Obama Is From Mars, Wall Street Is From Venus

[Not single-page] Psychoanalyzing one of America’s most dysfunctional relationships.

Published: May 22, 2010
Length: 25 minutes (6,437 words)

The Plastic Panic

How worried should we be about everyday chemicals?

Source: The New Yorker
Published: May 31, 2010
Length: 19 minutes (4,788 words)

Lonely, stressed and frustrated: inside the mind of the Pinellas monkey

Source: Tampa Bay Times
Published: May 16, 2010
Length: 7 minutes (1,978 words)

The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson

In Sweden the books and their author — who died in an untimely fashion that some conspiracy theorists persist in calling an assassination — have lately become the center of another sort of story, the kind of thing August Strindberg might have written, full of intense, opinionated Swedish characters entwined in a saga involving envy, resentment, a contested legacy and a mysterious manuscript. At least one skeptic has even questioned how Larsson, a middle-aged man with no history of writing crime fiction, and seemingly no flair for it, could have written the Millennium books in the first place.

Published: May 20, 2010
Length: 24 minutes (6,063 words)

Patient Observation

I had a perfectly normal childhood in Wichita Falls, a place Advertising Age once called the most average city in America. But I didn’t truly understand where I was from until I stepped inside the gates of the local state hospital and realized that every town has another side.

Source: Texas Monthly
Published: Jun 1, 2010
Length: 20 minutes (5,044 words)

The status quo of electric cars: better batteries, same range

Source: The Oil Drum
Published: May 19, 2010
Length: 15 minutes (3,940 words)

Paul Morley On Ian Curtis – ‘The Myth Gets Stronger’

Ian Curtis died thirty years ago this month. This is the full obituary that appeared in NME in June 1980

Source: NME
Published: May 20, 2010
Length: 14 minutes (3,502 words)

The Teachers’ Unions’ Last Stand

Race to the Top has turned a relatively modest federal program (the $4.3 billion budget represents less than 1 percent of all federal, state and local education spending) into high-yield leverage that could end up overshadowing health care reform in its impact and that is already upending traditional Democratic Party politics.

Published: May 17, 2010
Length: 32 minutes (8,095 words)

Look at Me!

A writer’s search for journalism in the age of branding

Published: Jun 1, 2010
Length: 28 minutes (7,031 words)

Soccer Savior

Africa’s greatest star, Didier Drogba, didn’t single-handedly end his country’s civil war, but such is the respect he commands that when he called for Ivorians to look beyond what divided them, the people listened

Author: Grant Wahl
Published: May 24, 2010
Length: 8 minutes (2,143 words)