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A 30-year-old funeral director in LA wants to help the living get closer to death.
Rebecca Mead New Yorker Nov 2015 25min Permalink
How a family man dentist got involved in an underage prostitution ring.
Bryan Smith Chicago Magazine Oct 2006 Permalink
It’s a club “filled exclusively with people who do not want to be members.”
Rick Paulas The Awl May 2012 15min Permalink
On the Boston mobster’s exes.
T.J. English The Daily Beast Jun 2012 20min Permalink
A classified Guantánamo Bay interrogation log reveals the techniques used on Mohammed al-Qahtani, the so-called 20th 9/11 hijacker.
Nineteenth century Muslim-Christian hero Abd el-Kader, the “Algerian George Washington.”
Rany Jazayerli Rany on the Royals Jul 2010 25min Permalink
It’s less about robots and the gig economy and more about companies stripping away the security full-time work has long afforded.
Danny Vinik Politico Jan 2018 20min Permalink
After the Christchurch mosque shootings, New Zealand was stunned to silence. But only momentarily.
Sean Flynn GQ Oct 2019 30min Permalink
As the Senate takes up his impeachment trial, white Christian evangelicals remain firmly in the president’s corner.
Sarah Posner Huffington Post Dec 2019 Permalink
How much can athletes really make in niche sports? A whole lot more than you might think.
David Gardner The Ringer Jun 2021 25min Permalink
A profile of Thelonious Monk.
Lewis Lapham The Saturday Evening Post Apr 1964 15min Permalink
“They thought they were going to change the world,” he says of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project volunteers. “They didn’t expect that white folks would be so vicious.”
Eric Moskowitz Boston Globe Aug 2014 30min Permalink
She told the family of a severely disabled man that she could help him to communicate with the outside world. Then she said they were in love.
Daniel Engber New York Times Magazine Oct 2015 20min Permalink
On systemic corrpution in the upper house of British Parliament, where lawmakers have the freedom to work for any business—banks, oil companies, Facebook—willing to pay for their “expertise.”
Justin Scheck, Charles Forelle Wall Street Journal Nov 2014 10min Permalink
Gerald Blanchard, the world’s most ingenious thief, made his first swipe at age six. And he didn’t stop, robbing banks and stealing jewels around the world until a pair of obsessed Winnipeg cops took his case.
Joshuah Bearman Wired Mar 2010 25min Permalink
Admiring evangelicals are helping David Berkowitz, the imprisoned serial killer who murdered six people in NYC during the summer of 1977, with an unusual image makeover.
Serge F. Kovaleski New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink
In Torreón, north of Mexico City, cartel gunmen are freed from a prison, commit a massacre at a wedding that includes the band, and then return to custody.
Rory Carroll The Guardian Sep 2010 10min Permalink
How a Nigerian-American conned upwards of $40 million from banks during the housing boom using publicly available information from the internet, persuasive storytelling, and prepaid cellphones, and then ditched his FBI tail in a casino.
Luke O'Brien Fortune Jan 2011 15min Permalink
A profile of the grieving musician, who lost his teenage son 18 months ago.
Chris Heath GQ Apr 2017 25min Permalink
When Ben Roethlisberger, Charles Barkley, Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal and the future President of the United States crossed paths at a celebrity golf tournament.
Ben Schreckinger GQ Mar 2018 Permalink
Did a member in a shadowy Mormon offshoot known as the Order collect a half-billion dollars in biodiesel credits his company didn’t deserve?
Jesse Hyde, David Voreacos Bloomberg Businessweek Jun 2019 20min Permalink
How a sacred object from the Pueblo of Acoma turned up at a Paris auction house, and how the tribe fought for its return.
Elena Saavedra Buckley High Country News Aug 2020 30min Permalink
In just a few years, he’s become one of the most fearsome media figures in the country—mobilizing his vast Twitter following to promote his famous friends and punish foes. Can his own past survive similar scrutiny?
Peter Kiefer Los Angeles Magazine Jun 2021 25min Permalink
Twelve years ago, a Saudi Arabian man, whom federal authorities had long suspected of having ties to terrorism, was sentenced to life in prison on multiple counts of unlawful sexual contact. To this day, al-Turki has maintained that he’s innocent and was instead the target of post-9/11 anti-Muslim sentiment.
Chris Outcalt 5280 Aug 2018 25min Permalink
On the echoes between the world leading up to World War I and our present international trajectory. Then, as globalization, nationalism, and radicalism converged, and tensions within the Balkans served as a spark. Today, conflicts in the Middle East, whose borders were mostly drawn in the wake of World War I, could play a similar role.
Margaret MacMillan Brookings Dec 2013 Permalink