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Decline of the Empire

In this Dec. 9, 1974 file photo, author Gore Vidal tosses barbs in all directions as he discusses Hollywood unions, politics, lecturing and publicizing books during an interview in Los Angeles. (AP…
AUTHOR:Gore Vidal
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2490 words)

With Friends Like These: On Pakistan

It’s best not to dwell too much on Pakistan, or at least Ahmed Rashid’s description of it in Pakistan on the Brink, because the conclusions are so grim. Consider the variables: there…
PUBLISHED: April 30, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1040 words)
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A California Town Bleeds from Sequestration's Cuts

Except for the heavily armed guard at the entrance, there is little to suggest that the sprawling Navy airbase outside Lemoore—a town of 25,000 in central California—is anything but an…
PUBLISHED: April 24, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (928 words)

Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin.

Mark with Houston at Houston's high school graduation in 2009 Courtesy of the familyTHE THING THAT STRUCK ME when I first met my cousin Houston was his size. He wasn't much taller than me, if at all,…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1601 words)

Chim's Eye: On Photography and Politics

[Civilians in an air-raid shelter, Minorca, Spain], December 1938. © David Seymour/Magnum Photos   It's a strange photograph, something like a class portrait from a school under siege. In…
PUBLISHED: April 15, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2149 words)

Are Happy Gut Bacteria Key to Weight Loss?

A few years before Super Size Me hit theaters in 2004, Dr. Paresh Dandona, a diabetes specialist in Buffalo, New York, set out to measure the body's response to McDonald's—specifically…
PUBLISHED: April 22, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (994 words)

The Best Longreads in Business and Finance for the Week of April 12

The story of how a Deleuze-reading MIT graduate student became the future of online publishing and advertising. Coffeeland David Farley, Afar When it comes to food, Ethiopia is more known for its…
PUBLISHED: April 14, 2013

Unreal Choices: On The Feminine Mystique

In an afterword to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Feminine Mystique, the novelist Anna Quindlen recalls seeing her mother, a housewife, sitting at the kitchen table engrossed in the book. I…
PUBLISHED: March 20, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (863 words)

A Brooklyn Corner

On the Thursday morning before Christmas, about fifteen women, mostly Latina but some Eastern European, stand scattered on a curved asphalt shoulder overlooking the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. As…
PUBLISHED: March 12, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (904 words)
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