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Jennifer Percy

How Does the Human Soul Survive Atrocity

After the horror of ISIS captivity, tens of thousands of Iraqis—many of them children—are caught up in a mental-health crisis unlike any in the world.

Jennifer Percy The New York Times Magazine Nov 2019 25min Permalink

World

The Priest of Abu Ghraib

Inside Iraq’s most notorious prison, an Army interrogator named Joshua Casteel came fact to face with a truth about the war—and himself.

Jennifer Percy Smithsonian, Epic Jan 2019 30min Permalink

Crime Health

Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’

A Philadelphia neighborhood is the largest open-air narcotics market for heroin on the East Coast. Addicts come from all over, and many never leave.

Jennifer Percy New York Times Magazine Oct 2018 25min Permalink

Fear of the Federal Government in the Ranchlands of Oregon

A trip to Malheur Refuge.

Jennifer Percy New York Times Magazine Jan 2018 35min Permalink

The New Agent Orange

A private contractor tossed U.S. military waste in Iraq and Afghanistan into giant pits and burned it. Now soldiers forced to breathe the toxic fumes are sick or dying—and the government is using faulty science to evade responsibility.

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Percy on the Longform Podcast

Jennifer Percy The New Republic Nov 2016 25min Permalink

World

‘I Have No Choice but to Keep Looking’

Five years after the tsunami that killed tens of thousands in Japan, a husband still searches the sea for his wife, joined by a father hoping to find his daughter.

Jennifer Percy New York Times Magazine Aug 2016 Permalink

Meet the American Vigilantes Who Are Fighting ISIS

The ragtag group of fighters from America and Europe who joined the fight against extremists in Syria don’t seem to know what they are doing.

Jennifer Percy New York Times Magazine Sep 2015 15min Permalink