Last Man Running

A story about the Last Man competition. Last Man is a loosely organized, annual battle to be the “Last Man in America to Know Who Won the Super Bowl.”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Feb 13, 2015
Length: 8 minutes (2,098 words)

The Trip Treatment

Research into psychedelics has been demonized and shut down for decades. But recent psilocybin trials from Johns Hopkins and New York University are helping researchers reconsider the therapeutic potential of the drugs.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Feb 2, 2015
Length: 41 minutes (10,355 words)

Your Son Is Deceased

An examination of police misconduct in Albuquerque, New Mexico—a city with one of the highest rates in the country of fatal shootings by police.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jan 26, 2015
Length: 33 minutes (8,359 words)

The Talking Cure

In Providence, Rhode Island, the mayor hopes getting low-income parents to talk to their very young children more will help boost language skills and close the achievement gap.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jan 5, 2015
Length: 32 minutes (8,016 words)

The Virologist

A profile of a 27-year-old entrepreneur whose speciality is creating clickbait websites.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Dec 29, 2014
Length: 22 minutes (5,574 words)

Leviathan

Sedaris writes about a family trip to the beach, snapping turtles, and the evolution of his father into a “nice and agreeable” person.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Dec 29, 2014
Length: 15 minutes (3,788 words)

Inside the Collapse of the New Republic

Admittedly impartial, but thorough, breakdown by Lizza (a former contributing editor for TNR) on what happened when owner Chris Hughes attempted to replace the editor he hired, Franklin Foer, and reinvent the 100-year-old magazine as a digital media company.

Author: Ryan Lizza
Source: The New Yorker
Published: Dec 12, 2014
Length: 22 minutes (5,699 words)

In and Out of Time in Iraq

A war reporter contends with PTSD.

Author: Tom Ricks
Source: The New Yorker
Published: Dec 5, 2014
Length: 12 minutes (3,170 words)

The Quiet German

How Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel went from research scientist to the most powerful woman in the world.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 30, 2014
Length: 58 minutes (14,618 words)

The Programmer’s Price

The Hollywood model applied to Silicon Valley: Some computer programmers are getting agents to help them negotiate their contracts.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 17, 2014
Length: 26 minutes (6,655 words)