Where Scott Brown Is Coming From

Getting to know a very, very new Republican senator.

Published: Feb 28, 2010
Length: 22 minutes (5,684 words)

Watching Shrek In Tehran

The Seen And The Unseen In Iranian Cinema

Source: The Believer
Published: Apr 1, 2010
Length: 12 minutes (3,177 words)

Joyce Carol Oates Goes Home Again

The celebrated writer returns to the town of her birth to revisit the places that haunt her memory and her extraordinary fiction

Source: Smithsonian
Published: Mar 1, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,174 words)

After Long Fight, Drug Gives Sudden Reprieve

The trial of a melanoma drug offers a glimpse at a new kind of therapy tailored to the genetic profile of a cancer.

Author: Amy Harmon
Published: Feb 23, 2010
Length: 15 minutes (3,846 words)

Greatest. Indie-est. Band. Ever.

Pavement made some of the finest, most influential slacker noise of the ’90s, racking up an almost obscene amount of critical love along the way.

Source: GQ
Published: Mar 1, 2010
Length: 13 minutes (3,306 words)

Searching for Saddam

A five-part series on how the U.S. military used social networking to capture the Iraqi dictator.

Source: Slate
Published: Feb 22, 2010
Length: 13 minutes (3,285 words)

Out and About

The social politics of being the first openly gay mayor of Texas’s largest city.

Source: Texas Monthly
Published: Mar 1, 2010
Length: 9 minutes (2,284 words)

Hood

Last November, when Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan murdered thirteen people at Fort Hood, Texas, the country watched, riveted and scared. But to the people of this small American city, war is nothing new.

Source: Esquire
Published: Mar 1, 2010
Length: 49 minutes (12,279 words)

Could It Be That the Best Chance to Save a Young Family From Foreclosure is a 28-Year-Old Pakistani American Playright-slash-Attorney who Learned Bankruptcy Law on the Internet?

Wells Fargo, You Never Knew What Hit You.

Source: McSweeney’s
Published: Feb 24, 2010
Length: 26 minutes (6,573 words)

Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web

Want to know how Google is about to change your life? Stop by the Ouagadougou conference room on a Thursday morning. It is here, at the Mountain View, California, headquarters of the world’s most powerful Internet company, that a room filled with three dozen engineers, product managers, and executives figure out how to make their search engine even smarter. This year, Google will introduce 550 or so improvements to its fabled algorithm, and each will be determined at a gathering just like this one.

Source: Wired
Published: Feb 22, 2010
Length: 18 minutes (4,546 words)