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Calculating restitution for victims of child pornography.
“Hillary Clinton was never a shy person.”
A history of the Hollywood publicity racket.
On being stalked in the age of the Internet.
Susan Orlean is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
"There's always the fear, which comes with having done it for a long time, that you're repeating yourself. That's actually a genuine concern—you worry that you're becoming an imitiation of yourself ... The funny thing is that you spend the first half of your career wanting desperately to have a voice that's distinctive and recognizable, then you go to the other side of that and think oh my god, all my stories sound the same."
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Twenty years ago, Ramaphosa was by Mandela’s side as apartheid ended and in line to become deputy president. He didn’t get the job. Now one of the richest men in Africa, he’s finally getting the chance.
Digging for Return of the Jedi set remnants in the desert.
On the cranky king of New York sports talk.
A scholarly dispute devolves into criminal impersonation.
The science behind why high school sucks.
How the United States came to spend more on defense than all the other nations of the world combined.
Afghanistan’s Kyrgyz nomads survive in one of Earth’s most remote places, a pocket of land 14,000 feet high where the currency is sheep, the dream is a road, and many will go an entire lifetime without ever seeing a tree.
When the East Coast mob showed up in L.A. in 1946, the LAPD formed a ruthess special unit to run them out of town: the Gangster Squad.
Learning of a plot against the life of the newly elected Lincoln, Alan Pinkerton decamps to Baltimore and infiltrates the conspiracy.
A trip to CES, “what a World’s Fair might look like if brands were more important than countries.”
In search of the perfect lie detector test.
On commercial diving, the third most deadly profession.
In this special episode with Stephen Rodrick, contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and contributing editor at Men's Journal, Rodrick discusses his recent story "Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie."
"Publicists don't want to give you access because they're afraid of what you're going to see. But if you spend enough time with anybody, short of Mussolini or Ghengis Khan, they're going to humanize themselves. Because they're human beings, like you are. And they have whatever demented battles they're fighting, their version of crazy, but if you get to spend some time with them as flesh and blood, they're going to come across as flesh and blood in the story."
Being injured in the NFL.
How an overzealous forensic pathologist and his odontologist sidekick put innocent Mississippi residents behind bars – and let killers run free.
How PTSD spreads from returning soldiers to their families.
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Our sponsor again this week is Aeon, a new digital magazine of ideas and culture. Aeon publishes an original essay every weekday, several of which have been picked for Longform. Here is a trio of recent favorites:
Luddite Love
Claire L Evans on why old relationships should fade like a photograph, not haunt your social networks forever.
Earth's Holy Fool?
Michael Ruse on the Gaia paradox — some scientists hate it, the public loves it, and they may both be right.
World Enough
John Quiggin on the emerging opportunity to simultaneously end poverty and protect the environment.
Read those stories and more at aeonmagazine.com.
Steven Cohen, troubled founder a $14 billion hedge fund, has an eye for modern art.
