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In 1988, 59 fifth graders in Washington D.C. were promised a free college education. This is the story of what followed.
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In 1988, 59 fifth graders in Washington D.C. were promised a free college education. This is the story of what followed.
Paul Schwartzman Washington Post Dec 2011 40min Permalink
How the former Bush advisor is “reengineering the practice of partisan money management in hopes of drumming Barack Obama out of the White House.”
Paul M. Barrett Businessweek Jul 2012 15min Permalink
June 4, 1974: the first and last 10-cent beer night in Cleveland Indians history.
Paul Jackson ESPN Jun 2008 15min Permalink
The head of the Social Security Administration’s secret life as a respected poet.
Paul Mariani First Things Jun 2010 Permalink
The author joins his father’s work crew, gutting out foreclosed houses in Florida and interviewing their former residents.
Paul Reyes Harper's Oct 2008 Permalink
Paul Phua rose from a Borneo numbers runner to being the biggest bookmaker in the world. Then he found poker.
Brett Forrest ESPN Nov 2015 30min Permalink
Reg Smythe was the greatest British newspaper strip cartoonist of the 20th Century – and second only to Peanuts’ Charles Schulz on a global scale. So why don’t we treat him that way?
Paul Slade PlanetSlade Aug 2012 2h25min Permalink
Part 1 of “The Mastermind,” a serialized investigation of Paul Le Roux, who went from brilliant programmer to vicious cartel boss to highly protected U.S. government asset.
Evan Ratliff The Atavist Magazine Mar 2016 Permalink
A minute by minute account of the officers and first responders on the scene of the San Bernadino shooting and the subsequent firefight between police and and the Farooks.
Brian Ross, Megan Christie, Josh Margolin, Rhonda Schwartz, Paul Blake ABC News Dec 2016 10min Permalink
A six-part series on a Minnesota farm family facing with the worst U.S. agricultural crisis since the Depression. Winner of 1986 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.
John Camp St. Paul Pioneer Press May–Dec 1985 1h20min Permalink
Schaeffer Cox, who is accused of plotting to kill State Troopers and a federal judge, shifted rapidly from a Ron Paul campaign worker and Tea Party activist to a hardcore militia leader. His conspiracy revealed, mainstream Alaskan politicians are scrambling to distance themselves from their ties to Cox.
David Holthouse Anchorage Press Mar 2011 Permalink
Three interviews with John Gardner, author of Grendel and The Art of Fiction, conducted over the last decade of his life.
Frank McConnell, John Gardner, John R. Maier, Paul F. Ferguson, Sara Matthiessen The Paris Review Apr 1979 50min Permalink
A collection of picks on Montreal's plow racket, what it’s like to freeze to death, the wilds of eastern Siberia and more.
Collusion, sabotage, violence—inside Montreal’s no-holds-barred snow removal racket.
Selena Ross Maisonneuve Apr 2012 20min
First chill, then stupor, then letting go.
Peter Stark Outside Jan 1997 15min
In 1912, 300 miles deep on a trek into the uncharted Antarctic wilderness, Douglas Mawson lost most of his crew and supplies. This is the story of how he got back.
David Roberts National Geographic Jan 2013 10min
A dispatch from eastern Siberia, a realm of steel-shattering cold and nullifying vastness sometimes called “the white hell.”
Jeffrey Tayler The Atlantic Apr 1997 20min
In 2001, a young Japanese woman walked into the North Dakota woods. Had she come in search of the $1 million dollars buried by a fictional character in the film Fargo?
Paul Berczeller The Guardian Jun 2003 10min
How the ski town of the super-rich responds to global warming.
Nathaniel Rich Men's Journal Feb 2014 30min
The avalanche at Tunnel Creek.
John Branch New York Times Dec 2012 10min
A trip to the Iditarod.
