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Willa Cather: A Hidden Voice
What the writer’s newly revealed letters mean for her long-debated legacy.
Reflections on Violence
“Violence, being instrumental by nature, is rational to the extent that it is effective in reaching the end which must justify it.”
At Sears, Eddie Lampert's Warring Divisions Model Adds to the Troubles
The story of a risky management style gone bust.
SF Plane Crash: Responders Turned Chaos Into Hope
With the first on the scene of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 disaster.
The Lady Jaguars
A profile of the girls basketball team at Carroll Academy, a school run by a rural Tennessee juvenile court.
A Death in the Texas Desert
On the murder of a popular bar owner in a ghost town near the Mexican border.
This American Refused to Become an FBI Informant. Then the Government Made His Family's Life Hell.
The saga of Naji Mansour.
Mr. Ten Percent
A profile of Chuck Blazer, “the man who built — and bilked — American soccer.”
“Speaking up every. F*cking. Time”
A profile of Model View Culture founder Shanley Kane.
Who Is Charlie Crist? The Answer Is Complicated
A profile of Florida’s former (and perhaps future) governor.
Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay
A pair of gamblers and a glitch too good to last.
Like Something the Lord Made
Vivien Thomas was paid a janitor’s wage, never went to college, and still became a legend in the field of heart surgery.
The Kerouac Legacy
The “insane playfulness, deliberate infantilism, nutty haikus, naked stripteases, free-form chants and literary war dances of the beats” and their leader.
Can Politico Make Brussels sexy?
A New York gossip reporter makes her way in the wilds of European bureaucracy.
Calling Art
On the wandering career and sweet baritone voice of Art Laboe, the DJ behind the phrase “oldies but goodies.”
This Doctor Knows Exactly How You Feel
On mirror-touch synethesia, the power (or curse) of knowing exactly how others feel.
Should Prison Sentences Be Based on Crimes That Haven’t Been Committed Yet?
Pennsylvania is on the verge of saying yes.
Welcome to Maternity Hotel California
On the underground economy of full-service Southern California apartment complexes marketed to Chinese birth-tourists.
Daniel Wolfe Is Killing Himself Live on Facebook
The search for an Iraq veteran on the brink of suicide.
Structured Settlements
How an entire industry built itself convincing lead-paint poisoning victims to sign over settlement payments for a fraction of what they’re worth.
A Prescription for More Black Doctors
The struggles of Xavier University, a tiny, historically-black school in New Orleans, to train students for medical school.
Who Killed the 20th Century’s Greatest Spy?
Who was Ashraf Marwan working for when he fell to his death from the balcony of a London flat?
Danny Meyer Is Eliminating All Tipping at His Restaurants
Explaining a radical shift in the way some of New York’s best restaurants do business.
How Rogue Techies Armed the Predator, Almost Stopped 9/11, and Accidentally Invented Remote War
The making of the drone.
