Operation Trump
Inside the most unorthodox campaign in political history.
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Inside the most unorthodox campaign in political history.
Gabriel Sherman New York Apr 2016 30min Permalink
Living and working in the tech world.
Anna Wiener n+1 Apr 2016 25min Permalink
“The crisis in Flint isn’t over. It’s everywhere.”
Ben Paynter Wired Jun 2016 Permalink
Life for women in the trucking industry.
Mary Pilon Mary Review Jul 2016 25min Permalink
A war on wolves in Utah.
Jeremy Miller Harper's Dec 2016 25min Permalink
Chess in Cuba.
Brin-Jonathan Butler Southwest the Magazine May 2016 15min Permalink
On oil spills in Colombia.
Jessica Camille Aguirre Harper's Feb 2021 15min Permalink
“Adaptation is one explanation of how a lot of executives stay alive. As the fish in the Silurian rivers began to develop swim bladders in order to live in shoal waters, so American executives have developed certain compensating features. The process can be observed particularly in the big cities where conditions are the most trying. Executives have developed an insensitivity to noise, an uncanny time sense (needed in commuting), and an attunement to the city’s terrifying rhythms. Instead of trying to escape the phenomenon of modern life they fling themselves at it.”
Duncan Norton-Taylor Fortune Jul 1955 25min Permalink
In Harpersville, Alabama, a traffic violation can lead to months in jail and a never-ending stint in a work-release program – what some refer to as a modern-day debtors’ prison.
NYT journalist David Rohde’s alternately terrifying and absurd first person account of his kidnapping en route to an interview in Southern Afghanistan and the subsequent seven months he, along with his translator and driver, spent in captivity in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
David Rohde New York Times Oct 2009 1h Permalink
He arrived in Bolivia in November 1966, disguised as a Uruguayan businessman. After desertions, drownings, and difficulty contacting their support group in La Paz, his small troop was surrounded the following October. The inside story of how they were found and destroyed.
Michael Ratner, MIchael Steven Smith Guernica Oct 2011 40min Permalink
In “Operation Mincemeat” a vagrant’s corpse, raided from a London morgue, washed up on a beach in Spain, setting in motion an elaborate piece of espionage that fooled Nazi intelligence. Or did it?
Malcolm Gladwell New Yorker May 2010 20min Permalink
Brian Windhorst was one of the first reporters to cover LeBron James. He was there in high school. There at the draft. There in Cleveland. And now he’s there in Miami, though the relationship is far from what it used to be.
In April 2016, eight family members were slain in their homes in Ohio. Nine months later, the killer or killers are still on the loose, and the town has all but forgotten the crimes.
Kathleen Hale Hazlitt Jan 2017 25min Permalink
“In a landscape in which black people dominate the culture but have few recognized channels to respond to it, the show, which stars two American black men, provides a venue for black authority in the mainstream.”
Jazmine Hughes New York Times Magazine Jun 2018 15min Permalink
In Aug. 2008, the U.S. military called in an airstrike on its own security guards in Afghanistan. Dozens of children were killed.
Brett Murphy USA Today Jan 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
The developer responsible for the tallest residential building in New York—the penthouse just sold for $90 million—lives in a two-story house in Queens.
Devin Leonard Businessweek Oct 2014 15min Permalink
They were raised Hasidic in Brooklyn. Now Abe Zeines and Meir Hurwitz live a decadent, booze-filled life in Puerto Rico. They are in their early 30s and rich enough to retire, while Wall Street is busy adopting the shady loan scheme they pioneered.
Zeke Faux Businessweek Oct 2015 15min Permalink
Mark Karpelès ran the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world until a heist made it insolvent, ultimately landing him in solitary confinement in Japanese prison.
Jen Wieczner Fortune Apr 2018 Permalink
Hamid Abd-Al-Jabbar and David Thompson bonded in juvenile detention in the 1980s, then spent most of the next 40 years in prison. When they emerged from one of the country’s most unforgiving state penal systems, their friendship proved crucial.
Champe Barton The Trace Jul 2021 30min Permalink
Separated from his older brother at a train, five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan found himself lost in the slums of Calcutta. In his 20s, living in Australia, he began his search for his birth home armed with nothing but hazy memories and Google Earth.
David Kushner Vanity Fair Oct 2012 20min Permalink
In 1970, he was plucked from Saigon to attend West Point. He got his degree and went home to fight, but instead spent six years in a reeducation camp. Then, somehow, he ended up teaching high school in D.C.
Chip Scanlan Washington Post Magazine Jul 1992 30min Permalink
Half a century ago, an American commando vanished in the jungles of Laos. In 2008, he reappeared in Vietnam, reportedly alive and well. But nothing was what it seemed.
Matthew Shaer The Atavist Magazine Feb 2017 35min Permalink
Developed by early computer engineers in their spare time, improved in University comp-sci labs, and ultimately sold in coffeeshops for ten cents per game. Inside one of the most influential games ever played.
Stewart Brand Rolling Stone Dec 1972 35min Permalink