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Every year, more than $6 billion is raised by breast cancer charities. A look at how much of that money ends up in the hands of scammers.
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Every year, more than $6 billion is raised by breast cancer charities. A look at how much of that money ends up in the hands of scammers.
Lea Goldman Marie Claire Sep 2011 Permalink
An oddball team of ship salvagers is tasked with uprighting a tipped two-football-field-long cargo ship before it sinks into the darkness of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.
Joshua Davis Wired Feb 2008 35min Permalink
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“The days when you could nurture a new idea for months or years are long gone. Today, it has become days and weeks. Increasingly, it is shrinking to hours.”
Meg Whitman HP Matter Jun 2015 Permalink
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
Nicholas Thompson, Fred Vogelstein Wired Feb 2018 40min Permalink
Birds like Roseate Spoonbills and Burrowing Owls are ending up in the stomachs of hungry pythons and nile monitors. Is it too late to stop them?
Chris Sweeney Audubon Sep 2018 20min Permalink
Climate change is propelling enormous human migrations as it transforms global agriculture and remakes the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia.
Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Dec 2020 Permalink
In 1991, Edwin Debrow shot and killed a cab driver on the east side of San Antonio. He was twelve years old. Twenty-five years later, he is still in prison. Is that justice? And is there room for mercy?
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Dec 2016 30min Permalink
How America is trying to fight terrorism in Africa without doing any of the actual fighting.
Eliza Griswold New York Times Magazine Jun 2014 30min Permalink
Relief pitcher Donnie Moore is best known for giving up a crucial home run during Game 5 the 1986 ALCS. It’s not what led to his suicide a few years later.
Michael McKnight Sports Illustrated Oct 2014 10min Permalink
Sallie Belling was an inspirational figure in her community for having overcome a childhood of abuse, drugs, and prostitution — a childhood her sister Rachel says is pure fiction.
Stephanie Wood The Sydney Morning Herald Feb 2016 15min Permalink
“Professional boxing is the only major American sport whose primary, and often murderous, energies are not coyly deflected by such artifacts as balls and pucks.”
Joyce Carol Oates New York Review of Books Feb 1992 15min Permalink
Being exonerated for a crime you didn’t commit is a hard-won triumph. But how can the state make up for what you’ve lost while in prison?
Ariel Levy New Yorker Apr 2015 35min Permalink
A growing movement is seeking a deeper knowledge of themselves through tracking sleep, exercise, sex, food, location, productivity. Technology has made it possible—but hasn’t taught us how to interpret the findings.
Gary Wolf New York Times Magazine Apr 2010 Permalink
By the time Noura Jackson’s conviction was overturned, she had spent nine years in prison. This type of prosecutorial error is almost never punished.
Emily Bazelon New York Times Magazine Aug 2017 30min Permalink
“There has to be some pleasure in this job, and that’s it. To go around in disguise. To act a character. To pass oneself off as what one is not. To pretend.”
Hermione Lee, Philip Roth The Paris Review Sep 1984 25min Permalink
Tonya Crowder still dreams that she and her fiance, Roosevelt Myles—who’s been in prison for decades fighting what he says is a wrongful conviction—will one day build a life together somewhere “nice, quiet, and simple.”
Mari Cohen Chicago Reader Nov 2019 25min Permalink
A Covid diary: This is what I saw as the pandemic engulfed our hospitals.
Helen Ouyang New York Times Magazine Apr 2020 45min Permalink
Trump is vowing to designate the movement as a terrorist organization. But its supporters believe that they are protecting their communities—and that confronting fascists with violence can be justified.
Luke Mogelson New Yorker Oct 2020 40min Permalink
For centuries, everyone from archaeologists to amateurs pillaged artifacts — and human remains. Now, the FBI is cracking down on those who continue to dig.
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson Washington Post Magazine Jul 2021 25min Permalink
The $200 billion industry behind the Snuggie.
Jon Nathanson Priceonomics Nov 2013 20min Permalink
The legacy of Benihana.
Mayukh Sen The Ringer Jul 2018 15min Permalink
The joys of watching baseball.
Roger Angell The Summer Game Feb 1971 20min Permalink
The tale of the only art exhibit in space.
Corey S. Powell, Laurie Gwen Shapiro Slate Dec 2013 30min Permalink
Investigating the investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Noah Shachtman Wired Apr 2011 1h10min Permalink
On the cross-country travels of the fugitive mob boss.
Shelley Murphy The Boston Globe Jan 1998 15min Permalink