All The Dirt That’s Fit To Print

We’re used to National Enquirer stories on “shocking” plastic surgery, but in 2010 the rag almost won a Pulitzer. Alex Pappademas chronicles its evolution from tabloid to breaking-news contender

Source: GQ
Published: Jun 1, 2010
Length: 20 minutes (5,053 words)

Que Pasa, Lou?

According to Lou Dobbs, we’ve been completely wrong about him. Wrong about his stance on illegal immigrants. Wrong about his reasons for quitting CNN after twenty-seven years. And wrong about his newfound political aspirations. Well, we might actually be right about that last thing.

Source: GQ
Published: May 1, 2010
Length: 24 minutes (6,016 words)

A Dagger to the CIA

On December 30, in one of the deadliest attacks in CIA history, an Al Qaeda double agent schemed his way onto a U.S. base in Afghanistan and blew himself into the next life, taking seven Americans with him. How could this have happened?

Source: GQ
Published: Apr 1, 2010
Length: 14 minutes (3,642 words)

Hello, America, My Name Is Rielle Hunter

We’ve heard from former senator John Edwards, we’ve heard from his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Saint Elizabeth, and we’ve heard (bleh) from Andrew Young, the former Edwards aide and faux father. Now, after years of silence, the other woman speaks.

Source: GQ
Published: Apr 1, 2010
Length: 37 minutes (9,460 words)

The Biggest Little Man in the World

What do you get when you cross Muhammad Ali, Sly Stallone, Vaclav Havel, Michael Vick, Che Guevara, & Clay Aiken? Manny Pacquiao

Source: GQ
Published: Apr 1, 2010
Length: 20 minutes (5,202 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)

The Dirtiest Player

Was it only last season that Marvin Harrison was still catching TD passes for Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts? Now, in the wake of a brazen but mysterious Philadelphia gunfight, he find himself with a permanent record of a different sort

Source: GQ
Published: Feb 1, 2010
Length: 26 minutes (6,542 words)

The Man. Amen.

In the Book of Saint Earl of the Woods, let us now turn to the next chapter, verse 1997, in which the presumed messiah—halo, swoosh and all—is revealed to be, gasp! a 21-year-old kid

Source: GQ
Published: Apr 1, 1997
Length: 26 minutes (6,555 words)

Barack Obama’s Work in Progress

Over the past few years, we’ve gotten to know our president as a lot of different things: campaigner, lawyer, father, basketballer. But what if Obama’s first and truest calling—his desire to write—explains more about him than anything else?

Source: GQ
Published: Nov 1, 2009
Length: 13 minutes (3,386 words)

Sextortion at Eisenhower High

Last year, an awkward high school senior in Wisconsin went online, passed himself off as a flirtatious female student, and conned dozens of his male classmates into e-mailing him sexually explicit images of themselves. What he did next will likely send him to jail for a very long time

Source: GQ
Published: Jul 1, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,663 words)