“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.”
George Orwell Horizon Apr 1946 20min Permalink
A profile of Hugo Chávez.
Jon Lee Anderson New Yorker Jun 2008 35min Permalink
A profile of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who is running for office four years after his affair with an Argentine journalist became national news.
Jason Zengerle New York Mar 2013 15min Permalink
The battle over what to do with New York City’s worst teachers.
Steven Brill New Yorker Aug 2009 25min Permalink
Naffe, a young Republican, entered the belly of the political beast – and was nearly eaten.
Chris Faraone Boston Phoenix Feb 2013 Permalink
A profile of Michael Huffington.
Maureen Orth Vanity Fair Nov 1994 35min Permalink
Arts Business Politics World Movies & TV
France, wealth and the saga of tax exile Gérard Depardieu.
Lauren Collins New Yorker Feb 2013 25min Permalink
The GOP’s younger generation confronts its future.
Robert Draper New York Times Magazine Feb 2013 20min Permalink
How Republicans came to be the party of white people.
Sam Tanenhaus The New Republic Feb 2013 20min Permalink
In the wake of revolution, Libyans envision their future.
Robert Draper National Geographic Feb 2013 20min Permalink
An obituary.
Robert D. McFadden New York Times Feb 2013 25min Permalink
The dark money and political power behind the nation’s largest gun group.
Tim Dickinson Rolling Stone Jan 2013 25min Permalink
“Hillary Clinton was never a shy person.”
Connie Bruck New Yorker May 1994 2h10min Permalink
How the United States came to spend more on defense than all the other nations of the world combined.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Jan 2013 20min Permalink
A reassessment of the calm, cool JFK.
Benjamin Schwarz The Atlantic Jan 2013 20min Permalink
The rise of Israel’s far right.
David Remnick New Yorker Jan 2013 35min Permalink
The inside story.
John Bresnahan, Carrie Budoff Brown, Manu Raju, Jake Sherman Politico Jan 2013 10min Permalink
How amateur satellite aficionados track the U.S. government’s spy technology.
Patrick Radden Keefe Wired Feb 2006 15min Permalink
A dispatch from The National Review’s post-election cruise.
A postmortem.
Michael Kranish The Boston Globe Dec 2012 20min Permalink
The activists, politicians, and social trends that led to 2012’s gay marriage victories.
Molly Ball The Atlantic Dec 2012 10min Permalink
The story of one Tibetan’s protest.
Jeffrey Bartholet National Geographic Nov 2012 20min Permalink
In Colorado and beyond, a negotiated surrender in the war on drugs.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells New York Nov 2012 30min Permalink
How a team of 40 engineers helped reelect Barack Obama.
Alexis Madrigal The Atlantic Nov 2012 30min Permalink
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, profiled.
Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker Mar 2004 20min Permalink
