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Angry Youth
China’s new generation of neocon nationalists.
The Love That Dares
Confronting homophobia in Uganda.
Blowhards
Inside the cutthroat world of competitive bagpiping.
Uncanny Valley
Living and working in the tech world.
Sweet Bitter Blues
Tokyo’s reverent “black music” fandom.
Playing the Flute
On oil spills in Colombia.
Refugees Encounter a Foreign Word: Welcome
Across the world, millions of displaced Syrians have been met with hesitation and hostility. Not in Canada.
The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble
A world-renowned physicist’s miscalculation.
The Reckoning
Thirty years ago, a series of documentaries introduced the world to an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea. What happened when the cameras left?
Inside India's Booming Dark Data Economy
When it comes to data from India’s 500 million daily internet users, everything is for sale.
Fact-checking Modi’s India
As the pandemic rages across the country, one team of fact-checkers contends with a post-truth dystopia.
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Our sponsor this week is the W.W. Norton bestseller by Steve Cullen and Shelley Murphy, an unforgettable narrative follows the astonishing career and epic manhunt for Whitey Bulger—a gangster whose life was more sensational than fiction.
Based on exclusive access and previously undisclosed documents, Cullen and Murphy explore the truth of the Whitey Bulger story. They reveal for the first time the extent of his two parallel family lives with different women, as well as his lifelong paranoia stemming in part from his experience in the CIA’s MKULTRA program. They describe his support of the IRA and his hitherto-unknown role in the Boston busing crisis, and they show a keen understanding of his mindset while on the lam and behind bars. The result is the first full portrait of this legendary criminal figure—a gripping story of wiseguys and cops, horrendous government malfeasance, and a sixteen-year manhunt that climaxed in Whitey’s dramatic capture in Santa Monica in June 2011.
The Deep State
On Erdogan’s struggle for power.
Surviving the Fall of ISIS
Life in Mosul.
Scrubbed
Inside the world of high-priced online reputation management.
Branding Guyana
The rise and fall of travel writing.
The Fight of Their Lives
ISIS vs. the Kurds.
Lost Girls
The writer’s relationship with two Moroccan prostitutes.
Digital Africa
How smartphones are changing a continent.
Riding Giants
A rookie competes in the World Elephant Polo Championships.
In Sanaa
The Houthi coup in Yemen.
977 Days
On being held hostage by Somali pirates.
The Kingpins
Crime, drugs, and politics in Guadalajara.
