The Best Years of Our Lives
Memories of “Hollywood’s most grinding bore,” Ronald Reagan.
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The Myth of Chinese Super Schools
What the Chinese education system can teach America about relying on test scores as the main metric of success.
The Case of the Mormon Historian
Michael Quinn took on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – and lost.
Uncovering The Secret History Of Myers-Briggs
The frustrated – and well-hidden – story of Isabel Myers Briggs, inventor of the famous personality test.
The Rise and Fall of Haitian Drug Lord Jacques Ketant
The difficulty of catching a “cocaine trafficker with his hands on the country’s levers of power.”
The Plot to Free North Korea With Smuggled Episodes of ‘Friends’
USB sticks bearing digital video are the new radio.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Songs of the Dead: An Homage"
Scenes from a local bar in winter.
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Fiction Pick of the Week: "How to Identify Birds in the Wild"
A story of bird and human patterns.
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At Home at the End of Google Earth
Separated from his older brother at a train, five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan found himself lost in the slums of Calcutta. In his 20s, living in Australia, he began his search for his birth home armed with nothing but hazy memories and Google Earth.
The Bonnie and Clyde of MAGA World
For a decade, Dustin Stockton and Jennifer Lawrence had surfed the wave of populist-right politics like few other people in America. Then came Jan. 6.
The Hard-Partying, Rock-Obsessed Nurse at the Center of a Massive Opioid Bust
Patients say the “Rock Doc” helped them like no one else could. Federal prosecutors say his “help” often amounted to dealing drugs for sex.
Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation
“To an extent that would stun outsiders, Mr. Trump, the most talked-about human on the planet, is still delighted when he sees his name in the headlines. And he is on a perpetual quest to see it there. One former top adviser said Mr. Trump grew uncomfortable after two or three days of peace and could not handle watching the news without seeing himself on it.”
The Fall of the Sleaze King
Dov Charney’s struggle to keep control of American Apparel.
The Supermarket of Struggling Artists
On the staff of a Trader Joe’s in New York City.
The Importance Of Being Francesa
On the cranky king of New York sports talk.
In the Violent Favelas of Brazil
Rampant rape and murder in the Brazilian slums.
The Glory of the Rails
Why we must bring trains back.
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Part 1
“The world before the railways appeared so very different from what came afterward and from what we know today because the railways did more than just facilitate travel and thereby change the way the world was seen and depicted. They transformed the very landscape itself.”
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Part 2
“It is simply not possible to envision any conceivable modern, urban-based economy shorn of its subways, its tramways, its light rail and suburban networks, its rail connections, and its intercity links.”
The Frauds of Memory, the Limits of Penitence. And Baseball.
On God, childhood, and baseball.
The Joy of Cam Newton
A profile of the Carolina Panthers quarterback, this season’s likely MVP.
The Last Days of Target Canada
The inside story of Target’s brief, disastrous expansion north.
The Real Housewives of Wall Street
The story of $220M in bailout money.
The Ride of a Lifetime
The making of Thelma & Louise.
The Secret Life of Transgender Rocker Tom Gabel
A profile of the Against Me! frontman.
The Mark of a Masterpiece
The man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art.
The Death of a Pitcher
The story of a young man killed in Juarez.
