I Was a Cable Guy. I Saw the Worst of America.
A glimpse of life on the suburban road, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney.
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A glimpse of life on the suburban road, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney.
Lauren Hough Huffington Post Dec 2018 25min Permalink
On Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
By reengineering the economy and society to their own benefit, Google and Facebook are perverting capitalism in a way that undermines personal freedom and corrodes democracy.
Nicholas Carr Los Angeles Review of Books Jan 2019 15min Permalink
When IP mapping goes awry dozens of strangers show up to the same home again and again looking for their stolen gear.
Kashmir Hill Gizmodo Jan 2019 20min Permalink
"The functionality, the quantity, the aesthetics of your bathrooms is critical. It seems unremarkable to most people, but, trust me, you invite 70,000 people to your house and you get the bathrooms wrong—you've got a huge problem."
David Fleming ESPN Feb 2019 15min Permalink
Since 1998, roughly 380 Southern Baptist church leaders and volunteers have faced allegations of sexual misconduct. They left behind more than 700 victims.
Robert Downen, Lise Olsen, John Tedesco Houston Chronicle Feb 2019 25min Permalink
Just a few years ago, universities had a chance to make a quality education affordable for everyone. Here’s the little-known and absolutely infuriating history of what they did instead.
Kevin Carey Huffington Post Highline Apr 2019 30min Permalink
How a big crime in a small town produced a whodunit as gripping and colorful as “The Wizard of Oz” itself.
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson The Washington Post Magazine Apr 2019 55min Permalink
Bennington College in the 1980s was a hothouse of sex, drugs, and future literary stars—among them, Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, and Jonathan Lethem. Return to a campus and an era like no other.
Lili Anolik Esquire May 2019 55min Permalink
Baruch Vega ran a scheme that ensnared Colombian cocaine kingpins and gave him a life of luxury. Then one put a price on his head.
Zeke Faux Bloomberg Businessweek Jul 2019 20min Permalink
Brad Parscale has said he’s taking a relative pittance to run the president’s reelection operation. But as with much of what Parscale has claimed about his work and life, that’s not the full story. This is.
Peter Elkind, Doris Burke ProPublica Sep 2019 40min Permalink
Myth, storytelling, and lore in the most disappointing clubhouses of America’s pastime.
Rolf Potts Medium Oct 2016 15min Permalink
After Hurricane Maria, the number of women killed by their partners doubled. Survivors say the government’s misguided response has put more lives in danger.
Andrea González-Ramírez Gen Jun 2020 30min Permalink
The chef, who died last year, was one of San Francisco’s culinary stars in the 1990s. She created a space for the city’s queer women to thrive in the kitchen.
Mayukh Sen Eater Jun 2020 15min Permalink
Four years ago, Dominique Jones got out of prison and learned to rap. Today he is, by many metrics, the most popular rapper in the world.
Charles Holmes Rolling Stone Jul 2020 20min Permalink
On America’s interstates, brazen bands of thieves steal 18-wheelers filled with computers, cell phones, even toilet paper. And select law enforcement teams are tasked with tracking them down.
Dylan Taylor-Lehman Narratively Sep 2020 15min Permalink
How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.
James Bandler, Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella, Kirsten Berg ProPublica Oct 2020 50min Permalink
“For so long, we’ve thought keeping our heads down and being invisible in America might help us gain acceptance — but the recent wave of racist violence has shattered that myth.”
Venessa Wong Buzzfeed Mar 2021 20min Permalink
How detectives from Scotland Yard, Romania, Germany, and Italy nabbed the so-called Mission: Impossible gang, which pulled off a string of daring warehouse heists.
Marc Wortman Vanity Fair Apr 2021 20min Permalink
The clock is a useful social tool, but it is also deeply political: It benefits some, marginalizes others and blinds us from a true understanding of our own bodies and the world around us.
Joe Zadeh Noema Magazine Jun 2021 20min Permalink
Conservationists saw the 6-year-old brown bear as a symbol of hope. Villagers saw him as a menace. Then he turned up dead.
Laura Millan Lombraña Bloomberg Green Jul 2021 20min Permalink
Two men with the same name. A murder, a manhunt, and a chilling question: Did a Florida court hand down a life sentence because of a mistaken identity?
Tristram Korten GQ Aug 2021 30min Permalink
The once-utopian accommodations site, now headed by an alum of surveillance-analytics firm Palantir, has gone back on its always-free ethos.
Andrew Fedorov Input Magazine Sep 2021 30min Permalink
A 90-year-old amateur archaeologist who claimed to have detonated the first atomic bomb was also one of the most prolific grave robbers in modern American history.
Josh Sanburn Vanity Fair Nov 2021 30min Permalink
Karen Holloman opened the door of her uncle's apartment with his best friend, Larry Young, a step behind. As they edged inside, she looked to her left and saw the end of her uncle's bed and his motionless feet. "He's been in here asleep all along," Holloman muttered, for a moment annoyed at the worry he had caused by not answering his phone. Her anger froze as she entered his room: The Rev. Marvin Moore lay dead in his bed, a bullet hole through the back of his head, a pool of blood gathered beneath his limp arm.
David Simon, Doug Struck Washington Post Nov 1997 10min Permalink
Clarence Thomas, then-chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, profiled by Juan Williams:
He agrees with Reagan's characterization of the civil-rights leaders as old men fomenting discontent to justify their own "rather good positions." "The issue is economics—not who likes you." Thomas has told me. "And when you have the economics, people do have a way of changing their attitudes toward you. I don't see how the civil-rights people today can claim Malcolm X as one of their own. Where does he say black people should go begging the Labor Department for jobs? He was hell on integrationists. Where does he say you should sacrifice your institutions to be next to white people?"
Juan Williams The Atlantic Feb 1987 35min Permalink