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Twenty-one-year-old Briton Lucie Blackman came to Tokyo and found work in the Roppongi district hostess bars, where businessmen come to flirt with paid companions, and Western women draw a premium fee. Two months later, she disappeared. She would be found underneath a bathtub in a beachside cave.
“If a life can have a crystallizing moment, for Jim Graham that 1993 meeting was it, discovering that his father might have been a Catholic priest, rather than John Graham, the distant man who raised him with scarcely a kind or comforting word.”
Florida lawmakers agreed the state’s old drug sentencing laws went too far. But that means nothing to people serving time.
A profile of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, prime minister of Turkey.
A profile of then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
In 2008, a federally owned power plant spewed coal sludge over 300 acres in Tennessee. Now, 40 people who helped clean up the mess are dead and 300 ill.
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Legendary birthday clowns, tragically neglectful parents, and a dogged search for the armpit of America — Weingarten on Longform.
A secret hope of mine, which I now find hilarious: I imagined that once I had a child, I would become a faster writer. Faster, and also better. It’s hard for me to reconstruct the optimistic logic that led me to this hypothesis. I think I honestly believed that if I did not have the option to write badly, I would simply evolve, like that Lamarckian giraffe, into a more efficient creature.
The people behind the search for the “God particle.”
The case that brought leaks to the popular consciousness.
How the president thinks about America’s role in the world.
Few men have acquired so scandalous a reputation as did Basil Zaharoff, alias Count Zacharoff, alias Prince Zacharias Basileus Zacharoff, known to his intimates as “Zedzed.” Born in Anatolia, then part of the Ottoman Empire, perhaps in 1849, Zaharoff was a brothel tout, bigamist and arsonist, a benefactor of great universities and an intimate of royalty who reached his peak of infamy as an international arms dealer -- a “merchant of death,” as his many enemies preferred it.
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Life inside Long Island’s largest cluster of sex offenders.
Profiles of people with genius-level IQs.
An oral history of Siskel and Ebert.
A tour of our greatest conspiracy theories.
A profile of Rupert Murdoch, written before his empire began to crumble.
Adapted from a new biography of Jane Fonda.
A profile of Elizabeth Warren.
A profile of Taylor Wilson, who achieved nuclear fusion at age 14.
Are video games capable of emotion?
