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This is the piece of writing that inspired me to make the turn from fiction and corporate research into journalism. It’s the best reframing of American society that I’ve ever read. And kudos to Harper’s for running it. It’s not often you see anarchist anthropologists making highly visible contributions to public discourse.
A profile of the artist.
"Unfortunately, death is a fact of life. I don't think it's happened to me any more unfairly than to anyone else. It could always be worse. I've lost a lot of people, but I haven't lost everybody. I didn't lose my parents or my family. But it's been an incredible education, facing death, facing it the way that I've had to face it at this early age."
What it was like to edit The New Republic at its most contentious.
One of the little tweaks I made the first time I got the job was to change the slogan on the table of contents from “A Journal of Politics and the Arts” back to the original: “A Weekly Journal of Opinion.” All the fine reporting notwithstanding, what The New Republic did best, had always done best, was opinion. Its politics were polemical, its art was the art of argument.
Rafael Palmeiro was a surefire Hall of Famer before a positive steroids test derailed everything. He retired a few months later, quietly sent home early by the team that had been planning to celebrate him. Next came depression and a $53 million business deal gone bust.
Tropicália was a movement that lasted just short of a year, spanning from Hélio Oiticica’s 1967 art installation of the same name, wherein viewers walked along a tropical sand path only to come face-to-face with a television set, to the debut of a TV show, wherein its constituents buried the movement on-air. But Tropicália’s influence was vast.
Policing the world of experimental research in the age of TED talks and Freakonomics.
A 15-year-old Russian has a shorter life expectancy than a peer in Bangladesh, Cambodia, or Yemen.
A three-part investigation into links between the cocaine trade, Nicaragua’s CIA-backed Contra rebels, and California’s crack epidemic in the 1980s.
Backers of CIA-led Nicaraguan rebels brought cocaine to poor L.A. neighborhoods in the early 1980s to help finance war – and a plague was born.
How a smuggler, a bureaucrat and an ambitious teenager created the cocaine pipeline.
The impact of the crack epidemic.
Alfred Dellentash Jr. chartered the Rolling Stones in private jets while smuggling planeloads of Pablo Escobar’s drugs on the side.
Mementos left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the man in charge of cataloging them.
How a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.
A look at the Mexican drug wars from the point of view of a narco’s mistress in Juárez.
On the blurry ethical lines in the part-time Texas state legislature, where politicians and CEO’s are one and the same.
How the foreclosure crisis ignited a new form of activism in Chicago’s vacant homes.
Memories of living with the writer Andrew Lytle late in his life.
When the best three months of your life are “called three of the uglier months in the recent history of the National Football League.”
A father’s life, one year after the death of his three daughters in a fire.
With abortion access limited in many states, should some home abortions still be a crime?
How the government cleared the streets in advance of the 1988 Olympics.
The story of Deso Dogg, a German rapper-turned-ISIS propagandist who may or may not have been killed in an airstrike.
Colossal corruption. Political chaos. The worst recession in its history. How a once-booming nation fell.
A decade in the life of America’s wiliest coyote.
How Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and his Airbus A320 landed safely in the Hudson.
The Southern Baptist church, which has its origins in a split over slavery, at an election-year crossroads.
On the shootings, and the response, in Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, and Dallas this summer.
