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Welcome to the Malware-Industrial Complex
How governments and private companies have engaged in digital arms trading by building a global black market for ‘zero day’ hacks.
The Facebook Comment That Ruined a Life
“I guess what you post on Facebook matters.” An 18-year-old faces 10 years in jail for a sarcastic threat on Facebook.
The Disappeared
Police on Long Island wrote off missing immigrant teens as runaways. One mother knew better—and searched MS-13’s killing fields for answers.
The Glorious RBG
An obituary for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t
More than a decade ago, a prominent academic was exposed for having faked her Cherokee ancestry. Why has her career continued to thrive?
Erica Chidi Cohen Wants to Solve the Millennial Sex Drought
On sex education and why people are still so uncomfortable talking about it.
The Longform Guide to Gary Shteyngart
This guide is sponsored by Gary Shteyngart's Little Failure, the best-seller published this month by Random House. Hailed as a "memoir for the ages" by Mary Karr, Little Failure tells the story of Shteyngart's American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. Buy it today.</p>
Should you need further convincing, here is a collection of some of Shteyngart's best non-fiction:</em>
The Harlem Ghetto: Winter 1948
On “the Negro’s ambivalent relation to the Jew.”
The Rebuilding
Scott Raab’s ongoing reports on the reconstruction at the World Trade Center site.
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The Truth About the World Trade Center: A history of boondoggles. (Sep 2012)
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The Memorial: How the site came together. (Sep 2011)
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Good Days at Ground Zero: One World Trade reaches to the sky. (Oct 2010)
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Of Time and the Freedom Tower: Why is construction taking so long? (Sep 2008)
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The Steel: Construction begins, six years after 9-11. (Jun 2007)
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The Blasters: Getting ready to rebuild. (Sep 2006)
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The Engineers: The challenges of the construction site. (Feb 2006)
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The Foundation: Larry Silverstein and Governor Pataki play nice, for now. (Sep 2005)
The NRA vs. America
The dark money and political power behind the nation’s largest gun group.
Inside The Barista Class
An essay on the service economy.
The Hustler
No one argues before the Supreme Court more than Tommy Goldstein.
The Official Coming-Out Party
How Bill Kennedy, the only openly gay referee in the NBA, came out.
Out With the Poor, In With the Rich
The landlord’s guide to gentrifying New York.
Tuned Up in the Spirit
On the Old Regular Baptists and the joyful sound.
Judging by the Cover
How the magazine industry’s identity crisis is playing out on its front page.
The Umpire's Sons
A Major League umpire learns that his children share the same deadly genetic disease.
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On the Thomas Pynchon Trail
“Now Pynchon hides in plain sight, on the Upper West Side, with a family and a history of contradictions: a child of the postwar Establishment determined to reject it; a postmodernist master who’s called himself a ‘classicist’; a workaholic stoner; a polymath who revels in dirty puns; a literary outsider who’s married to a literary agent; a scourge of capitalism who sent his son to private school and lives in a $1.7 million prewar classic six.”
Rukmini Callimachi discusses how she covers ISIS for The New York Times.
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The Devil They Know
A profile of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who was sentenced to 50 years today after being convicted of committing crimes against humanity.
The Istanbul Derby
A trip to Turkey for a soccer game between bitter rivals and its accompanying madness.
The Perfect Wife
How Edith Windsor fell in love, got married, and won a landmark case for gay marriage.
