My Front-Row Seat to the Decline of Democracy in India
A reporter watches as a Hindu nationalist government uses tech from the companies he covers to destroy a secular democracy.
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A reporter watches as a Hindu nationalist government uses tech from the companies he covers to destroy a secular democracy.
Pranav Dixit Buzzfeed News Apr 2021 20min Permalink
The Charleston-based evangelicals had much in common: guns, God, Trump. What went wrong, only one of them could say.
Alice Robb Vanity Fair Sep 2021 25min Permalink
How a con man named James McCormick sold $38 million worth of phony bomb-detection devices to Iraqi authorities.
Adam Higginbotham Businessweek Jul 2013 20min Permalink
A two-week island experience involving a 70-year-old interloper, his mannequin girlfriend, a couple of dogs and very little else.
Kent Russell The New Republic Sep 2013 35min Permalink
Google and Tesla are spending billions to develop driverless technology. George Hotz used an Acura.
Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2015 15min Permalink
An alleged rape and one woman’s futile quest for justice in modern China.
john Garnaut, Sanghee Liu Foreign Policy Nov 2012 10min Permalink
“What follows is my attempt, based on a few increasingly hostile exchanges and a close reading of his terrible book, not only to examine why Mariotti is currently jobless but to explain why, in a sane world, he should forever remain that way. I present this as a cautionary tale for other sportswriters, both young and old.”
A.J. Daulerio Deadspin Jun 2012 10min Permalink
A few years ago, before anyone knew his name, before rap artists from all over the country started hitting him up for music, the rap producer Lex Luger, born Lexus Lewis, now age 20, sat down in his dad’s kitchen in Suffolk, Va., opened a sound-mixing program called Fruity Loops on his laptop and created a new track... Months later, Luger — who says he was “broke as a joke” by that point, about to become a father for the second time and seriously considering taking a job stocking boxes in a warehouse — heard that same beat on the radio, transformed into a Waka song called “Hard in da Paint.” Before long, he couldn’t get away from it.
Alex Pappademas New York Times Magazine Nov 2011 15min Permalink
How a creator of Assassin’s Creed sold investors on a magic marijuana product that he claimed could predictably produce specific feelings in users.
Update: Co-founder Michael Wendschuh has attempted to subpoena Alex Halperin’s notes and sources.
Alex Halperin Pando Jun 2016 Permalink
Two men were sent to prison for killing a French tourist in Manhattan in 1987. Can they overturn their convictions?
Jennifer Gonnerman New Yorker Feb 2020 20min Permalink
Mitch McConnell’s refusal to rein in the President is looking riskier than ever.
Jane Mayer New Yorker Apr 2020 35min Permalink
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A visit to the hotel North Korea starved to build, still unfinished after breaking ground in 1987.
Simon Parry The Daily Mail Dec 2012 10min Permalink
“Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic Jul 2015 35min Permalink
On working in a war zone to pay the bills.
Anonymous The Billfold Sep 2012 15min Permalink
In 2011, just before Christmas, a tiny Spanish town won 120 million Euros in the lottery. A trip to the new Sodeto.
Michael Paterniti GQ May 2013 25min Permalink
As a father succumbs to lung cancer, his son tries to recreate his personality in the form of a chatbot.
James Vlahos Wired Jul 2017 30min Permalink
Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Dec 2020 20min Permalink
“Brace Belden can’t remember exactly when he decided to give up his life as a punk-rocker turned florist turned boxing-gym manager in San Francisco, buy a plane ticket to Iraq, sneak across the border into Syria, and take up arms against the Islamic State. But as with many major life decisions, Belden, who is 27 — “a true idiot’s age,” in his estimation — says it happened gradually and then all at once.”
Reeves Wiedeman New York Apr 2017 25min Permalink
Struggling to go legal in the underworld of finch smuggling.
Kimon de Greef Guernica Mar 2021 15min Permalink
The untold story of steroids in baseball.
Tom Verducci Sports Illustrated May 2012 40min Permalink
The love story behind the battle over gay marriage in Texas.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Mar 2015 40min Permalink
Two brothers attempt to bond on a trek in the Cascades
Steve Friedman Outside Apr 2020 Permalink
On former Knicks savior Stephon Marbury and his post-NBA life playing in China.
Wells Tower GQ Apr 2011 25min Permalink