Inside a Moneymaking Machine Like No Other
The Medallion Fund, a computer-driven hedge fund open to only 300 people, has produced about $55 billion in profit over the last 28 years. Almost nobody knows how they have done it.
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The Medallion Fund, a computer-driven hedge fund open to only 300 people, has produced about $55 billion in profit over the last 28 years. Almost nobody knows how they have done it.
Katherine Burton Bloomberg Business Nov 2016 15min Permalink
A visit with John Berger, author of Ways of Seeing, which “changed the way at least two generations responded to art,” just before his death.
Kate Kellaway The Guardian Oct 2016 15min Permalink
Life after the sugar sphinx.
Doreen St. Félix New York Apr 2017 20min Permalink
Over the past 15 years, three people have attempted to restore the humor brand to its former glory. What happened instead was direct-to-video movies, lawsuits, crippling debt, and two prison sentences.
Benjamin Wallace Vanity Fair May 2017 40min Permalink
Stephen Miller, the 31-year-old White House advisor, became steeped in white nationalism in the unlikeliest of places: a Santa Monica high school and Duke University.
William D. Cohan Vanity Fair Jun 2017 25min Permalink
“I learned about sex in a Laundromat. The setting wasn’t my idea. It was my mother’s who had brought me along on washday to break the news.”
Cameron Crowe Rolling Stone Oct 1975 10min Permalink
On the relative plausibility of impossible beings.
Kathryn Schulz New Yorker Oct 2017 20min Permalink
A Ugandan bill that would threaten homosexuals with imprisonment, or in some cases death, has its roots in the shadowy American evangelical group known as The Family.
Jeff Sharlet Harper's Aug 2010 40min Permalink
Jimmy Smith-Kramer, a basketball legend on the Quinault Nation reservation, was 20 when he was mowed down by a white man in a pickup truck. The decision not to charge a hate crime, and recent talk of a plea deal, has re-opened ancient wounds.
Rahima Nasa ProPublica Apr 2018 20min Permalink
In America’s deadliest big city, the task of announcing each new murder falls to police spokesman T. J. Smith. One year ago, he confronted a killing like no other.
Luke Mullins The Atlantic Jul 2018 30min Permalink
In more than a decade of arguing cases in court, I’ve witnessed the stubborn cultural biases female attorneys must navigate to simply do their jobs.
Lara Bazelon The Atlantic Sep 2018 25min Permalink
He was 8 years old, and the signs of abuse were obvious. Yet time and again, caseworkers from child-protective services failed to help him.
Garrett Therolf The Atlantic Oct 2018 40min Permalink
On Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
By reengineering the economy and society to their own benefit, Google and Facebook are perverting capitalism in a way that undermines personal freedom and corrodes democracy.
Nicholas Carr Los Angeles Review of Books Jan 2019 15min Permalink
How Trumpism operates on the knowledge that some people can get away with anything, and how it offers a false promise to extend that privilege to white kids everywhere
Alex Pareene The Baffler May 2019 20min Permalink
Ankle bracelets are promoted as a humane alternative to jail. But private companies charge defendants hundreds of dollars a month to wear the surveillance devices. If people can’t pay, they may end up behind bars.
Ava Kofman The New York Times Magazine, ProPublica Jul 2019 25min Permalink
Once the bright young hope of the Latin-American left, Alan García was caught up in an epic corruption investigation.
Daniel Alarcón New Yorker Jul 2019 30min Permalink
The latest research suggests it’s not far-fetched at all—especially when you consider all the societal and cultural factors that make today’s games so attractive.
Ferris Jabr New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 30min Permalink
When her former student was found wandering the streets a decade after she’d last seen him, Michelle Girard immediately agreed to take him in. Then she decided to do far more, including give him the Christmas he’d never had.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Dec 2019 15min Permalink
The supply chains of the cocaine industry did not falter even during a worldwide shutdown.
After Hurricane Maria, the number of women killed by their partners doubled. Survivors say the government’s misguided response has put more lives in danger.
Andrea González-Ramírez Gen Jun 2020 30min Permalink
In the fall of 1966, billionaire Doris Duke killed a close confidant in Newport, Rhode Island. Local police ruled the incident “an unfortunate accident.” Half a century later, evidence suggests she got away with murder.
Peter Lance Vanity Fair Jul 2020 35min Permalink
Two men died of meth overdoses at the home of a West Hollywood political donor. Dark conspiracy theories abounded— but the truth is even darker
Jesse Barron New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 35min Permalink
What it was like to be a rank-and-file Sony employee after the hack.
Amanda Hess Slate Nov 2015 20min Permalink
The Air Force, beholden to corporate forces, is trapped in a contract with Northrop Grumman to rebuild the nuke program.
Elisabeth Eaves Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Feb 2021 35min Permalink
As more homicide cases go unsolved, the backlog of unsolved murders grows and serial killers are free to kill again. Too few police departments are effectively deploying their resources to stop them.
Lise Olsen The Texas Observer Feb 2021 15min Permalink