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Mara Hvistendahl is a freelance reporter and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her first book, Unnatural Selection. Her new book is The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage.
“In times of tension, Cold War historians believe that there’s this mirroring that goes on, that we start to behave like the enemy, and that that is the big risk. And I feel like that’s the moment we’re in now.”
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Dirty Coal, Clean Future
America, China, and the case for coal as a vital weapon in the war against climate change.
Israel’s Invisible Filipino Work Force
To support their families back home, women from the Philippines have found work and a new way of life in Israel. But at what price?
Peter Hessler is a staff writer for The New Yorker.
“It may have helped that I didn’t have a lot of ideas about China. You know, it was sort of a blank slate in my mind. …I wasn’t a reporter when I went to Fuling, but I was thinking like a reporter or even like a sociologist: try to respond to what you see and what you hear, and not be too oriented by things you’ve heard from others or things you may have read. Be open to new perceptions of the place or of the people.”
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Daniel Chang covers healthcare for the Miami Herald. Along with Carol Marbin Miller, he won the George Polk Award for "Birth & Betrayal," a series co-published with ProPublica that exposed the consequences of a 1988 law designed to shelter medical providers from lawsuits by funding lifelong care for children severely disabled by birth-related brain injuries.
“I think that someone on the healthcare beat looks for stories from the perspective of patients, people who want or need to access the healthcare system and for different reasons cannot. It’s a pretty complicated system and it’s difficult for most people to understand how their health insurance works — and that’s if they have health insurance. If they don’t, there is a whole other system they have to go through. What you look for is access issues and accountability for that.”
This is the latest in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.
Inside the Insane Feud Between a Vegan Strip Club and the Steak House Strip Club Next Door
Zukle: The old guy, Bob [Polizos]—I like him, he's a nice guy. When were first getting started, he said, "I like competition." And I said, "Good, because you're gonna get it!" People go over there for $5 steak bites, then they come here for a $500 lap dance.
Polizos: I don't want them here. We are a real restaurant. They're nothing but a whorehouse!
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The Longform Guide to Pills
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The Friendly Atheists Next Door
Harry Shaughnessy was a suburban dad and a lifelong Catholic. Then he and his family gave up on God.
The Boy Who Cried Cal
Kevin Hart wanted a scholarship to play Division I college football. It didn’t come. So he made one up–and called a press conference.
The Longform Guide to Undercover Journalism
Stories from inside slaughterhouses, car dealerships, and an 1800s insane asylum.
Envisioning the Hack That Could Take Down New York City
Cars driving themselves into walls. Hospitals frozen. Elevators jammed. A scenario that could happen based on what already has.
The American Dream Created Anna Nicole Smith — and Then It Killed Her
Anna Nicole Smith molded herself into an American fantasy. When that fantasy fell apart, we blamed her for it.
A Life on the Line: Cecilia Lam
Eight calls to 911. Three visits by five police officers. One woman’s senseless death.
How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
“We are beginning to understand what ails us, and it’s not something an oxygen facial or a treadmill desk can fix.”
The Final Five Percent
When a brain injury leads to a personality change and then prison time, a neuroscientist wonders if his brother could have been saved.
How the Pinellas Sheriff’s Office Boosts Its Rape Stats Without Solving Cases
An investigation into how police departments can fail to solve rape cases but still get credit.
The Last Two Northern White Rhinos On Earth
What will we lose when Najin and Fatu die?
The Long Way Home
How NFL wide receiver Demaryius Thomas lost his mother and grandmother to drug dealing, and how he plans on bringing them home.
Rukmini Callimachi discusses how she covers ISIS for The New York Times.
See also: Longform Podcast #129: Rukmini Callimachi (Part 2)
Behind the Yellow Door, a Man’s Mental Illness Worsens
A family struggles as a 42-year-old husband, father and son becomes increasingly isolated.
Edge and the Art Collector
Steven Cohen, troubled founder a $14 billion hedge fund, has an eye for modern art.
