The Man the White House Wakes Up To
How the daily e-mail from Mike Allen, Politico’s star reporter, has become a morning ritual for Washington’s elite.
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How the daily e-mail from Mike Allen, Politico’s star reporter, has become a morning ritual for Washington’s elite.
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On Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s lust for blood-sport.
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As ISIS retreats, new horrors emerge for a Sunni family.
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On trying, and failing, to qualify for the USA Olympic Marathon Trials.
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Argentina’s Lio Messi, the best soccer player on the planet, stands all of 5’7” and needed growth-hormone injections to get there.
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Caring for a demented father.
Kent Russell The New Republic Sep 2014 35min Permalink
Inside the battle for how America snacks.
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A nation strips 210,000 of citizenship and sets the stage for mass deportations.
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Is creativity in our genes? A self-made scholar’s search for the answer.
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A young couple, their warring families, and the risks of marrying for love in India.
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The Wing is a private members’ space for women that claims to be an ‘accelerator’ for feminist revolution in the US – and now it’s coming to the UK. But how progressive is it really?
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"For example, I remember reading Hemingway and loving his work so much—but then at some point, realizing that my then-current life (or parts of it) would not be representable via his prose style. Living in Amarillo, Texas, working as a groundsman at an apartment complex, with strippers for pals around the complex, goofball drunks recently laid off from the nuclear plant accosting me at night when I played in our comical country band, a certain quality of West Texas lunatic-speak I was hearing, full of way off-base dreams and aspirations—I just couldn’t hear that American in Hem-speak. And that kind of moment is gold for a young writer: the door starts to open, just a crack."
George Saunders, Patrick Dacey BOMB Magazine Jun 2011 40min Permalink
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On the first season of Saturday Night Live, an excerpt from Saturday Night (1986).
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After Devaughn Darling died during a workout with the Florida State football team, his family was awarded a payout of $2 million. That was 13 years ago. Only $200,000 has come.
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The story of three months spent training reporters in Saudi Arabia, where the press is far from free. “I suspected that behind the closed gates of Saudi society there was a social revolution in the making. With some guidance, I thought, these journalists could help inspire change.”
Lawrence Wright New Yorker Jan 2004 Permalink
It started with a vague tip-off: a tug boat approaching the UK could be transporting cocaine. What followed was a race against the clock to find £500m in narcotics
Greg Williams Wired (UK) Dec 2016 25min Permalink
In 1865, a failed stockbroker tries to pull off one of the boldest financial schemes in American history: the original big short.
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Just before his first NBA game, an 18-year-old LeBron James was asked about the pressure of controlling the combined fortunes of a city, major corporations, and the league. “I can handle it,” he said.
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