The Fast, Fabulous, Allegedly Fraudulent Life of Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom
The rise and fall of the Internet mogul.
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The rise and fall of the Internet mogul.
Sean Gallagher Ars Technica Jan 2012 15min Permalink
The story of Bowe Bergdahl, a soldier who walked off his base in Afghanistan only to be captured by the Taliban.
Michael Hastings Rolling Stone Jun 2012 35min Permalink
The frenzied few days before the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer.
Marie Brenner New York Aug 1981 25min Permalink
A survey of sex on a Saturday night in New York City.
Dan P. Lee New York Jul 2012 25min Permalink
A profile of “not just the toughest but the most corrupt and abusive sheriff in America.”
Joe Hagan Rolling Stone Aug 2012 25min Permalink
The importance of the sports metaphor in the American consciousness and why Lewis Lapham didn’t join the C.I.A.
Lewis Lapham Lapham's Quarterly Jun 2010 15min Permalink
How PCC, once an inmate soccer team and now Brazil’s most notorious prison gang, coordinated seven days of riots throughout São Paulo using mobile phones.
William Langewiesche Vanity Fair Apr 2007 40min Permalink
A profile of video game artist Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Super Mario Bros.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Dec 2010 35min Permalink
It’s now routine for corporations to outsource the task of generating new ideas. A look at the consulting firms who meet that need.
David Segal New York Times Magazine Dec 2010 Permalink
A remembrance of relationships formed when the author, at 13 and using a false identity, frequented hockey chat rooms.
Katie Baker Deadspin Jan 2011 20min Permalink
The pecking order of All-Star Weekend sex-with-basketball-player-or-rapper hopefuls.
Kyla Jones, Lisa DePaulo GQ Jul 2006 20min Permalink
How the director of Midnight Special thinks strategically about his art and his career.
Amy Wallace Wired Mar 2016 Permalink
Over a million people are buried in a potter’s field on Hart Island. Here are some of their stories.
Nina Bernstein New York Times May 2016 30min Permalink
Jacqueline Kennedy, William Manchester, and the battle over the authorized account of J.F.K.’s assassination.
Sam Kashner Vanity Fair Aug 2009 40min Permalink
On the downfall of Deutsche Bank.
Ullrich Fichtner, Hauke Goos, Martin Hesse Der Spiegel Oct 2016 40min Permalink
The little-understood history of the whales and how barnacles may be the key to understanding how giant mammals evolved underwater.
Peter Brannen The Atlantic Dec 2016 15min Permalink
An excerpt from the best-selling true crime book of all time.
Vincent Bugliosi Helter Skelter Jan 1974 40min Permalink
Although she is one of the richest writers in the country, her finances are a mess.
Laura Moser Washingtonian Jun 2015 25min Permalink
Alberto Nisman accused Iran and Argentina of colluding to bury a terrorist attack. Did it get him killed?
Dexter Filkins New Yorker Jul 2015 40min Permalink
It was the failed dream of the heir to the Frank-o-Matic sausage-link machinery fortune.
Peter Rugg Inverse Oct 2015 15min Permalink
Dolphins may have the capacity for mourning, and elephants sometimes bury their dead.
Tim Flannery New York Review of Books Oct 2015 15min Permalink
How a Pulitzer-finalist, 34-part-series of investigative journalism vanishes from the internet.
Adrienne LaFrance The Atlantic Oct 2015 15min Permalink
Neale McShane’s jurisdiction in the Australian Outback is roughly the size of the United Kingdom. He patrols it alone.
Andrew McMillen Buzzfeed Nov 2015 25min Permalink
Seven months ago, an underdog Brazilian soccer team boarded a plane to play the game of their lives. They never made it.
Sam Borden ESPN Jun 2017 30min Permalink
The origins of the misunderstood agency.
Garrett M. Graff, Lily Hay Newman, Issie Lapowsky, Andy Greenberg, Ashley Feinberg Wired Sep 2017 35min Permalink