Thumbing His Way Back Home

Retirement is calling, and Bobby Cox has the Braves in first place (again). How has he managed to win so many games? Maybe by getting ejected so often

Published: Jul 26, 2010
Length: 21 minutes (5,381 words)

The Acceleration of Addictiveness

Source: Paul Graham
Published: Jul 1, 2010
Length: 5 minutes (1,256 words)

What Really Happened to Phoebe Prince?

The untold story of her suicide and the role of the kids who have been criminally charged for it.

Source: Slate
Published: Jul 20, 2010
Length: 37 minutes (9,268 words)

‘Why Has He Fallen Short?’

Of course Barack Obama was too hot not to cool down. He was the one so many were waiting for—not only the first African-American president but also the nation’s long-awaited liberator after eight years of Bush-Cheney, the golden-tongued evangelist who could at long last revive and sell the old liberal faith, the first American president in memory to speak to voters as if they might be thinking adults, the first national politician in years to electrify the young. He was even, of all implausible oddities, a contemporary politician-author who actually wrote his own books.

Author: Frank Rich
Published: Aug 19, 2010
Length: 17 minutes (4,310 words)

Letting Go

What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Aug 2, 2010
Length: 47 minutes (11,989 words)

The Unexpected Hero

Former Broncos back Floyd Little and ardent fan Tom Mackie each helped the other fulfill his lifelong dream

Author: Gary Smith
Published: Jul 26, 2010
Length: 26 minutes (6,686 words)

The James Franco Project

Movie star, conceptual artist, fiction writer, grad student, cipher—he’s turned a Hollywood career into an elaborate piece of performance art. But does it mean anything? A critical investigation, with bathroom break.

Published: Jul 25, 2010
Length: 22 minutes (5,706 words)

Invasion

You think it’d be impossible to share your house with your wife, your daughter, and fifty million or so Argentine ants. And you would be correct.

Author: Tom Junod
Source: Esquire
Published: Aug 1, 2010
Length: 17 minutes (4,385 words)

View Is Bleaker Than Official Portrayal of War in Afghanistan

As the new American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David H. Petraeus, tries to reverse the lagging war effort, the WikiLeaks documents sketch a war hamstrung by an Afghan government, police force and army of questionable loyalty and competence, and by a Pakistani military that appears at best uncooperative and at worst to work from the shadows as an unspoken ally of the very insurgent forces the American-led coalition is trying to defeat.

Published: Jul 25, 2010
Length: 8 minutes (2,132 words)

The Stories of One Brooklyn Block

Published: Jul 23, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,045 words)