgers from the now-bankrupt Frank McCourt.
Gene Maddaus LA Weekly Mar 2012 Permalink
A murder case in Mississippi catches the eye of amateur sleuths on Facebook, who proceed to harass everyone involved in the case.
Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed Jun 2015 30min Permalink
He’s got millions of followers on Vine. He’s got sponsors paying him tens of thousands to promote their products. He’s got a vanity license plate that says “AYYYYYYY.” It’s not enough.
Caroline Moss Tech Insider Jul 2015 20min Permalink
Ed Houben, a self described “ugly man,” has sex with multiple women each week, sometimes two in one day. The women, often accompanied by their husbands, are trying to get pregnant.
Michael Paterniti GQ Oct 2015 25min Permalink
Walter Pitts, who helped develop the “first mechanistic theory of the mind,” was so brilliant he was once been invited to study with Bertrand Russell. He was also homeless.
Amanda Gefter Nautilus Feb 2015 20min Permalink
A profile of Jimmy Connors on the eve of the 1978 U.S. Open. His legendary confidence, honed by his mother since childhood, was in free-fall. (He would go on to win the final in straight sets.)
Frank Deford Sports Illustrated Aug 1978 30min Permalink
Yes, 311 helped solve the mysterious case of the maple syrup smell. But with the data from more than 100 million calls, it’s primed to explain far more.
Steven Johnson Wired Nov 2010 15min Permalink
Guz Dominguez says he was trying to help baseball players from Cuba; the U.S. government says he was smuggling athletes. The truth is more complicated.
Michael Lewis Vanity Fair Jul 2008 1h5min Permalink
How Sepp Blatter, the head of FIFA, controls soccer and keeps his position as the most powerful person in sports.
Tariq Panja, Andrew Martin, Vernon Silver Bloomberg Business Apr 2015 20min
On FIFA’s history of scandal.
Brian Phillips Grantand Aug 2011 15min
How a swindling suburban soccer dad named Chuck Blazer pocketed millions as he helped make the sport a booming success in America.
Ken Bensinger Buzzfeed Jun 2014 30min
Aug 2011 – Apr 2015 Permalink
Emily Weiss has reinvented herself from reality TV villain to patron saint of dewy skin, no-makeup makeup, and no-commerce commerce. Why young women — and investors — are buying in.
Nitasha Tiku Buzzfeed Aug 2016 25min Permalink
“The sex abuse is a symptom of a culture that does not allow the athletes to have their voice.”
Dvora Meyers Deadspin May 2017 Permalink
A return to old habits post divorce.
Meghan Daum Medium Feb 2019 15min Permalink