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In the fall of 2015, Germany designated Sumte, population 102, as a sanctuary for nearly 800 refugees. What followed was a living experiment in the country’s principles.
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In the fall of 2015, Germany designated Sumte, population 102, as a sanctuary for nearly 800 refugees. What followed was a living experiment in the country’s principles.
Ben Mauk Virginia Quarterly Review Apr 2017 45min Permalink
Her disclosure of classified documents in 2010 ushered in the age of leaks. Now, freed from prison, she talks about why she did it—and the isolation that followed.
Matthew Shaer New York Times Magazine Jun 2017 40min Permalink
In the poorest congressional district in the country, where thousands of people are arrested each year, one former cop with a complicated past made high-profile cases fall apart by insisting that the ends justified his means.
Saki Knafo New York Times Magazine Jan 2019 35min Permalink
Gabriel Zucman is an economist who specializes in documenting and estimating the wealth stashed in offshore accounts. His work has influenced the tax plans of more than one presidential campaign.
Ben Steverman Bloomberg Businessweek May 2019 15min Permalink
In May 2018, schoolgirl Ana Kriégel was lured from her home, brought to an abandoned house, and murdered. A year later two 14-year-old boys were found guilty of her killing, becoming the youngest people in the history of Ireland to be convicted of murder.
Conor Gallagher The Irish Times Jun 2019 1h10min 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
They travel America in vans and RVs stopping at Targets and Wal-Marts in search of rare soap and coveted toys to stock Amazon’s fulfillment warehouses.
Josh Dzieza The Verge Jul 2019 15min Permalink
When he was 2, Strider was severely beaten by his mother’s boyfriend. Today, at 6, Strider lives with his grandparents in rural Maine, in and out of poverty, trying to make it.
Sarah Schweitzer Boston Globe Nov 2015 35min Permalink
After the horror of ISIS captivity, tens of thousands of Iraqis—many of them children—are caught up in a mental-health crisis unlike any in the world.
Jennifer Percy The New York Times Magazine Nov 2019 25min Permalink
In 1964, with “Seven Up!” Michael Apted stumbled into making what has become the most profound documentary series in the history of cinema. Fifty-five years later, the project is reaching its conclusion.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus New York Times Magazine Dec 2019 35min Permalink
How the museum-quality 55,000 film collection that an East Village video store gave away ended up in a small, possibly mob-run village in Sicily.
Karina Longworth Village Voice Sep 2012 Permalink
In 1865, a failed stockbroker tries to pull off one of the boldest financial schemes in American history: the original big short.
David K. Thomson The Boston Globe, Truly*Adventurous Apr 2020 30min Permalink
His savvy on a longboard earned him trophies. His burglary of the Natural History museum in New York earned him headlines. And his brutality on a Florida boat 50-odd years ago earned him a lifetime in prison. Now: What does penance get you?
Brian Burnsed Sports Illustrated Apr 2020 Permalink
When a group of Black mothers in Ohio were told to wait for school integration, they started marching every day in protest. They kept going for nearly 18 months.
Sarah Stankorb The Atavist Magazine Jun 2020 45min Permalink
In New Orleans, hospitals sent patients infected with the coronavirus into hospice facilities or back to their families to die at home, in some cases discontinuing treatment even as relatives begged them to keep trying.
Annie Waldman, Joshua Kaplan ProPublica Aug 2020 30min Permalink
Specialists Solomon Bangayan and Marc Seiden fought together in Bravo Company’s 3rd Platoon in Iraq. Both were killed. Here’s how they made it home.
Dan Baum New Yorker Aug 2004 30min Permalink
On the lost pickup basketball games in D.C. between Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor, then both still in college, during the summer of 1957.
Dave McKenna Grantland May 2012 30min Permalink
In 2019, the body of a man fell from a passenger plane into a garden in south London. Who was he?
Sirin Kale Guardian Apr 2021 25min 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
For the nurses in the Appalachian highlands who risked their lives during the pandemic, it is as if they fought in a war no one acknowledges.
Peter Jamison Washington Post Jul 2021 15min Permalink
It started with a candle in an abandoned warehouse. It ended with temperatures above 3,000 degrees and the men of the Worcester Fire Department in a fight for their lives.
Sean Flynn Esquire Jul 2000 1h Permalink
Why can’t the military fix its violence against women problem? Congress is on the precipice of ushering in the biggest shift in military policy since the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. But would it have saved 21-year-old airman Natasha Aposhian?
Molly Langmuir Elle Nov 2021 Permalink
Pregnant and facing decades in prison, the mother of Tupac Shakur fought for her life—and triumphed—in the trial of the Panther 21.
Tashan Reed Jacobin Nov 2021 25min Permalink
In 1936, Karp Lykov whisked his family into the Siberian wilderness to escape Bolshevik persecution. They remained there, alone, until discovered by a helicopter crew in 1978.
Mike Dash Smithsonian Jan 2013 15min Permalink
Inside the five-year (so far) production of the Ilya Khrzhanovsky film Dau:
Khrzhanovsky came up with the idea of the Institute not long after preproduction on Dau began in 2006. He wanted a space where he could elicit the needed emotions from his cast in controlled conditions, twenty-four hours a day. The set would be a panopticon. Microphones would hide in lighting fixtures (as they would in many a lamp in Stalin's USSR), allowing Khrzhanovsky to shoot with multiple film cameras from practically anywhere — through windows, skylights, and two-way mirrors. The Institute's ostensible goal was to re-create '50s and '60s Moscow, home to Dau's subject, Lev Landau. A Nobel Prize–winning physicist, Landau significantly advanced quantum mechanics with his theories of diamagnetism, superfluidity, and superconductivity. He also tapped epic amounts of ass.
Michael Idov GQ Nov 2011 15min Permalink