Out of Iraq: The rise and fall of one man’s occupation

Published: Feb 1, 2005
Length: 29 minutes (7,437 words)

The Architect of 9/11

A month after 9/11, Fouad Ajami wrote in the New York Times Magazine, “I almost know Mohamed Atta, the Egyptian [at] the controls of the jet that crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center.” While the Middle East scholar had never met the lead hijacker, Ajami knew his type: the young Arab male living abroad, tantalized by yet alienated from Western modernity, who retreats into fundamentalist piety. Eight years after 9/11, we still almost know Mohamed Atta. We can almost see him, a gaunt and spectral figure making his way through Hamburg’s red-light district en route to his radical storefront Al-Quds Mosque. We still vividly recall his ominous visa photograph. But the man in that photograph remains a cipher, his eyes vacant. How did those eyes see the world? #Sept11

Source: Slate
Published: Sep 10, 2009
Length: 16 minutes (4,063 words)

Bill Clinton, Then and Now: The Esquire Interview

In a sprawling discussion of his past and our common future, the former president compares his administration’s early years with Obama’s and talks about what he believes — in health care and next year’s midterms — is about to happen

Source: Esquire
Published: Sep 1, 2009
Length: 51 minutes (12,949 words)

Advertising: The Mammoth Mirror

Source: Time
Published: Oct 12, 1962
Length: 18 minutes (4,705 words)

Couch Warfare

Jay Leno may now dominate prime time, but David Letterman has triumphed by doing something more interesting: He’s grown up.

Published: Sep 6, 2009
Length: 14 minutes (3,576 words)

A Bar on North Avenue

Source: Granta
Published: Sep 4, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,137 words)

Overdose

The health-care crisis no candidate is addressing? Too many doctors

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Dec 1, 2007
Length: 6 minutes (1,576 words)

Waiting for the Weekend

A whole two days off from work, in which we can do what we please, has only recently become a near-universal right. A history of leisure

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Aug 1, 1991
Length: 33 minutes (8,262 words)

See Baby Discriminate

Kids as young as 6 months judge others based on skin color. What’s a parent to do?

Source: Newsweek
Published: Sep 5, 2009
Length: 18 minutes (4,661 words)

Happy Feet

Inside the online shoe utopia.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Sep 14, 2009
Length: 17 minutes (4,341 words)