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The profile of a crime syndicate which dominates the European cocaine trade.
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The profile of a crime syndicate which dominates the European cocaine trade.
Andreas Ulrich Der Spiegel Jan 2012 20min Permalink
Jimmy McNulty, Mike Daisey, and the problems with skirting the system to get to the greater truth.
Aaron Bady The New Inquiry Mar 2012 10min Permalink
The lives of the Indians who were swallowed in the Bhopal gas cloud, thirty years later.
Jennifer Wells The Toronto Star Nov 2014 50min Permalink
When the music was real, but the bands were fake.
Daniel Ralston Buzzfeed Jun 2016 15min Permalink
Traveling the highway that could make Brazil an economic powerhouse — at the expense of the Amazon.
Stephanie Nolen The Globe and Mail Jan 2018 45min Permalink
On the rise of alt meat and the decline of cattle.
Rowan Jacobsen Outside Jul 2019 Permalink
How the government enabled the one percent to capitalize on the housing crisis.
Francesca Mari The New York Review of Books May 2020 20min Permalink
A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left.
Bill Donahue The Atavist Magazine Aug 2020 40min Permalink
How an unassuming bureaucrat outsmarted Jamie Oliver and pulled off a cafeteria miracle in one of America’s unhealthiest cities.
Jane Black Huffington Post Feb 2017 25min Permalink
Doc moves quickly. He takes off his windbreaker, tosses his leather bag on the counter and unzips it. He pulls out a slate-blue polyester vest, V-necked, with six buttons. He raises his arms and jumps into it and then says, with an air of deep satisfaction, "Aah." Doc is proud of his bulletproof vest.
Your local police department probably has a $400,00 device that listens in on cellphones. Soon your neighbor will be able to buy the same thing for $1,500.
Robert Kolker Businessweek Mar 2016 15min Permalink
On a November morning, Olympic rower and financial advisor Harold Backer left for a bike ride and never returned. His disappearance remained a mystery – until letters began arriving at the homes of his investors.
Kip McDaniel Chief Investment Officer Feb 2016 25min Permalink
When you’ve never eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich because the idea of peanut butter and jelly touching seems like too much, you turn to legendary chef Daniel Boulud for help.
Mark Anthony Green GQ Mar 2016 20min Permalink
For decades, the lead actor at an acclaimed storefront Chicago theater beat, groped, and choked his female co-stars in front of audiences, while manipulating them into coercive relationships offstage.
Aimee Levitt, Christopher Piatt Chicago Reader Jun 2016 50min Permalink
In 1991, Edwin Debrow shot and killed a cab driver on the east side of San Antonio. He was twelve years old. Twenty-five years later, he is still in prison. Is that justice? And is there room for mercy?
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Dec 2016 30min Permalink
Around the world, governments and corporations are in a race for code that can protect, spy, and destroy—hacks some secretive startups are more than happy to sell.
Ashlee Vance, Michael Riley Businessweek Jul 2011 15min Permalink
Merriam-Webster is revising its most authoritative tome for the digital age. But in an era of twerking and trolling, what should a dictionary look like?
Stefan Fatsis Slate Jan 2015 45min Permalink
“Most of us should be in jail for the things we do. We just haven’t been caught. No one’s gone after us.”
Kevin Robillard Politico Magazine Mar 2018 15min Permalink
At a South Korean laboratory, a once-disgraced doctor is replicating hundreds of deceased pets for the rich and famous.
David Ewing Duncan Vanity Fair Aug 2018 20min Permalink
Tekashi 6ix9ine was SoundCloud rap’s most notorious star. But the same instincts that made him huge may put him in prison for years
Stephen Witt Rolling Stone Jan 2019 30min Permalink
How a Northern Californian rapper ended up facing life after being hired to produce a CD titled Generations of United Norteños – Till Eternity that may have served as a recruiting tool for the prison gang Nuestra Familia.
Justin Berton East Bay Express Oct 2003 Permalink
Sixty years ago, a sharecropper’s son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished. Who was Woody Bledsoe, and who was he working for?
Shaun Raviv Wired Jan 2020 25min Permalink
Black women have been telling the truth about America for a long time. As a Black woman in journalism, my obligation is no less than that.
For years, JaMarcus Crews tried to get a new kidney, but corporate healthcare stood in the way. He needed dialysis to stay alive. He couldn’t miss a session, not even during a pandemic.
Outdated textbooks, not enough teachers, no ventilation — for millions of kids like Harvey Ellington, the public-education system has failed them their whole lives.
Casey Parks New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 40min Permalink