Stephen Rodrick

Senior Editor

Stephen Rodrick is a Senior Editor at Rolling Stone where he has written on a variety of subjects ranging from Johnny Depp to America's suicide crisis to the 2020 presidential campaign. He previously wrote for New York and The New York Times Magazine. His book, "The Magical Stranger," was published by HarperCollins in 2013.

Last Stand in Coal Country

Workers at Alabama’s Brookwood Mine have been on strike for nearly two years—the longest in the state's history.
- Strikers speak out
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  Stephen Rodrick
'How Many Women Were Abused to Make That Tesla?'

Seven women are suing the Elon Musk-led company, alleging sexual harassment
- Accusers Speak Out
- By
  Stephen Rodrick
He Planned a Treasure Hunt for the Ages — Until He Went Missing

Hunter Lewis was an adventure-lover who spent two years devising an elaborate outdoor quest for his friends and family, only to see it end in tragedy
- (Sub)Culture
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  Stephen Rodrick
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How Two U.S. Soldiers Risked It All To Get Their Families Out of a War Zone Alive

As America withdrew from Kabul and the Taliban moved in, two Afghanistan-born paratroopers pulled off the impossible
- Politics
- By
  Stephen Rodrick
Cereal Killers: How 80-Hour Weeks and a Caste System Pushed Kellogg's Workers to Strike

After decades on the losing end, company workers are demanding a better deal. The cereal giant has other plans
- Politics
- By
  Stephen Rodrick
'A Way of Life Is At Stake.' Striking John Deere Workers Defy the Company, and Their Union, to Tell Their Stories

For the first time in generations, workers at John Deere have the upper hand. But they’re struggling to figure out how to make it count, and whom they can trust
- Politics
- By
  Stephen Rodrick
I Didn’t Get Punched in the Face and Neither Did Gavin Newsom

A dispatch from the wreckage of the California recall, which ended as meekly as it was always destined to
- Politics
- By
  Stephen Rodrick
Lindsey Buckingham Won't Stop

Buckingham on his new solo album and why his dismissal from Fleetwood Mac was the result of the other band members cowering before Stevie Nicks: "It became a little bit like Trump and the Republicans”
- Music
- By
  Stephen Rodrick
Virgin Spaceman

Inside billionaire Richard Branson's inspiring journey to get as far as money could take him from Truth or Consequences
- (Sub)Culture
- By
  Stephen Rodrick
John McAfee and the Birth of Modern American Paranoia

Writer Stephen Rodrick reflects on time spent with the eccentric cybersecurity-innovator-turned-international-fugitive, who died yesterday
- (Sub)Culture
- By
  Stephen Rodrick

Stephen Rodrick

Senior Editor

Last Stand in Coal Country

'How Many Women Were Abused to Make That Tesla?'

He Planned a Treasure Hunt for the Ages — Until He Went Missing

How Two U.S. Soldiers Risked It All To Get Their Families Out of a War Zone Alive

Cereal Killers: How 80-Hour Weeks and a Caste System Pushed Kellogg's Workers to Strike

'A Way of Life Is At Stake.' Striking John Deere Workers Defy the Company, and Their Union, to Tell Their Stories

I Didn’t Get Punched in the Face and Neither Did Gavin Newsom

Lindsey Buckingham Won't Stop

Virgin Spaceman

John McAfee and the Birth of Modern American Paranoia

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Ryan Reynolds Says 'I Let Go of Getting Paid' on 'Deadpool' and 'Took the Little Salary I Had Left' to Pay for the Screenwriters to Be on Set

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Ryan Reynolds Met Madonna in Person to Ask if ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Could Use ‘Like a Prayer,’ and She Had One ‘Great Note’ After Watching the Scene

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The Best Yoga Mats for Any Practice, According to Instructors

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