The Man Who Cleans Up After Plane Crashes
The person they call when really bad things happen. Kenyon International is the firm often called in to manage the aftermath of plane crashes and other disasters.
Confessions of a Gun Range Worker
The strange reality of a life spent on the gun range is encapsulated by the occasional need to lay cat litter to soak up pools of blood on the floor.
The Murky History of Moderation
A deep dive into the thorny issue of how and why content posted on the web is censored.
A Journey into the Wild, Complex and Unique World of Football in Iran
As is so often the case with sport, this piece on football in Iran contains numerous insights about society and politics, as women fight to be allowed to to attend matches, players face sanctions for making political statements, and the game is buffeted by revolution and regime change. Amidst all this, the passion of the fans is as intense as anywhere else in the world.
Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President
A mind-boggling excerpt from the book that everyone is talking about – Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff.
I’m a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you.
A Stanford computer scientist offers an eloquent response to the internal memo written by a Google engineer that leaked last week.
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
The remarkable story of a family who lived nearly half a decade totally cut off from the rest of humanity.
The Bloody History of the True Crime Genre
The current trend for true crime stories told on television, in longform articles and in podcasts has a long list of precedents stretching back to the 16th century.
The Subversive
A profile of US Senator John McCain, written in 1997 by author and journalist Michael Lewis (Lewis’s notable works include Moneyball, Flash Boys & The Big Short). He found an unusual politician, unwilling to operate like most of his peers, something that has proven both a strength and a hindrance throughout his career.
The African Enlightenment
A piece proposing that many of the ideas of Enlightenment philosophy put forward by Locke, Hume and Kant had actually been conceived a century earlier in Ethiopia.