Brian Phillips Grantland Apr 2013 20min
Jan 1997 – Feb 2014 Permalink
A Wisconsin basement gave birth to one of the most influential narratives of our times – Dungeons and Dragons – sending its creator, E. Gary Gygax, on a strange and perilous journey of his own.
Paul LaFarge The Believer Sep 2006 40min Permalink
An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That’s good news for corporations and the wealthy.
Paul Kiel, Jesse Eisinger ProPublica Dec 2018 25min Permalink
Paul Wulff, a college football coach, was only 12 when his mother vanished from their family home. After 41 years of searching, he finally has been able to piece together some details of a mystery that upended both his life and family.
Kyle Bonagura, Adam Rittenberg ESPN Aug 2021 20min Permalink
The story of TWA Flight 841.
Hear Buzz Bissinger discuss this story, a Pultizer finalist now available online for the first time, on the Longform Podcast.
Buzz Bissinger St. Paul Pioneer Press May 1981 25min Permalink
The CEO of the US’s biggest bank doesn’t have much charisma or a track record, but he’s “doing as well as any little Dutch boy can—sticking his fingers in the dike.”
Dawn Kopecki, Paul M. Barrett Businessweek Sep 2011 20min Permalink
A false confession to bad cops put a man in prison for rape and murder. But even conclusive DNA evidence hasn’t gotten him out.
Paul Solotaroff Rolling Stone Mar 2015 30min Permalink
Not long ago, Rand Paul, opthalmologist and son of Ron, would have been written off as a wacky extremist. Thanks to his Dad and the Tea Partiers, he’s poised to become the most radical member of the U.S Senate.
Jason Zengerle GQ Oct 2010 20min Permalink
But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It's its own thing. And like other media it has a question that it answers better than any other. That question is: Why wasn't I consulted?
Paul Ford Ftrain.com Jan 2011 10min Permalink
The second richest musician in the world, behind Paul McCartney, is James Dolan, owner of the Knicks and Madison Square Garden, whose band JD & The Straight Shot toured opening for Jewel behind an album that sold 113 copies.
Dave McKenna Deadspin May 2016 25min Permalink
Stories about the cases that wind through the Old Supreme Court Chamber and the justices who have shaped its legacy.
Sex, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court.
Jill Lepore New Yorker May 2015 20min
Analysis of the trial from future Supreme Court justice.
Felix Frankfurter The Atlantic Mar 1927 1h15min
Every law student knows John Brady’s name. But few know the story of the bumbling murder that ended in a landmark legal ruling.
Thomas L. Dybdahl The Marshall Project Jun 2018 20min
The Supreme Court justice on gay rights, the problem with consensus, and the Devil.
Jennifer Senior New York Oct 2013 25min
In 1976, newly appointed Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens voted to reinstate capital punishment in the United States. Thirty years later, he argued that it’s unconstitutional. Here, he explains why he changed his mind.
John Paul Stevens New York Review of Books Dec 2010 15min
How Chief Justice John Roberts pulled off Citizens United.
Jeffrey Toobin New Yorker May 2012 40min
How Neil Gorsuch became the second-most-polarizing man in Washington.
Simon van Zuylen-Wood New York May 2018 20min
On the combined force of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia, a Tea Party stalwart.
Jeffrey Toobin New Yorker Aug 2011 35min
No one argues before the Supreme Court more than Tommy Goldstein.
Noam Scheiber The New Republic Apr 2006 20min
Mar 1927 – Jun 2018 Permalink
From the beginning, Intuit recognized that its success depended on two parallel missions: stoking innovation in Silicon Valley while stifling it in Washington. Indeed, employees ruefully joke that the company’s motto should actually be “compromise without integrity.”
Justin Elliott, Paul Kiel ProPublica Oct 2019 30min Permalink
There’s a hidden cost to the way Florida’s farmers bring in the sugar crop. Just visit the hospitals and measure the climate impact.
Paul Tullis Bloomberg Businessweek Mar 2020 15min Permalink