Striving for a Climate Change
A profile of law professor Dan Kahan, “one of the best-known unknown academics in the country,” who wants to close the communication gap between scientists and the public.
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A profile of law professor Dan Kahan, “one of the best-known unknown academics in the country,” who wants to close the communication gap between scientists and the public.
Paul Voosen The Chronicle of Higher Education Nov 2014 20min Permalink
Two American backpackers, two Indonesian villagers, one small boat, 15 slices of bread, a dozen hard-boiled eggs, ten oranges, five apples, two pineapples, two bags of cookies, two packages of peanuts, eight liters of water, one machete and three weeks adrift at sea.
Paul Ciotti The Los Angeles Times Feb 1986 20min Permalink
When the East Coast mob showed up in L.A. in 1946, the LAPD formed a ruthess special unit to run them out of town: the Gangster Squad.
Paul Lieberman The Los Angeles Times Oct 2008 30min Permalink
In the ring, Hector “Macho” Camacho was a champ. Out of it, he was a coke-fueled, womanizing wild man, until the appetites that consumed him cost him his life.
Paul Solotaroff Men's Journal Apr 2013 20min Permalink
A father’s attempt to combat the wage gap.
"How do we give Ivy the same opportunities as Abe? Do we praise her 21.7 percent more? Hug her 21.7 percent harder?"
A profile of Paul Reubens and his subversive alter ego.
Jonah Weiner New York Times Magazine Feb 2016 15min Permalink
On Brent White, the joke whisperer who edits the largely improvisational comedies of Paul Feig, Judd Apatow and Adam McKay.
Jonah Weiner New York Times Magazine Apr 2015 20min Permalink
Paul Gayle wants to raise his daughter, but he needs a job and a home. What he gets is 16 lessons on fatherhood from the Obama administration.
The Washington Post Eli Saslow May 2015 Permalink
Black people struggling with debts are far less likely than their white peers to gain lasting relief from bankruptcy. A style of bankruptcy practiced by lawyers in the South is primarily to blame.
Paul Kiel, Hannah Fresques ProPublica Sep 2017 25min Permalink
“It’s not like I told myself, okay, this is it, you’re gonna take the guy outside and throw him off the goddam boat.”
Paul Hendrickson Washington Post Sep 1987 20min Permalink
Paul Gonzales scammed his online dates into buying him expensive dinners. Then they made him pay.
Jeff Maysh Daily Beast Jul 2019 30min Permalink
Paul Wayment made a profound mistake, left his 2-year-old son alone in his truck as he tracked deer in the wilderness. The boy was gone when he returned. The story of a collective struggle to find a just punishment.
Barry Siegel The Los Angeles Times Dec 2001 30min Permalink
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A profile of the world’s best League of Legends player, a 19-year-old Korean kid whose nickname is God.
Mina Kimes ESPN the Magazine 10min
The truncated, violent lives of Richard Matt and David Sweat before their prison escape.
A 38,000-word answer.
The inside story of the coup that has brought the world’s most feared terrorist network to the brink of collapse.
Utah has become the capital of the modern snake oil industry, with dozens of get-rich-quick schemes—also known as “multi-level marketing”—filling its office parks.
How Service Corporation International corporatized death, driving growth through everything from aggresive acquisitions, volume pricing on caskets and embalming fluid, a “strong flu season,” and pre-selling over $7.5 billion worth of burials.
Paul M. Barrett Businessweek Oct 2013 15min Permalink
A cross-country drive with Michael O'Donoghue, the first head writer of Saturday Night Live.
Previously: The Longform Guide to SNL.
Paul Slansky Playboy Mar 1983 Permalink
Embedded with an Afghan warlord:
This is a local insurgency, often with local causes: a corrupt district governor, predatory police, or abuses by the local militias, the arbakis.
Paul Wood Foreign Policy Apr 2011 10min Permalink
Notes from the campaign trail in Nevada with Ron Paul.
Part of Longform.org’s guide to the 2012 GOP field at Slate.
