Tuna’s End

Published: Jun 22, 2010
Length: 30 minutes (7,513 words)

Regulators Failed to Address Risks in Oil Rig Fail-Safe Device

Published: Jun 20, 2010
Length: 25 minutes (6,481 words)

The Runaway General

Now, flipping through printout cards of his speech in Paris, McChrystal wonders aloud what Biden question he might get today, and how he should respond. “I never know what’s going to pop out until I’m up there, that’s the problem,” he says. Then, unable to help themselves, he and his staff imagine the general dismissing the vice president with a good one-liner. “Are you asking about Vice President Biden?” McChrystal says with a laugh. “Who’s that?” “Biden?” suggests a top adviser. “Did you say: Bite Me?”

Source: Rolling Stone
Published: Jun 22, 2010
Length: 31 minutes (7,813 words)

Prodigal Son

Is the wayward Republican Mike Huckabee now his party’s best hope?

Author: Ariel Levy
Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jun 28, 2010
Length: 33 minutes (8,377 words)

Boom

Lost in the catastrophic aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the gripping tale of the rig workers and the Coast Guard crewmen who rescued them. Sean Flynn re-creates their long, harrowing, heart-pounding night

Author: Sean Flynn
Source: GQ
Published: Jul 1, 2010
Length: 31 minutes (7,892 words)

Five Boys: The Story Of A Picture

What story did this particular picture tell? Its minimal presentation left all interpretation to the reader, but as the News Chronicle was a left-leaning newspaper—fiercely anti-Franco, for example, in the Spanish civil war—the implication was clear enough: the picture exemplified the scandalous gulf between Britain’s rich and poor.

Author: Ian Jack
Published: Jun 21, 2010
Length: 28 minutes (7,036 words)

The Legend Of Black Superman: Billy Ray Bates, Flying High In The Philippines

Source: Deadspin
Published: Jun 15, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,121 words)

Ride Along with Mitch

Can the astonishing popularity of Indiana’s penny-pinching governor carry him to the White House in 2012?

Source: Weekly Standard
Published: Jun 14, 2010
Length: 34 minutes (8,641 words)

Democrat in Chief?

“The fact is,” Nancy Pelosi said, addressing herself to David Axelrod, “that the longer you say Washington is broken, and you’ve been saying that for 18 months, the more that becomes the story.”

Author: Matt Bai
Published: Jun 8, 2010
Length: 32 minutes (8,078 words)

Nonoverlapping Magisteria

In early 1984, I spent several nights at the Vatican housed in a hotel built for itinerant priests. While pondering over such puzzling issues as the intended function of the bidets in each bathroom, and hungering for something other than plum jam on my breakfast rolls (why did the basket only contain hundreds of identical plum packets and not a one of, say, strawberry?), I encountered yet another among the innumerable issues of contrasting cultures that can make life so interesting. Our crowd (present in Rome for a meeting on nuclear winter sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences) shared the hotel with a group of French and Italian Jesuit priests who were also professional scientists.

Published: Mar 1, 1997
Length: 19 minutes (4,763 words)