The Inside Story of Michigan’s Fake Voter Fraud Scandal
How a state that was never in doubt became a “national embarrassment.”
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How a state that was never in doubt became a “national embarrassment.”
Tim Alberta Politico Nov 2020 30min Permalink
They were exhausting, impossible, stingy, and cruel, just like at their day jobs.
Moe Tkacik Slate Jan 2021 15min Permalink
The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.
Clint Smith The Atlantic Feb 2021 30min Permalink
While political leaders trade threats, the pandemic has made Americans even more reliant on China’s manufacturers.
Peter Hessler New Yorker Mar 2021 35min Permalink
He covered car accidents for a years as a journalist. Then he was in two himself.
Joshua Sharpe The Atlantic May 2021 10min Permalink
Novelist Brad Thor thought he had found his doomsday-prepping soulmate, but then the End Times went bad.
Sam Biddle The Intercept Jul 2021 50min Permalink
In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town, capturing the world’s attention.
Kaleb Horton Vox, Epic Magazine Jul 2021 Permalink
The primate who ruled the news vanished again. A quest to find him led deep into Florida’s monkey kingdom.
Stephanie Hayes Tampa Bay Times Nov 2021 Permalink
“I come to America, I go to England, I go to France…nobody’s at risk. They’re afraid of getting cancer, losing a lover, losing their jobs, being insecure. … It’s only in my own country that I find people who voluntarily choose to put everything at risk—in their personal life.”
Jannika Hurwitt, Nadine Gordimer The Paris Review Jun 1983 55min Permalink
INTERVIEWER: I imagine that people try to set you up as some sort of guru, whether political or metaphysical.
LESSING: I think people are always looking for gurus. It’s the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It’s quite terrifying.
Thomas Frick The Paris Review Apr 1988 30min Permalink
On the echoes between the world leading up to World War I and our present international trajectory. Then, as globalization, nationalism, and radicalism converged, and tensions within the Balkans served as a spark. Today, conflicts in the Middle East, whose borders were mostly drawn in the wake of World War I, could play a similar role.
Margaret MacMillan Brookings Dec 2013 Permalink
Best Article Crime History Science
In the 1880’s, a shabbily dressed man popped up in numerous America cities, calling upon local scientists, showing letters of introduction claiming he was a noted geologist or paleontologist, discussing both fields at a staggeringly accomplished level, and then making off with valuable books or cash loans.
- Skulls in the Stars Feb 2011 30min Permalink
As surely as 2008 was made possible by black people’s long fight to be publicly American, it was also made possible by those same Americans’ long fight to be publicly black. That latter fight belongs especially to one man, as does the sight of a first family bearing an African name. Barack Obama is the president. But it’s Malcolm X’s America.
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic Apr 2011 15min Permalink
In the past the only people who wrote autobiographies or memoirs were very important, those who had a crucial role in the history of their own country—Napoleon, Goethe—or were witness to major events or people who had singular, adventurous lives. Otherwise, it is ridiculous to write your autobiography.
Javier Marias, Sarah Fay The Paris Review Jan 2006 45min Permalink
In the ’50s and ’60s, the Reverend Will Campbell marched with MLK Jr. and worked to desegregate the University of Mississippi. Later, broke, he took a job as Waylon Jennings’ roadie and occasional spiritual guru. Afterward, his ministry grew even stranger and more itinerant.
Lawrence Wright Rolling Stone Dec 1990 Permalink
A son, the illusion of his dead father and where technology intersects with real life.
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Alex McElroy Passages North Nov 2014 15min Permalink
A woman bonds with her terminally ill sister over food, memories, and shaky lives.
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Kyle Lucia Wu Joyland Nov 2014 30min Permalink
Modern methods allow the Islamic State to keep up its systematic rape of captives under medieval codes.
Rukmini Callimachi New York Times Mar 2016 Permalink
Calvin Stanley is a fourth-grader at Cross Country Elementary School. He rides a bike, watches TV, plays video games and does just about everything other 10-year-old boys do. Except see.
Alice Steinbach Baltimore Sun May 1984 15min Permalink
Ahmed Naji’s novel was not overtly political, but the “protagonist performs cunnilingus, rolls hash joints and gulps from bottles of vodka” which led a lawyer to press charges against him for causing a fluctuation in his blood pressure when the novel was excerpted in a Cairo newspaper, even though it had been approved by censors.
Jonathan Guyer Rolling Stone Feb 2017 20min Permalink
A profile of Norman Lear, the producer behind All in the Family and The Jeffersons, who is still making TV at age 94.
Michael Paterniti GQ May 2017 15min Permalink
Retirement for chimps is, in its way, a perversely natural outcome, which is to say, one that only we, the most cranially endowed of the primates, could have possibly concocted. It's the final manifestation of the irrepressible and ultimately vain human impulse to bring inside the very walls that we erect against the wilderness its most inspiring representatives -- the chimps, our closest biological kin, the animal whose startling resemblance to us, both outward and inward, has long made it a ''can't miss'' for movies and Super Bowl commercials and a ''must have'' in our laboratories. Retirement homes are, in a sense, where we've been trying to get chimps all along: right next door.
Charles Siebert New York Times Magazine Jul 2005 30min Permalink
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A conversation with Fred Seibert, who helped launch the Cartoon Network, co-created Nick at Nite, ran Hanna-Barbera and is now behind a YouTube animation behemoth with 17 million subscribers.</p>
“We don’t meander at the beginning of the story, making the assumption that people will just hang out with us. When we produced the latest episodes of Bee and PuppyCat, we didn’t have a theme song, which is how TV cartoons open. We just started the story.”
Chuck Salter HP Matter Apr 2015 Permalink
The hunt for rare 1933 Double Eagle coins:
The U.S. Secret Service, responsible for protecting the nation’s currency, has been pursuing them for nearly 70 years, through 13 Administrations and 12 different directors. The investigation has spanned three continents and involved some of the most famous coin collectors in the world, a confidential informant, a playboy king, and a sting operation at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan. It has inspired two novels, two nonfiction books, and a television documentary. And much of it has centered around a coin dealer, dead since 1990, whose shop is still open in South Philadelphia, run by his 82-year-old daughter.
Susan Berfield Businessweek Aug 2011 15min Permalink
Chains, knives, fists, and, of course, those crude and unreliable homemade affairs called zip guns were the staples in the more vicious gang wars in the 1940s and 1950s. Today there is scarcely a gang in the Bronx that cannot muster a factory-made piece for every member—at the very least, a .22-caliber pistol, but quite often heavier stuff: .32s, .38s, and .45s, shotguns, rifles, and—I have seen them myself—even machine guns, grenades, and gelignite, an explosive. One gang, the Royal Javelins, has acquired some walkie-talkie radios.
Gene Weingarten New York Mar 1972 15min Permalink