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For decades, one company has ruled the world of tampons. But a new wave of brands has emerged, selling themselves as more ethical, more feminist and more ecological.
Sophie Elmhirst The Guardian Feb 2020 25min Permalink
Richard Phillips survived the longest wrongful prison sentence in American history by writing poetry and painting with watercolors. But on a cold day in the prison yard, he carried a knife and thought about revenge.
Thomas Lake CNN Apr 2020 35min Permalink
After 17 years, the author of the trilogy “His Dark Materials” carries on the story of one of literature’s most indelible heroines.
Sophie Elmhirst New York Times Magazine Oct 2017 10min Permalink
Last year, a hacker gave Glenn Greenwald a trove of damning messages between Brazil’s leaders. Some suspected the Russians. The truth was far less boring.
Darren Loucaides Wired Nov 2020 40min Permalink
Tech investors gave Seth Bannon, co-founder of the seemingly surging startup Amicus, over four million dollars, despite knowing almost nothing about him.
Noam Scheiber The New Republic Sep 2014 15min Permalink
A story of bird and human patterns.
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Robyn Ryle Luna Luna Oct 2014 10min Permalink
How a network of evangelical Christian crisis pregnancy centers turned the complex reality behind black abortion rates into a single, fictional story.
Akiba Solomon Color Lines May 2013 20min Permalink
An essay on craft, excerpted from Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities.
Alexandra Lange Places Journal Mar 2012 10min Permalink
On Jack Idema, a con-man who once ran a pet hotel before reinventing himself as a black-ops secret agent in Afghanistan, and the history of counterinsurgency theory.
Adam Curtis BBC Jun 2012 25min Permalink
An interview with Steve Albini on art, commerce, and ethic.
Michael Friedman Psychology Today Jul 2015 25min Permalink
In 1906, Enrico Caruso was arrested for molesting a young woman inside the Monkey House of Central Park Zoo, paving the way for the first celebrity trial of the 20th century.
David Suisman The Believer Jun 2004 15min Permalink
“There are no good options. But some are worse than others.”
Mark Bowden The Atlantic Jun 2017 30min Permalink
Tyler Haire was locked up at 16. A Mississippi judge ordered that he undergo a mental exam. He would wait 1,266 days in an adult jail.
Sarah Smith ProPublica Dec 2017 30min Permalink
A late night host finds a new voice.
Michael Paterniti GQ Jan 2018 20min Permalink
A bitter legal row over a mosque in an affluent New Jersey town shows the new face of Islamophobia in the age of Trump.
Andrew Rice The Guardian Feb 2018 30min Permalink
Omar Khadr was 15 when he was captured in Afghanistan in 2002. He was held in Guantanamo for years without charges. He was tortured. And earlier this month, after nearly 13 years behind bars, he was released on bail.
Michelle Shephard The Toronto Star May 2015 15min Permalink
As the country’s population ages and shrinks, there’s increasing demand for services that clean out and dispose of the property of the dead.
Adam Minter Bloomberg Businessweek Jul 2018 10min Permalink
In the poorest congressional district in the country, where thousands of people are arrested each year, one former cop with a complicated past made high-profile cases fall apart by insisting that the ends justified his means.
Saki Knafo New York Times Magazine Jan 2019 35min Permalink
For a century, the humble paper towel has dominated public toilets. But a new generation of hand dryers has sparked a war for loo supremacy.
Samanth Subramanian Guardian Apr 2019 30min Permalink
One cyclist rides west, another rides east. They meet on an empty stretch of road in a Kazakh desert.
His savvy on a longboard earned him trophies. His burglary of the Natural History museum in New York earned him headlines. And his brutality on a Florida boat 50-odd years ago earned him a lifetime in prison. Now: What does penance get you?
Brian Burnsed Sports Illustrated Apr 2020 Permalink
An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals.
Ed Caesar New Yorker Jul 2020 30min Permalink
“The cowboy hats, target practice, and barbecue brisket were just a bonus. They were really there for the deregulated electrical grid.”
Meaghan Tobin Rest of World Aug 2021 10min Permalink
The story of Jim Olson and his Tumor Paint dream.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Jun 2014 15min Permalink
Our favorite stories about hitting the road.
How Sherwin Shayegan pulled off a 3,000-mile, piggyback ride-fueled journey.
Bryan Curtis Grantland Jul 2012 20min
On the road with John Coster-Mullen, a truck driver who reverse engineered the atomic bomb.
David Samuels New Yorker Dec 2008 40min
A wandering summer road trip.
Annie Proulx Outside May 2004 30min
A Liberian road trip with the creator of MTV, Ralph Reed, and a reformed cannibal named General Butt Naked.
Joe Hagan Men's Journal Feb 2013 25min
The Great Railway Bazaar author drives across the country.
Paul Theroux Smithsonian Sep 2009
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”
Hunter S. Thompson Rolling Stone Nov 1971 1h35min
On his last night, Williams lay dying in the back of a blue Cadillac, with 17-year-old Charles Carr at the wheel.
Peter Cooper The Tennessean Jan 2003 15min
A cross-country drive with the first head writer of Saturday Night Live.
Paul Slansky Playboy Mar 1983
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