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Religion

The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power

An investigation of Scientology.

Richard Behar Time May 1991 Permalink

Science

Still Cranish After All These Years

A writer struggles to understand, among other things, why humans do more for whooping cranes than for themselves.

George Sibley High Country News Sep 2010 10min Permalink

Science

And Such Small Deer

A writer struggles to defend his arbor vitae trees from a pack of hungry deer—“an episode of great vexation and buffoonery.”

Garret Keizer Lapham's Quarterly Jun 2008 15min Permalink

A Visit to Val Kilmer’s New Mexico Ranch

Where crazy things seem normal and normal things seem crazy.

Chuck Klosterman Esquire Jul 2005 Permalink

Business

Wells Fargo, You Never Knew...

A just-barred Pakistani-American attorney attempts to save a young family’s home from foreclosure and glimpses the contradiction-rich bureaucracy that has emerged in response to the housing crisis.

Wajahat Ali McSweeney's Mar 2010 40min Permalink

Arts Music

Madonna Rocks the Land

Scenes from Madonna’s first major tour and an author struggling to explain the 26-year-old’s massive, surging appeal.

- Time May 1985 Permalink

World Travel

After the Fall

A trip to interview former South Vietnamese premiere Ky on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the reunification of Vietnam ends with government surveillance, partying, and confusion.

Morgan Meis, Tom Bissell The Virginia Quarterly Review 40min Permalink

Business

The Great Divergence

A series on the growing income inequality gap in America.

Timothy Noah Slate Sep 2010 Permalink

Business

Bleak Houses

The author joins his father’s work crew, gutting out foreclosed houses in Florida and interviewing their former residents.

Paul Reyes Harper's Oct 2008 Permalink

Religion

Frat House for Jesus

Inside the C Street house in Washington and the little-known spiritual group behind it.

Peter J. Boyer New Yorker Sep 2010 30min Permalink

History

Skin

A Holocaust detective story: could a lampshade pulled from the ruins of Katrina really be Buchenwald artifact made of human remains?

Mark Jacobson New York Sep 2010 30min Permalink

Arts

An Interview with William Gibson

An interview with William Gibson on the “dark, dark world of marketing, advertising, and trend forecasting.”

Jesse Pearson Vice Sep 2010 Permalink

Best Article Religion

Jesus killed Mohammed

How the U.S. Army went evangelical and turned a war into a crusade.

Jeff Sharlet Harper's May 2009 Permalink

Arts Food

Chef on the Edge

David Chang’s manic quest for a flawless restaurant.

Larissa MacFarquhar New Yorker Mar 2008 35min Permalink

Tech

The Internet Celeb Who Lives With Mom

A 2009 profile of the guy behind 4chan, Christoper “moot” Poole, his anonymous army of millions, and how it’s all losing him money.

Monica Hesse Washington Post Feb 2009 10min Permalink

Sex

The Family Prostitute

The Great Recession’s impact on the legalized prostitution industry in Nevada: more hookers, fewer johns.

Michael Albo LA Weekly Sep 2010 20min Permalink

Religion

I Joined Three Cults Simultaneously

The author enrolls in three cults - ADIDAM, the Moonies, and Aleph (formerly Aum, who carried out the Tokyo metro Sarin attacks) - via their New York branches.

Thomas Morton Vice Oct 2006 15min Permalink

Politics

The Sound and the Fury

The surreal world of Sarah Palin and her road show.

Michael Joseph Gross Vanity Fair Sep 2010 40min Permalink

Best Article Arts

About Motorcycles

The poet and his love affair with Italian motorbikes (and also lots of women.)

Frederick Seidel Harper's Nov 2009 Permalink

Sex

Through His Webcam...

A 13 year old gets a webcam and starts doing dirty shows online, ending up running a smut business in Mexico with his deadbeat father.

Kurt Eichenwald New York Times Dec 2005 Permalink

Religion

The Covenant

A profile of Francis Collins, a fervent Christian, former head of the Human Genome Project and Obama’s appointee to head N.I.H., now at the center of the stem cell research debate.

Peter J. Boyer New Yorker Sep 2010 25min Permalink

Into Thin Air

Fifty-four days after his group’s Everest climb turned tragic, Krakauer first told the story of what had gone wrong.

Jon Krakauer Outside Sep 1996 15min Permalink

Best Article

Death of an Innocent

The original story of Christopher McCandless’ fateful trip into the Alaskan wilderness.

Jon Krakauer Outside Jan 1993 30min Permalink

Business

Emperor du Fromage

Christian Audigier is the man behind Von Dutch and Ed Hardy. The massive succes of his garish and expensive creations may say more about the power of celebrity than about fashion.

Devin Friedman GQ Oct 2009 20min Permalink

History Religion

Plaboy Interview: Malcolm X

Alex Haley interviews the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s number two - Malcolm X - in a Harlem restaurant.

Alex Haley, Malcolm X Playboy May 1963 35min Permalink

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