The Children of ISIS
Three siblings from Chicago ran away to become jihadis. Is it fair to try them as terrorists?
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Three siblings from Chicago ran away to become jihadis. Is it fair to try them as terrorists?
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone Mar 2015 45min Permalink
Ronnie O’Sullivan is the best snooker player in the world. He’s also the most tormented.
Sam Knight New Yorker Mar 2015 25min Permalink
The man who killed John Wilkes Booth was a eunuch. By choice.
Bill Jensen Washingtonian Apr 2015 15min Permalink
The Penn State sex abuse scandal as told through a father, a son and “Victim 1.”
Luke Dittrich Esquire Jun 2012 30min Permalink
Hipsters vs. Hasids in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A skirmish over a bike lane becomes a battle for a neighborhood.
Michael Idov New York Apr 2010 15min Permalink
The bloody, often surreal, fight for Kosovo’s independence was led by a man moonlighting as a roofer in Switzerland.
William Langewiesche Vanity Fair Dec 2008 35min Permalink
Foreign policy as architecture; how embassies went from lavish social hubs to reinforced strongholds.
William Langewiesche Vanity Fair Nov 2007 20min Permalink
On what you come to appreciate after a short apprenticeship with paramedics.
Chris Jones Esquire Jul 2009 Permalink
The profile that led to the Massey Energy CEO’s resignation.
Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone Nov 2010 Permalink
“In 2000, Zimbabwe’s dictator began kicking white farmers off their land. One man decided to stay.”
Andrew Corsello GQ Jul 2006 40min Permalink
Deaf, mute and undocumented, he was charged 12 years ago with a capital crime and has been in legal limbo ever since.
Paul Duggan Washington Post Mar 2017 20min Permalink
Her fiction has imagined societies riddled with misogyny, oppression, and environmental havoc. These visions now feel all too real.
Rebecca Mead New Yorker Apr 2017 35min Permalink
A look back at the spill that launched a movement.
Kate Wheeling, Max Ufberg Pacific Standard Apr 2017 35min Permalink
What it feels like to get hit by a major league fastball.
Tim Kurkjian ESPN Aug 2012 25min Permalink
Remembering the book that changed the way journalists covered the NBA.
Bryan Curtis The Ringer Jun 2017 15min Permalink
Amid an historic glut the cheese market, a secretive, government-sponsored entity is putting the stuff anywhere it can.
Clint Rainey Bloomberg Business Jul 2017 10min Permalink
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A travelogue through the contradiction-rich and predominantly Muslim Southern Thailand.
Lawrence Osborne Harper's Mar 2011 20min Permalink
In El Salvador, more and more young women are choosing—or being forced into—gang life.
Lauren Markham Pacific Standard Sep 2017 25min Permalink
“Who we become has so much to do with the experiences we had, and how we survived.”
Nicole Chung Shondaland Oct 2017 10min Permalink
How extreme weather, which displaced more than a million people last year, could reshape America.
Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone Feb 2018 25min Permalink
He has been president for more than a year—so why is he still holding rallies?
Charles Homans New York Times Magazine Apr 2018 20min Permalink
Who is this person?
Anna Merlan Jezebel May 2018 10min Permalink
A law-enforcement official released the documents after finding that additional suspicious transactions did not appear in a government database.
Ronan Farrow New Yorker May 2018 10min Permalink
He wants you to know one thing: He’s not even angry.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner The New York Times Magazine Jun 2018 20min Permalink
How Jerry Lee Lewis got away with murdering 25-year-old Shawn Michelle Stevens, his fifth wife.
Richard Ben Cramer Rolling Stone Mar 1984 1h5min Permalink