Total Recall: The People Who Never Forget
Around 60 people in the world share a condition called “highly superior autobiographical memory.” They remember absolutely everything.
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Around 60 people in the world share a condition called “highly superior autobiographical memory.” They remember absolutely everything.
Linda Rodriguez McRobbie The Guardian Feb 2017 25min Permalink
On what lay behind Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and what lies ahead.
Evan Osnos, David Remnick, Joshua Yaffa New Yorker Feb 2017 50min Permalink
The city’s radical pro-democracy movement faces a stiff test from Mainland China.
Howard W French The Guardian Mar 2017 20min Permalink
After their mother was deported to Mexico, the Marin siblings faced an impossible choice: Stay or go.
Lizzie Presser California Sunday Jun 2017 30min Permalink
How Western Union does business in 2017.
Drake Bennett, Lauren Etter Bloomberg Businessweek Jun 2017 20min Permalink
The answer may lie with the country’s powerful security agencies.
Declan Walsh New York Times Magazine Aug 2017 30min Permalink
As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world’s largest radio dish for precisely that purpose.
Ross Andersen The Atlantic Nov 2017 25min Permalink
How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia.
Jane Mayer New Yorker Mar 2018 1h Permalink
Last week, as America’s top national security experts convened in Aspen, a strangely inquisitive Uber driver showed up, too.
Julia Ioffe GQ Jul 2018 15min Permalink
“I’ve increasingly become aware of how much of my reputation in Taiwan is built on the knowledge of my New York upbringing.”
Brian Hioe Popula Oct 2018 10min Permalink
It started with black market rations and ended with “the wedding of the century.”
Karan Mahajan Vanity Fair Mar 2019 25min Permalink
Riots in Athens, the shadowy Vatopaidi monastery, and a quarter million dollars in debt for every citizen. Welcome to Greece.
Michael Lewis Vanity Fair Oct 2010 45min Permalink
Inside the struggle to survive in a tiny Honduran neighborhood surrounded by competing gangs.
Azam Ahmed New York Times May 2019 25min Permalink
Indigenous people and illegal miners are engaged in a fight that may help decide the future of the planet.
Jon Lee Anderson New Yorker Nov 2019 35min Permalink
How a ferry disaster exposed the corruption devastating Iraq.
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad The Guardian Dec 2019 25min Permalink
A new Ned Kelly film explores the masculinity behind the mask.
Melissa Fyfe The Sydney Morning Herald Dec 2019 20min Permalink
The resilience of Marga Griesbach, 92, who made it through the Holocaust, and set off for a cruise around the world in February.
Rebecca Traister New York May 2020 35min Permalink
A trans activist from El Salvador who has helped countless trans migrant women fight for asylum in the U.S. finds asylum for herself.
Alice Driver Longreads Jul 2020 15min 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
The post–civil war boom in shark fishing that saved Congolese fishermen and their families is now drying up.
Christopher Clark Hakai Dec 2020 15min Permalink
Observers have long warned of rising forced labor in Xinjiang. Satellite images show factories built just steps away from cell blocks.
Alison Killing, Megha Rajagopalan Buzzfeed Dec 2020 20min Permalink
How did a lorry carrying 273 dead bodies end up stranded on the outskirts of Guadalajara?
Matthew Bremner Guardian Apr 2021 20min Permalink
A celebrated Uyghur writer gives a first-person account of the genocide in Xinjiang.
Tahir Hamut Izgil The Atlantic Jul 2021 50min Permalink
In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them.
Anand Gopal New Yorker Sep 2021 40min Permalink
How P. Rajagopal, the founder of one of the world’s largest vegetarian restaurant chains, got away with murder.
Rollo Romig New York Times Magazine May 2014 20min Permalink