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Inside Give Kids the World Village, where the ice cream is unlimited, nightly tuck-ins from six-foot bunny rabbits are complimentary, and Santa Claus visits every Thursday.
Katherine LaGrave Afar Feb 2021 25min Permalink
More than a year into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, some scientists say the possibility of a lab leak never got a fair look.
Charles Schmidt Undark Mar 2021 20min Permalink
The fast rise and even faster fall of a trader who bet big with borrowed money.
A reporter watches as a Hindu nationalist government uses tech from the companies he covers to destroy a secular democracy.
Pranav Dixit Buzzfeed News Apr 2021 20min Permalink
“I know I learned to use my intelligence as a weapon to keep myself safe from racists, starting as a child, and suddenly it doesn’t feel like enough. The violence is like a puzzle with many moving parts, but the stakes are life and death.”
Alexander Chee GQ May 2021 20min Permalink
Rebecca Raffle came to Indianapolis from Los Angeles with dreams of building a cannabis empire. She introduced herself as a West Coast #girlboss, SEO ninja, LGBTQ Family, and avid baker. But she was altogether something different.
Derek Robertson, Michael Rubino, Julia Spalding Indianapolis Monthly Aug 2021 30min Permalink
Próspera was supposed to be a privatized, Silicon Valley-funded paradise—but it’s a hard sell for the neighbors.
Ian MacDougall, Isabelle Simpson Rest of World Oct 2021 30min Permalink
Tech investors gave Seth Bannon, co-founder of the seemingly surging startup Amicus, over four million dollars, despite knowing almost nothing about him.
Noam Scheiber The New Republic Sep 2014 15min Permalink
A story of bird and human patterns.
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Robyn Ryle Luna Luna Oct 2014 10min Permalink
Two American backpackers, two Indonesian villagers, one small boat, 15 slices of bread, a dozen hard-boiled eggs, ten oranges, five apples, two pineapples, two bags of cookies, two packages of peanuts, eight liters of water, one machete and three weeks adrift at sea.
Paul Ciotti The Los Angeles Times Feb 1986 20min Permalink
Bibek Dhong traveled from Nepal to Malaysia to test cameras for the new iPhone 5. When production ended abruptly, he and his coworkers found themselves stranded for two months without money, food or passports.
Cam Simpson Businessweek Nov 2013 15min Permalink
A crusading minister has built a forested Utopia for the itinerant and destitute. But is a social experiment what they’re looking for, or just a place to live?
Alex Morris New York Jan 2010 20min Permalink
This new strain of Republican is not one Wisconsin, nor the United States, has ever seen...The new Republicans are corporate wrecking crews, given a sledgehammer, a piece of legislation and a command to "make it fit."
How a con-man convinced Los Angeles that he was prepared to purchase the Dodgers from the now-bankrupt Frank McCourt.
Gene Maddaus LA Weekly Mar 2012 Permalink
By day, Dan Brown runs the seafood counter at SuperFresh. By night, he does his life work: clearing, dressing, and sharing road-killed deer.
Hank Stuever Washington Post Dec 1999 10min Permalink
“This is a story about the most magical, mystical sport on earth, and the Detroit lifer who improbably became its king. Also, it’s about an art heist.”
Chris Koentges ESPN the Magazine Jun 2015 15min Permalink
A profile of jailed trader Tom Hayes, who was either behind the Libor scandal or became its fall guy.
Liam Vaughan, Gavin Finch Bloomberg Businessweek Sep 2015 35min Permalink
A profile of Steve Bannon — former naval officer and Goldman Sachs banker, executive chairman of Breitbart News, founding chairman of the Government Accountability Institute, and, as of yesterday, Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist.
Joshua Green Businessweek Oct 2015 25min Permalink
Kidnapped by rebels when he was 9, Dominic Ongwen grew up to command fighters who slaughtered, raped, and pillaged. Is he guilty of heinous crimes or was he a hostage the whole time?
Michela Wrong Foreign Policy Jan 2016 15min Permalink
For Gangaram Mahes, Rikers Island was the only chance for three squares and a “decent life.” So Mahes committed the same crime 31 straight times: refusing to pay the check at New York City restaurants.
Rick Bragg New York Times May 1994 Permalink
An artist takes on “the umbrella problem,” which runs so deep the U.S. Patent Office has four full-time examiners dedicated solely to assessing ideas for umbrella improvement.
Susan Orlean New Yorker Feb 2008 20min Permalink
“Fiction writers are good people, usually. There’s a lot of pretenders, but I haven’t met a lot of sons of bitches.”
Barry Hannah, Wells Tower The Believer Oct 2010 15min Permalink
Olathe, Kansas, became a global magnet for tech talent, thanks to plentiful jobs, cheap housing, and good schools. Then someone opened fire on a pair of Indian-born engineers.
Romesh Ratnesar Businessweek May 2017 15min Permalink
When Ben Roethlisberger, Charles Barkley, Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal and the future President of the United States crossed paths at a celebrity golf tournament.
Ben Schreckinger GQ Mar 2018 Permalink
As the country’s population ages and shrinks, there’s increasing demand for services that clean out and dispose of the property of the dead.
Adam Minter Bloomberg Businessweek Jul 2018 10min Permalink