The Journey of Judge Joan Lefkow
What happened after Joan Lefkow’s husband and mother were murdered in her home.
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What happened after Joan Lefkow’s husband and mother were murdered in her home.
Mary Schmich The Chicago Tribune Nov 2005 40min Permalink
Romney’s former Bain partner makes a case for inequality.
Adam Davidson New York Times Magazine May 2012 15min Permalink
How Google’s utopian/dystopian plan to scan the world’s books failed and the Harvard-led team that’s picking up the pieces.
Nicholas Carr Technology Review Jun 2012 15min Permalink
What happens when a complete stranger becomes convinced you’re the Zodiac killer.
Michael O'Hare Washington Monthly May 2009 10min Permalink
Police and scientists investigate an outbreak.
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee Wired (UK) Aug 2012 15min Permalink
The underground routes by which drugs enter the U.S. from Mexico, and the officials who’ve found it almost impossible to curb their construction.
Adam Higginbotham Businessweek Aug 2012 15min Permalink
From Hong Kong to Bangkok to the Golden Triangle, the author searches for something everyone says no longer exists: an opium den.
Nick Tosches Vanity Fair Sep 2000 50min Permalink
Seized passports, debtor’s prison, and slave labor prop up a Disneyland in the desert now in decline.
Johann Hari The Independent Apr 2009 35min Permalink
How the social networks that popped up in Facebook’s absence—the site is not available behind the Great Firewall—are changing Chinese culture.
April Rabkin Fast Company Feb 2011 Permalink
How J.C. Penney gamed Google and became the top result for searches on everything from “area rugs” to “skinny jeans.”
David Segal New York Times Feb 2011 Permalink
Jason Matthews worked at the CIA for more than 30 years. Then he started writing spy novels.
Josh Eells Men’s Journal Sep 2015 20min Permalink
Once viewed as a forensic “silver bullet,” DNA evidence is coming under fire.
Matthew Shaer The Atlantic May 2016 25min Permalink
An ancient document suggests that Jesus had a wife. But an investigation into its origins leads to … Florida.
Ariel Sabar The Atlantic Jun 2016 45min Permalink
With The BFG, the filmmaker tackles childhood’s possibilities and terrors once again.
Jon Mooallem Wired Jun 2016 20min Permalink
Inside a pageview scam.
Anna Merlan Jezebel Oct 2016 20min Permalink
On culture and the driverless car.
Robert Moor New York Oct 2016 20min Permalink
Business Crime Tech World Movies & TV
What really happened at Sony Pictures during the cyberattack – and questions about whether the company should have seen it coming.
Peter Elkind Fortune Jun 2015 55min Permalink
Controversy following a climbing disaster that killed eight.
Jennet Conant Vanity Fair Aug 1996 25min Permalink
The Hollywood backroom machinations that got the biopic to movie screens.
Stephen Galloway The Hollywood Reporter Oct 2015 15min Permalink
What the Fresh Air host has learned after 13,000 interviews.
Susan Burton The New York Times Magazine Oct 2015 20min Permalink
No one knew her secret. Until they did.
Jada Yuan, Aaron Wong New York Dec 2015 25min Permalink
An attorney pieces together a life cut short.
Burke M. Butler The Marshall Project Mar 2016 20min Permalink
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
James Somers The Atlantic Apr 2017 25min Permalink
Baltimore-area renters complain about a property owner they say is neglectful and litigious. Few know their landlord is the president’s son-in-law.
Alec MacGillis ProPublica May 2017 25min Permalink
Short-seller Andrew Left sniffs out corporate fraud—and gets rich doing it.
Jesse Barron New York Times Magazine Jun 2017 20min Permalink