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The God Clause and the Reinsurance Industry
On the insurer’s insurer and calculating the risk of modern catastrophe:
Reinsurers are ultimately responsible for every new thing that God can come up with. As losses grew this decade, year by year, reinsurers have been working to figure out what they can do to make the God clause smaller, to reduce their exposure. They have billions of dollars at stake. They are very good at thinking about the world to come.
The Spy Who Infiltrated ISIS
For the past 16 months, he had worked as a mole, posing as a militant jihadist in the Islamic State while passing critical information to a secret branch of Iraq’s national intelligence agency. His record was stunning: He had foiled 30 planned vehicle-bomb attacks and 18 suicide bombers, according to Abu Ali al-Basri, the agency’s director. Captain Sudani also gave the agency a direct line to some of the Islamic State’s senior commanders in Mosul.
Varieties of Disturbance
A profile of Claire Danes.
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Too Much of Too Little
How living off food stamps is making South Texans obese but leaving them hungry.
A Shuffle of Aluminum, but to Banks, Pure Gold
How Goldman Sachs made $5 billion by controlling supply and manipulating the aluminum market.
Confessions Of a Drug-Addicted High School Teacher
Everyone just wants to know if he’s going to the football game.
From Pakistan to Afghanistan, U.S. Finds Convoy of Chaos
What happened when Pakistan shut down the vitally important Karachi to Kabul trucking line.
Confessions of a Non–Serial Killer
What happens when a complete stranger becomes convinced you’re the Zodiac killer.
Secrets of a Secret Agent
Jason Matthews worked at the CIA for more than 30 years. Then he started writing spy novels.
We Should All Be More Afraid of Driving
He covered car accidents for a years as a journalist. Then he was in two himself.
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Gravy Boat: My Week on the High Seas With Paula Deen and Friends
“Everyone on the boat is racist and nice. Including me.”
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How good is Julian Newman, really?
The Reluctant Memoirist
What it means when an investigative reporter’s undercover work is framed as a personal journey.
Dry, the Beloved Country
A dispatch from Cape Town, where surprising things can happen when it feels like the world is about to end.
BDS: How a Controversial Non-violent Movement Has Transformed the Israeli-Palestinian Debate
Is Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions existential threat, a last resort, or both?
The Big Meltdown
A report from Antartica, where the ecosystem is changing so fast scientists have no idea what will come next.
He Lost His Leg, Then Rediscovered the Bicycle. Now He’s Unstoppable.
Leo Rodgers is the irrepressible gravel-racing hero we all need now.
The Seas Are Rising. Could Oysters Help?
How a landscape architect is enlisting nature to defend our coastal cities against climate change—and doing it on the cheap.
To Maintain Supply of Sex Slaves, ISIS Pushes Birth Control
Modern methods allow the Islamic State to keep up its systematic rape of captives under medieval codes.
The Death-Wish Kids
Two 16-year-olds form a suicide pact, driving a Pontiac off a cliff. One of the boys survives:
To many of the people in Fillmore who considered the incident a cause for civic mourning and self-scrutiny, the idea of trying Joe for murdering his best friend seemed outlandish. To a prosecutor, however, the indictment had its own logic. The Ventura County district attorney, Michael Bradbury, was an aggressive law-and-order man, and he had a potentially strong case. With Joe's repeated announcements of his plan to drive off the cliff, the crucial element of premeditation was undeniably present.
