Into the Valley of Death
The 20 soldiers in Second Platoon try in vain to hold down a strategic outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, “among the deadliest pieces of terrain in the world for U.S. forces.”
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The 20 soldiers in Second Platoon try in vain to hold down a strategic outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, “among the deadliest pieces of terrain in the world for U.S. forces.”
Sebastian Junger Vanity Fair Jan 2008 25min Permalink
A profile of Rick Santorum published early in his final campaign for the U.S. Senate, a race widely considered a stepping stone to the White House before he lost.
Mike Newall Philadelphia City Paper Sep 2005 25min Permalink
How the U.S. government used a serial con who was caught running a mail-order steroid pharmacy in Mexico to prove that Google was knowingly placing ads for illegal drugs.
Thomas Catan The Wall Street Journal Jan 2012 Permalink
Suzan Russaw is 70 years old. She lived in affordable Palo Alto housing for decades. Then, in 2013, she was forced to move into her car. On the new homeless of Silicon Valley.
Monica Potts The New Republic Dec 2015 15min Permalink
Between 1937 and 1973, Earl Johnson served out the sentences on nine felonies, worked for Charlie “Cherry Nose” Gio, became friends with a Soviet spy, and tried to kill “Joe Cargo” Valachi of the Cosa Nostra with a poison dart.
David Harris Rolling Stone Dec 1973 30min Permalink
An artist takes on “the umbrella problem,” which runs so deep the U.S. Patent Office has four full-time examiners dedicated solely to assessing ideas for umbrella improvement.
Susan Orlean New Yorker Feb 2008 20min Permalink
How did a pair of young rappers from Scotland, laughed off the stage for their accents, land a deal with Sony and start partying with Madonna? They pretended to be American.
Decca Aitkenhead The Guardian May 2008 20min Permalink
In the bayou south of New Orleans, a program called the Nurse-Family Partnership tries to reverse the life chances for babies born into extreme poverty. Sometimes, it actually succeeds.
Katherine Boo New Yorker Feb 2006 20min Permalink
“There is perhaps no other political-military elite in the world whose aspirations for great-power regional status, whose desire to overextend and outmatch itself with meager resources, so outstrips reality as that of Pakistan.”
Ahmed Rashid The National Interest Aug 2010 15min Permalink
“It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation. I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.”
Susan Sarandon, George Saunders Interview Apr 2016 10min Permalink
The archive of Mexican architect Luis Barragán has been hidden away for decades. Then an artist decided to make a performance of getting it back.
Alice Gregory New Yorker Jul 2016 25min Permalink
A U.S. Marine’s journey from the Afghan war to an Illinois prison.
C.J. Chivers The New York Times Magazine Dec 2016 1h10min Permalink
Olathe, Kansas, became a global magnet for tech talent, thanks to plentiful jobs, cheap housing, and good schools. Then someone opened fire on a pair of Indian-born engineers.
Romesh Ratnesar Businessweek May 2017 15min Permalink
By choice, for less than $2 an hour, the female inmate firefighters of California work their bodies to the breaking point. Sometimes they even risk their lives.
Jaime Lowe New York Times Magazine Aug 2017 20min Permalink
Investors all over the world fell for the schemes of the man who called himself Khalid bin al-Saud. But the truth turned out to be more incredible than the lie.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Oct 2018 20min Permalink
Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., known as the Golden State Killer, is alleged to have murdered 13 people in California during the 1970s and 1980s. He also raped 50 women. He’ll stand trial for the murders only.
Paige St. John Los Angeles Times Jun 2019 30min Permalink
For more than 50 years, world governments have trusted a single Swiss code-making machine company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers, and diplomats secret. It turns out that company was run by the CIA.
Greg Miller Washington Post Feb 2020 Permalink
Why is the actor wrestling—and nearly dying in the ring—at the age of 48? For pride, acceptance, and to undo the mistakes of his past.
Thomas Golianopoulos The Ringer Mar 2020 Permalink
The region’s hyper-local response has lessons for us as we confront the winter wave and begin to distribute vaccines.
Jay Caspian Kang The New Yorker Jan 2021 25min Permalink
On October 17, 1973, John McClamrock was paralyzed playing high school football. Doctors doubted he would make it through the night. But he and his mother refused to give up—for more than three decades.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly May 2009 30min Permalink
How the pop star’s father and a team of lawyers seized control of her life—and have held on to it for thirteen years.
Ronan Farrow, Jia Tolentino New Yorker Jul 2021 45min Permalink
Here I should conjure my sister for you. Here I should describe her, so that you feel her absence as I do—so that you’re made ghostly by it, too. But, though I’m a writer, I’ve never been able to conjure her.
Vauhini Vara The Believer Aug 2021 25min Permalink
The system for testing pharmaceuticals in the US relies on contractors adhering to strict guidelines. But one of them chose profits over protocols.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Oct 2021 35min Permalink
Meribah Knight is a reporter with Nashville Public Radio. She won the Polk Award for Podcasting for “The Kids of Rutherford County,” produced with ProPublica and Serial, which revealed a shocking approach to juvenile discipline in one Tennessee county.
“Where does it leave me? It leaves me with a searing anger that is going to propel me to the next thing. But we’ve made some real improvement. And that’s worth celebrating. That’s worth recognizing and saying, This work matters, people are paying attention.”
This is the third in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.
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As Playboy magazine moves to Los Angeles, the writer considers its place in the Midwest.
No other general interest magazine tried to reach readers in the wide swathe of land between New York and California. “It was a Midwestern magazine, designed for people there. If you wanted it to be hip, edgy, go toe-to-toe with GQ, you were making a mistake,” said Chris Napolitano, a former executive editor who began at Playboy in 1988.
Rachel Shteir Prospect Apr 2012 15min Permalink