How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable
“In less than a year Trump has succeeded in turning the USA into a massive high school.”
Notes from the GOP campaign trail.
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“In less than a year Trump has succeeded in turning the USA into a massive high school.”
Notes from the GOP campaign trail.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Feb 2016 30min Permalink
“She taught me the tricks of trimming. She taught me to smile when my back ached. She taught me some Bengali words. Sab bhalo. It is all okay.”
Raveena Aulakh The Toronto Star Oct 2013 Permalink
Traveling with a sex tourist to the Uzbek city of Tashkent. Excerpted from the forthcoming book If It’s Monday It Must Be Madurai.
Srinath Perur Open Oct 2013 55min Permalink
The murder of an Iranian band in Brooklyn by one of their own.
Previously: Nancy Jo Sales on the Longform Podcast.
Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Mar 2014 25min Permalink
You’re not supposed to just vanish at Vortex Spring. Dive too deep and you might not make it back to the surface, but a search party will eventually find your body. Nobody has found Ben McDaniel yet.
Ben Montgomery The St. Petersburg Times Apr 2011 15min Permalink
The investigation of 20-year-old Russian model’s fall from a Manhattan rooftop uncovers a string of mysteries and clues embedded within the insular world of international models and those who scout them.
Peter Pomerantsev Newsweek May 2011 10min Permalink
When a CIA operation in Pakistan went bad, leaving three men dead, the episode offered a rare glimpse inside a shadowy world of espionage. It also jeopardized America’s most critical outpost in the war against terrorism.
Matthew Teague Men's Journal Jun 2011 25min Permalink
Boris Yeltsin’s right-hand man tells the inside story of the 1991 coup that killed glasnost:
"That scum!" Boris Yeltsin fumed. "It's a coup. We can't let them get away with it."
Gennady Burbulis, Michele A. Berdy Foreign Policy Jun 2011 10min Permalink
In anonymous warehouses in Detroit, Goldman Sachs has hoarded a quarter of the world’s supply of aluminum, placing them firmly in control of trading on the London Metal Exchange.
Clare Baldwin, Melanie Burton, Pratima Desai, Susan Thomas Reuters Jul 2011 10min Permalink
The stories of two dozen strangers who survived the Joplin, Mo., tornado by hiding in a walk-in beer cooler.
Luke Dittrich Esquire Jan 2012 35min Permalink
Walter Isaacson’s book is long, dull, often flat-footed, and humorless. It hammers on one nail, incessantly: that Steve Jobs was an awful man, but awful in the service of products people really liked (and eventually bought lots of) and so in the end his awfulness was probably OK.
Gary Sernovitz n+1 Dec 2011 15min Permalink
The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who was convicted of murdering Linda Jo Edwards in 1977 and sent to death row. After three trials, two overturned convictions and a plea deal, Cook is out of prison but still has the crime on his record. He maintains his innocence.
Mark Donald Dallas Observer Jul 1999 1h Permalink
“Over the past century, coaches have used intuition and discipline to vastly improve athletic performance. Now scientists are taking the last step, helping athletes approach perfection.”
Mark McClusky Wired Jun 2012 15min Permalink
Bill Ferguson does not believe his son, Ryan, killed a popular newspaper editor. To prove it, he’s drained his savings, performed public re-enactments of the crime, and alienated almost everyone in his Missouri city.
Dugan Arnett The Kansas City Star Jul 2012 15min Permalink
The multiple stories behind an iconic college football photo.
Gary Smith Sports Illustrated Jul 1999 20min Permalink
As the most famous helicopter news pilot in American history, Bob Tur prided himself on being the ultimate alpha male. Except all along, he knew he wasn’t.
Ed Leibowitz Los Angeles Magazine Dec 2014 10min Permalink
Detroit is trying to end the longstanding practice of “scrapping,” which is the only way some of its residents can earn a living.
John Eligon New York Times Mar 2015 15min Permalink
Gaile Owens was a churchgoing mother of two boys in suburban Memphis. Now she’s the first woman sentenced to die in Tennessee in nearly 200 years. The jury never heard her whole story; this is it.
Brantley Hargrove Nashville Scene Apr 2010 30min Permalink
A interview with David Mitchell, author of the recent The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and Cloud Atlas, on stretching a fictional universe across multiple novels and centuries of real history.
Wyatt Mason New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink
The champ is now a vegan, claims to be broke, and says he feels freer than ever before. “I have this uncanny ability to look at myself in the mirror and say, ‘This is a pig. You are a fucking piece of shit.’”
Ivan Solotaroff, Mike Tyson Details Jul 2010 Permalink
Tabloid newspapers were caught hacking into the voicemails of Prince William and Prince Harry. One reporter was arrested - but an investigation shows the eavesdropping was far more elaborate and widespread.
This isn’t truck-on-truck violence. It’s the taxpaying owners of brick-and-mortar restaurants—along with a host of other powerful District players—who are waging the attack.
Tim Carman Washington City Paper Sep 2010 25min Permalink
His wife murdered his mother, tried to do the same to him, and was prepared to orphan their 8-month-old child. The attempt left him blind. Then he defended her in court.
Alan Prendergast Westword Dec 2010 25min Permalink
On who will bear the burden of the financial crisis facing cities across America. “Will it be articulated in terms of bond defaults or larger kindergarten classes—or no kindergarten classes at all?”
They believe that strangers on the street watch them, follow them in vans, whisper as they pass. Their family urge them to seek help. Then they find people online who have experienced the same thing they have.
Mike McPhate New Yok Times Jun 2016 Permalink