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How Wall Street Defanged Dodd-Frank

The mood was triumphant on the morning of July 21, 2010, when Barack Obama, not quite two years into his presidency, strode to a podium inside the Ronald Reagan Building, a few blocks from the White…
PUBLISHED: April 30, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (985 words)

Harold Evans: 'Rupert Murdoch is the stiletto, a man of method, a cold-eyed manipulator'

There is a clear connecting thread between the events I describe in Good Times, Bad Times and the dramas that led so many years later to Rupert Murdoch's "most humble day of my life". I was…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 18, 2011
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6562 words)

How Special Ops Copied al-Qaida to Kill It

A helicopter takes Gen. Stanley McChrystal to Garmsir District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Photo: ISAF One of the greatest ironies of the 9/11 Era: while politicians, generals and…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 9, 2011
LENGTH: 1 minutes (345 words)

Roger Ailes and the rise of Fox News

At the Fox News Chrismas party the year the network overtook arch-rival CNN in the cable ratings, tipsy employees were herded down to the basement of a midtown bar in New York. As they gathered…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 10, 2011
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4431 words)

Five exceptional stories about bizarrely close brothers and sisters.

Every weekend, Longform.org shares a collection of great stories from its archive with Slate. For a daily selection of new and classic nonfiction, check out Longform.org or follow
AUTHOR:Max Linsky
PUBLISHED: Aug. 6, 2011
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1134 words)

Long Story Shortlist: Rebellion, Evolution and Baseball

Benjamin Norman for The New York TimesKei Igawa: The Lost Yankee, by Bill Pennington (July 23, 2011) TRENTON In the middle of a bright Manhattan summer afternoon, the
AUTHOR:THE STAFF
PUBLISHED: July 29, 2011

Hack Attack

So who would you like to hack today? A bank, a website, a corporation or perhaps a government agency that's rubbing you the wrong way?…
PUBLISHED: June 23, 2011
LENGTH: 2 minutes (737 words)
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