In the Eye of a Firestorm
An investigative look at the killing of Trayvon Martin.
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An investigative look at the killing of Trayvon Martin.
Campbell Robertson, Dan Barry, Lizette Alvarez, Serge F. Kovaleski New York Times Apr 2012 20min Permalink
Why one physician took the risk of becoming an F.B.I. informant to expose alleged Medicare fraud.
Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Jan 2019 35min Permalink
Happy 59th! Or is it 58th? Cracking the mystery of Don Mattingly’s birthday.
Sam Miller ESPN Apr 2020 15min Permalink
How did a couple who built an empire of yoga studios and homes with “living walls” end up as pandemic villains?
Bridget Read The Cut Aug 2020 25min Permalink
A profile of the comedian, who died Tuesday.
Dan Brooks New York Times Magazine Aug 2018 15min 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
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
What happens when a decades old video, featuring the artist Larry Rivers’ prepubescent daughters bare-chested, is claimed both as child pornography and as an important part of the archive of a major American painter.
Michael Shnayerson Vanity Fair Dec 2010 25min Permalink
In 2003, the destruction of one particular statue in Baghdad made worldwide headlines and came to be a symbol of western victory in Iraq. But there was so much more to it—or rather, so much less.
Alex von Tunzelmann Guardian Jul 2021 20min Permalink
On the holy city of Canudos, and other attempts at better living “by the dispossessed and marginalized the world over.”
Jacob Mikanowski The Awl Apr 2013 15min Permalink
Last summer, when she thought nobody was looking, Mary Bale put a cat in the trash. The act was caught on video, and Bale was quickly tried and convicted online. The aftermath of a viral crime.
M.J. Hyland The Financial Times Mar 2011 20min Permalink
Gabriel Zucman is an economist who specializes in documenting and estimating the wealth stashed in offshore accounts. His work has influenced the tax plans of more than one presidential campaign.
Ben Steverman Bloomberg Businessweek May 2019 15min Permalink
“Fear is running rampant in the Curia, where the mood has rarely been this miserable. It’s as if someone had poked a stick into a beehive. Men wearing purple robes are rushing around, hectically monitoring correspondence. No one trusts anyone anymore, and some even hesitate to communicate by phone.”
Alexander Smoltczyk, Fiona Ehlers, Peter Wensierski Der Spiegel Jun 2012 25min Permalink
The macabre, ultra-violent plays put on at the Grand Guignol defined an era in Paris, attracting foreign tourists, aristocrats, and celebrities. Goering and Patton saw plays there in the same year. But the carnage of WWII ultimately undermined the shock of Guignol’s brutality, and audiences disappeared.
P.E. Schneider New York Times Magazine Mar 1957 10min Permalink
On the floating villages of the Mekong River and the ethnic Vietnamese who have populated them for generations and are still considered “foreigners” by their Cambodian neighbors.
Ben Mauk New York Times Magazine Mar 2018 30min Permalink
The intricate dance between highly organized ultras fan organizations, the teams they support, and the mafia for control of the center of curva and the lucrative ticket-touting opportunities that come with it.
Tobias Jones The Guardian Dec 2016 20min Permalink
Two decades later, a traffic stop on a country road is still teaching police officers about deadly force – and the cost of hesitation. Part 1 of “The Trigger and the Choice,” a 3-part series.
Thomas Lake CNN Aug 2017 20min Permalink
Since 1932, the tiny town of Rugby, North Dakota, has claimed to be the geographical center of North America. But as with most things, the truth depends on who’s telling it.
Katherine LaGrave Afar Jun 2020 15min Permalink
The Mennonite women of the Manitoba Colony would awake with blood and semen stains, dried grass in their hair, and tiny bits of rope on their wrists and ankles. Their rapists, armed with a veterinary tranquilizer converted to spray form, were eight young men from their own community.
Jean Friedman-Rudovsky Vice Aug 2013 35min Permalink
Justin Vivian Bond found downtown fame as Kiki DuRane, decrepit drag chanteuse and comedic prophet of gay rage born out of the AIDS era. Then he killed Kiki to try to become the woman (and man) he always wanted to be.
Carl Swanson New York May 2011 20min Permalink
Chris Earnshaw began taking photographs of Washington, D.C. more than 40 years ago. By the time he paid a visit to a museum to tout his work, he had in his possession—in plastic bags and filing drawers—3,000 Polaroids of a city long gone.
Dan Zak Washington Post Jan 2016 40min Permalink
The British artist, a contemporary of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, has been called “the most unabashedly all-balls-out, rock ‘n’ roll” of her generation.
Olivia Laing T Magazine Mar 2015 10min Permalink
Her disclosure of classified documents in 2010 ushered in the age of leaks. Now, freed from prison, she talks about why she did it—and the isolation that followed.
Matthew Shaer New York Times Magazine Jun 2017 40min Permalink
An in-depth history of the most important pop innovation of the last 20 years, from Cher’s “Believe” to Kanye West to Migos.
Simon Reynolds Pitchfork Jul 2018 40min Permalink
The reality of Silicon Valley is that it’s commerce by any means necessary. And the reality of Sandberg is that she’s excellent at it.
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Dec 2018 25min Permalink