A Beast in the Heart of Every Fighting Man
What if soldiers from ‘Kill Team’ (and others who have murdered innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq) aren’t simply the “few bad apples” that military writes them off as?
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What if soldiers from ‘Kill Team’ (and others who have murdered innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq) aren’t simply the “few bad apples” that military writes them off as?
Luke Mogelson New York Times Magazine Apr 2011 1h15min Permalink
Bernard Peters and his son, Scott, robbed and shot a Salvation Army worker in 1996. Since then, they’ve been sharing a cell at Elmira Correctional Facility.
Manny Fernandez New York Times May 2011 Permalink
On the ground in Nigeria with the nation’s notorious scam artists, who share a remarkable number of qualities with America’s top entrepreneurs.
Sarah Lacy TechCrunch May 2011 10min Permalink
Abdul Raziq, a 33-year-old warlord, is an increasingly powerful player in Afghanistan and the recipient of substantial U.S. support. He may also be the perpetrator of a civilian massacre.
Matthieu Aikins The Atlantic Nov 2011 10min Permalink
The rise and fall of the Seven-Seven - stationed in the war zone of 1980’s Crown Heights, Brooklyn - and how an idealistic young recruit became part of cash-snatching, drug-reselling, renegade clique of cops
Michael Daly New York Dec 1986 30min Permalink
“Will you show me all of the man-in-the-street, sympathetic, mayoral candidates? The last time I met one of them on the subway was a long time ago. Let’s not get too carried away.”
Chris Smith New York Sep 2013 25min Permalink
Last year, the U.S. state department said it had uncovered a fake embassy in Accra that had been issuing a stream of forged visas. The story went viral. It was wrong.
Yepoka Yeebo The Guardian Nov 2017 20min Permalink
On the revolutionaries, highly-paid negotiators, former spies, foreign businessmen and their families, who all played roles in the massive Colombian kidnap and ransom industry during its 1990s heyday.
William Prochnau Vanity Fair May 1998 20min Permalink
For the Zulu club, a black social organization in New Orleans, Mardi Gras was a joy. The coronavirus made it a tragedy.
Linda Villarosa New York Times Magazine Apr 2020 30min Permalink
An examination of Brazil’s immense tannery industry shows how hides from illegally deforested ranches can easily reach the global marketplace. In the United States, much of the demand for Brazilian leather comes from automakers.
Manuela Andreoni, Hiroko Tabuchi, Albert Sun New York Times Nov 2021 15min Permalink
In the 1950s, L.S.D. became a Beverly Hills’ therapy fad, and it profoundly changed idols like Cary Grant.
Judy Balaban, Cary Beauchamp Vanity Fair Jul 2010 25min Permalink
An interview with Pope Francis.
Antonio Spadaro SJ America Sep 2013 50min Permalink
The movement at Standing Rock.
Wes Enzinna Mother Jones Dec 2016 10min Permalink
The legacy of late hip-hop producer Paul C.
Dave Tompkins 360hiphop Jan 2001 35min Permalink
The people behind “the only American luxury compact sport sedan.”
Justin Heckert Esquire Sep 2012 25min Permalink
A suddenly haunting profile of Joe Paterno, living legend.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Oct 2007 25min
An 11-month investigation ends with a booster, now in prison for a Ponzi scheme, going public with details of how he spent millions on college athletes from 2002 to 2010.
Charles Robinson Yahoo! Sports Aug 2011 30min
The gambler responsible for a point-shaving scandal at Boston College, now a government witness, offers a nuts-and-bolts explanation of how one goes about fixing college sports.
Henry Hill, Douglas S. Looney Sports Illustrated Feb 1981
An infamous article on the social dynamics on the Duke campus—it opens at a foam party thrown by a frat—published at the height of the lacrosse team scandal.
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone Sep 2006 25min
A profile of UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian, who at the time appeared to be losing his 19-year-long battle with the NCAA.
