Robert Mercer’s Secret Adventure as a New Mexico Cop
Why would a billionaire go wear a badge and a gun in a tiny desert town? To obtain something that’s impossible to buy.
Showing 25 articles matching fk33.cc_What is the price of magnesium sulfate pentahydrate in China.
Why would a billionaire go wear a badge and a gun in a tiny desert town? To obtain something that’s impossible to buy.
Zachary Mider Bloomberg Business Mar 2018 15min Permalink
Immigrant struggles in America forged a bond that became even tighter after my mother’s A.L.S. diagnosis. Then, as COVID-19 threatened, Chinese nationalists began calling us traitors to our country.
Jiayang Fan New Yorker Sep 2020 35min Permalink
A man’s love of pigeons leads him to build a Ponzi scheme out of birds.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine Mar 2015 Permalink
A 1970 review of Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider.
Ellen Willis New York Review of Books Jan 1970 10min Permalink
A group of childhood friends, two of whom had already climbed Everest, finds tragedy on Mont Blanc.
Ned Zeman Vanity Fair Nov 2010 20min Permalink
“There was an unwritten rule in Mia Farrow’s house that Woody Allen was never supposed to be left alone with their seven-year-old adopted daughter, Dylan.”
Maureen Orth Vanity Fair Nov 1992 40min Permalink
A rare interview with Gene Hackman, who says Welcome to Mooseport was his last movie, unless he “could do it in my own house.”
Gene Hackman, Michael Hainey GQ Jun 2011 10min Permalink
Tyler Haire was locked up at 16. A Mississippi judge ordered that he undergo a mental exam. He would wait 1,266 days in an adult jail.
Sarah Smith ProPublica Dec 2017 30min Permalink
She longed for black people in America not to be forever refugees—confined by borders that they did not create and by a penal system that killed them before they died.
Hilton Als New Yorker Jun 2020 25min Permalink
An amateur linguist loses control of his creation.
Joshua Foer New Yorker Dec 2012 35min Permalink
A profile of Joe Paterno.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Oct 2007 25min Permalink
A brief history of pretending to be sick.
Daniel Mason Lapham's Quarterly Mar 2015 15min Permalink
A profile of Nick Denton.
Ben McGrath New Yorker Oct 2010 40min Permalink
A profile of Winona Ryder.
Alex Pappademas GQ Jan 2011 15min Permalink
A profile of Andy Kaufman.
David Hirshey Rolling Stone Apr 1981 30min Permalink
A profile of Dr. Seuss.
E. J. Kahn New Yorker Dec 1960 45min Permalink
A profile of Aretha Franklin.
David Remnick New Yorker Apr 2016 25min Permalink
How Washington society got scammed by one of its own.
Marisa M. Kashino Washingtonian Jan 2020 20min Permalink
A profile of climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Mar 2020 15min Permalink
A profile of Marc Jacobs.
Thora Siemsen Ssense Mar 2021 20min Permalink
On working at Ozy.
Pooja Bhatia London Review of Books Oct 2021 15min Permalink
How a secretive Israel billionaire seized control of an untapped iron ore deposit beneath one of Africa’s poorest countries.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Jul 2013 45min Permalink
A profile of Harold Ramis, director of Groundhog Day, who died today.
Tad Friend New Yorker Apr 2004 30min Permalink
A writer struggles to defend his arbor vitae trees from a pack of hungry deer—“an episode of great vexation and buffoonery.”
Garret Keizer Lapham's Quarterly Jun 2008 15min Permalink
Understanding genius.
Tamsin Shaw New York Review of Books Oct 2014 15min Permalink