‘They’re Trying to Be King of the Mormons’
Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman were friends. Until they weren’t.
Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman were friends. Until they weren’t.
Matt Canham, Thomas Burr Politico Jun 2015 20min Permalink
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If jobs as we’ve known them for a century are going away, what will replace them?
Derek Thompson The Atlantic Jul 2015 35min Permalink
In 1952, Abe Feller, the U.N.’s first General Counsel, jumped to his death. More than 50 years later, his great nephew tries to figure out why.
Peter Birkenhead The Big Roundtable Jun 2015 35min Permalink
The ride-share company has 250 lobbyists and 29 lobbying firms registered in capitols around the nation, a third more than Wal-Mart Stores. Among other things.
Karen Weise Businessweek Jun 2015 15min Permalink
Growing up Afghan in the era of the Afghanistan War.
Morwari Zafar Granta Jun 2015 20min Permalink
Mike Bloomberg goes back to work.
Luke O'Brien Politico Magazine Jun 2015 40min Permalink
A New York gossip reporter makes her way in the wilds of European bureaucracy.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus The Guardian Jun 2015 25min Permalink
How a bid to unseat Senator Thad Cochran led to an illegal photo in a nursing home, a flurry of arrests, and the death of the man who brought the Tea Party to Mississippi.
Marin Cogan New York Jun 2015 20min Permalink
On the Republican slate for the 2016 presidential election: “Of the dozen or so people who have declared or are thought likely to declare, every one can be described as a full-blown adult failure.”
Chris Lehmann LRB Jun 2015 15min Permalink
A group of Gambian exiles scattered around America plotted to storm the Presidential palace and overthrow a brutal dictator. Their budget? $221,000.
Craig Whitlock, Adam Goldman The Washington Post May 2015 10min Permalink
The very early life of Joe Biden.
Richard Ben Cramer What It Takes Jul 1993 Permalink
Sex, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court.
Jill Lepore New Yorker May 2015 20min Permalink
On the failures of Amtrak.
Simon van Zuylen-Wood National Journal Apr 2015 20min Permalink
Following two leading figures of the #BlackLivesMatter movement through five months of protests.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine May 2015 25min Permalink
John Beale was an exemplary employee at the Environmental Protection Agency. He also led a double life, though not the rumored one at the CIA his colleagues whispered about.
Michael Gaynor Washingtonian Mar 2014 15min Permalink
On Elizabeth Warren’s shadow candidacy.
Ryan Lizza New Yorker May 2015 35min Permalink
A profile of the favorite to become the next UK prime minister.
Rafael Behr The Guardian Apr 2015 25min Permalink
Memories of “Hollywood’s most grinding bore,” Ronald Reagan.
Gore Vidal New York Review of Books Sep 1983 25min Permalink
Joan Didion versus the boys on the bus:
American reporters “like” covering a presidential campaign (it gets them out on the road, it has balloons, it has music, it is viewed as a big story, one that leads to the respect of one’s peers, to the Sunday shows, to lecture fees and often to Washington), which is one reason why there has developed among those who do it so arresting an enthusiasm for overlooking the contradictions inherent in reporting that which occurs only in order to be reported.
Joan Didion New York Review of Books Oct 1988 40min Permalink
Meet a man who could be called the “Hillaryland Whisperer.”
Patrick Caldwell, Andy Kroll Mother Jones Apr 2015 15min Permalink
What led to the 1970 explosion of a Greenwich Village townhouse, in which three members of the Weather Underground were killed, and what happened to the group after.
Excerpted from Days of Rage.
Bryan Burrough Vanity Fair Mar 2015 30min Permalink
Maybe Clinton isn’t a “good candidate,” as political junkies like to say. But that might not matter in 2016.
Jason Zengerle New York Apr 2015 25min Permalink
Bill Bradley was a Rhodes scholar, a three-term U.S. Senator and a presidential candidate. But before all that, he was the best college basketball player in the country.
John McPhee New Yorker Jan 1965 1h5min Permalink
“It took me 32 years to come out. This is what happened when I did.”
Barney Frank Politico Magazine Mar 2015 25min Permalink
For decades a group of radical Catholics, many of them nuns, have been keeping up the good fight against nuclear weapons.
Eric Schlosser New Yorker Mar 2015 1h15min Permalink