Michael J. Goodman Los Angeles Times Feb 1992 25min
The case for paying college athletes.
Taylor Branch Atlantic Sep 2011 35min
Feb 1981 – Sep 2011 Permalink
A young man, newly out to his parents, undergoes “ex-gay” therapy.
Gabriel Arana American Prospect Apr 2012 20min
A rugby legend makes history.
Gary Smith Sports Illustrated May 2010 30min
On gay life in Saudi Arabia, where coming out is not an option.
Nadya Labi Atlantic May 2007 25min
How parents and communities are scrambling to adapt as kids start identifying as gay earlier and earlier.
Benoit Denizet-Lewis New York Times Sep 2009
A 32-year-old lets go.
Steve Kornacki Salon Nov 2001 10min
Getting to the truth in the story Tyler Clementi, a gay student at Rutgers, who committed suicide and was spied on by his roommate Dhaurn Ravi. Shortly after this article was published, Ravi was convicted of hate crimes.
Ian Parker New Yorker Feb 2012 50min
Nov 2001 – Apr 2012 Permalink
There were so many ways the two planes could have avoided the collision. The odds were so slim. But high above the Amazon in 2006, a combination of technology and human fallibility brought them together.
William Langewiesche Vanity Fair Jan 2009 55min
Life as an air-traffic controller at LaGuardia.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Mar 2008 35min
The transcript of a disaster.
Jeff Wise Popular Mechanics Dec 2011 10min
The story of Southwest Airlines.
S.C. Gwynne Texas Monthly Mar 2012
On the attempted hijacking of a FedEx flight by a FedEx employee.
Alan Bellows Damn Interesting Jan 2012 15min
On the dream of a transportation system reliant as much on small, safe commuter planes as cars.
Jim Fallows New York Times Magazine Nov 1999 20min
The author, two years old when Southern Flight 242 crashed in his backyard, reports on the aftermath, both for his family and for the passengers.
Eddie Burkhalter Anniston Star May 2012 20min
Nov 1999 – May 2012 Permalink
The unpleasant, impossible task of the dealing with the infamous former sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.
A.J. Daulerio Deadspin Jun 2012 10min
As editor-in-chief of Variety, Peter Bart was one of the most powerful people in the entertainment industry. This piece got him suspended.
Amy Wallace Los Angeles Sep 2001 45min
A profile of Steven T. Florio, then-president and CEO of Condé Nast Publications.
Joseph Nocera and Peter Elkind Fortune Jul 1998 25min
Taibbi goes after New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman for both his politics and his prose.
Matt Taibbi New York Press Apr 2005 10min
Ostensibly a review of several releases on the TED Books imprint, this becomes an evisceration of the entire TED-talk culture of pop intellectualism.
Evgeny Morozov New Republic Aug 2012 25min
A look at the internal culture at Microsoft under Steve Ballmer.
Kurt Eichenwald Vanity Fair Aug 2012 30min
Jul 1998 – Aug 2012 Permalink
John McCain
Todd Purdum Vanity Fair Nov 2010 25min
John Kerry
James Traub New York Times Magazine Jul 2011 25min
Al Gore
David Remnick New Yorker Sep 2004 50min
Bob Dole
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Jul 2012 10min
George H.W. Bush
Paul Burka Texas Monthly Nov 1997
George McGovern
Michael Leahy Washington Post Feb 2005 35min
Nov 1997 – Jul 2012 Permalink
Taking a taxi across the Saudi desert.
Dave Eggers New Statesman May 2014 45min Permalink
Inside the Nairobi Westgate Mall massacre.
Tristan McConnell Foreign Policy Sep 2015 35min Permalink
A personal and legal history of assisted suicide.
Kevin Drum Mother Jones Jan 2016 15min Permalink
Tracing the Boston Marathon route via the people who live and work along its course.
Leigh Montville Sports Illustrated Apr 1987 25min Permalink
On the writer and his impact on his subjects.
Jessica Pressler New York Oct 2011 15min Permalink