
Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart
A full-issue length, 42,000-word history of the dissolution of the Middle East, from the invasion of Iraq 13 years ago until present.
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A full-issue length, 42,000-word history of the dissolution of the Middle East, from the invasion of Iraq 13 years ago until present.
Scott Anderson New York Times Magazine Aug 2016 15min Permalink
Emily Weiss has reinvented herself from reality TV villain to patron saint of dewy skin, no-makeup makeup, and no-commerce commerce. Why young women — and investors — are buying in.
Nitasha Tiku Buzzfeed Aug 2016 25min Permalink
In the beginning, they were known as die Dönermorde – the kebab murders. The victims had little in common, apart from immigrant backgrounds and the modest businesses they ran.
Thomas Meaney The Guardian Dec 2016 25min Permalink
A U.S. Marine’s journey from the Afghan war to an Illinois prison.
C.J. Chivers The New York Times Magazine Dec 2016 1h10min Permalink
How Carl Foreman, while tangling with the House Un-American Activities Committee, turned a throwaway Western into an allegory for the Hollywood blacklist.
Glenn Frankel Vanity Fair Feb 2017 25min Permalink
In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children have fallen unconscious after being informed that their families will be expelled from the country. The patients, doctors say, seem to have lost the will to live.
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Mar 2017 25min Permalink
Her disclosure of classified documents in 2010 ushered in the age of leaks. Now, freed from prison, she talks about why she did it—and the isolation that followed.
Matthew Shaer New York Times Magazine Jun 2017 40min Permalink
Black people struggling with debts are far less likely than their white peers to gain lasting relief from bankruptcy. A style of bankruptcy practiced by lawyers in the South is primarily to blame.
Paul Kiel, Hannah Fresques ProPublica Sep 2017 25min Permalink
At the height of the 2016 election, exaggerated reports of a juvenile sex crime brought a media maelstrom to Twin Falls — one the Idaho city still hasn’t recovered from.
His father was a notorious figure in Providence organized crime. Boxing offered a different path for Jarrod Tillinghast—but it didn’t stop him from slipping into his old ways and robbing drug dealers with his neighborhood friends.
Tim Struby Victory Journal Dec 2017 20min Permalink
A recent episode of This American Life was put together by reporters from Pro Publica based on this original reporting about the bubble-profiteering hedge fund Magnetar.
Jesse Eisinger ProPublica Apr 2010 25min Permalink
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“If you think the mission your country keeps sending you on is pointless or impossible and that you’re only deploying to protect your brothers and sisters in arms from danger, then it’s not the Taliban or al-Qaeda or isis that’s trying to kill you, it’s America.”
Phil Klay The Atlantic Apr 2018 30min Permalink
When the music of Vivaldi and Mozart are used to repel the homeless from sidewalks and Burger Kings, does it still glorify the dignity of humanity?
Theodore Gioia LA Review of Books May 2018 10min Permalink
An in-depth history of the most important pop innovation of the last 20 years, from Cher’s “Believe” to Kanye West to Migos.
Simon Reynolds Pitchfork Jul 2018 40min Permalink
I’m a 36-year-old grown-ass man, and I’m about to start crying on the plane coming back from Game 4. That’s how bad I want it.
Richard Jefferson The Players Tribune Jan 2019 20min Permalink
The trendy DIY teen hip-hop genre went from a goofy punch line to the preposterously lucrative engine driving a whole new golden age in the music biz. But, wow, is it messy.
Carrie Battan GQ Jan 2019 25min Permalink
In May 2018, schoolgirl Ana Kriégel was lured from her home, brought to an abandoned house, and murdered. A year later two 14-year-old boys were found guilty of her killing, becoming the youngest people in the history of Ireland to be convicted of murder.
Conor Gallagher The Irish Times Jun 2019 1h10min Permalink
In the days after 9/11, a photo of an unknown man falling from the South Tower appeared in publications across the globe. This is the story of that photograph, and of the search to find the man pictured in it.
Half a century on from the summer of love, marijuana is big business and mindfulness a workplace routine. Nat Segnit asks how the movement found itself at the heart of capitalism
Nat Segnit 1843 Dec 2019 15min Permalink
Jubilee Baptist is a quasi-socialist, anti-racist, LGBTQ-affirming church conducting a bold experiment: focusing on debt, work, and freedom from oppression instead of fear and moralism.
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Dec 2019 35min Permalink
Randy Quaid and his wife Evi have fled to Canada and are living in their car. They are seeking asylum from the menace of the “Hollywood Star Whackers.”
Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Jan 2011 25min Permalink
George Floyd’s murder is a brutal reminder that the entire legal edifice—from slavery to mass incarceration—was designed to break down black people meticulously. This isn’t accidental.
The Lucas Brothers Vulture Jun 2020 20min Permalink
The gun-touting couple from St. Louis care more about private property than anyone realized.
Jeremy Kohler St. Louis Dispatch Jul 2020 15min Permalink
How a sacred object from the Pueblo of Acoma turned up at a Paris auction house, and how the tribe fought for its return.
Elena Saavedra Buckley High Country News Aug 2020 30min Permalink