The Organization Kid

The young men and women of America’s future elite work their laptops to the bone, rarely question authority, and happily accept their positions at the top of the heap as part of the natural order of life

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Apr 1, 2001
Length: 51 minutes (12,912 words)

Live from Insane Clown Posse’s Gathering of the Juggalos

Revenge of the losers! Or, what it’s like at a four-day reunion of ‘the most misunderstood people of all time’

Source: Village Voice
Published: Sep 8, 2010
Length: 22 minutes (5,688 words)

War Games

Published: Sep 8, 2010
Length: 20 minutes (5,053 words)

Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds

As Wall Street hangs on the question, “Will Greece default?”, the author heads for riot-stricken Athens, and for the mysterious Vatopaidi monastery, which brought down the last government, laying bare the country’s economic insanity.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Oct 1, 2010
Length: 46 minutes (11,671 words)

Rex Ryan: Bringing It Big

In his first season, Rex Ryan took the Jets to within one game of the Super Bowl. In Season 2, the expectations are even higher

Published: Sep 8, 2010
Length: 33 minutes (8,389 words)

Yo.

He created two of the biggest movie franchises of all time, wrote eight scripts, generated nearly $4 billion for the studios. Yet Sylvester Stallone gets no love from Hollywood.

Source: GQ
Published: Sep 1, 2010
Length: 24 minutes (6,106 words)

Who is the Greatest Diva of the Last 25 Years?

By way of eulogy to the dying animal that is the Diva, my crack team of consultants, statisticians and graphic designers have assembled DIVA-OFF 2010, a highly scientific (we used computers!) evaluation of the greatest divas of the past twenty-five years.

Source: The Awl
Published: Sep 8, 2010
Length: 12 minutes (3,022 words)

Can You Say … “Hero”?

Once upon a time, a long time ago, a man took off his jacket and put on a sweater. Then he took off his shoes and put on a pair of sneakers. His name was Fred Rogers. He was starting a television program, aimed at children, called Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. He had been on television before, but only as the voices and movements of puppets, on a program called The Children’s Corner. Now he was stepping in front of the camera as Mister Rogers, and he wanted to do things right, and whatever he did right, he wanted to repeat.

Author: Tom Junod
Source: Esquire
Published: Nov 1, 1998
Length: 32 minutes (8,039 words)

Inside Al Qaeda

Nine years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden’s network remains a shadowy, little-understood enemy. The truth, as revealed by one of its fighters, is both more and less troubling than we think.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Sep 4, 2010
Length: 14 minutes (3,661 words)

Good Days at Ground Zero

Given all the political noise, you might not realize that the towers of the new World Trade Center are swiftly reaching the sky, rising by a floor a week. Soon, the noise will be forgotten. It’s the towers we’ll remember. #Sept11

Author: Scott Raab
Source: Esquire
Published: Oct 1, 2010
Length: 21 minutes (5,318 words)