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On vandwelling in the wake of the Great Recession.
Mitchell Johnson The Drift Apr 2021 20min Permalink
The fire department working a desolate New Mexico mesa is made up of 15 anarchists and recluses and led by a friendly giant whose job is to be an administrator in a place that defies administration.
Michael Canyon Meyer This Land Aug 2016 25min Permalink
The Bachelor’s host, Chris Harrison, is now a divorced bachelor himself. It turns out coaching single men is a lot easier than being one.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner GQ Jan 2015 20min 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
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In a nondescript office park in suburban Florida, a company you’ve never heard of is making a product that few people have ever seen. And it has $1.4 billion in funding.
Kevin Kelly Wired Apr 2016 Permalink
50onRed is a fixture in Philly’s startup world. But there’s something the leadership didn’t talk about, even with some of its own staff. They make malware.
Juliana Reyes Backchannel May 2016 10min Permalink
Did a handsome young Green Beret doctor kill his pregnant wife and two daughters? Or, as he claims, did a group of candle-carrying hippies carry out a vicious home invasion while chanting “Acid is groovy, kill the pigs”? A mystery that spanned three decades.
Robert Sam Anson Vanity Fair Jul 1998 40min Permalink
The dangerous corporate ethos of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, who is on trial after an explosion at one of his mines killed 29.
Tim Murphy Mother Jones Nov 2015 35min Permalink
Prison rape is an epidemic; but the bulk of abuses are not by prisoners themselves, but by guards and other prison workers.
David Kaiser, Lovisa Stannow NY Review of Books Mar 2011 15min Permalink
Merriam-Webster is revising its most authoritative tome for the digital age. But in an era of twerking and trolling, what should a dictionary look like?
Stefan Fatsis Slate Jan 2015 45min Permalink