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
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
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
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
Inside the boardroom as Uber’s press nightmare unfolded.
Eric Newcomer, Brad Stone Businessweek Jan 2018 15min Permalink
A look at the rapper’s decade-plus ordeal.
Jessica Brand, Ethan Brown In Justice Today Apr 2018 25min Permalink
Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda?
Jane Mayer New Yorker Mar 2019 30min Permalink
A surgeon tastes viral fame via Twitter and then things get really weird.
He spent years scrimping and saving. But without a will, where’s his money going?
Claire Martin Bloomberg Businessweek May 2019 20min Permalink
What happens when the chefs behind North America’s most hedonistic restaurant quit drinking.
Hannah Goldfield New Yorker May 2019 20min Permalink
What happened when Brooklyn’s oldest nursery school decided to become less old-fashioned? A riot among the one percent.
Jessica Pressler New York Jul 2019 35min Permalink
A jailhouse interview with Steve Washak, who made millions selling “natural male enhancement” pills.
Amy Wallace GQ Sep 2009 20min Permalink
They were exhausting, impossible, stingy, and cruel, just like at their day jobs.
Moe Tkacik Slate Jan 2021 15min Permalink
On the ground to witness Cuba’s last days:
“Either we rectify our course or the time for teetering along on the brink runs out and we go down. And we will go down…[with] the effort of entire generations.”—Raul Castro
Jose Manuel Prieto New York Review of Books May 2011 15min Permalink
The story of the 100-mile Barkley Marathons.
“What makes it so bad? No trail, for one. A cumulative elevation gain that’s nearly twice the height of Everest.”
Leslie Jamison The Believer May 2011 25min Permalink
Operations gone wrong, how the media covered for spies, and the story that became Argo — a collection of our favorite articles about the CIA.
How the CIA used a fake science fiction film to sneak six Americans out of revolutionary Iran. The declassified story that became Ben Affleck’s Argo.
Joshuah Bearman Wired Apr 2007 20min
Throughout the ’50s and ’60s, media outlets including the New York Times and CBS News provided the CIA with information and cover for agents. Then everyone decided to pretend it had never happened.
Carl Bernstein Rolling Stone Oct 1977 55min
Erik Prince, the boyish CEO of America’s largest and most controversial mercenary force, Blackwater, also happened to be a CIA agent.
Adam Ciralsky Vanity Fair Jan 2010 25min
The story of William Morgan: American, wanderer, Cuban revolutionary, possible spy.
David Grann New Yorker May 2012 1h25min
When a CIA operation in Pakistan went bad, leaving three men dead, the episode offered a rare glimpse inside a shadowy world of espionage. It also jeopardized America’s most critical outpost in the war against terrorism.
Matthew Teague Men's Journal Jun 2011
On the CIA’s early operations.
Jason Epstein New York Review of Books Apr 1967
A spy takes on his own agency.
David Wise Smithsonian Oct 2012
A three-part series on the U.S. intelligence system post-9/11.
Apr 1967 – Oct 2012 Permalink
The story of TWA Flight 841.
Hear Buzz Bissinger discuss this story, a Pultizer finalist now available online for the first time, on the Longform Podcast.
Buzz Bissinger St. Paul Pioneer Press May 1981 25min Permalink
In 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy and held the entire American diplomatic mission hostage for fifteen months. Twenty-five years later, the students reflected on their actions, many with regret.
Mark Bowden The Atlantic Dec 2004 35min Permalink
Her grandfather, she found out decades after he died, was not her grandfather. Who did that make her?
Molly Minturn The Toast Aug 2013 15min Permalink
“I think I knew that at heart I was an aging spinster.”
Jeanne McCulloch, Mona Simpson, Alice Munro The Paris Review Jun 1994 45min Permalink
A semester with first-year medical students as they dissect a human body.