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What Really Happened to Michael Rockefeller

More than 50 years after Nelson Rockefeller's son went missing following a boat accident in New Guinea, the true story emerges. He made it to shore, but didn't make it much farther.

Excerpted from </em>Savage Harvest</a>.</p>

Carl Hoffmann Smithsonian Feb 2014 Permalink

Sports World

The Oracle of Ice Hockey

On goalies, and in particular, really good Finnish ones.

Chris Koentges The Atlantic Feb 2014 30min Permalink

Business Crime World

The Ivory Highway

Inside the lucrative — and illegal — business of elephant tusk trafficking.

Damon Tabor Men's Journal Feb 2014 35min Permalink

World

Marrakech

A dispatch from Morocco.

George Orwell New Writing Dec 1939 10min Permalink

Crime Politics World

Kill the Past

The murder of a rapper amid the rise of Greece’s fascist party.

Dorian Lynskey Buzzfeed Jan 2014 30min Permalink

Business World

Why Are So Many Farmers Killing Themselves?

“An Indian farmer has committed suicide every half hour since 2001.”

Ilan Greenberg Modern Farmer Dec 2013 10min Permalink

World

How to Build a Perfect Refugee Camp

Why do Syrian civilians in a Turkish camp live in relative luxury?

Mac McClelland New York Times Magazine Feb 2014 25min Permalink

World

India’s Golden Chance

How the next generation of Indian women could break the country’s cycle of early motherhood and forced marriage.

Meera Subramanian VQR Feb 2014 30min Permalink

Sports World

The Sochi Project

Since 2007, when they first heard that “the Florida of Russia” was being awarded the Winter Olympics, two Dutch journalists have been documenting everyday life in Sochi and how it has changed in the run-up to the Games.

Rob Hornstra, Arnold van Bruggen Jan 2014 Permalink

Politics World

Inside the Iron Closet: What It's Like to Be Gay in Putin's Russia

The coordinated government attack on queer Russia.

Jeff Sharlet GQ Feb 2014 30min Permalink

World

Ghosts of the Tsunami

The haunted aftermath of disaster in Japan.

Richard Lloyd Parry London Review of Books Jan 2014 30min Permalink

Business World

Far From Home

On the foreign workers of Dubai, who now make up 90 percent of the city’s population.

Cynthia Gorney National Geographic Jan 2014 20min Permalink

Science World

Woman Marries Snake

A love story.

Mischa Berlinski Harper's Nov 2007 35min Permalink

Crime History Politics World

Secrets From Belfast

An oral history project involving former IRA members becomes a prolonged court battle over a four-decade-old murder.

Beth McMurtrie The Chronicle of Higher Education Jan 2014 30min Permalink

History World

Digging for Their Lives

With up to four million World War II soldiers considered missing in action on the Eastern front, a group of Russian volunteers vows to unearth, identify and properly bury their remains.

Lucy Ash BBC Jan 2014 10min Permalink

World

Our Man in Africa

Decades later, U.S.-backed dictator Hissène Habré faces justice.

Michael Bronner Foreign Policy Jan 2014 20min Permalink

Science World

Untested. Unregulated. Unsafe?

The rise of an expensive, experimental stem-cell treatment in China and the medical tourism it attracts.

Andrés Grippo Matter Jan 2014 15min Permalink

Crime Science World

The Downfall of India's Kidney Kingpin

How a self-taught doctor from Delhi cornered the black market in kidneys, building one of the world’s most lucrative organ-trading rings, until it all came crashing down.

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee Discover Apr 2010 Permalink

World

The General

An Israeli journalist’s six years of conversation with Ariel Sharon, who died Saturday.

Ari Shavit New Yorker Jan 2006 35min Permalink

Science World

The Geel Question

For centuries, a little town in Belgium has been treating the mentally ill. Why are its medieval methods so successful?

Mike Jay Aeon Jan 2014 10min Permalink

Crime World

Vanished

Seventeen-year-old Israel Arenas Durán disappeared after being arrested near his home in Nuevo León. He is one of more than 25,000 who have gone missing in Mexico since 2006.

Nik Steinberg Foreign Policy Jan 2014 20min Permalink

History World

Bashar Al Assad: An Intimate Profile of a Mass Murderer

How the Syrian president stays in power.

Annia Ciezadlo The New Republic Dec 2013 20min Permalink

Arts Crime History World Movies & TV

The Defense of a Jewish Collaborator

On Benjamin Murmelstein, the head of the council of elders at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Mark Lilla New York Review of Books Dec 2013 20min Permalink

History World

Arendt & Eichmann: The New Truth

Rethinking Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.

Mark Lilla New York Review of Books Nov 2013 15min Permalink

Sports World Travel

Qatar Chronicles

A trip to the 2022 World Cup host nation.

  1. Part 1: Destination Everywhere

  2. Part 2: Buying a Masterpiece

  3. Part 3: Only for the Rich

  4. Part 4: They Wanted It More

  5. Part 5: On Their Own Terms

David Roth SB Nation Dec 2013 1h Permalink

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