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The director’s provocative new film will change the way you think about racism
Rembert Browne Time Aug 2018 15min Permalink
What the 1949 film Twelve O’Clock High still tells us about air combat and the burden of command.
John Fleischman Air & Space Oct 2018 20min Permalink
The rise and fall of basketball player Daniel “Gus” Gerard.
Casey Taylor Deadspin Apr 2019 25min Permalink
On sex education and why people are still so uncomfortable talking about it.
Jessica Pressler Elle Apr 2019 10min Permalink
How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product.
Ian Parker New Yorker Feb 2015 Permalink
“The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront everyday.”
Jason Fagone Huffington Post Highline Apr 2017 30min Permalink
An unarmed man, a cop charged with murder, and the challenge of policing mental illness.
Steve Fennessy Atlanta Magazine Sep 2019 25min Permalink
The true tale of a bodybuilder turned social media influencer who built an illicit empire.
John H. Tucker Boston Magazine Oct 2019 25min Permalink
An amateur sleuth tracks runners who cheat. But how far should he go?
Gordy Megroz Wired Feb 2020 15min Permalink
Exploring your subconscious during quarantine.
Anna Merlan Vice May 2020 30min Permalink
Adrian Hong says he leads a group of “freedom fighters” conducting a revolution. Has the U.S. already betrayed them?
Suki Kim New Yorker Nov 2020 35min Permalink
The irreconcilable differences between Orthodoxy and secularism increasingly end up in court.
Larissa MacFarquhar New Yorker Nov 2020 40min Permalink
Picks on Carlin, Seinfeld, Rivers, Pryor and more.
Why the richest comedian in history keeps working.
Jonah Weiner The New York Times Magazine Dec 2012 15min
A look at the life and career of Richard Pryor as he reached the end.
Hilton Als New Yorker Sep 1999
Carlin on his start, his work, and his addictions.
Sam Merrill Playboy Jan 1982 55min
The rise and fall, and rise and fall, of a legend.
Jonathan Van Meter New York May 2010 25min
Searching for Dave Chappelle ten years after he left his show.
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah The Believer Oct 2013 35min
A young Allen writes jokes for supper club comedians, decides he will never succeed as a performer, does, idolizes and is snubbed by Mort Sahl, and develops the comic persona which will make him a star.
Kliph Nesteroff WFMU Blog Feb 2010 45min
On Sarah Silverman’s stand-up style.
Dana Goodyear New Yorker Oct 2005 20min
A profile of Larry David, with a focus on his years as a struggling stand-up.
James Kaplan New Yorker Jan 2004 25min
A profile of the reclusive Garry Shandling.
Amy Wallace GQ Aug 2010
She’s TV’s loudmouth Domestic Goddess, desecrater of our national anthem and most of our notions of good taste. And she has a secret. Meet Baby, Cindy, Susan, Nobody, Joey, Heather and the rest: An adventure in Multiple Personality Disorder.
Mike Sager Esquire Aug 2001 25min
Remembering the unsparing Patrice O’Neal.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc New York May 2012
Outtakes from a Rolling Stone profile.
Jonah Weiner The Writearound Jan 2012 45min
Jan 1982 – Oct 2013 Permalink
More than 50 years after Nelson Rockefeller's son went missing following a boat accident in New Guinea, the true story emerges. He made it to shore, but didn't make it much farther.
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Carl Hoffmann Smithsonian Feb 2014 Permalink
A prolific fundraiser and dean at St. John’s University, Cecilia Chang was also accused of murdering her husband and had connections to organized crime. Two days after she was convicted of stealing more than $1 million from the schoool, she took her own life.
Jimmy Breslin on Joe Namath, Mike Sager on Todd Marinovich, and George Plimpton on himself — a collection of our favorite articles ever written about QBs.
On the desolate career of Todd Marinovich, who was engineered from birth to be an NFL quarterback and ended up a junkie.
Mike Sager Esquire May 2009 40min
A detailed account of Plimpton’s 5-play tenure as quarterback of the Detroit Lions.
George Plimpton Sports Illustrated Sep 1964 25min
Jared Lorenzen was a star quarterback in college. He won a Super Bowl. And just like the author, he has spent his entire life fighting, and losing, a battle with his weight.
Tommy Tomlinson ESPN the Magazine Aug 2014 15min
The stories of the 109 black men who have played quarterback in the NFL, from Fritz Pollard to Russell Wilson.
Greg Howard Deadspin Feb 2014 40min
A profile of Eli Manning—brother of Peyton, son of Archie, future Super Bowl MVP—published shortly after his first NFL start.
Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Dec 2004 40min
Catching up with Jake Plummer, who turned down a $5 million contract and left the NFL while still in his prime to concentrate on playing handball.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Feb 2011 30min
A profile of Tim Tebow as he dealt with NFL skeptics on the eve of his final college season.
Jason Fagone GQ Sep 2009 25min
Over a scotch a few months after his underdog Jets won Super Bowl III, a 26-year-old Joe Namath told Jimmy Breslin what he’d done the night before the game: “I went out and got a bottle and grabbed this girl.”
