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The Man Who Killed Osama Bin Laden...Is Screwed

Published in the March 2013 issue Phil Bronstein is the former editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and currently serves as executive chairman of the Center for Investigative Reporting. This piece…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 11, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2262 words)

How Obama Used Big Data to Rally Voters

Two years after Barack Obama’s election as president, Democrats suffered their worst defeat in decades. The congressional majorities that had given Obama his legislative successes, reforming…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1871 words)

Defying Gravity

AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster President Barack Obama arrives to speak at a campaign event at the Summerfest Grounds at Henry Maier Festival Park, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, in Milwaukee. The U.S. economy…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 27, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (825 words)

Beyond lies the wub: a history of dubstep

The strange trip of the wobble bass The atmosphere of Belvedere’s, a dive bar on Butler Street in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood — with its stage and pool tables and…
SOURCE:The Verge
PUBLISHED: Aug. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5621 words)

The Longform Guide to the Olympics

1992 Olympic "Dream Team" members Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan, and Clide Drexler receive their gold medals in Barcelona Photo by Mike Powell/Getty Images. Every weekend, Longform shares a…
AUTHOR:Max Linsky
PUBLISHED: July 21, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1387 words)

The Greatest Game Nobody Ever Saw

You have a tape?" Michael Jordan asks. "Of that game?" "I do," I say. "Man, everybody asks me about that game," he says. "It was the most fun I ever had on a basketball court." It befits the enduring…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (704 words)

The Money-Empathy Gap

(Photo: Catherine Ledner) In a windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley, campus, two undergrads are playing a Monopoly game that one of them has no chance of winning. A team of…
PUBLISHED: July 1, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (844 words)

The 10 Best Pieces Of “Pink Journalism” I’ve Read This Year

When the ASME (American Society of Magazine Editors) awards for magazine journalism were listed online, the blogopshere took a quick whiff and reported back with the precise recipe for becoming…
PUBLISHED: June 18, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2030 words)

Tom Wolfe on the 'Me' Decade in America -- New York Magazine

From the August 23, 1976 issue of New York Magazine. I. Me and My Hemorrhoids The trainer said, “Take your finger off the repress button.” Everybody was supposed to let go, let all the…
AUTHOR:Tom Wolfe
LENGTH: 3 minutes (938 words)
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