Central Booking
A log of the 32 shitless hours that the author spent in the Tombs prison after being arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest.
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On Their Own
A portrait of three high school kids in Arizona forced to live on their own after SB 1070.
Stalking Her Killer
The author tracks down a former Peace Corps volunteer who murdered a fellow worker in 1976.
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.
The Spy's Kid
The son of Jim Nicholson, a former CIA agent convicted of espionage, follows in his father’s footsteps.
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Part 1: Nathan Nicholson follows his father into the spy game.
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Part 2: The son begins passing notes from his dad to eager Russian operatives.
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Part 3: Nathan jets to exotic locales to collect envelopes stuffed with money.
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Part 4: FBI agents are waiting on Nathan Nicholson’s doorstep.
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Part 5: Nathan must decide whether to betray his spymaster father.
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Part 6: Father and son see each other for the first time in more than a year — inside a courtroom.
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Profile: Twice a turncoat, Jim Nicholson sold U.S. secrets to the Russians, then used his son as a courier.
Upping the Ante
Protests against the Putin regime are already drawing over 100,000 in sub-zero weather; what will they become when spring arrives?
Under the Desert Sun
Ed Rosenthal recounts the six days he got lost in Joshua Tree National Park.
Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made
A six-day hoax in which the newspaper fooled its readers into believing that life had been found on the moon.
Mother of God, Child of Zeus
On the perils and poisons of mining for gold in southeastern Peru.
Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)
A profile of the singer as he returns to the stage for the first time in a dozen years.
A Journey Into The Mind of Watts
On life in Los Angeles, and the specter of a second riot.
The Heretic
On the legal history of LSD in America and a researcher who never gave up on the drug’s promise.
Snap Goes The Crocodile
Life inside a provincial Russian drug den. Originally appeared in Russky Reporter.
The Ghosts of Bhopal
The lives of the Indians who were swallowed in the Bhopal gas cloud, thirty years later.
Man on Fire
The life of Reverend Charles Moore, who died by self-immolation in the parking lot of a Texas strip mall.
West End Boy
On Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik and the rise of Islamophobia in Norway.
A Wild Goose Chase
A Georgia chicken farmer hoped to find financial independence in ethical foie gras. Things got weird.
Home Sweet Homewreck
Renovating often involves additional, unforseen costs, but for one Toronto couple it ends in divorce – and death.
The Boys Who Loved Birds
A friendship born of mutual interest in birding stretches across the Berlin Wall.
Why Would Anyone Want To Shoot a Sea Otter?
Perhaps because your people have always hunted them. But also because there’s demand in New York fashion circles for their pelts.
How a Michigan Farmer Made $4 Million Smuggling Rare Pez Containers Into the U.S.
“In essence, Pez ordered his economic assassination,” said a fellow Pez dealer.
The Troubled, Tormented, Surprisingly Lucky Life of Michael Graham
What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.
The Dukes of Oxy
Doug Dodd was a drug kingpin in high school. And now, like the narrator of a Scorcese film, he wants to tell his own story.
The Piscivore's Dilemma
A vegan sets out to see if there’s an ethical, sustainable way to eat fish in 2015.
The Death of a Civil Servant
An uneasy friendship forms in colonial Ceylon between the future husband of Virgina Woolf and a socially repulsive police magistrate.
