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How Cantor Fitzgerald is bringing the principles of day trading to sports betting in Vegas.
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How Cantor Fitzgerald is bringing the principles of day trading to sports betting in Vegas.
Michael Kaplan Wired Nov 2010 25min Permalink
F. Lee Bailey is disbarred, penniless, and giving business advice out of his girlfriend’s salon.
Andrew Goldman Town & Country Jul 2017 15min Permalink
How the way we’re taught to look at female-centric TV, books and movies is ruining our ability to see good art.
Lili Loofbourow Virginia Quarterly Review Mar 2018 25min Permalink
In southwest Florida, the Myakka River Valley—a place of mystery and myth—is under threat of development.
Michael Adno Bitter Southerner Jan 2020 35min Permalink
In Gujarat, India, a special breed of camel is not constrained by land—but cannot escape the many forces of change.
Shanna Baker Hakai Sep 2020 15min Permalink
Is Russia behind a secret weapon that’s targeted dozens of American diplomats and spies?
Julia Ioffe GQ Oct 2020 20min Permalink
Las Vegas is both stranger and more normal than you might imagine, and for some reason, people don’t think anyone lives there.
Amanda Fortini The Believer Jan 2020 20min Permalink
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Dinner with the novelist, the book critic and “Myshkin, a 14-year-old female dachshund who is deaf but decidedly not mute.”
Boris Kachka New York Apr 2013 15min Permalink
Following the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the Pakistani government set up a commission to establish how U.S. forces could have violated Pakistani sovereignty without repercussions, and how Bin Laden came to reside secretly in Pakistan for so long. This is what they found.
The day-to-day monotony and close calls of Bin Laden’s years on the lam.
How Pakistan helped allow Bin Laden to go undetected for so long.
The story of the night Bin Laden was killed, as told by those in the crosshairs.
Asad Hashim Al Jazeera Jul 2013 30min Permalink
Thanks to a single court case, the state of Maryland is releasing almost 150 violent offenders who believed they would spend their life behind bars.
Jason Fagone Huffington Post May 2016 30min Permalink
A profile of the Atlanta star and creator, who also released a hit album in 2016 and is set to star in the next Star Wars.
Allison Samuels Wired Jan 2017 10min Permalink
In 2009, three followers of an Oprah-endorsed motivational speaker named James Arthur Ray died in an Arizona sweat lodge. Now, after serving two years in prison for negligent homicide, Ray is trying to get back on the self-help circuit.
Matt Stroud The Verge Dec 2013 25min Permalink
The U.S. is one of only two countries that don’t guarantee paid maternity leave. As a result, women across the country are rushing back to work after C-sections and losing their positions in order to take care of newborns.
Claire Suddath Businessweek Jan 2015 15min Permalink
Alabama’s chemical-endangerment law was passed to protect kids from meth labs. But is the prosecution of about 60 mothers – and the definition of “child” extended to “unborn child” – pushing its boundaries too far?
Ada Calhoun New York Times Magazine Apr 2012 25min Permalink
On the expanding community of American parents who believe, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, that there is a link between routine vaccinations and autism.
Seth Mnookin Simon and Schuster Jan 2011 Permalink
Twenty-five years after 82 Branch Davidians and 4 federal officers were killed, the lead negotiator at the scene is still arguing about what happened.
Eric Benson Texas Monthly Mar 2018 30min Permalink
“This is the story of the past three years of my life. It’s romance in a way, but it’s also a breakup story.”
Meghan Daum Medium Aug 2018 30min Permalink
A giant earthquake is coming to the Northwest. Unfortunately, no one knows when.
Kathryn Schulz New Yorker Jul 2015 25min Permalink
After years of outsourcing, many essential staff work for the NHS without receiving its benefits. In one London hospital, the fight is on for a better deal.
Sophie Elmhirst Guardian Jun 2020 25min Permalink
I say, Where’s Breonna, why won’t anybody say where Breonna is? He says, Well, ma’am, she’s still in the apartment. And I know what that means.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Vanity Fair Aug 2020 25min Permalink
Baby Olivia weighed 1 pound, 10 ounces. Her doctors faced a stressful paradox: giving her the healing power of a parent’s touch, while keeping the virus out.
Eva Holland Wired Feb 2021 15min Permalink
She escaped a crazed psychopath at 16. Decades later, as the BTK serial killer terrorizes Wichita, she has to run for her life again. The identity of her tormentor is too chilling to believe.
Corey Mead Truly*Adventurous Mar 2021 40min Permalink
The author travels to North Korea in the years after Kim Jong Il’s succession. He also gets a haircut:
But suddenly the whole chair starts vibrating and I find myself surrendering to her, as she begins to knead the acupressure points on my forehead and neck. Next it's ginseng unguent all over my face. Gobs of pomade smelling like bubble gum go on my hair. Then, like a true daughter of the revolution, she upholsters her blow dryer and begins combing in the pomade and sculpting my now subdued hair. The pungent aroma of heated pomade, like fat frying in a pan, fills the room. My stylist gives my hair a little twist with the comb. It feels like she's making a Dairy Queen curl on top. Then she fries it in place with the dryer. Another dab of pomade. More mincing motions with the comb. Another blast of hot air. Suddenly I feel a moist breeze around my ears. She's taken out a can of imported aerosol spray and is cementing her creation in place. She's delicately patting my new coiffure now the way a baker taps a loaf of bread to see if it's springy to the touch. She murmurs something. I'm breathless with expectation. I open my eyes and gaze into the mirror. Magnifique! It looks like I have a loofah sponge on my head! I am reborn -- a cross between Elvis and a 1950s Bulgarian hydrology expert! At last I have become a true son of Pyongyang!
Orville Schell Harper's Jul 1996 30min Permalink
Didion’s genius is that she understands what it is to be a girl on the cusp of womanhood, in that fragile, fleeting, emotional time that she explored in a way no one else ever has. Didion is, depending on the reader’s point of view, either an extraordinarily introspective or an extraordinarily narcissistic writer. As such, she is very much like her readers themselves.
Caitlin Flanagan The Atlantic Jan 2012 25min Permalink