Hunting the Men Who Kill Women: Mexico’s Femicide Detective
Although femicide is a recognised crime in Mexico, when a woman disappears, the authorities are notoriously slow to act. But there is someone who will take on their case.
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Although femicide is a recognised crime in Mexico, when a woman disappears, the authorities are notoriously slow to act. But there is someone who will take on their case.
Meaghan Beatley Guardian Feb 2021 Permalink
The unlikely ascent of A.Q. Khan, the scientist who gave Pakistan the Bomb, and his suspicious fall from grace.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic Nov 2005 1h Permalink
The strange life of Boston Corbett, the soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth in 1865.
Ernest B. Ferguson The American Scholar Apr 2009 15min Permalink
The profile of a crime syndicate which dominates the European cocaine trade.
Andreas Ulrich Der Spiegel Jan 2012 20min Permalink
Jimmy McNulty, Mike Daisey, and the problems with skirting the system to get to the greater truth.
Aaron Bady The New Inquiry Mar 2012 10min Permalink
The lives of the Indians who were swallowed in the Bhopal gas cloud, thirty years later.
Jennifer Wells The Toronto Star Nov 2014 50min Permalink
When the music was real, but the bands were fake.
Daniel Ralston Buzzfeed Jun 2016 15min Permalink
The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”
William McGowan Slate Jul 2012 30min Permalink
Traveling the highway that could make Brazil an economic powerhouse — at the expense of the Amazon.
Stephanie Nolen The Globe and Mail Jan 2018 45min Permalink
How the government enabled the one percent to capitalize on the housing crisis.
Francesca Mari The New York Review of Books May 2020 20min Permalink
A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left.
Bill Donahue The Atavist Magazine Aug 2020 40min Permalink
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
Lenny makes $5,000 a week selling coke. It was easy to get into the business after finishing prep school. Getting out and going legit after his final score is proving much more difficult.
David Amsden New York Apr 2006 25min Permalink
In an Oklahoma City neighborhood usually left off city maps, the federal government is implementing its $300 million anti-poverty plan: teaching poor Americans how to get married.
Katherine Boo New Yorker Aug 2003 50min Permalink
The Bohemian Grove is an exclusive, all-male club made up of Presidents, ambassadors, and other world leaders, with a 33 year waiting list for membership. Their booze-soaked annual retreat outside of San Francisco had never been infiltrated—until this story.
Philip Weiss Spy Nov 1989 Permalink
We now know that most mass extinctions in Earth’s history were caused by the same thing. What we don’t know is when it will happen next.
Howard Lee Ars Technica Nov 2017 15min Permalink
At a South Korean laboratory, a once-disgraced doctor is replicating hundreds of deceased pets for the rich and famous.
David Ewing Duncan Vanity Fair Aug 2018 20min Permalink
Black women have been telling the truth about America for a long time. As a Black woman in journalism, my obligation is no less than that.
More than 100,000 city public school students lack permanent housing, caught in bureaucratic limbo that often seems like a trap. This is what their lives are like.
Samantha M. Shapiro New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 50min Permalink
When an 11-year-old Black girl in Jim Crow America discovers a seemingly worthless plot of land she has inherited is worth millions, everything in her life changes—and the walls begin to close in.
Lauren N. Henley Truly*Adventurous Feb 2021 20min Permalink