The Plot to Murder Gawker
The complicated relationship between Gawker founder Nick Denton and his arch-nemesis investorr Peter Thiel.
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The complicated relationship between Gawker founder Nick Denton and his arch-nemesis investorr Peter Thiel.
David Margolick Vanity Fair Nov 2016 20min Permalink
The plan, basically: bring back the two founders (who were estranged), focus entirely on mobile, and apologize as much as possible.
Jessi Hempel Wired Oct 2015 25min Permalink
One of the first lefty political bloggers has no job, mostly tweets, and thinks Donald Trump has it right on immigration.
How the Baylor University Medical Center became a force in the heart transplant business.
Matt Goodman D Magazine Feb 2016 20min Permalink
Articles about meditation, solitude, and the quietest square inch in America.
A legend is growing in Nepal, where people say a meditating boy hasn’t eaten or drunk in seven months. He barely moves, just sits under a tree, still as a stone. It’s impossible, some say. Is it a miracle? A hoax? Let’s find out.
George Saunders GQ Jun 2006 40min
A trip to one of America’s quietest places with a man who has dedicated his life to keeping it that way.
Kathleen Dean Moore Orion Nov 2008 15min
Silent since a car accident nine years before, Erik Ramsey prepares to speak again.
Joshua Foer Esquire Oct 2008
A speech on the value of being alone with your thoughts, delivered to the plebe class at West Point.
William Deresiewicz American Scholar Apr 2010 25min
John Cage’s art of noise.
Alex Ross New Yorker Oct 2010 20min
A trip to India for total silence.
Michael Finkel Men’s Journal Aug 2012 20min
The Barden family today.
Eli Saslow The Washington Post Jun 2013 25min
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“What happens when the thing that might save you is also the thing that might destroy the world?”
Mike Monteiro Medium Oct 2017 10min Permalink
A 13-year-old girl was declared brain-dead, but her family disagreed. Her case challenges the very nature of existence.
Rachel Aviv The New Yorker Jan 2018 35min Permalink
A profile of UConn basketball coach Geno Auriemma, who has not found peace despite unprecedented success.
Wright Thompson ESPN W Mar 2018 20min Permalink
The director’s provocative new film will change the way you think about racism
Rembert Browne Time Aug 2018 15min Permalink
What the 1949 film Twelve O’Clock High still tells us about air combat and the burden of command.
John Fleischman Air & Space Oct 2018 20min Permalink
Jason Dill is rebuilding one of the coolest skate brands on the planet, one hand-cut collage at a time.
Noah Johnson GQ Mar 2019 15min Permalink
The rise and fall of basketball player Daniel “Gus” Gerard.
Casey Taylor Deadspin Apr 2019 25min Permalink
On sex education and why people are still so uncomfortable talking about it.
Jessica Pressler Elle Apr 2019 10min Permalink
A confrontation with masculinity gone awry.
Wil S. Hylton New York Times Magazine May 2019 50min Permalink
How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product.
Ian Parker New Yorker Feb 2015 Permalink
“The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront everyday.”
Jason Fagone Huffington Post Highline Apr 2017 30min Permalink
An unarmed man, a cop charged with murder, and the challenge of policing mental illness.
Steve Fennessy Atlanta Magazine Sep 2019 25min Permalink
The true tale of a bodybuilder turned social media influencer who built an illicit empire.
John H. Tucker Boston Magazine Oct 2019 25min Permalink
An amateur sleuth tracks runners who cheat. But how far should he go?
Gordy Megroz Wired Feb 2020 15min Permalink
Exploring your subconscious during quarantine.
Anna Merlan Vice May 2020 30min Permalink
A whirlwind tour of Istanbul’s public baths.
Leslie Jamison The New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 25min Permalink
Adrian Hong says he leads a group of “freedom fighters” conducting a revolution. Has the U.S. already betrayed them?
Suki Kim New Yorker Nov 2020 35min Permalink
The irreconcilable differences between Orthodoxy and secularism increasingly end up in court.
Larissa MacFarquhar New Yorker Nov 2020 40min Permalink
Great dreams, terrible dreams, no dreams at all—a collection of stories about slumber, at Slate.
Collections Business Sex Travel
Paris Hilton, Princeton phonies, and the prince who blew through billions—a collection of articles on young money.
“They cruise the city in chauffeured cars, blasting rap, selling pot to classmates. How some of New York’s richest kids joined forces with some of its poorest.”
Nancy Jo Sales New York Dec 1996 20min
Georgia and Patterson Inman, 15-year-old twins, are the only living heirs to the $1 billion Duke tobacco fortune. They are also emotional wrecks who have barely survived a hellacious childhood.
Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Aug 2013 40min
On the brother of the Sultan of Brunei, Prince Jefri Bolkiah, who has “probably gone through more cash than any other human being on earth.”
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jul 2011 45min
An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.
Walter Kim The Atlantic Jan 2005 35min
A profile of Paris Hilton at the height of her fame.
Vanessa Grigoriadis Rolling Stone Nov 2003 10min
An invite-only social network for Georgetown assholes.
Angela Valdez Washington City Paper Jul 2007 30min
How two sisters, heirs to the Bronfman fortune, may have blown $100 million supporting the cult-like group NXIVM.
Maureen Tkacik The New York Observer Aug 2010
A profile of Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the Malibu-dwelling, “fantastically corrupt” dictator-in-waiting of Equatorial Guinea. Teodorin, as his friends call him, is considered by U.S. intelligence to be “an unstable, reckless idiot.”
Ken Silverstein Foreign Policy Mar 2011 20min
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