Jimmy Breslin New York Apr 1969 10min
Sep 1964 – Aug 2014 Permalink
Enhanced, castrated, and stolen—a collection of stories about the male member.
Love, Margaret Thatcher and a broken penis.
Jeff Winkler Awl Mar 2012 15min
The case of the disappearing penis.
Frank Bures Harper's Jun 2008
How Steve Warshak made millions selling “natural male enhancement” and lost it all.
Amy Wallace GQ Sep 2009 20min
Meet the medical men who made John Bobbitt whole.
Joel Achenbach Washington Post Oct 1993
In 1967, Dr. John Money transformed a baby boy into a baby girl. For decades, he touted the case as a success. It wasn’t.
John Colapinto Rolling Stone Dec 1997
A look at the foreskin restoration movement.
Laura Novak Good Men Project Jan 2011 15min
The story of soldiers who served their country and paid a horrible price.
David Wood Huffington Post Mar 2012 15min
Oct 1993 – Mar 2012 Permalink
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The inside story of the Pink Panthers, the greatest bank robber in Texas history and the article that became The Bling Ring—a collection of our all-time favorite picks about thieves.
A story of diamonds, thieves, and the Balkans.
David Samuels The New Yorker Apr 2010 1h5min
The most prolific bank robber in Texas history.
Helen Thorpe Texas Monthly Mar 1997 30min
Gerald Blanchard, the world’s most ingenious thief, made his first swipe at age six. And he didn’t stop, robbing banks and stealing jewels around the world until a pair of obsessed Winnipeg cops took his case.
Joshuah Bearman Wired Mar 2010 25min
The motley gang of L.A. teens that cat-burgled celebrities, sometimes repeatedly, in search of designer clothes, jewelry, and something to do. The story that became The Bling Ring.
Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Mar 2010 20min
After two New Jersey homes were robbed of their silver—only their silver—in the same night, the local police got a call from a detective in Greenwich, Connecticut. “I know the guy who’s doing your burglaries.”
Stephen J. Dubner The New Yorker May 2004 35min
Mar 1997 – Apr 2010 Permalink
Harmony smiles, blinks and frowns. She can hold a conversation, tell jokes and quote Shakespeare. She’ll remember your birthday, McMullen told me, what you like to eat, and the names of your brothers and sisters. She can hold a conversation about music, movies and books. And of course, Harmony will have sex with you whenever you want.
Jenny Kleeman The Guardian Apr 2017 25min Permalink
In 2016, a West Virginia police officer came upon a young man in distress who asked the officer to shoot him. The officer didn’t. A few minutes, another officer did. Only one of them lost their job.
Joe Sexton ProPublica Nov 2018 55min Permalink
This presentation was shown to potential recruits for the new Maven SI venture, and it details exactly how the people now in charge of Sports Illustrated plan on turning it into the sort of volume-driven content farm that ruled the web a dozen or so tweaks of the Google algorithm ago.
Laura Wagner, Kelsey McKinney, David Roth Deadspin Oct 2019 30min Permalink
Many of the 230,000 women and girls in U.S. jails and prisons were abuse survivors before they entered the system. And at least 30 percent of those serving time on murder or manslaughter charges were protecting themselves or a loved one from physical or sexual violence.
Justine van der Leun The New Republic Dec 2020 35min Permalink
Great dreams, terrible dreams, no dreams at all—a collection of stories about slumber, at Slate.
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Paris Hilton, Princeton phonies, and the prince who blew through billions—a collection of articles on young money.
“They cruise the city in chauffeured cars, blasting rap, selling pot to classmates. How some of New York’s richest kids joined forces with some of its poorest.”
Nancy Jo Sales New York Dec 1996 20min
Georgia and Patterson Inman, 15-year-old twins, are the only living heirs to the $1 billion Duke tobacco fortune. They are also emotional wrecks who have barely survived a hellacious childhood.
Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Aug 2013 40min
On the brother of the Sultan of Brunei, Prince Jefri Bolkiah, who has “probably gone through more cash than any other human being on earth.”
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jul 2011 45min
An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.
Walter Kim The Atlantic Jan 2005 35min
A profile of Paris Hilton at the height of her fame.
Vanessa Grigoriadis Rolling Stone Nov 2003 10min
An invite-only social network for Georgetown assholes.
Angela Valdez Washington City Paper Jul 2007 30min
How two sisters, heirs to the Bronfman fortune, may have blown $100 million supporting the cult-like group NXIVM.
Maureen Tkacik The New York Observer Aug 2010
A profile of Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the Malibu-dwelling, “fantastically corrupt” dictator-in-waiting of Equatorial Guinea. Teodorin, as his friends call him, is considered by U.S. intelligence to be “an unstable, reckless idiot.”
Ken Silverstein Foreign Policy Mar 2011 20min
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A collection of stories about celebrity, debauchery and tragedy on the open seas.</p>