How Russia Let Britain Hide Its Dirty Money
Can rich Russian businesspeople, criminals and oligarchs influence British politics by investing their money in English assets? And is it too late to purge this money?
The Face in the Waves
“Jaimee was beloved. Jaimee was struggling. And then Jaimee was gone.”
In the Shadow of a King
Micah Wimmer examines an extraordinary—and tragic—confluence of events that happened 50 years ago: on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr and the 1968 NBA finals between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers, the first in which a black coach (Celtics great Bill Russell) guided a team to the NBA title.
The Hole in My Soul
A personal essay in which Sara Eckel recalls surprising her agnostic parents by becoming a born-again Christian at age 10. It was the first of many attempts to believe.
They Shared Drugs. Someone Died. Does That Make Them Killers?
Rosa Goldensohn’s year-long investigation published by the New York Times is a thorough look at a new phenomenon among prosecutors all over the country: charging the friends, family and fellow users of people who overdose on drugs with murder.
Looking for Life on a Flat Earth
Alan Burdick spent two days at a North Carolina convention for Flat-Earthers. In a post-truth era, should more people shed their spherical beliefs and admit science may not be science at all?
How Reese Witherspoon is Flipping the Script on Hollywood
A profile of actor, director, producer, and literary taste-maker Reese Witherspoon, with a focus on her influential media company, Hello Sunshine, through which she’s creating roles and jobs for women, and changing the way movies and shows are made.
Is The Scripps National Spelling Bee Evil?
Back in 2013, for Deadspin, Drew Magary attended the annual Scripps Spelling Bee, in which 11 million kids spell off across America in a bid to become the brainy few who land onstage for the final round, and learns how such a simple contest has been sullied by the need to keep the event exciting for ESPN’s television audience.
The Hidden Queer History Behind “A League of Their Own”
“The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League did everything it could to keep lesbians off the diamond. Seventy-five years later, its gay stars are finally opening up.”
The ‘Sex Cult’ That Preached Empowerment
How did a former television star and a self-help guru convince women to join an organization named Nxivm that’s now being accused of running a “sex-slave cult”? It turns out that “humans are highly programmable.”
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