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Nine days in Wuhan.
Peter Hessler New Yorker Oct 2020 30min Permalink
How morality and geography crystalize in Arkansas.
Alice Driver Bitter Southerner Oct 2021 20min Permalink
A small town in Upstate New York, and one family in particular, endures a five-year string of car accidents, suicides, and murders.
E. Jean Carroll Spin Jun 2001 30min Permalink
A man living in the Boston suburbs learns he could be one of the only survivors of a 1982 massacre in Guatemala.
Sebastian Rotella ProPublica May 2012 40min Permalink
How an apartheid-era psychiatrist went from torturing gay soldiers in South Africa to sexually abusing patients in Canada.
Richard Poplak The Walrus Aug 2015 25min Permalink
When 16 women live in a house, compete on a UFC reality show, and punch each other in the face.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Matter Dec 2014 30min Permalink
Overcrowding in prisons leads to doubling up inmates in solitary confinement, regardless of their homicidal intentions or mental health.
Christie Thompson, Joe Shapiro The Marshall Project Mar 2016 20min Permalink
Tracing the path of one of the world’s most in-demand minerals from deadly mines in Congo to your phone.
Todd C. Frankel The Washington Post Sep 2016 30min Permalink
On the promise of 23-year-old Nicholas Cleves, who died in the bike path attack in New York.
John Homans Vanity Fair Nov 2017 Permalink
In 1986, two lovebirds busted out of a coed prison in a hijacked helicopter. They’ve been trying to escape ever since.
David Gauvey Herbert Esquire Dec 2020 30min 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
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
A revolution in full-figured fashion.
Lizzie Widdicombe The New Yorker Sep 2014 25min Permalink
Witnessing one of deadliest landslides in American history.
Brooke Jarvis Seattle Met Nov 2014 25min Permalink
How social media is fueling gang activity in Chicago.
Ben Austen Wired Sep 2013 Permalink