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Many of the 230,000 women and girls in U.S. jails and prisons were abuse survivors before they entered the system. And at least 30 percent of those serving time on murder or manslaughter charges were protecting themselves or a loved one from physical or sexual violence.
Using several email addresses and a lot of exclamation points, teenager Jonathan Lebed worked finance message boards in the morning before school and made almost a million bucks. Then he made the head of the S.E.C. look like a fool.
Miles Johnson is an investigative reporter for the Financial Times. He is the author of Chasing Shadows: A True Story of Drugs, War and the Secret World of International Crime and the host of Hot Money: The New Narcos.
“I’m really fascinated always by the ways in which people just have to do really boring parts of running a crime organization … I love the banalities of this stuff. We have a fictionalized version of crime groups and it’s obviously glamorous, and they’re really smart, but there’s a lot of stuff that’s bumbling incompetence as well or just quite unglamorous.”
A profile of Tarn and Zach Adams, creators of the computer game Dwarf Fortress:
Dwarf Fortress may not look real, but once you’re hooked, it feels vast, enveloping, alive. To control your world, you toggle between multiple menus of text commands; seemingly simple acts like planting crops and forging weapons require involved choices about soil and season and smelting and ores. A micromanager’s dream, the game gleefully blurs the distinction between painstaking labor and creative thrill.
On the current state of the global economy and the inevitable decline of the U.K. and the U.S.:
A decade-long slowdown would accelerate this shift in global wealth and power and would be a grim thing to live through, but from a world-historical perspective it might not be a game-changer: it might just be the non-scenic route to the place we’re going anyway.
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."
Jane Jacobs has a somewhat ambiguous legacy—or at least one that's contested by different factions in the present-day debate over cities and urbanism—but to me her most important idea is encapsulated in the title and spirit of this piece. It's old and, I think, utterly prescient about what successive waves of planning fads miss. The purpose of urban space is for people to use it. A great place is a place where people want to be.
The life and mysterious death of dissident Bulgarian writer and radio journalist Georgi Markov.
A profile of Tiny Lister, the silver screen’s half-blind villain.
Tom Emanski changed the sport of baseball, his iconic instructional videos a mainstay on ESPN. Then he disappeared.
A profile of celebrity cat Lil BUB and the man who was contemplating bankruptcy before he found her.
A 15-year-old Russian has a shorter life expectancy than a peer in Bangladesh, Cambodia, or Yemen.
On former CIA agent John T. Downey, who spent more than 20 years in China as the longest held American captive of war.
A profile of Malala Yousafzai, the young activist from Pakistan who was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The author of The Hot Zone on how geneticists can help contain the current outbreak.
The paper reports on a battle of its own.
On CEO Reed Hastings and the future of Netflix.
How Curtis Duffy overcame his parents’ murder-suicide to become one of the nation’s great chefs.
A 16-year-old runner, her coach and the lasting memory of an improbable race.
Mementos left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the man in charge of cataloging them.
As the paper closes, a collection of its greatest hits.
The story of Miami’s Sun Gym gang and the basis for the new film directed by Michael Bay.
They were local bodybuilders with a penchant for steroids, strippers, and quick cash. And they became expert in the use of a peculiar motivational tool: Torture.
Miami’s Sun Gym gang developed a taste for blood and money. The police could have stopped them before they killed somebody. But they didn’t.
A wealthy couple disappears, the slumbering Metro-Dade Police Department awakens, and the ghastly deeds of Miami’s Sun Gym gang at last come to an end.
Kosovo’s leaders have been accused of grotesque war crimes. But can anyone prove it?
Caterpillar’s CEO made $22 million last year. Some of his employees are on food stamps.
A week in the life of Naomi and Spencer Haskell.
