Inside the Poisoning of a Russian Double Agent
The hit on Sergei Skripal.
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The hit on Sergei Skripal.
Tom Lamont GQ Aug 2018 Permalink
The woman who moved to a ghost town.
Sarah Gilman High Country News Sep 2018 20min Permalink
“You just stay with the moment.”
Will Welch GQ Style Nov 2018 15min Permalink
What happens when an adoption fails?
Rowan Moore Gerety The Atavist Magazine Jan 2019 40min Permalink
Lost in the woods with James Brown’s ghost.
She also says someone murdered him. Others share her suspicions.
An old notebook holds the clues.
The Godfather of Soul has been dead for 12 years, but the questions have not been put to rest.
Thomas Lake CNN Feb 2019 40min Permalink
A trip to India for total silence.
Michael Finkel Men's Journal Aug 2012 20min Permalink
“We know we down in this shithole together.”
Kiera Feldman ProPublica Jan 2018 40min Permalink
On long-distance grief.
Lauren Collins New Yorker May 2020 15min Permalink
The two poets correspond about basketball, life, and living.
Ross Gay, Noah Davis The Sun Magazine Jun 2020 30min Permalink
A Bad Boy coaches in the WNBA.
Kate Fagan ESPNw Sep 2013 30min Permalink
An interview with Jia Tolentino.
Christopher Bollen, Jia Tolentino Interview Jul 2002 15min Permalink
How the author, following up on a rumor, helped reignite the dormant investigation into the murder of Martha Moxley, a teenager who had been murdered nearly 25 years before in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Dominick Dunne Vanity Fair Oct 2000 35min Permalink
How Service Corporation International corporatized death, driving growth through everything from aggresive acquisitions, volume pricing on caskets and embalming fluid, a “strong flu season,” and pre-selling over $7.5 billion worth of burials.
Paul M. Barrett Businessweek Oct 2013 15min Permalink
How a self-taught doctor from Delhi cornered the black market in kidneys, building one of the world’s most lucrative organ-trading rings, until it all came crashing down.
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee Discover Apr 2010 Permalink
When you’ve never eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich because the idea of peanut butter and jelly touching seems like too much, you turn to legendary chef Daniel Boulud for help.
Mark Anthony Green GQ Mar 2016 20min 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
A history of the women’s television channel and its push to employ female writers and directors long before it became an issue in Hollywood.
Laura Goode Buzzfeed Apr 2016 20min Permalink
Donald Trump has spent decades seeking revenge on the many people who have taunted him. One of them was this reporter, who two years ago wrote that Trump would never run.
McKay Coppins Buzzfeed Jul 2016 30min Permalink
Unraveling the case of a Canadian man suffering from schizophrenia, put on trial for murder in New York, but found not criminally responsible in Nova Scotia.
Amy Dempsey The Toronto Star Aug 2016 35min Permalink
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How women at Fox News ended the career of Roger Ailes.
Gabriel Sherman New York Sep 2016 30min Permalink
They are the most celebrated in the U.S. military. But hidden behind the heroic narratives is a darker, more troubling story of “revenge ops,” unjustified killings, mutilations, and other atrocities.
Matthew Cole The Intercept Jan 2017 55min Permalink
On the tortured psyche of former 49ers coach Bill Walsh and how it led to Finding the Winning Edge, his 550-page guide to the game that has become the football’s bible.
Seth Wickersham ESPN Jan 2013 20min Permalink
On “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez,who terrorized Los Angeles and San Francisco through a string of over 30 home invasion murders starting in 1984 and ending when he was recognized and apprehended by an angry mob.
Joseph Geringer Crime Library Nov 2005 45min Permalink
“You know a storm is going to be bad, people in Oklahoma will tell you, when Gary England removes his jacket.” A profile of a meteorologist who has worked Tornado Alley for more than 40 years.
Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Aug 2013 20min Permalink
Cassie Chadwick pulled her first con in 1870, at the age of 13. Over the next 30 years, she would scam her way to $633,000, about $16.5 million in today’s dollars.
Karen Abbott Smithsonian Jun 2012 10min Permalink