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Are some celebrity mediums fooling their audience members by reading social media pages in advance? A group of online vigilantes is out to prove it.
Jack Hitt New York Times Magazine Feb 2019 20min Permalink
The impact of a life map and a stipend on those in the gang life in Richmond, CA.
Jason Motlagh The Guardian Jun 2016 30min Permalink
Time is speeding up. And to what end? Maybe we were told that two thousand years ago.
On the shortcomings of both reality and fiction.
Philip K. Dick - Jan 1978 35min Permalink
She was the daughter of movie mogul Harry Warner. He was 15 years younger and embezzled her money, landing himself in jail. In prison, he offered a young inmate named Richard Matt $100,000 to kill her.
Greg Krikorian L.A. Times Jan 1992 Permalink
Twelve-step programs treat alcohol and drugs according to the same principles. But heroin changes the way the brain works. If there’s a medication that treats heroin addiction, why aren’t we using it?
Jason Cherkis Huffington Post Jan 2015 1h30min Permalink
The few who got to view Jerry Lewis’s notorious The Day the Clown the Cried, set at Auschwitz, piece together memories of their surreal personal screenings.
Bruce Handy Spy May 1992 Permalink
A reporter on her way out of India probes a case of a woman beaten to death by her husband in public.
Ellen Barry New York Times Aug 2017 Permalink
When the people of Flint, Michigan, complained that their tap water smelled bad and made children sick, it took officials 18 months to accept there was a problem.
Anna Clark The Guardian Jul 2018 20min Permalink
When a U.S. citizen heard he was on his own country’s drone target list, he wasn’t sure he believed it. After five near-misses, he does – and is suing the United States to contest his own execution.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Jul 2018 30min Permalink
The Salesforce founder has donated a fortune to right capitalism’s wrongs, and he thinks his fellow billionaires should too. Why can’t we just be grateful?
Chris Colin Wired Dec 2019 30min Permalink
Nelson Cruz’s family was so sure Judge ShawnDya Simpson would free him, they brought a change of clothes to his hearing. Then everything took an unexpected turn.
Joe Sexton ProPublica Oct 2020 50min Permalink
A year of isolation made me consider all the casual, unwanted touch women endure — and why it’s so hard to refuse it.
Melissa Febos New York Times Magazine Apr 2021 20min Permalink
Steven Carrillo’s path to the Boogaloo Bois shows the hate group is far more organized and dangerous than previously known.
Gisela Pérez de Acha, Kathryn Hurd, Ellie Lightfoot ProPublica Apr 2021 20min Permalink
An interview with Pope Francis.
Antonio Spadaro SJ America Sep 2013 50min Permalink
The movement at Standing Rock.
Wes Enzinna Mother Jones Dec 2016 10min Permalink
Freedom, the GOP, and a rhesus macaque on the loose.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine Aug 2012 20min Permalink
The legacy of late hip-hop producer Paul C.
Dave Tompkins 360hiphop Jan 2001 35min Permalink
The people behind “the only American luxury compact sport sedan.”
Justin Heckert Esquire Sep 2012 25min Permalink
A master troll on trial in New Jersey.
Adrian Chen Gawker Nov 2012 25min Permalink
A suddenly haunting profile of Joe Paterno, living legend.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Oct 2007 25min
An 11-month investigation ends with a booster, now in prison for a Ponzi scheme, going public with details of how he spent millions on college athletes from 2002 to 2010.
Charles Robinson Yahoo! Sports Aug 2011 30min
The gambler responsible for a point-shaving scandal at Boston College, now a government witness, offers a nuts-and-bolts explanation of how one goes about fixing college sports.
Henry Hill, Douglas S. Looney Sports Illustrated Feb 1981
An infamous article on the social dynamics on the Duke campus—it opens at a foam party thrown by a frat—published at the height of the lacrosse team scandal.
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone Sep 2006 25min
A profile of UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian, who at the time appeared to be losing his 19-year-long battle with the NCAA.
Michael J. Goodman Los Angeles Times Feb 1992 25min
The case for paying college athletes.
Taylor Branch Atlantic Sep 2011 35min
Feb 1981 – Sep 2011 Permalink
A young man, newly out to his parents, undergoes “ex-gay” therapy.
Gabriel Arana American Prospect Apr 2012 20min
A rugby legend makes history.
Gary Smith Sports Illustrated May 2010 30min
On gay life in Saudi Arabia, where coming out is not an option.
Nadya Labi Atlantic May 2007 25min
How parents and communities are scrambling to adapt as kids start identifying as gay earlier and earlier.
Benoit Denizet-Lewis New York Times Sep 2009
A 32-year-old lets go.
Steve Kornacki Salon Nov 2001 10min
Getting to the truth in the story Tyler Clementi, a gay student at Rutgers, who committed suicide and was spied on by his roommate Dhaurn Ravi. Shortly after this article was published, Ravi was convicted of hate crimes.
Ian Parker New Yorker Feb 2012 50min
Nov 2001 – Apr 2012 Permalink
There were so many ways the two planes could have avoided the collision. The odds were so slim. But high above the Amazon in 2006, a combination of technology and human fallibility brought them together.
William Langewiesche Vanity Fair Jan 2009 55min
Life as an air-traffic controller at LaGuardia.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Mar 2008 35min
The transcript of a disaster.
Jeff Wise Popular Mechanics Dec 2011 10min
The story of Southwest Airlines.
S.C. Gwynne Texas Monthly Mar 2012
On the attempted hijacking of a FedEx flight by a FedEx employee.
Alan Bellows Damn Interesting Jan 2012 15min
On the dream of a transportation system reliant as much on small, safe commuter planes as cars.
Jim Fallows New York Times Magazine Nov 1999 20min
The author, two years old when Southern Flight 242 crashed in his backyard, reports on the aftermath, both for his family and for the passengers.
Eddie Burkhalter Anniston Star May 2012 20min
Nov 1999 – May 2012 Permalink
The unpleasant, impossible task of the dealing with the infamous former sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.
A.J. Daulerio Deadspin Jun 2012 10min
As editor-in-chief of Variety, Peter Bart was one of the most powerful people in the entertainment industry. This piece got him suspended.
Amy Wallace Los Angeles Sep 2001 45min
A profile of Steven T. Florio, then-president and CEO of Condé Nast Publications.
Joseph Nocera and Peter Elkind Fortune Jul 1998 25min
Taibbi goes after New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman for both his politics and his prose.
Matt Taibbi New York Press Apr 2005 10min
Ostensibly a review of several releases on the TED Books imprint, this becomes an evisceration of the entire TED-talk culture of pop intellectualism.
Evgeny Morozov New Republic Aug 2012 25min
A look at the internal culture at Microsoft under Steve Ballmer.
Kurt Eichenwald Vanity Fair Aug 2012 30min
Jul 1998 – Aug 2012 Permalink
John McCain
Todd Purdum Vanity Fair Nov 2010 25min
John Kerry
James Traub New York Times Magazine Jul 2011 25min
Al Gore
David Remnick New Yorker Sep 2004 50min
Bob Dole
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Jul 2012 10min
George H.W. Bush
Paul Burka Texas Monthly Nov 1997
George McGovern
Michael Leahy Washington Post Feb 2005 35min
Nov 1997 – Jul 2012 Permalink
Taking a taxi across the Saudi desert.
Dave Eggers New Statesman May 2014 45min Permalink