What Is MasterClass Actually Selling?
The ads are everywhere. You can learn to serve like Serena Williams or write like Margaret Atwood. But what MasterClass really delivers is something altogether different.
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The ads are everywhere. You can learn to serve like Serena Williams or write like Margaret Atwood. But what MasterClass really delivers is something altogether different.
Carina Chocano The Atlantic Aug 2020 30min Permalink
Trump’s trade representative joined the administration with one mission: Bring factory jobs back from overseas. The results so far? Endless trade wars, alienated allies, and a manufacturing recession.
Lydia DePillis ProPublica Oct 2020 25min Permalink
The economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus has led to enormous food insecurity across America—even in its richest cities.
Samantha Michaels Mother Jones Dec 2020 15min Permalink
A hundred years ago, in the midst of an American food crisis, two spies who had once sworn to kill each other came together with a plan to feed America: hippo meat.
Jon Mooallem The Atavist Magazine Dec 2013 1h25min Permalink
Across the country, an unregulated system is severing parents from children, who often end up abandoned by the agencies that are supposed to protect them.
On the comedian’s relationship with his son and how it changed the course of The Cosby Show.
Mark Whitaker Hollywood Reporter Aug 2014 20min Permalink
It's a glorious thing, hearing Eddie Murphy say "fuck" again. Few people ever said it better – and down here in the basement of the stone-and-marble mansion he built on a Beverly Hills cliff, it's coming from his lips often enough to make Shrek blush. "Come on, motherfucker," Murphy shouts, over the throb of James Brown's "Hot Pants" on a formidable sound system.
Brian Hiatt, Eddie Murphy Rolling Stone Nov 2011 25min Permalink
The comedian and veteran of MTV’s The State on a peculiar brand of stardom. “Often people would be like, I’m such a big fan of your work. I think you’re amazing. I want to have a career like yours. And I’m like, great, can you buy me a slice of pizza?”
David Wain, Toph Eggers The Believer Mar 2011 15min Permalink
“Didion was one of the boys, clearly, in the sense that men had noticed her writing and wanted to publish her. But she also couldn’t quite fit into their regime.”
Michelle Dean Buzzfeed Mar 2018 20min Permalink
At the end, Theranos was overrun by a dog defecating in the boardroom, nearly a dozen law firms on retainer, and a C.E.O. grinning through her teeth about an implausible turnaround.
Nick Bilton Vanity Fair Feb 2019 15min Permalink
“Formal bullfighting is an art, a tragedy, and a business. To what extent it is an art depends on the bulls and the men who are hired to kill them, but it is always a tragedy and it is always a business.”
Ernest Hemingway Fortune Mar 1930 25min Permalink
“What kind of a person looks upon the world’s largest land animal—a beast that mourns its dead and lives to retirement age and can distinguish the voice of its enemies—and instead of saying ‘Wow!’ says something like ‘Where’s my gun?’”
Wells Tower GQ Jun 2014 Permalink
A rookie firefighter confronts his first test.
N.R. Kleinfeld New York Times Jun 2014 25min Permalink
The story of Jim Olson and his Tumor Paint dream.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Jun 2014 15min Permalink
Three years after profiling him, the author checks in with the Bieber experiment.
Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Jul 2014 20min Permalink
On the cult founder, business magnate, pseudonymous internationally shown artist and ferry owner Yoo Byung-eun, who was found dead in the brush amidst empty liquor bottles.
Choe Sang-Hun, Alison Leigh Cowan, Scott Sayare, Martin Fackler New York Times Jul 2014 20min Permalink
On the importance of skateboarding.
Sean Wilsey London Review of Books Jun 2003 40min Permalink
On losing your father, the Facebook generation, and the Zen of Eminem — browse our full archive of essays and short stories by Zadie Smith.
“It was creepy to wake up violently in the middle of the night. It was creepier when no one could tell me why it was happening.”
Doree Shafrir Buzzfeed Sep 2012 30min Permalink
How the ‘princeling’ descendants of Mao’s ‘Eight Immortals’consolidated unimaginable power and wealth in the New China.
Shai Oster, Michael Forsythe, Dune Lawrence, Henry Sanderson Bloomberg Jan 2013 25min Permalink
The outgoing treasury secretary on his financial crisis regrets, putting policy before politics, and whether Washington will ever be able to strike a grand bargain.
Liaquat Ahamed, Timothy Geithner The New Republic Jan 2013 15min Permalink
The 52-year-old designer finds himself at a crossroads.
Sarah Nicole Prickett T Magazine Aug 2015 10min Permalink
One Marine battalion has had four members kill themselves in just the last year. The soldiers have jury-rigged a system of Facebook notifications and Google spreadsheets to try to stop it.
Dave Philipps New York Times Sep 2015 25min Permalink
With three shows currently in production, Ryan Murphy, creator of Glee and American Horror Story, is one of the few show runners whose name commands an audience.
Lacey Rose The Hollywood Reporter Oct 2015 20min Permalink
Sandy Jenkins was a shy, daydreaming accountant at the Texas headquarters of Collin Street Bakery, the world’s most famous fruitcake company. He was tired of feeling invisible, so he started stealing — and got a little carried away.
Katy Vine Texas Monthly Dec 2015 30min Permalink