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Back to SearchA stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art
25 years ago, The Sopranos, the best television show ever created, premiered. This week, a new documentary called Wise Guy asks the question: how did…
1 year, 4 months ago
Can I microdose veganism?
If you care about animals, but don't want to stop eating them... what's the least you could do while doing the most good? That question, posed to The…
1 year, 4 months ago
What's the best phone to do crimes on?
For years, the must-have phone for the discerning drug trafficker or hitman was a brand you may not have heard of: AN0M. Reporter Joseph Cox tells us…
1 year, 5 months ago
Is there a sane way to follow this election?
We are in an eighty-eight day sprint to the Presidential election. How would you follow this story if you wanted to actually understand something, in…
1 year, 5 months ago
The End
A trip to Greenland, a chance encounter with Coolio, and the end of the world. (This summer we’re publishing some of our favorite episodes from our p…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
An art heist in the crypto world plunges us headfirst into another mystery — why did so many celebrities suddenly start selling us on NFTs last year?…
1 year, 5 months ago
Genesis
This week: Bitcoin. We trace it from its humble origins in a .PDF to the movement it has spawned, all over three days at an enormous Bitcoin conferen…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Bidding War
A story about a strange auction for perhaps the most valuable piece of paper in America. This summer we’re publishing some of our favorite episodes f…
1 year, 6 months ago
Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 2)
We travel to Germany to trace techno's history from Detroit to Berlin. The story of how, after the Wall fell, Berlin exorcised its brutal past with a…
1 year, 6 months ago
Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Two Americans embark on a quest: fly across an ocean to try to get into the most exclusive nightclub in the world – Berghain. A German techno palace …
1 year, 6 months ago