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A longtime NGO worker on how big ideas end up hurting international aid.
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Chris Rock Talks to Frank Rich
On Ferguson, Cosby, and what ‘racial progress’ really means.
The Plot to Free North Korea With Smuggled Episodes of ‘Friends’
USB sticks bearing digital video are the new radio.
My Dad Tried to Kill Me With an Alligator
On being among giant reptiles with a parent you don’t understand.
I'm From Philly. 30 Years Later, I'm Still Trying to Make Sense of the MOVE Bombing
Revisiting the 6200 block of Osage Avenue.
Wake Up, Geek Culture, Time To Die
On how 21st century culture shifts killed the nerd and what lies ahead.
Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation? — Part 9: 1998
“You’re either with Korn and Limp Bizkit, or you’re against them.” The birth of nu-metal.
Welcome to Poppy's World
Her creepy, surreal YouTube videos have millions of views, but no one knows Poppy’s full story.
The Longform Guide to Fire
A collection of picks on arsonists, fire fighters and more.
Jackie Chan’s Plan to Keep Kicking Forever
The legendary stuntman launches a new phase of his expansive career.
The Quest to Preserve Stephen Hawking’s Voice
How a Silicon Valley team helped rebuild his distinctive robotic sound.
From Taylor Swift to the World's Largest T-shirt Cannon: An Internet Reader
A working theory about what makes internet writing uniquely “internetty.”
There Is No Reason to Cross the U.S. by Train. But I Did It Anyway.
The particular sheen of America by Amtrak.
The World According to Phoebe Waller-Bridge
A profile of the writer and star of Fleabag.
Dressed to Kill
A new Ned Kelly film explores the masculinity behind the mask.
Noah ’40’ Shebib Is Racing to Fix the Damage
The producer behind nearly everything Drake does and the multiple sclerosis that has claimed significant portions of his brain.
I Donated My Kidney to Help a Stranger. But What About the Person I Couldn't Help?
On generosity, selfishness, and organ donation.
“Calling us Gypsies is fine, but we call ourselves Romany Travellers because some of them, like wi’ me, used to roam.”
Oral histories from a Dorset village on lockdown.
The Death Truck: How a Solution to Mexico's Morgue Crisis Created a New Horror
How did a lorry carrying 273 dead bodies end up stranded on the outskirts of Guadalajara?
How to Negotiate with Ransomware Hackers
Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying.
Brexit: A Disaster Decades in the Making
A political history of Britain.
“On the day after the referendum, many Britons woke up with the feeling – some for better, some for worse – that they were suddenly living in a different country. But it is not a different country: what brought us here has been brewing for a very long time.”
The Longform Guide to El Chapo
A collection of articles about drug lord Joaquín Guzmán, who was recaptured Friday, and his Sinaloa cartel.
The Longform Guide to Police Brutality
A report from the NYC race riots of 1964, the perilous existence of confidential informants, and the militarization of American law enforcement — a collection of articles on police brutality.</p>
Refuge: One Syrian Family’s Long Odyssey to Georgia
Of the 4.5 million Syrians who have fled their nation’s bloody civil war, fewer than 3,000 have made it to America. This is one family’s story.
Welcome to Armageddon!
There are no resurrections in Armageddon MUD, a text-based role-playing game (RPG) set on the harsh desert planet Zalanthas. One of the Internet’s oldest extant virtual worlds, it is an amoral fairytale about dune traders and bandits, assassins and sorcerer-kings, collaboratively written by thousands of players over a period of twenty-six years. Created in 1991 by a thirteen-year-old coder named Dan Brumleve, the kernel of the story was cribbed from a Dungeons and Dragons campaign setting called “Dark Sun,” source of the game’s fantasy races (elves, dwarves, muls, halflings, half-giants), its kaiju-sized insects, and the foundational conceit of a once-verdant world desiccated by “defiling” magic.
