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Radicalism

History

The Jonestown We Don’t Know

In the wings of this great drama were the unseen. Hidden in the rainforest where the violence was staged, in the eerie aftermath of the tragedy, were three people whose stories cue political contexts in both the US and Guyana crucial to understanding how and why Jonestown may have happened.

Gaiutra Bahadur New York Review of Books Dec 2018 20min Permalink

Crime

All-American Extremists

In 2015, two bright Mississippi State college students started dating. Months later, they were planning their life together—alongside ISIS.

Mike Mariani Psychology Today Nov 2017 20min Permalink

Crime

Judith Clark’s Radical Transformation

She went to jail 35 years ago after driving the getaway car in an infamous robbery and defiantly refusing to admit the act was wrong. Her sentence was 75 years. But something changed in prison — Judy Clark went from radical to model inmate. This week her sentence was commuted.

Tom Robbins New York Times Magazine Jan 2012 25min Permalink

Reprints Crime

The Story of Diana: The Making of a Terrorist

How a woman born of wealth and privilege tries to bomb the establishment from which she came and ultimately dies in the process.

This Pulitzer-winning series is reprinted online in full and for the first time by Longform.

Lucinda Franks, Thomas Powers United Press International Sep 1970 55min Permalink

Judith Clark's Radical Transformation

How prison changed the mother and militant who was sentenced to 75 years for her role in a deadly 1981 Brinks truck heist.

Tom Robbins New York Times Magazine Jan 2012 25min Permalink