A list of articles that I found exceptionally interesting, and that I might want to come back to at some point. (latest articles are at top of the list.)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/the-brazilian-judge-taking-on-the-digital-far-right
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/04/12/trina-robbins-dead
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/05/03/daniel-kramer-dead-bob-dylan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/05/01/paul-auster-novelist-writer-dies
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letter-from-mexico
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/inside-north-koreas-forced-labor-program-in-china
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/02/14/pop-tarts-appreciation-bill-post-inventor-death/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/29/the-twins-obsession
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/01/has-gratuity-culture-reached-a-tipping-point
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/alliance-defending-freedoms-legal-crusade
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/jim-jordans-conspiratorial-quest-for-power
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/16/trial-by-combat
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/07/how-an-amateur-diver-became-a-true-crime-sensation
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/21/the-hidden-cost-of-free-returns
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/21/when-trucks-fly
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/03/book-reviews-plastic-waste
Created the idea of mutual funds.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/06/28/harry-markowitz-nobel-economist-dies/
The trials of Ed Sheeran. Sued for copyright. Article by John Seabrook.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/05/ed-sheeran-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-marvin-gaye
Alice Sebold’s case of mistaken identity.
I.S.L.T.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letter-from-north-carolina
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/05/ed-sheeran-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-marvin-gaye
Book review of “The Individualists” – which is about liberationism, Austrian economics, Rand, etc.
Article about the losing effort to stop animal poaching.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/22/earth-league-international-hunts-the-hunters
Newton Minow, coined term “vast wasteland” – FCC chairman.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/03/19/tax-me-if-you-can
“Warren Buffet rule….
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/04/25/harry-belafonte-singer-dies/
History of J. Crew
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/27/j-crew-and-the-paradoxes-of-prep
the affects of adoption.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/10/living-in-adoptions-emotional-aftermath
Organization building.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/04/14/mike-brown-sacramento-kings/
Elephants can play the drums.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/03/david-sulzer-profile-neuroscience-music
Private investigator hired by UAE destroys man’s billion dollar business.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/03/the-dirty-secrets-of-a-smear-campaign
Good discussion of what “Christian Nationalism” really means.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/03/how-christian-is-christian-nationalism
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/can-ups-still-deliver-a-middle-class-life
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/01/12/thomas-hughes-vietnam-war-dead/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/01/10/adolfo-kaminsky-holocaust-forgery-dead/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/01/10/adolfo-kaminsky-holocaust-forgery-dead/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/12/05/tennis-coach-nick-bollettieri-dead/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/21/the-beautiful-brutal-world-of-bonsai
David Remnick on Bob….
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/31/a-unified-field-theory-of-bob-dylan
New Yorker Rodger Federer article
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/06/28/anxiety-on-the-grass
Meaning of Memory
alito
why facts don’t change our minds
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/08/30/mikhail-gorbachev-soviet-leader-dies/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/my-dad-and-kurt-cobain
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/29/edward-feiner-federal-buildings-architect/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/18/artist-claes-oldenburg-dead/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/02/woodstock-designer-arnold-skolnick-dies/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/06/29/big-eyes-artist-margaret-keane-dead/
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/20/yoko-onos-art-of-defiance
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/06/the-la-county-sheriffs-deputy-gang-crisis
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/13/the-surreal-case-of-a-cia-hackers-revenge
Renewable energy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/05/10/hunter-thompson-campaign-coverage/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/05/06/bob-dylan-museum-tulsa/
Cognitive psychologist K. Anders Ericsson – claimed anybody can be exceptional at anything. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/anders-ericsson-cognitive-psychologist-and-expert-on-expertise-dies-at-72/2020/06/28/6f905366-b946-11ea-bdaf-a129f921026f_story.html
A quick history of Cesar Chavez, farm worker organizer.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/04/14/hunger-artist
Jimmy Carter – The Un-Celebrity President
Tom Seaver – My Boyhood Idol – by John Fienstein
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/09/03/tom-seaver-feinstein-boyhood-hero/
Solomon’s Dilemma – Larissa MacFarquhar
Biden victory and progressives
‘On the Suffering of the World’ book review – The Washington Post
Orwell’s ‘1984’ has become a conservative rallying cry – The Washington Post
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/an-artist-on-how-he-survived-the-chain-gang
https://www.thecut.com/2016/07/diane-arbus-c-v-r.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/08/19/sean-penn-new-movie-flag-day/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/paul-mccartney-doesnt-really-want-to-stop-the-show
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/pandora-papers-offshore-finance/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/can-nuclear-fusion-put-the-brakes-on-climate-change
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/the-ship-that-became-a-bomb
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/americas-favorite-pickup-truck-goes-electric
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/14/the-uncanny-impact-of-charles-rays-sculptures