Something Like Springtime
On Jonathan Richman and his roots in small-town Maine.
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"Nothing on This Page Is Real"
How lies become truth in online America.
The Weight I Carry
What it’s like to be too big in America.
"Leave No Soldier Behind"
The unsolved mystery of the soldier who died in the watchtower.
The Circus Singer and the Godfather of Soul
Lost in the woods with James Brown’s ghost.
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She Says James Brown Raped Her
She also says someone murdered him. Others share her suspicions.
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Was James Brown's Wife Murdered?
An old notebook holds the clues.
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Fifteen Questions Surrounding James Brown's Death
The Godfather of Soul has been dead for 12 years, but the questions have not been put to rest.
Who Killed Tulum?
Greed, gringos, diesel, drugs, shamans, seaweed, and a disco ball in the jungle.
The Coldest War
High in the Karakoram, where the stubborn armies of India and Pakistan face off.
Guilty
“In 1998, I helped convict two men of murder. I’ve regretted it ever since.”
WWF's Secret War
How anti-poaching funds end up in the hands of vicious paramilitaries.
Blurred Vision
Looking for answers after an ayahuasca murder in Peru.
Billionaires, Bombers, and Bellydancers
On a century of Muslim misrepresentation in Hollywood.
Nobody to Call
On the plight of indigenous suicide in Alaska.
Jordan’s Moment
The story of one of the great final acts in sports history.
Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection
“We know we down in this shithole together.”
The Feminization of Bill Laimbeer
A Bad Boy coaches in the WNBA.
Sandra Bland Died One Year Ago
On the epidemic of deaths in jails.
A Litany for Survival
Giving birth as a black woman in America.
Lauren Underwood Is the Future
A profile of the youngest Black woman in Congress.
The Friend
When the author’s wife was dying, his best friend moved in.
What Slime Knows
“There is no hierarchy in the web of life.”
The Wrath of the Gods
How reading can lead to resilience in the most trying times.
The Town That Blew Away
Fourteen other tornadoes hit Georgia on April 27 and 28. This was not the record — that would be twenty, during Tropical Storm Alberto in 1994. But it was one of the worst twenty-four-hour periods in the history of the state. Tornadoes hit Trenton, Cherokee Valley, south of LaGrange, and Covington; killed seven people in a neighborhood in Catoosa County, swept through Ringgold, and killed two more — a disabled man and his caregiver — in a double-wide trailer on the far end of Spalding County. Those tornadoes got all the attention. The Vaughn tornado didn’t even warrant an article in a major newspaper. No one talked about Vaughn. The only way for a person to really find out about it was to drive past.
Playboy Interview: Steven Jobs
Steve Jobs, age 29.
"It’s often the same with any new, revolutionary thing. People get stuck as they get older. Our minds are sort of electrochemical computers. Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them. It’s a rare person who etches grooves that are other than a specific way of looking at things, a specific way of questioning things. It’s rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. Of course, there are some people who are innately curious, forever little kids in their awe of life, but they’re rare."
For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question
A first-person account of the author’s time spent volunteering with a group of Burmese activists in Thailand, who turn out to be not Korean but in fact Karen, members of Burma’s persecuted ethnic minority. In the course of her time there, they show her videos of their risky forays across the border, and she shows them MySpace.
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The Saga of the Scientific Swindler!
In the 1880’s, a shabbily dressed man popped up in numerous America cities, calling upon local scientists, showing letters of introduction claiming he was a noted geologist or paleontologist, discussing both fields at a staggeringly accomplished level, and then making off with valuable books or cash loans.