Tucker Carlson The New Republic Dec 2007 10min Permalink
An interview on the logistics of running North America’s only legal facility for drug addicts to push heroin and cocaine and other types of substances into their veins.
Paul Hiebart The Awl Apr 2012 15min Permalink
During his 35 years as a member of the Church of Scientology, Oscar-winning writer and director Paul Haggis went “all the way to the top.” The story of why he left, and what happened once he did.
Lawrence Wright New Yorker Jan 2012 1h40min Permalink
How Paul Tollett gets the world’s biggest acts to perform in the California desert.
John Seabrook New Yorker Apr 2017 25min Permalink
Ten years ago, the tax agency formed a special team to unravel the complex tax-lowering strategies of the nation’s wealthiest people. It never had a chance.
Jesse Eisinger, Paul Kiel ProPublica Apr 2019 20min Permalink
A humble Scotsman saw something strange in the water—and daringly set out to catch it—only to have lecherous out-of-towners steal his fame and upend his quest.
Paul Brown Narratively Dec 2020 25min Permalink
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"Agent Zapata" (Mary Cuddehe • The Atavist)
“Cancer's Racial Divide” (Adam Smeltz • Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
“Solitary in Iran nearly broke me. Then I went inside America’s prisons.”
Shane Bauer Mother Jones Oct 2012 10min
How personal information may be used to target you with online ads.
Lois Beckett ProPublica Jun 2012 10min
An amateur linguist loses control of his creation.
Joshua Foer New Yorker Dec 2012 35min
Repetitive motions and no breaks can cause lifelong problems.
Jason Gonzalez Minneapolis Star Tribune Jul 2012 10min
Each year, some 4,500 American workers die on the job and 50,000 perish from occupational diseases. Millions more are hurt and sickened at workplaces, and many others are cheated of wages and abused. A series exploring threats to workers—and the corporate and regulatory factors that endanger them.
A profile of a General Motors CEO Mark Reuss.
Tim Higgins Bloomberg News Oct 2012 15min
In the waning days of summer, at hospitals scattered across the country, teams of physicians faced the same mystery — patients with life-threatening infections with an unknown cause. Ultimately, they would discover that these seemingly isolated cases were the leading edge of an unprecedented outbreak of a rare fungal meningitis.
Carolyn Johnson The Boston Globe Oct 2012
On the struggle for justice and a place to call home.
Paul Kiel ProPublica Apr 2012 1h10min
On the first presidential debate.
Ezra Klein The Washington Post Oct 2012 10min
Mementos left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the man in charge of cataloging them.
Rachel Manteuffel Washingtonian Oct 2012 25min
Army Spc. Erik Schei was shot in the head in Iraq. This is the story of his recovery.
Megan McCloskey Stars and Stripes Nov 2012 15min
Analysis of a decade of federal data shows general public detected far more spills than leak detection technology.
Lisa Song InsideClimate News Sep 2012 10min
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“Southwark’s petty thugs must have thought all their birthdays had come at once: a well-dressed toff stumbling round their borough in no state to defend himself, and with an alcoholic street whore as his only companion.”
Reconstructing a mysterious 1892 London murder.
Paul Slade PlanetSlade Feb 2013 50min Permalink
A collection of picks about exile, defection, revolution, and the country’s future.
Cuba’s wary embrace of private enterprise.
Cynthia Gorney National Geographic Nov 2012 25min
The story of William Morgan: American, wanderer, Cuban revolutionary.
David Grann New Yorker May 2012 1h25min
The country’s uncertain future.
Witnessing an execution in war-torn Cuba.
Richard Harding Davis New York Journal Feb 1897 10min
The tale of a Cuban boxer leads a filmmaker to a larger story.
Brin-Jonathan Butler The Rumpus Dec 2012 20min
Exiled in 1962, a pair of brothers return home.
Paul Reyes VQR Nov 2009 35min
On baseball player Yasiel Puig’s escape from Cuba.
Scott Eden ESPN Apr 2014 10min
A crime novelist navigates Cuba’s shifting reality.
Jon Lee Anderson New Yorker Oct 2013 35min
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