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Colin Powell’s battle with the Bush administration.
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Colin Powell’s battle with the Bush administration.
Wil S. Hylton GQ Jun 2005 25min Permalink
Scott Dadich, 34, has been described by a former boss as a “combination of Pelé and Jesus” and is now tasked with figuring out the future of the magazine. All he’s got in his new Times Square office: an iPad and a book of George Lois’ Esquire covers.
John Koblin The New York Observer Aug 2010 Permalink
How “tissue engineering” will change regenerative medicine.
Sharon Begley Wired Nov 2010 25min Permalink
On the Miss America pageant.
Lillian Ross New Yorker Oct 1949 40min Permalink
Discovering why we hurt.
Nicola Twilley New Yorker May 2016 25min Permalink
A dispatch from North Carolina.
Nick Martin Splinter Aug 2018 50min Permalink
How order collapsed in an American city.
Alec MacGillis ProPublica Mar 2019 30min Permalink
For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event “the Inversion.”
In the past dozen years, state and local judges have repeatedly escaped public accountability for misdeeds that have victimized thousands. Nine of 10 kept their jobs, a Reuters investigation found – including an Alabama judge who unlawfully jailed hundreds of poor people, many of them Black, over traffic fines.
Michael Berens, John Shiffman Reuters Jun 2020 30min Permalink
An argument for working less.
Bertrand Russell Harper's Oct 1932 20min Permalink
A profile.
Zach Baron GQ Nov 2021 20min Permalink
Shanghai, in 1989 and 2013. Excerpted from A History of Future Cities.
Daniel Brook Places Journal Feb 2013 35min Permalink
“If you think cam girls—those flirty naked characters that plague porn site pop-up ads—are raking in easy money, you’re right. If you think cam girls are bleakly stripping online out of desperation, you’re also right.”
Sam Biddle Gizmodo Sep 2012 20min Permalink
A reporter who investigated Scientology tracks down the man who once ran the church’s intelligence operations – and who may hold the secret to years of harassment (and the mysterious death of a pet dog).
Joel Sappell Los Angeles Dec 2012 30min Permalink
A Bosnian social psychologist who studies guilt and responsibility in the collective memory (and denial) of Sreberbica, which is “among the most scientifically documented mass killings in history.”
Tom Bartlett The Chronicle of Higher Education Nov 2013 25min Permalink
After nearly 15 years in a Peruvian prison, an American woman convicted of aiding a Marxist terrorist group finds parole in Lima full of contradictions.
Peter Zumthor, who recently won the Pritzker Prize after a career of few buildings and mostly modest-in-size projects, on the “architecture of actually making things”
Michael Kimmelman New York Times Magazine Mar 2011 20min Permalink
On secrets that surprise no one:
This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything.
Slavoj Žižek London Review of Books Jan 2011 10min Permalink
On the London riot on 2011, which “tells us a great deal about our ideological-political predicament and about the kind of society we inhabit, a society which celebrates choice but in which the only available alternative to enforced democratic consensus is a blind acting out.”
Slavoj Žižek London Review of Books Aug 2011 10min Permalink
How a town of 29,000 on the Hudson River came to be “one of the most dangerous four-mile stretches in the northeastern United States.”
Patrick Radden Keefe New York Sep 2011 20min Permalink
Dead of an accidental overdose at 28, Derek Boogaard rose from Western Canada’s rugged youth leagues to become on of Hockey’s most feared pugilists. Along the way, what happened to his brain?
John Branch New York Times Dec 2011 40min Permalink
There’s an entire micro-economy based on the pursuit of betterment. The author—58, full-figured, and ferocious in his consumption of cigarettes and scotch—agreed to test its limits.
Christopher Hitchens Vanity Fair Dec 2007 30min Permalink
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A profile of the man who helped invent the modern art of presidential spin and came to embody the blurry line between journalist and government official.
Michael Kelly New York Times Magazine Oct 1993 50min Permalink
The life and times of female comedy LP sensation Rusty Warren, whose bawdy hits like ‘Knockers Up’ commanded the charts and the lounges of the 1960s Midwest.
Kliph Nesteroff WFMU Blog Jun 2010 20min Permalink
“Most cities spread like inkblots; a few, such as Manhattan, grew in linear increments. Paris expanded in concentric rings, approximately shown by the spiral numeration of its arrondissements.”
Luc Sante New York Review of Books Dec 2010 Permalink