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Publications

The Washington Post

Business

The Strange Summer Land Rush in Peoria’s Dying South End

Buyers from all over America—some of whom had never heard of the Illinois town—came searching for wealth amid the Rust Belt ruins.

Greg Jaffe The Washington Post Aug 2021 30min Permalink

Health

The World’s Oldest Person Record Stood For Decades. Then Came a Russian Conspiracy Theory.

The birthing of a conspiracy theory that the record holder for oldest person, Jeanne Calment, was actually her daughter Yvonne, who had “stolen her deceased mother’s identity to avoid paying inheritance taxes,”

Eli Rosenberg The Washington Post Jan 2019 Permalink

Crime

An Affair. The Mob. A Murder.

“The caller reminded me I had written about her killing three decades earlier.”

Mary Jordan The Washington Post Dec 2018 20min Permalink

Crime

Witness to the Killing

In many homicides, police believe they know the killer’s identity but can’t get a witness to cooperate.

Wesley Lowery, Dalton Bennett The Washington Post Oct 2018 15min Permalink

Health

'You Shouldn’t Be Doing This'

Should marrying a child be allowed?

Terrence McCoy The Washington Post Oct 2018 25min Permalink

Music

The Man Who Would Save Country Music

The hard life and overlooked brilliance of Zane Campbell.

Eddie Dean The Washington Post Feb 2018 20min Permalink

Business

The Cobalt Pipeline

Tracing the path of one of the world’s most in-demand minerals from deadly mines in Congo to your phone.

Todd C. Frankel The Washington Post Sep 2016 30min Permalink

A Survivor's Life

Her 4th day of college was a mass shooting. Here is what life is like afterward.

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Eli Saslow on the Longform Podcast

Eli Saslow The Washington Post Dec 2015 Permalink

Crime World

The IKEA Attack

Tracking the slayings that shocked Sweden.

Michael E. Miller The Washington Post Sep 2015 10min Permalink

Politics World

How a Reviled African Ruler Survived a Coup Hatched in the United States

A group of Gambian exiles scattered around America plotted to storm the Presidential palace and overthrow a brutal dictator. Their budget? $221,000.

Craig Whitlock, Adam Goldman The Washington Post May 2015 10min Permalink