From Belief to Outrage: The Decline of the Middle Class Reaches the Next American Town
“Fast food and hedge funds. That’s where we’re going.”
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“Fast food and hedge funds. That’s where we’re going.”
Eli Saslow Washington Post May 2016 15min Permalink
Microprocessors cost billions to develop. They take three times longer to build than an airplane, in an environment 1,000 times more sterile than a hospital. Throughout the entire process, nobody ever touches them.
Max Chafkin, Ian King Businessweek Jun 2016 15min Permalink
“I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it.”
John S. Friedman, Elie Wiesel The Paris Review Apr 1984 50min Permalink
The Libyan Investment Authority was brand new, staffed by people who barely understood finance and had billions to invest. Goldman Sachs saw a whale. Now the Libyans want their money back.
Matthew Campbell, Kit Chellel Bloomberg Business Sep 2016 20min Permalink
A young man's connection with a circle-drawing, perceptive young woman.
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Leon Hedstrom WhiskeyPaper Mar 2014 Permalink
The author on how he was conned by Christian Gerhartsreiter, aka "Clark Rockefeller."
Excerpted from Blood Will Out.
Walter Kirn Men's Journal Mar 2014 20min Permalink
On Ray Dalio, who built the world’s biggest hedge fund by running it like a cult.
Kevin Roose New York Apr 2011 10min Permalink
The author attends a Tolstoy conference as a grad student. She wears flip-flops, sweatpants and a flannel shirt, and tries to determine if Tolstoy was murdered.
Elif Batuman Harper's Feb 2009 Permalink
How crooked officials pulled off a massive scam, spent millions on Dubai real estate, and killed the author’s law partner when he tried to expose them.
Jamison Firestone Foreign Policy Apr 2011 10min Permalink
Slowly, Bobo pulled off his shoes, his socks. He stood up, unbuttoned his shirt, dropped his pants, his shorts. He stood there naked. It was Sunday morning, a little before 7.
William Bradford Huie Look Jan 1956 15min Permalink
As an “angry young man,” Ghost World author Daniel Clowes insulted Stan Lee and Art Spiegelman in a graphic novel’s satirical alternate reality. It was born from a nagging self-doubt that, despite the cartoonist’s current recognition and status, lingers.
Robert Ito California Sunday Feb 2016 15min Permalink
An attempt to figure out why, and how, a young pilot named Andreas Günter Lubitz deliberately plunged an airliner into the remote French Alps, killing himself and the other 149 people on board.
Joshua Hammer GQ Feb 2016 25min Permalink
When he disappeared four years ago on Turkey’s tallest mountain, Donald Mackenzie wasn’t trying to reach the summit. A true believer, Mackenzie was looking for Noah’s Ark.
Patrick Wrigley Roads & Kingdoms Nov 2014 Permalink
How Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher Jr., an openly gay hedge fund star, came to marry Ellen Pao, a partner at a powerful Silicon Valley firm, before they “went to war with their elite worlds.”
Adam Lashinsky, Katie Benner Fortune Oct 2012 15min Permalink
Being exonerated for a crime you didn’t commit is a hard-won triumph. But how can the state make up for what you’ve lost while in prison?
Ariel Levy New Yorker Apr 2015 35min Permalink
The CNN anchor may not be the clueless bumbler the internet believes him to be.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner GQ May 2015 10min Permalink
How a 24-year-old nurse discovered Vegas, high-stakes gambling, and serial bank robbery.
Jeff Maysh BBC Apr 2015 25min Permalink
“We still have retrograde ideas about how pregnant women should feel, and we need to revise them — not only for depressed women but for all women.”
Andrew Solomon New York Times Magazine May 2015 25min Permalink
Twenty-one-year-old Briton Lucie Blackman came to Tokyo and found work in the Roppongi district hostess bars, where businessmen come to flirt with paid companions, and Western women draw a premium fee. Two months later, she disappeared. She would be found underneath a bathtub in a beachside cave.
Evan Wright Time May 2001 Permalink
A survey on where the industry is headed. Says one agency veteran: “Marketing in the future is like sex. Only the losers will have to pay for it.”
Danielle Sacks Fast Company Nov 2010 Permalink
A 15-year-old dies shortly after collapsing from heatstroke during a high school football practice. Was it has coach’s fault? The state thought so, and put him on trial.
Thomas Lake Sports Illustrated Dec 2010 30min Permalink
The father: an Oscar-winning songwriter. The son, a college dropout and partier around downtown New York. Their alleged crimes; serial casting-couch rape (the senior) and a drowning murder in a Soho House bathtub (the junior).
James Verini New York Feb 2011 20min Permalink
He was the most powerful fish broker in New Bedford, America’s most valuable seafood port. The Russians who arrived looking to buy his operation were undercover agents and he told them everything.
Ben Goldfarb Mother Jones Mar 2017 15min Permalink
“Rosemary was wide awake the whole time. The doctors had her recite poems as they cut—when she was silent, they knew the procedure was complete.”
Lyz Lenz Marie Claire Mar 2017 10min Permalink
“If a life can have a crystallizing moment, for Jim Graham that 1993 meeting was it, discovering that his father might have been a Catholic priest, rather than John Graham, the distant man who raised him with scarcely a kind or comforting word.”
Michael Rezendes Boston Globe Aug 2017 20min Permalink