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Racial discrimination and the collection of small consumer debts.
Paul Kiel, Annie Waldman ProPublica Oct 2015 25min Permalink
A profile of Hollywood agent Irving “Swifty” Lazar.
Michael Korda New Yorker Mar 1993 35min Permalink
A profile of Gordon Ramsay.
Bill Buford New Yorker Apr 2007 35min Permalink
On the suicide of a promising professional golfer.
The transfiguration of Jared Loughner.
Dan Barry New York Times Jan 2011 Permalink
The life and death of Srinivas Kuchibhotla.
Lauren Smiley Wired Jun 2017 25min Permalink
A profile of the Raging Bull boxer.
Joe Flaherty Inside Sports Jan 1981 20min Permalink
The education of Flynn McGarry.
Rachel Sugar Grub Street May 2018 10min Permalink
“It was a clusterfuck of clusterfucks.”
Andy Greenberg Wired Aug 2018 25min Permalink
A profile of the Fox News commentator.
Lyz Lenz Columbia Journalism Review Sep 2018 30min Permalink
A profile of the Golden State Warriors head coach.
Erik Malinowski Bleacher Report Apr 2017 25min Permalink
On Rudolph Giuliani and the enduring power of shamelessness.
Jonathan Mahler New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 35min Permalink
Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media.
Zach Baron GQ Aug 2020 20min Permalink
The tragic romance of Jim Irsay, the shrewd owner of the Indianapolis Colts, and Kimberly Wundrum, a mother who shared his longtime addiction to painkillers, that ended with her overdosing in the secret condo he bought her.
Shaun Assael ESPN the Magazine Oct 2014 20min Permalink
Eleven books into his planned thirteen book The Wheel of Time cycle, the most popular fantasy series since Lord of the Rings, Robert Jordan saw death on his own horizon and planned accordingly. A 31-year-old former Mormon missionary inherited his universe.
Zach Baron The Believer Oct 2010 15min Permalink
“Political argument has been having a terrible century. Instead of arguing, everyone from next-door neighbors to members of Congress has got used to doing the I.R.L. equivalent of posting to the comments section: serially fulminating.”
Jill Lepore New Yorker Sep 2016 20min Permalink
It was the confluence of two streams of development that transformed Ted Kaczynski into the Unabomber. One stream was personal, fed by his anger toward his family and those who he felt had slighted or hurt him, in high school and college. The other derived from his philosophical critique of society and its institutions, and reflected the culture of despair he encountered at Harvard and later.
Alston Chase The Atlantic Jun 2000 1h10min Permalink
A longtime Harper’s contributor considers America as he dies: “When I died, I died of many things: the failing systems; the weakening of age; the exhaustion of the long war against dying. Finally, I succumbed to the lack of ethics in a California hospital, killed by filth and neglect.”
Earl Shorris Harper's Dec 2011 Permalink
Hitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. But some people turn up dead nonetheless.
Gian Volpicelli Wired UK Dec 2018 30min Permalink
Scientists are studying the extreme weather in northern Argentina to see how it works—and what it can tell us about the monster storms in our future.
Noah Gallagher Shannon New York Times Magazine Jul 2020 25min Permalink
On a desolate, six-mile stretch of Indian beachfront, the bulk of the world’s big ships are dismantled for scrap. Though a ship is usually worth over $1 million in steel, the margins are low, the leftovers are toxic, and the labor—which employs huge numbers of India’s poor—is wildly dangerous.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic Aug 2000 55min Permalink
The implosion of the daily fantasy industry is a bro-classic tale of hubris, recklessness, political naïveté and a kill-or-be-killed culture.
Don Van Natta Jr. ESPN the Magazine Aug 2016 25min Permalink
When the Swiss Alps heat up, the ice gives up bodies and secrets.
Sean Flynn GQ Oct 2018 20min Permalink
The origins of Lagunitas are laced with THC.
On the perils and poisons of mining for gold in southeastern Peru.