I Was a Teenage Conspiracy Theorist
Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a 14-year-old girl.
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Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a 14-year-old girl.
Ellen Cushing The Atlantic May 2020 15min Permalink
Ari Emanuel, Hollywood’s most tenacious agent, tries to remake himself as a mogul.
Connie Bruck The New Yorker Apr 2021 40min Permalink
Indigenous water protectors face off with an oil company and police over a Minnesota pipeline.
Alleen Brown The Intercept Jul 2021 25min Permalink
The enforcer for Oregon’s grocery industry made enemies. One tried to kill him with thallium.
Nigel Jaquiss Willamette Week Nov 2021 20min Permalink
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show’s thrilling, scary, inept performance on German television.
Will Sheff willsheff.com Feb 2013 45min Permalink
An investigation into the ill-fated text messaging platform ZunZuneo.
Desmond Butler, Jack Gillum, Alberto Arce AP Apr 2014 20min Permalink
The Nigerian schoolgirls who escaped Boko Haram.
Sarah A. Topol Matter Oct 2014 Permalink
How a Rhode Island lawyer named Joseph Caramadre made millions by exploiting the life insurance industry’s fine print.
Jake Bernstein ProPublica Aug 2012 20min Permalink
A year and a half with Candace Desmond-Woods, whose husband, and Iraq war veteran, suffers from PTSD and alcoholism.
Christopher Goffard The Los Angeles Times Sep 2013 25min Permalink
The roast where Chevy Chase learned that everyone hates him.
Daniel Fierman Entertainment Weekly Aug 2004 Permalink
The former Perfect Strangers star cheerfully slags Tom Cruise, Eddie Murphy and Denzel Washington, among others.
Nathan Rabin AV Club Oct 2009 25min Permalink
Kylee Kimbrough lost her childhood, lost her sobriety, lost her living situation, and finally even lost her son. Then she found the drums.
Max Blau Creative Loafing Atlanta Dec 2014 20min Permalink
360 degree deals and the music industry’s new hostages.
Naomi Zeichner Buzzfeed Mar 2014 15min Permalink
Before The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen was just another literary novelist with a new book coming out.
Emily Eakin New York Times Magazine Sep 2001 15min Permalink
How the CIA, under a program called MK-ULTRA, used a San Francisco apartment to dose johns with LSD.
Troy Hooper San Francisco Weekly Mar 2012 Permalink
A former sex worker interviews a longtime John on how it feels to pay for it.
Antonia Crane The Rumpus Jun 2012 20min Permalink
“What could possibly be funnier than depositing a perfectly ridiculous, obviously false, fake cheque?”
Patrick Combs The Financial Times Aug 2012 10min Permalink
A writer for Conan O’Brien on how The Tonight Show really ended and on how his boss got screwed.
Todd Levin GQ Jul 2010 20min Permalink
Mr. Lindall was the only high school teacher who understood him. Then Mr. Lindall went to jail, and it was his turn to try to understand.
Robert Kurson Esquire Mar 2000 Permalink
Our favorite articles by the neurologist and writer, who died Sunday.
A patient with Tourette’s resents the treatment for it.
London Review of Books Mar 1981 15min
Being treated, as a doctor, is not all it’s cracked up to be.
London Review of Books Jun 1982 25min
A man’s deteriorating mind can only make sense of the world through music.
London Review of Books May 1983 15min
On blindness.
New York Review of Books Apr 1991 10min
On Temple Grandin.
New Yorker Dec 1993 1h10min
A hike gone terribly wrong.
New York Review of Books Jun 1984 25min
Memories of a scientific childhood.
New Yorker Dec 2012 45min
On life with amnesia and the role that music plays in memory.
New Yorker Apr 2007 30min
Self-experiments in chemistry.
New Yorker Apr 2012 25min
Sacks on learning he had terminal cancer.
New York Times Feb 2015
A final conversation.
Radiolab May 2015
Mar 1981 – May 2015 Permalink
A trip to Papua New Guinea, “an island caught between the ancient world and 2015.”
Kent Russell Huffington Post Highline Oct 2015 40min Permalink
Best Article Business Politics
Was President Trump’s richest adviser focussed on helping the country—or his own bottom line?
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Aug 2017 50min Permalink
The idealistic entrepreneur turns wild experiences into viral videos into actual science into a going business concern.
Twelve years ago, Amber Wyatt reported her rape. Few believed her. Her hometown turned against her. The authorities failed her.
Elizabeth Bruenig Washington Post Sep 2018 40min Permalink
Cardinal Bernard Law knew as early as 1984 John Geoghan was molesting children. The priest would not be defrocked for 14 years.
Kristin Lombardi Boston Phoenix Mar 2001 25min Permalink