Armey in Exile
Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe build the most powerful Tea Party organization in the country. Then a feud threatened to undo everything.
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Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe build the most powerful Tea Party organization in the country. Then a feud threatened to undo everything.
Luke Mullins Washingtonian Jun 2013 1h45min Permalink
The last great brawling sports team in America—Reggie, Catfish, Goose, Gator, and the Boss—remember their fallen leader.
Michael Paterniti Esquire Sep 1999 35min Permalink
The author, on book tour when the pandemic set in, reflects on what could have been worse—and what could be better.
Kiese Makeba Laymon Vanity Fair Aug 2020 20min 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
On 20-somethings in America, or:
My screwed, coddled, self-absorbed, mocked, surprisingly resilient generation.
Noreen Malone New York Oct 2011 20min Permalink
Personalized medicine may one day deliver routine medical miracles. But it wasn’t ready in time for Stephanie Lee.
A reporter learns to slice lox—and digs into a Los Angeles landmark’s millions in debt.
Jesse Katz Los Angeles Magazine Sep 2016 25min Permalink
How a brewery became more famous for what’s on its bottle than what’s in it.
Amanda Whiting Washingtonian Jan 2017 15min Permalink
What prompts a woman to exit society and marry God? Inside a modern convent in Texas.
Alex Mar Oxford American Aug 2013 45min Permalink
At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives.
Casey Newton The Verge Jun 2019 25min Permalink
A respected professor shot dead through the mansion window. A quaint New England town shaken to its core. One all-consuming obsession in Whip City.
Deborah Halber Truly*Adventurous Jul 2021 25min Permalink
A profile of “America’s most vulnerable comedian.”
Sara Corbett New York Times Magazine Jul 2014 20min Permalink
What good can come of tragedy.
Mark Obbie Pacific Standard Jun 2013 15min Permalink
A profile of Zooey Deschanel.
A profile of celebrity astrophysicist Neil Tyson.
Carl Zimmer Playboy Jan 2012 Permalink
Reviewing Newt Gingrich as historian and intellectual.
Joan Didion New York Review of Books Aug 1995 20min Permalink
Life inside a pair of small-town boarding houses.
Em DeMarco Narratively Dec 2014 25min Permalink
December 1944, Auschwitz.
Primo Levi New York Review of Books Jan 1986 10min Permalink
A leading sci-fi writer takes stock of China’s global rise.
Jiayang Fan New Yorker Jun 2019 25min Permalink
A profile of a new icon.
Jazmine Hughes New York Times Magazine Jul 2021 30min Permalink
A mayday call in the critical moments after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform.
Douglas A. Blackmon The Wall Street Journal May 2010 10min Permalink
A Profile Auditor goes sniffing after anomalies in the consumption habits and personal data of an unsuspecting hotel clerk.
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Neal Stephenson Wired Oct 1994 25min Permalink
When a day hike in Rocky Mountain National Park ended in a grisly death, Investigative Services Branch veteran Beth Shott hit the trail, where she began unraveling a harrowing case.
Rachel Monroe Outside Oct 2018 25min Permalink
The story of Asa Earl Carter, aka Forrest Carter, the best-selling author of The Education of Little Tree, an autobiographical novel about “communion with nature and love of one’s fellow man.” He was also a Klansman, penning the famous George Wallace line, “Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!”
Dana Rubin Texas Monthly Feb 1992 20min Permalink
The failure of MTV’s Staten Island-based reality show and the fate of its cast members:
While Bridge & Tunnel hangs in programming purgatory, the DeBartolis are hamstrung by Draconian network contracts that reportedly don't allow them to have agents or managers or even talk about any of this publicly for five years. So while JWoww shills her own black bronzer line and Snooki slams into Italian police cars for $100,000 an episode, Gabriella and Brianna have been working respectively as a secretary and a pizza-order girl in Staten Island. The papers they signed as passports off Staten Island are effectively keeping them there.
Camille Dodero Village Voice Jul 2011 25min Permalink