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Richard Carr, a retired psychologist who had long dreamed of sailing around the world, was in the middle of the Pacific when he started sending frantic messages that said pirates were boarding his boat. Two thousand miles away in Los Angeles, his family woke up to a nightmare: he might be dying alone, and there was almost nothing they could do about it.
The aforementioned “twist” is that while dinner is free for the black residents of the neighborhood, the prices for white visitors are listed on a pledge form at their seats: $100 for one piece of chicken; $1,000 for four pieces. For a whole bird, with sides, you must donate the deed to a property in North Nashville.
Peggy Jo Tallas spent most of her adult life doing two things: taking care of her ailing mother and robbing bank after bank dressed as a pudgy, bearded cowboy.
An execution in war-torn Cuba.
On the private, for-profit probation industry.
An experiment in public defense.
Profiling the sleepy reality tv star.
An epilogue to Serpico.
What makes a great show?
How the Oglala Lakota healed from a massacre.
Life and death in an underground economy.
On the clip that captured a society falling apart.
How Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections across Latin America.
A physician becomes convinced he’s dying.
He was white nationalism’s heir apparent. Then he went to college.
How the veterinary industry went corporate.
Chris, a 25-year-old black man, tries to get a good job.
How race and recollection still frame an Alabama football fatality 40 years later.
Two very different fates at the Chicago Marathon.
Inside an industrial pig farm.
President Bush’s strange friendship with Vladimir Putin.
It was the worst AIDS crisis in years—until it wasn’t.
On the Birthright Israel program, which sends young American Jews on a tour of Israel free of charge, thanks to massive funding from both the Israeli government and philanthropists like the conservative casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.
A new era is dawning for Birthright. What began as an identity booster has become an ideology machine, pumping out not only Jewish baby-makers but defenders of Israel. Or that’s the hope.
How Michelle Bachmann became a GOP front-runner.
