The Perils of Being Your Own Doctor
A physician becomes convinced he’s dying.
A physician becomes convinced he’s dying.
Mert Erogul The Guardian Aug 2016 20min Permalink
How a retired Swiss banker ended up behind bars in Thailand for uncovering a scheme that included the Malaysian prime minister and billions of in laundered money that was spent on everything from parties with Paris Hilton to backing for The Wolf of Wall Street.
Randeep Ramesh The Guardian Jul 2016 25min Permalink
For those who suffer from environmental illnesses, the town of Snowflake is an escape from a modern world full of allergens: fragrances, gluten, wifi.
Kathleen Hale, Mae Ryan The Guardian Jul 2016 15min Permalink
A political history of Britain.
“On the day after the referendum, many Britons woke up with the feeling – some for better, some for worse – that they were suddenly living in a different country. But it is not a different country: what brought us here has been brewing for a very long time.”
Gary Younge The Guardian Jun 2016 20min Permalink
The aftermath of a childhood filled with subway flashers, teachers who asked for hugs, and boys who joked about your breasts.
Jessica Valenti The Guardian May 2016 15min Permalink
The social network positioned its plan to bring the internet to millions of Indians as a gift. The country saw a catch.
Rahul Bhatia The Guardian May 2016 25min Permalink
In bleak farmlands of East Anglia, the first wave of Eastern European migrants learned exploitation and extortion from their own experiences with day labor. Then they began to prey on fellow immigrants, luring in them into debt and then forcing them to commit crimes to pay it off.
Felicity Lawrence The Guardian May 2016 25min Permalink
Their entire lives, Alex and Tim Foley thought their mom and dad were typical, boring American parents. Then the FBI showed up.
Shaun Walker The Guardian May 2016 25min Permalink
There are 1.7 million active Uber riders in London, about half the daily ridership of the Tube. Three years ago, there were 5,000.
Sam Knight The Guardian Apr 2016 35min Permalink
Why has a prestigious address been used so many times as a center for elaborate international fraud?
Oliver Bullough The Guardian Apr 2016 20min Permalink
A conversation with Monica Lewinsky about bullying, humiliation, and resurrection.
Previously: Jon Ronson on the Longform Podcast and “Shame and Survival,” Lewinsky’s 2014 essay for Vanity Fair.
Jon Ronson The Guardian Apr 2016 15min Permalink
Fat doesn’t make us fat. So why has science led us to believe otherwise?
Ian Leslie The Guardian Apr 2016 25min Permalink
Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.
Steven W. Thrasher The Guardian Apr 2016 15min Permalink
She believed she had survived the worst time of her life. But there was more to come.
Decca Aitkenhead The Guardian Mar 2016 15min Permalink
Alex Nieto died because a series of white men saw him as a menacing intruder in the place he’d spent his whole life.
Rebecca Solnit The Guardian Mar 2016 20min Permalink
On a small section of land wedged between Egypt and Sudan called Bir Tawil and the American who tried to claim it for himself.
Jack Shenker The Guardian Mar 2016 25min Permalink
Inside one woman’s often conflicted world.
Rachel Monroe The Guardian Feb 2016 20min Permalink
Asunta Fong Yang was adopted as a baby by a wealthy Spanish couple. Aged 12, she was found dead beside a country road. Not long after, her mother and father were arrested.
Giles Tremlett The Guardian Feb 2016 20min Permalink
The story behind an online gamer’s suicide.
Alina Simone The Guardian Jan 2016 20min Permalink
A war criminal’s life on the run.
Julian Borger The Guardian Jan 2016 25min Permalink
In 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy working for British intelligence, was poisoned. As he lay dying, he worked with detectives to find his killer.
Luke Harding The Guardian Jan 2016 25min Permalink
A legend hangs on.
Ed Caesar The Guardian Apr 2015 25min Permalink
The bribery scandal, involving tests given for coveted government jobs and medical school admissions, began implicating high-ranking officials. Then people started turning up dead.
Aman Sethi The Guardian Dec 2015 25min Permalink
Edward Luttwak is a military strategist, a classical scholar, a cattle rancher, and an adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and the Dalai Lama.
Thomas Meaney The Guardian Dec 2015 30min Permalink
Inside a movement.
Eve Fairbanks The Guardian Nov 2015 20min Permalink