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With prices spiralling, poachers are digging for ginseng in the North Carolina hills.
Suzy Khimm Foreign Policy Sep 2016 20min Permalink
How a group of men with nicknames like “Emperor” and “Spear Carrier” tipped the balance in South Sudan’s fight for independence.
Rebecca Hamilton Reuters Jul 2012 20min Permalink
The Great Recession meant great things for Nick Popovich, who gets paid by banks to take planes back from hard-up millionaires.
Marc Weingarten Salon Jun 2009 15min Permalink
On the late comedian Bill Hicks, just as a performance on Letterman is deemed unfit for network TV.
John Lahr New Yorker Nov 1993 20min Permalink
In his work with the White House, is Mohammed bin Salman driving out extremism, or merely seizing power for himself?
Dexter Filkins New Yorker Mar 2018 45min Permalink
What happened next for the Barden family.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Jun 2013 25min Permalink
For decades, Jeffrey Lendrum went to extreme lengths to snatch falcon eggs from their nests and sell them to the highest bidder. Then he got caught.
Joshua Hammer Outside Jan 2019 30min Permalink
A well-known attorney helped land a $2 billion settlement for Gulf Coast seafood-industry workers. But who was he really representing?
Francesca Mari The Atlantic May 2020 30min Permalink
A cloud enthusiast becomes an advocate for a new type of cloud.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine May 2016 20min Permalink
Why now is the time to rethink COVID safety protocols for children—and everyone else.
David Wallace-Wells New York Jul 2021 40min Permalink
On light pollution and a place called Gerlach.
Oliver Roeder FiveThirtyEight Feb 2017 20min Permalink
How a brilliant self-made software programmer from South Africa single-handedly built an online startup that became one of the largest individual contributors to America’s burgeoning painkiller epidemic. In his world, everything was for sale. Pure methamphetamine manufactured in North Korea. Yachts built to outrun coast guards. Police protection and judges’ favor. Crates of military-grade weapons. Private jets full of gold. Missile-guidance systems. Unbreakable encryption. African militias. Explosives. Kidnapping. Torture. Murder. It's a world that lurks just outside of our everyday perception, in the dark corners of the internet we never visit, the quiet ports where ships slip in by night, the back room of the clinic down the street.
Evan Ratliff Wired Jan 2019 25min Permalink
What two years in Gracie Mansion have meant for a woman who aspired to be the “voice for the forgotten voices.”
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah New York Times Magazine Feb 2016 35min Permalink
On systemic corrpution in the upper house of British Parliament, where lawmakers have the freedom to work for any business—banks, oil companies, Facebook—willing to pay for their “expertise.”
Justin Scheck, Charles Forelle Wall Street Journal Nov 2014 10min Permalink
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A single-page version of Shalhoup’s reporting on the Black Mafia Family, one of the largest cocaine empires in American history.
Arthur and Kathleen Breitman thought they held the secret to building a new decentralized utopia. On the way, they plunged into a new kind of hell.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus Wired Jun 2018 40min Permalink
There was no doubt: Jeremy Gross had brutally murdered a convenience store clerk. All that was left to decide was his punishment. Death or life without parole? The story of a capital murder trial, as seen from the jury box.
Alex Kotlowitz New York Times Magazine Jul 2003 35min Permalink
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How the CIA used a fake science fiction film to sneak six Americans out of revolutionary Iran. The declassified story that became Ben Affleck’s Argo.
Joshuah Bearman Wired Apr 2007 20min Permalink
For more than a century, boys were sent to the Florida School for Boys reformatory. Many were beaten brutally and bear the physical and psychological scars to this day. Many others, though, never came home.
A search for lost boys and the reasons why they died.
A neglected cemetery yields more bodies than expected, but names are harder to find.
Ben Montgomery Tampa Bay Times Dec 2014 50min Permalink
Two Paths for the Future of Text: Steven Berlin Johnson’s lecture on “commonplace” books in which great 17th and 18th century thinkers compiled their browsing, and what it means for journalism today.
Steven Berlin Johnson stevenberlinjohnson.com Apr 2010 15min Permalink
Bryce Masters was 17 years old when a police officer tased him for 23 seconds. His heart stopped for almost eight minutes. His life will never be the same.
Nick Berardini, Matt Stroud The Intercept Jun 2016 35min Permalink
A terrifying night with Afghanistan's only female warlord, the bungled theft of a $6 million violin and an explanation of Gamergate — the most read articles this week in the new Longform App, available free for iPhone and iPad.
A dispatch from Lima, Ohio.
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone 45min
Inside the stronghold of Commander Pigeon, “collector of lost and exiled men.”
Jen Percy The New Republic 20min
The bungled theft of a $6 million violin.
Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair Mar 2002 20min
Jamie Smith said he was a co-founder of Blackwater and a former CIA officer. He appeared on cable news as a counterterrorism expert and he received millions in goverment contracts to train personnel. The money was real. The resume wasn’t.
Ace Atkins, Michael Fechter Outside 35min
How a small group of gamers has been able to “set the terms of debate in a $100 billion industry, even as they send women like Brianna Wu into hiding and show every sign that they intend to keep doing so until all their demands are met.”
Kyle Wagner Deadspin 20min
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Life inside Za’atari, a camp for Syrian refugees just across the Jordanian border, where “the dispossession is absolute. Everyone has lost his country, his home, his equilibrium. Most have lost a family member or a friend. What is left is a kind of theatrical pride, the necessary performance of will.”
David Remnick New Yorker Aug 2013 30min Permalink
Arriving in China at 23, Sidney Rittenberg spent 35 years as a “friend, confidante, translator, and journalist” for the Communist Party’s top leaders. In this interview, he recalls both his friendship with Chairman Mao and the 16 years he spent in solitary confinement.
Matt Schiavenza The Atlantic Dec 2013 20min Permalink
From her early political career to the challenges she's faced in 2016 — a reading list on the Democratic nominee for president.
“Hillary Clinton was never a shy person.”
Connie Bruck New Yorker May 1994 2h10min
Two biographies of Hillary Clinton do not get us any closer to understanding her.
Linda Colley London Review of Books Aug 2007 10min
On Clinton’s Arab Spring.
Jonathan Alter Vanity Fair Jun 2011 30min
GROSS: I am just trying to clarify so I can understand.
CLINTON: No, I don't think you are trying to clarify. I think you're trying to say that, you know, I used to be opposed and now I'm in favor and I did it for political reasons. And that's just flat wrong. So let me just state what I feel like you are implying and repudiate it. I have a strong record. I have a great commitment to this issue and I am proud of what I've done and the progress we're making.
Terry Gross Fresh Air Jun 2014 30min
The drawbacks of being the front-runner.
Ryan Lizza New Yorker Nov 2014 25min
There’s nothing simple about this candidacy—or candidate.
Rebecca Traister New York May 2016 35min
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