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The Dirtiest Cop Alive
A profile of Rafael Pérez, an infamously corrupt LAPD officer and the inspiration behind the Vic Mackey character on The Shield.
The Original Underclass
“Poor white Americans’ current crisis shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has.”
The Big Smoke
How the “biggest grow op willing to publish its address” could make Canada an international pioneer in the legalization and commercialization of weed.
The Devil and Father Amorth
The director of The Exorcist visits the Vatican’s 91-year-old in-house exorcist in Rome.
The Growing Threat to Journalism Around the World
In many countries, journalists are being targeted because of the role they play in ensuring a free and informed society.
Welcome to Newburgh, Murder Capital of New York
How a town of 29,000 on the Hudson River came to be “one of the most dangerous four-mile stretches in the northeastern United States.”
RT, Sputnik and Russia’s New Theory of War
How the Kremlin built one of the most powerful information weapons of the 21st century — and why it may be impossible to stop.
"The Eagle Has Landed"
The behind-the-scenes story of how NFL prospect Michael Sam came out.
The Mastermind
A profile of Theo Epstein, the architect behind the Chicago Cubs.
The iEconomy (Pt. 1-7)
The complete (to date) New York Times series on the globalization of high tech industries.
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1. How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work (by Charles Duhigg & Keith Bradsher, Jan 2012)
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2. In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad (by Charles Duhigg & David Barboza, Jan 2012)
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3. How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes (by Charles Duhigg & David Kocienewski, Apr 2012)
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4. Apples Retail Army, Long on Loyalty but Short on Pay (by David Segal, Jun 2012)
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5. In Pursuit of Nissan, a Jobs Lesson for the Tech Industry? (by Bill Vlasic, Hiroko Tabuchi & Charles Duhigg, Aug 2012)
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6. Skilled Work, Without the Worker (by John Markoff, Aug 2012)
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7. The Patent, Used as a Sword (by Charles Duhigg & Steve Lohr, Oct 2012)
The Thing With Feathers
The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker was extinct. Then it wasn’t. The story of an uncertain resurrection.
A Negro Schoolmaster in the South
Two summers spent teaching and living in the hills of Tennessee.
Lasers for the Dead
A history of the gravestone laser-etching industry.
The Genius Who Lives Downstairs
Excerpted from the author’s biography of mathematician Simon Phillips Norton.
The Sound and the Fury
The surreal world of Sarah Palin and her road show.
The Wait
On the interminable two weeks between a bad sonogram and the end of a pregnancy.
The Christian Legal Army Behind ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’
On the rise of Alliance Defending Freedom.
The Man Who Would Save Country Music
The hard life and overlooked brilliance of Zane Campbell.
Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet
The future of online speech.
The Highway that Was Supposed to Save Syracuse
Can tearing down I-81 fix the sins of the past?
Longform Fiction Pick of the Week:"The Unknown Soldier"
An actor, fresh from prison, attempts to reconnect with his son in 1950s California.
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Woody Allen: The Art of Humor No. 1
A Q&A:
My mother was called to school frequently because I was yelling out things in class, quips in class, and because I would hand in compositions that they thought were in poor taste, or too sexual. Many, many times she was called to school.
In Search of Lost Paris
“Most cities spread like inkblots; a few, such as Manhattan, grew in linear increments. Paris expanded in concentric rings, approximately shown by the spiral numeration of its arrondissements.”
Nights of Terror, Days of Weird
On the chaotic letters of journalist and Dr. Strangelove screenwriter Terry Southern.
