China’s Gold Rush in the Hills of Appalachia
With prices spiralling, poachers are digging for ginseng in the North Carolina hills.
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With prices spiralling, poachers are digging for ginseng in the North Carolina hills.
Suzy Khimm Foreign Policy Sep 2016 20min Permalink
A former WikiLeaks employee on the motivations driving his old boss.
James Ball Buzzfeed Oct 2016 15min Permalink
On the shootings, and the response, in Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, and Dallas this summer.
Bryn Stole, Brandt Williams, Mitch Mitchell, Lexi Pandell Wired Nov 2016 20min Permalink
“If we’re sitting here bored, getting high and we got guns around, it ain’t nothing else to do.”
John Eligon New York Times Dec 2016 10min Permalink
On a parent’s relationship with unused embryos.
The world’s richest prisoner interviewed from the Siberian prison colony he calls home.
Neil Buckley, Mikhail Khodorovsky Financial Times Oct 2013 25min Permalink
How the Syrian president stays in power.
Annia Ciezadlo The New Republic Dec 2013 20min Permalink
A filmmaker goes to court to fight the television commercial break.
Lillian Ross The New Yorker Feb 1966 1h30min Permalink
On reservations, where policing hardly exists, bruiser-for-hire vigilantes are often the first choice for justice.
Mac McClelland Mother Jones Nov 2010 Permalink
Immigrant farmers are flocking to the poultry industry – only to become 21st-century sharecroppers for companies like Tyson.
Monica Potts The American Prospect Mar 2011 15min Permalink
Nearly 10,000,000 men were killed in the conflict, 65 million participated, and now we are left with two.
Evan Fleischer The Awl May 2011 30min Permalink
Smigel: Louis comes up with, "What if he says, 'I'm the nurturing president,'and I've developed the ability to breastfeed!" And I'm like, "Yeah, that's great! And then let's have him open the shirt and he's got eight nipples and he can breastfeed dogs and cats." Colbert: We had already lost a lot of sponsors. [Starts singing] It's a beautiful root beer day, the folks from Mug Root Beer have agreed to stay. But you better not breastfeed any puppies today, or you sure as hell will be on your way. So be careful you little punk, Dana Carvey! Even I think it's odd I remember all of the lyrics. I am very impressive...remembering reasons why shows I'm on failed.
Meet Ben Discoe, a programmer who did it from October 2011 to November 2012.
Joel Stein Businessweek Jul 2015 10min Permalink
Who gets out alive when disaster strikes? The people who can afford it.
Abe Streep Wired Aug 2015 20min Permalink
She was an overnight YouTube success. Then she tried to make a TV show.
The poet died when he was hit by a car in 1965. Everything else about his demise is a mystery.
Jeffrey Meyers Virginia Quarterly Review Jun 1982 25min Permalink
A former prostitute turned arctivist and her taxi-driver husband go undercover in Iraq’s brothels.
Rania Abouzeid New Yorker Oct 2015 20min Permalink
Susan Hawk was the first woman elected as Dallas County district attorney. She also suffers from depression.
Jamie Thompson D Magazine Nov 2015 40min Permalink
Why The Undefeated, a site announced more than two years ago, still hasn’t launched.
Greg Howard Deadspin Oct 2015 15min Permalink
An attempt to figure out how the Times columnist came to care more about personal morality than politics.
Danny Funt Columbia Journalism Review Oct 2015 20min Permalink
“It’s odd, the older I get, the more I remember.”
Lila Azam Zanganeh, Umberto Eco Paris Review Jun 2008 40min Permalink
The best-selling young novelist lay dead in a trash-strewn cottage on Ireland’s rugged coast for over a week before she was discovered.
Cahal Milmo The Independent Jan 2015 10min Permalink
Private planes, caviar lunches and Little League.
Irina Aleksander New York Times Magazine Jan 2015 20min Permalink
After an election deadlock that held the country hostage for months, two former rivals confront Afghanistan’s patronage and corruption.
Mujib Mashal Al Jazeera Feb 2015 Permalink
A weekend with the only person on Earth who can survive five venomous snakebites in 48 hours.
Kent Russell The Believer Jun 2013 35min Permalink