Two Ways of Looking at a War Zone

Is Fallujah a showroom model of American success in Iraq? Only in a limited sense

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jun 24, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,035 words)

Nancy Reagan’s Solo Role

Fifteen years after Ronald Reagan’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, and five years after his death, Nancy Reagan has triumphed over loneliness, grief, and a bad fall last year.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Jul 28, 2009
Length: 23 minutes (5,844 words)

Exclusive: Read e-mails between Sanford, woman

Sanford-Maria e-mails shed light on governor’s affair

Source: The State
Published: Jun 25, 2009
Length: 13 minutes (3,305 words)

Looking Back: Dancing plagues and mass hysteria

John Waller on how distress and pious fear have led to bizarre outbreaks across the ages

Published: Jul 28, 2009
Length: 13 minutes (3,250 words)

An Interview with Lawrence Weschler (about how to interview, among other things)

Author: Kyle Minor
Source: The Rumpus
Published: Feb 8, 2009
Length: 10 minutes (2,674 words)

Life after death: newspapers and the re-invention of paper technology

Published: Jun 19, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,089 words)

A Life Revealed

Her eyes have captivated the world since she appeared on our cover in 1985. Now we can tell her story.

Published: Apr 1, 2002
Length: 5 minutes (1,426 words)

What the Trucker Knows: A Checkup on the Card-Check Law

“How do you know when a Teamster is dead?” “The donut falls out of his hand.” That’s one of the oldest Teamster jokes — one of many I compiled years ago during the course of a lengthy investigation into union corruption and thuggery in Hollywood.

Source: Esquire
Published: Jun 23, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,382 words)

Scientology: The Truth Rundown

Former church executives say leader David Miscavige beat his staff

Source: Tampa Bay Times
Published: Jun 29, 2009
Length: 28 minutes (7,195 words)

The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics

Veronica Noone has joined the legion of people, from Olympic-level athletes to ordinary folks just hoping to lower their blood pressure, who are plugging into a data-driven revolution. And it goes way beyond Nike+. Using a flood of new tools and technologies, each of us now has the ability to easily collect granular information about our lives—what we eat, how much we sleep, when our mood changes.

Source: Wired
Published: Jun 22, 2009
Length: 16 minutes (4,223 words)