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Wall Street Journal

Business Politics

The Business of Lords

On systemic corrpution in the upper house of British Parliament, where lawmakers have the freedom to work for any business—banks, oil companies, Facebook—willing to pay for their “expertise.”

Justin Scheck, Charles Forelle Wall Street Journal Nov 2014 10min Permalink

Sports

Soccer, Made in America

How coach Jurgen Klinsmann, “soccer’s Alexis de Tocqueville,” is trying to give the US an identity.

Matthew Futterman Wall Street Journal Jun 2014 10min Permalink

History Science

The Lobotomy Files

On the lobotomizing of 2,000 U.S. veterans after World War II.

  1. Part 1: Forgotten Soldiers

  2. Part 2: One Doctor's Legacy

  3. Part 3: Family Scars

Michael M. Phillips Wall Street Journal Dec 2013 Permalink

Sports

Deadly Silence: How the Inner Circles, Of Medicine and Sports, Failed a Stricken Star

On the death of NBA star Reggie Lewis.

Ron Suskind Wall Street Journal Mar 1995 Permalink